Hotly tipped guitar band the Amazons are eager for a Glasgow return tomorrow – after a previous night out in the city inspired one of their singles.

The group play King Tut’s, fuelled by excellent new release Black Magic and being on nearly every ‘ones to watch’ list for 2017.

And you can probably expect to catch the Reading lads out and about afterwards.

“Glasgow is more open and warmer than some of the English places we go to, “ says their singer, Matt Thomson.

“We always seem to find ourselves going out afterwards too – In My Mind was written on the drive home from a night at the ABC.

“It was one of their cheesy pop nights and Kloe was there, and Babystrange. We’d ended up partying with them, and then on the drive home I came up with the riff in my head and wrote the rest once I was in the door.”

The likes of Sleazy’s and Tut’s might not be sort of venue the band are playing for long. The group have plenty of pop hooks mixed in with a chunky, classic rock sound, and they are coming to Glasgow fresh from a European tour with You Me At Six.

Although the hype around the band has blossomed recently, the quartet have actually been together for a few years, with Matt jamming with guitarist Chris Alderton and bassist Elliot Briggs when they were at school.

Once drummer Joe Emmett joined the band’s sound started to take shape, and Matt is grateful they had time to develop a style they feel comfortable with.

“That’s when we found out where we were going,” says Matt, who points to hearing Teenage Kicks on the radio as being when he knew he wanted to be a musician.

“You need time to work out who you are as a person and as a band. When we started making music we were teenagers and you don’t really know who you are or what your identity is, so if we’d had the pressure of being tipped right at the beginning of our career we’d have felt it more. We know where we want to go now.”

However while success would be welcome for the Amazons, they’re more concerned about setting the groundwork for a long career. They hope their debut album, due June 2, will be the first of many.

“We’ve worked nine to five jobs in supermarkets after school, and we know we don’t want to return to that,” says Matt.

“We want to keep being creative. I’m singing things because I mean them, I’m not doing it because I think it’ll make me famous and that’s the beauty of rock n’ roll.”

Also beautiful In rock music is a powerhouse riff, which recent single Black Magic certainly possesses.

“That one started in a previous incarnation of the band, and we had the riff and the verse floating around for ages,” explains Matt.

“It was in the ideas pile for a while and it was one I wasn’t sure we would ever actually finish. Then I wrote the chorus about 18 months ago, and it just came to life from there.”

The band aren’t just involved in writing music, with Matt having promoted gigs in Reading. He believes it’s a good thing for groups to stay true to their roots, rather than instantly leap at a move to London.

“I would urge anyone in a band outside London or a big city to celebrate where you are from,” he says.

“You don’t want to be ‘another London band’. Now you’ve got Reading bands like Sundara Karma doing well, and even if you’re not in a band, we’ve got artists and directors there, and people who have worked their way up from selling merchandise to running their own labels. If you have the passion to build something then you can do that.”

The Amazons, tomorrow, King Tut’s, £8.50, 8.30pm

JONATHAN GEDDES