The Gaslight Anthem

MCD Presents
The Gaslight Anthem
The Olympia Theatre
Monday 17th & Tuesday 18th June 2013

Due to phenomenal public demand, New Jersey natives The Gaslight Anthem have added a second date at The Olympia Theatre, Dublin on June 17th & 18th 2013. Tickets on sale now!

New Jersey natives The Gaslight Anthem have just announced details of their highly anticipated return to Ireland with 2 shows at The Olympia Theatre, Dublin on Monday 17th & Tuesday 18th June 2013. Tickets priced from €27.90 inclusive of booking fee on sale now from Ticketmaster outlets nationwide and www.ticketmaster.ie

Please note, unreserved Upper Circle seats only now available for Monday 17th June. Circle reserved seats & unreserved Upper Circle seats only now available for Tuesday 18th June.

New Album ‘Handwritten’ out now.

On January 18, 2012, The Gaslight Anthem piled into their old tour van and headed across the New Jersey state line for a 14 hour road trip to Nashville on their own quest for the truth. Their destination was 2806 Azalea Place, Nashville, Blackbird Studio, where the New Brunswick quartet had booked five weeks recording time with producer Brendan O'Brien (Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam, AC/DC). Their mission: to reconnect with rock 'n' roll in its most feral, pure, stripped-raw form.

Brian Fallon was thirteen years old when he discovered The Clash's self-titled debut album in the racks of Sound Effects Records in Hackettstown, New Jersey: the owner of the store promised the young teenager that the record would change his life. He wasn't wrong.

But there was a time, not so very long ago, when The Gaslight's Anthem frontman had grown weary of the sound of electric guitars. After three albums of soulful, impassioned, hearts-on-fire punk rock - 2007's Sink Or Swim, 2008's The '59 Sound and 2010's American Slang - Fallon needed a change of pace, a change of scenery. And so, in January 2011, together with TGA guitar tech Ian Perkins, he formed The Horrible Crowes, a darkly melancholic side-project inspired by his love of The Afghan Whigs, Tom Waits and PJ Harvey. After the band's acclaimed debut album Elsie dropped in September, Fallon joined fellow punk rock troubadours Chuck Ragan, Dan Andriano (Alkaline Trio) and Dave Hause (The Loved Ones) on the acoustic Revival Tour, airing stripped-down versions of Gaslight Anthem and Horrible Crowes songs to packed rooms across Europe. And then he returned home to New Jersey and Gaslight, re-energised, renewed and ready to make a full-tilt rock 'n' roll record again.