May 2010
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thesincerestform:
Call It Off - The Gaslight...
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“No matter who you vote for, the government always win.”
– The King Blues, Taking Over
June 2009
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May 2009
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Q: The recurring themes in your music seem to center around the radio, driving and getting out of a current situation, can you talk about that?
Brian Fallon: Yeah, that’s just what we do here. Driving and trying to get a little bit better our parents did, I guess? To not have to worry? I don’t know. That was the whole thing like “I’m gonna get in a band. I know I can’t be a doctor so I’m gonna try to leave here and make something different.” I think like, “It’s just over that next highway” thing. You know, the answer. We’re searchers, wanderers.
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Brian Fallon (The Gaslight Anthem) on Forever The...
Why would I hate them? What does anything they do have to do with me and my life? Nothing. If I don’t want to listen to them, I just don’t. But if I do, I do. Why would I not want them to succeed? Like, it doesn’t affect my band at all. I hope that they succeed, good for them. Y’know, there’s kids that don’t like my band and they need something to listen to too - so listen to these bands, y’know?...
April 2009
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Frank Turner fanboy
A few months ago I got a new tattoo, on my left wrist, of four black bars. It’s a pretty visible tattoo, both in design and in placing, and I couldn’t be happier about it. Leaving aside the inevitable morons asking me if it’s a (poorly drawn) barcode, I’m actually quite surprised by the number of people I know who are music fans, and heavy music fans at that, who don’t know what it is. In the case...
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copycats:
Thunder Road by Frank Turner originally...
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The King Blues, Mr. Music Man
the band they come and say that they no wanna play ska them a-wanna play emo ‘cause that gonna go far see them a-always followin’ the new comin’ trend them a-got no soul, them a-so shameless
and when the dust clear, you can be sure that I still be here skankin’ in my porkpie hat just a-drinkin’ me brew an a-smokin’ my grass this ain’t a t-shirt man,...
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“Punk rock’s in the ink that’s in my skin, the attitude in every song...”
– Frank Turner, Back In The Day
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When I was just a skinny lad on holiday by the sea...
clumsykisses:
And you’re sugar and spice,...
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collecting the Gaslight Anthem love. soon. ish.
notice how it’s not called fucking fuckyeahbrianfallon or fuckyeahgaslightanthem.
fuck off fuck yeah.
edit: now expanded to include Frank Turner, The King Blues, and… uh, punk-in-general. run by a couple of ladies - one who has piecemeal knowledge about punk, and one who has significantly more. \m/
