The Gaslight Anthem keeps things in perspective

As superstardom looms, this New Jersey rock band remembers what's important

When Hurricane Sandy decimated parts of the East Coast on the evening of October 29, the Gaslight Anthem was thousands of miles away in Vienna. Midway through a European tour, the New Jersey band was separated from friends and family back home, able only to watch the ravaging effects of the storm on television and imagine the worst.

“When you see stuff on the news, it’s not the same as when it actually happens to you in person,” says Alex Rosamilia, the band’s guitarist. “It just looked like it could have been anyone. I’m going to have a $2,000 phone bill from making sure my family’s okay. But I was lucky: Where I’m at, there wasn’t any flooding. We did lose power and my girlfriend had to stay with her parents for the week. It was really rough being away from the people you love, knowing that they had to go through it and you couldn’t help at all.”

http://www.timeout.com/newyork/music/the-gaslight-anthem-keeps-things-in-perspective

So why isn’t the Gaslight Anthem playing an arena this week? “We didn’t want to play a larger place,” explains Rosamilia. “What little intimacy a place like Terminal 5 has, it still has more than an arena. Obviously, I have no problem playing arenas, but I want to wait until there’s no other option, instead of trying to see if we can do it.”

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