WALKING in the footsteps of the likes of Big Country is a dream Dunfermline band Moonlight Zoo hope they are closing in on reaching.

The foursome - made up of Sean Defrancesco, Jamie Adamson, John Muir Jr and Richard Sharp - will release a follow-up single to their 2022 offering, 'If Only', tomorrow (Friday).

'Behind the Times' is a song which will be familiar to fans of the group, it regularly features as the opening track kicking off their live shows, though it may not sound exactly as they may expect.

Jamie explained: "It's been in the band for years and it's one of these songs that we had an original version of it and we could just never properly finish it up to band standard.

"It just took a form of so many different songs and now we have revisited it, revamped it.

"I re-wrote it in this final form and now it's up to band standard, a lot of our fans will know the song but not in this form which will be really strange for people to hear."

While 'If Only' featured lead vocals from Jamie, the new song will be fronted by Sean Defrancesco and will lean in to the band's Scottish influences.

"I think we've leant into sounds and the type of music that inspires us all personally," Jamie said.

"It has a real Celtic, Scottish influence throughout it, you can hear that throughout a lot of our music but with this one we've particularly leant into it a lot with some of the guitar sounds and the tempo has a skip to it.

"It's really anthemic in that sense."

Richard added: "I've actually started going back through the Big Country catalogue, being English I had to brush up on my Dunfermline band knowledge so I've been doing that.

"A bit of early Genesis as well, Phil Collins, that kind of stuff to hone in on the drum sound."

Jamie says that the band's admiration for their city predecessors is "quite evident" in their latest recordings with "no doubt about where the inspirations are coming from sound-wise."

"There's definitely something in the water in Dunfermline," he continued.

"I definitely hope that we would follow in the footsteps of some of those bands, we're really proud to be part of the Dunfermline scene."

Moonlight Zoo have had a "really fun" year so far, Jamie explained, with gigs at Murrayfield and a sold-out show at Sneaky Pete's in Edinburgh.

"It's the first time we've really sold out somewhere that's out of our home town so that was quite an achievement for the band," he said.

"There were a lot of people there who were new fans and we didn't know who they were and were just singing the words, it was quite a bizarre feeling actually but really great.

"It's really nice to turn up to a show and see loads of new faces and people that we don't know, that's just the best feeling."

Going forward the band will be performing at a series of festivals in the summer months, with the hope of trialling and releasing more new music.

"It's really about getting out there and doing a bit of playing more than anything, getting out and play our new music," Richard said.

"It gives us a good gauge of what's working and what's not, a lot of these songs we're the only ones who have heard them really."

'Behind the Times' will be available from tomorrow (Friday, April 7) on Spotify.