Whether we were talking about music or not, we were just always talking. I would talk to Alex and Alex, too, just to get updates: What are you doing? How’s your family? What’s going on in your life? We all were pretty current with each other, but Ben and I really stayed in touch. Now that we’re older, though, we would always talk. And I was like, “What if you change your mind? Then all of a sudden you’re like, ‘we quit, just kidding, the final tour, not really’?”ĭid you guys stay in touch during the break?īen and I have always been very close - sometimes close at each others throats in the early days. I read about how Noel Gallagher just straight up quit Oasis. But this was one of those things that just wouldn’t allow that. We all were like, “This sucks, let’s stop doing this before we embarrass ourselves.” But in your mind, did you ever think The Gaslight Anthem was over for good?Įverybody likes to blame me for the hiatus, but it wasn’t just me.
You labeled your break as a hiatus, which is what bands always do these days instead of officially breaking up. In the following interview, Fallon explains how The Gaslight Anthem reunion came about, why it’s important to him that the band make new music, and the inspiration he took from the 2011 Pearl Jam Twenty documentary. I want to turn up something to 10 and play. “You know what’s pretty cool? Rock music,” he says. Now there’s a familiar urge that harks to his past. When reached by phone this week, Fallon said that after his 2020 album Local Honey he felt like he had closed a chapter on his creative life. On his own, Fallon has moved in an Americana direction, favoring acoustic guitars and introspective lyrics grappling with adult disappointments, a far cry from the cinematic storytelling associated with The Gaslight Anthem. And the music he’s made on his own has veered far from the rousing, Springsteen-inspired fist pumpers that populate well-loved Gaslight Anthem albums like 2008’s The 59 Sound, 2010’s American Slang, and 2012’s Handwritten, which debuted in Billboard‘s top 10. The 42-year-old singer-songwriter has put out solo albums at a steady clip since the hiatus, including his fourth full-length release, Night Divine, in 2021.
In addition to a reunion tour slated for the fall, there are plans to record their first album since 2014’s Get Hurt.įor followers of the band’s frontman Brian Fallon, all of this might have registered as a surprise.
This week, New Jersey arena-punk band The Gaslight Anthem announced that they would be returning to full-time status as a concert and recording outfit.
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