New Album

Prisoner, the world needs more songs like that.

I wouldn't be surprised if the guy from Heartless Bastards does show up doing the pedal steel.

Brian talks about the new album at Leeds Festival 2009

www.nme.com/video/bcid/36074092001/search/NME

Whatever it is it will be brilliant!

Damn right Kropo.

That's a great interview with Brian on NME... it's great he's still so humble despite the success (assume that's TGA's tourbus he's stood by... f it is it looks a lot different from the vans they were using the first time I saw them! Looks like that revisit to the UK in November they mentioned won't be shows though...

My friend saw them at Leeds (I've been banging onto him about them for a year) and said they were amazing.

God damn I can't wait for this new record all this talk makes the waiting harder

andy.mac wrote:

KSUpilot wrote:

I would also like to hear some blues songs out of them. They kinda leaned towards that sound on '59 Sound with "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues".

I think it would sound great.

yeah man. that's a great song, they've got an awesome live version of it on youtube & it sounds even better live.

Yes a bluesy song would be awesome.
I love their live intro of Angry Johnny with the bluesy guitarsolo's in the beginning

Their live intro to film noir is quite bluesy aswell. I've got a video of their set at pinkpop and I swear I've listened to that intro a hundred times.

a few comments from Benny (at Leeds) about new material and the new album

http://www.contactmusic.com/videos.nsf/video/the-gaslight-anthem-video-interview-at-leeds-festival-2009-x03x09x09

The more I think about it the more I get the feeling that this next record could make them huge...

The interviewer was awful for that interview.

Never really heard much from Benny though, good to hear (a lengthy) interview with him).

It's still amazing how down to earth they all seem.

The new record will be plastered all over NME, Kerrang and Radio One I think, I wonder how big they will be afterwards.

Palmer89 wrote:

Never really heard much from Benny though, good to hear (a lengthy) interview with him.

for the best Benny interview of all, listen to him talking to Ronen Kauffman in Episode 40 of the Issue Oriented podcasts at www.issueoriented.com/

It's a great interview. Ronen's good at it.

When asked when to expect the new album the other night in Cincy at Bogarts Brian said June.

i'd like to hear some harmonica and guitar solos in the new album.

not all over the album but a song or two with a harmonica or a solo would be nice.

andy.mac wrote:

i'd like to hear some harmonica and guitar solos in the new album.

not all over the album but a song or two with a harmonica or a solo would be nice.

yeah they said they are going to sound like Chuck Berry, The Clash and The Kinks on the next record so I hope they bring out some rock and roll solo's

a relevant Tweet from Brian, 22 Sept:

"New songs, good shows! Gearing up for the new record, writing on the tour everyday a little bit, London CAlling to the far away towns!"

twitter.com/briangaslight

I'm so pumped for this album...hoping to hear those Clash influences shine through.

When he says London's CAlling, could it be a hint that they're going to the UK? (for the rumoured november tour)

thecosmickid wrote:

When he says London's CAlling, could it be a hint that they're going to the UK? (for the rumoured november tour)

I think this may be a nod to more explicit Clash influences on the next record.

Well yeah probably, just trying to get my hopes up

i was thinking that too and hoping it could be read into meaning another tour!!

http://www.edmontonsun.com/entertainment/music/2009/09/26/11130276-sun.html

"I've acquired a great taste for English blues from the '60s and '70s -- John Mayall and Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac. I can't get enough of it right now. I think that's coming through. So I think the spice to this will be a little different, but the meat will be similar."

tigrr13 wrote:

http://www.edmontonsun.com/entertainment/music/2009/09/26/11130276-sun.html

"I've acquired a great taste for English blues from the '60s and '70s -- John Mayall and Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac. I can't get enough of it right now. I think that's coming through. So I think the spice to this will be a little different, but the meat will be similar."

fleetwood mac...that's the first reference to the new record that i dislike. but i know ill still love it, even if they say they were influenced by madonna or the insane clown posse or something really strange like that...

steph wrote:

tigrr13 wrote:

http://www.edmontonsun.com/entertainment/music/2009/09/26/11130276-sun.html

"I've acquired a great taste for English blues from the '60s and '70s -- John Mayall and Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac. I can't get enough of it right now. I think that's coming through. So I think the spice to this will be a little different, but the meat will be similar."

fleetwood mac...that's the first reference to the new record that i dislike. but i know ill still love it, even if they say they were influenced by madonna or the insane clown posse or something really strange like that...

I believe Brian meant Peter Greens solo blues stuff and not Fleetwood Mac

I'm almost certain he meant the original, blues, incarnation of Fleetwood Mac who were awesome, rather than the coked out (yet still, IMO, great) Rumours era band.

Am really looking forward to the new record already, love what we already have, indeed '59 Sound was the soundtrack to my holiday in America last year so it's always going to have its place in time with me.