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Brian Fallon Starts New Band

The Horrible Crowes, Percy Sledge meets Bon Iver and a few other things too!

The Gaslight Anthem vocalist Brian Fallon has started a new side-project called The Horrible Crowes with Ian Perkins (the bloke you sometimes see onstage as an extra guitarist when Gaslight play live, a seriously good dude).

Writing on his blog Fallon gave a lengthy explanation of the thinking behind the project:

"Now how's this going to work with Gaslight, well it's easy, see, every time I write a creepy Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Mark Laneghan type song, I get an idea for a ripper which goes straight to Gaslight. So we're writing for both now, but Gaslight isn't planning on recording until the fall, for a 2012 release. Now I can't sit still so I'm doing this for fun, nothing more. We might do a few shows with the Crowes, maybe select cities in the US, Can, and Europe/UK, but not major touring like Gaslight does. This is my "for me" record, Gaslight is my baby, no mistake.

I always said I never would do a "solo" record so that's why I found a partner in crime in Ian. So it's not going to be the acoustic Brian Fallon road show. There's organs, pianos, even (gasp) strings!!! There's drums, everything. So don't expect a folk record. Here's a good description, if Tom Waits, the National, the Afghan Whigs, Bon Iver, and Nick Cave made a band with Percy Sledge that'd be called The Horrible Crowes."

So, more Gaslight music is on the way alongside a new project from Brian. Not bad.

Did we forget to say that guitarist Alex Rosamilia has started a hardcore band called Something About Death Or Dying? Shame on us.