The Gaslight Anthem

(photo (c)2012 Alison Wotton)

BACK ON THE CHAIN GANG…

Thanks to everyone who came out to our first couple of warm up shows in Brooklyn, LA, and Bamboozle!  We had a great time with you all!   We’re here gearing up to start our
tour with Soundgarden in Europe and then we hit some festivals!   We’ve also got some dates in July with Dave Hause in the US, and then another awesome run with Rise Against
and Hot Water Music!  It’s looking to be a great summer!   We also have more dates planned and we’ll be announcing them in the coming weeks, we’re working on setting up a Fan Club, and we’re getting a brand new website, which is gonna rule!

So we’ve done quite a bit of running around this last week and now we’re gonna try to keep it quiet for the next few days until we hit the road again.  Rest up, rock on.

Can’t wait to see everybody out there!!!!  

Everybody call your local Alternative Station and request “45”  we’re gonna get rock and roll back on the radio!  Let’s do it!  

XOXO
Gossip Girl 

So we’re going back on the road again!  

We’ve got some tour dates announced for a short US run in July… these are special gigs for us.  We decided to do a run of really small venues first rather than blast out the biggest possible places we could because we wanted another chance to remember what it’s like to be right there in the heat of it.  We’re gonna be setting up for the record to come out and we’ll play some new songs, but really what you’re gonna get is LOTS of old favorites.  It’s kind of our “Thanks to Everybody Who Got Us to the Big Places Tour”… so to say thanks we’re gonna dig up the old jams we might not’ve played in a while, in the venues we used to play them.  It’s gonna be super rad.

We’re kind of doing the same thing in Europe with shows like the KOKO show in London, we wanted to say thanks and play right up close to you again.   

So here’s to punk rock shows and hanging out! Let’s get it on!

More Dates to come!   

Don’t believe the hype.   
XOXO
Gossip Girl

PS - whoever’s photo that is… it’s rad so we used it.  Shoot us your name and we’ll be glad to give you credit and a link up.

So Tom’s gonna be Laura now… and in 2012 I still find people on the internet commenting  on another persons life how they insult and condemn a person for his choices.  

How about the people who go through this and never find peace and end up committing suicide?  Would you rather that?  Or maybe he could become a raging drug addict and ruin his life and family?  Would you rather that?  Or maybe we could have rules from a dictator where everyone gets killed for anything they believe against the government, oh wait that doesn’t work…

How about you leave the guy alone.  How about you let another human being make a decision about their lives without your snide prejudices and bigotry? This is one of the hardest decisions a person can make.  From my limited understanding of the subject, it means feeling your whole life like you were born in the wrong skin.  That’s something that 99% of us can’t understand.  Weither you agree or don’t, it’s not your life.  It’s not your family.  it’s not your band, it’s theirs.  

I don’t see the AM! guys very often, or if at all, but I always wish them well.  They’re a great band.  Leave it at that.  Just let them be a great band.

To those being kind, this is not for you…

If this is joke though, it’s in very bad taste to the people who actually go through this. But I will say that I still feel this way about anyone who makes a decision against what we call normal.  You can’t hate them, and they have the right, here in America, to make their own choices and live their lives free of prejudice.  

So go live, Tom.

XOXO
Gossip Girl 

****PS- EDIT NOTE**** - I do realize using “she” and “Laura” are appropriate but I was being considerate, since I don’t know Tom (Laura) that at this current moment to the best of my knowledge He is still a man named Tom, and hasn’t informed me to begin using she and Larua yet, as we don’t speak, and I haven’t read the article yet.  though he will soon be a woman named Laura, which I will then refer to her as such.  Can you please just look at the big picture here?
Thanks.
XOXO
What are you my english teacher?

(photo copyright (c) 2012 Rolling Stone)

This might be one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen…

We are pleased to unveil once little point for vinyl in the ever increasing digital marketplace.  Spin it!

XOXO
Gossip Girl 

Here you go guys, a little treat from us to you for now…

“45”

Have you seen my hands, just look at ‘em shake.
And the song just keeps on repeating, drop the needle again.
And I dance with your ghost.  But that ain’t the way…
I can’t move on and I can’t stay the same.
And all my friends say…

“Hey, turn the record over.
Hey, I’ll see you on the flip side.
There you go, turn the key and engine over…
Let her go, let somebody else lay at her feet.”

Have you seen my heart, have you seen how it bleeds?
And the nights are so long, baby, out here in the deep.
The tick, ticking of hours lonely… I hear the alarm.
I used to hear when she would sleep in my arms,
But “Better Sense*” says…

 ”Hey, turn the record over.
Hey, I’ll see you on the flip side.
There you go, turn the key and engine over…
Let her go, let somebody else lay at her feet.”

THIS IS THE MOST FUN INTERVIEW I’VE EVER DONE! 

Thanks to the great people over at Low Times for hosting my epic battle with @JADEDPUNKHULK  we had a great time…  you MUST READ THIS! 

And for once, I didn’t get a quote I said in humor in an interview turned upside-down to
look like I’m an ego maniac, instead, they printed my actual words in their actual context!  Thanks guys! WOO WEE!

Enjoy this!  

http://www.lowtimespodcast.com/jadedpunkhulk-vs-brian-fallon-round-1/

We’re all just waiting…

This is us, just waiting to get the OK to start releasing info to you all about the first single and release dates…it’s coming so soon, I promise, we just had to get everything ready so you can get everything in a complete form.   So for now, me and “Mama” are gonna tell you some of our new favorite bands to hold you over until the very short time has passed…  

We like to watch Grimm, that show’s cool, it’s got werewolves.  We also like Up All Night,  and Sons of Anarchy.   Kathy Lee and Hoda are pretty great too.  They get drunk on TV.

We’ve been listening to The Naked and Famous when we wanna dance, we listen to Tribes when we wanna hang, and we listen to The White Buffalo when we wanna love music for fun.  - PS - wait until you hear the new Bouncing Souls and Hot Water records! AWESOME!

We also like Red City Radio, The Menzingers, Tim Barry, Teenage Bottlerocket, Gates, and we think Joyce Manor rules.   

So have fun, we’ll be right here on the couch waiting to tell you all the info, and show dates, and pre orders, and all the stuff.  We can’t wait for you to hear the new single… we just got a test pressing on vinyl and it sounds rad.  And yea, we’re still putting everything out on vinyl, always…  

XOXO 
Gossip Girl 

Tickets, Records, twitter, etc…

So we’ve been made aware of this current ticket issue about people having too high a limit per person, which scalpers take advantage of.  We’re actually not the ones who set that limit, we have very little control over how retailers who sell the tickets do things.  There was that big war Pearl Jam had a few years back, and that didn’t end up great.   

Right now, we’re trying to come up with a system to let the people who want the pre orders of tickets to have a fair chance to get them at a fair price.  But it has to be for real fans who actually want the tickets, not scalpers who buy them to sell to real fans.  I don’t mean “real fans” as in if you only “kinda” like us you can’t get tickets.  I mean real people who want to go to a show.   So we’re gonna figure something out.   I know for PJ there’s the Ten Club where I get my email about tickets before they go on sale to the general public and they’re usually discounted, which is cool.  So maybe that’s an idea, but we need to figure out how to do that.  Maybe we do the 11 Club.  

Now we’re almost done with the whole big artwork package where Mr. EL Jefe is up to his ears in artwork for this thing.  We’re gonna have something really cool in the whole thing, so it’ll be nice.  Details to come soon… 

I’ll be doing a twitter chat tomorrow (4/19) at 5pm Eastern time (US) to answer whatever you want to ask.  I’m looking forward to talking with everyone.  

Lastly, we have tons of shows booked, we’re going to be announcing them as they come closer, so don’t worry if you don’t see your city or country yet, it’s really coming up.   We’re gonna be touring this year and next on this record, all summer, all fall, and there’s some tours you’re gonna freak about… so just sit tight. It’s all gonna be rolling out soon.  Our new single is about ready to be revealed… then the details will start rolling out!

Thanks everybody…

Brian