When you have distance from something you can see the moments where it’s like, “Wow, we tried that thing out and it didn’t go right.” So, we went back to the place where it was really working well. And then it sucked here and this is why it sucked. That’s the benefit of being a band for a long time - you know these are the years that it worked really well. But once I actually saw him and we sat down, and I was like, “Okay.”Īnd then, when I talked to Alex and Alex, it had been long enough that we knew what needed to happen. Because if he and I couldn’t have gotten it together, I don’t think any of it would’ve been the same. I went over Ben’s house and I sat down with him and it was like, “Is this really happening? Could we do this?” And we just played together for a sec. What do you think of this?” I sent them to everybody, actually. And if you don’t, then I’m not.” I made a deal with myself and I was like, “If I can write four songs that I feel are quality, I’ll call Ben.” And I did. I was like, “I have to come over to your house and we should talk.” I told him when I was thinking and he was positive, but he said, “If you want to do new stuff, then I’m interested. And if I said it out loud, I was like, “Does it mean that it’s going to happen?”
I wasn’t sure if I really wanted it to happen. I mean, it had been something that I was thinking about for a while and I didn’t say anything to anyone. How did you make the leap from thinking, “I like being in a band” to the much more ambitious idea of actually writing new Gaslight Anthem songs and reviving the band as a creative enterprise? You look and go, “Oh maybe that thing that I was so mad about is not so important.”
I think getting older changes your perspective on everything. Whether we were talking about music or not, we were just always talking. I would talk to Alex and Alex, too, just to get updates: What are you doing? How’s your family? What’s going on in your life? We all were pretty current with each other, but Ben and I really stayed in touch. Now that we’re older, though, we would always talk. And I was like, “What if you change your mind? Then all of a sudden you’re like, ‘we quit, just kidding, the final tour, not really’?”ĭid you guys stay in touch during the break?īen and I have always been very close - sometimes close at each others throats in the early days. I read about how Noel Gallagher just straight up quit Oasis.
But this was one of those things that just wouldn’t allow that. We all were like, “This sucks, let’s stop doing this before we embarrass ourselves.” But in your mind, did you ever think The Gaslight Anthem was over for good?Įverybody likes to blame me for the hiatus, but it wasn’t just me. You labeled your break as a hiatus, which is what bands always do these days instead of officially breaking up. In the following interview, Fallon explains how The Gaslight Anthem reunion came about, why it’s important to him that the band make new music, and the inspiration he took from the 2011 Pearl Jam Twenty documentary. I want to turn up something to 10 and play. “You know what’s pretty cool? Rock music,” he says. Now there’s a familiar urge that harks to his past. When reached by phone this week, Fallon said that after his 2020 album Local Honey he felt like he had closed a chapter on his creative life. On his own, Fallon has moved in an Americana direction, favoring acoustic guitars and introspective lyrics grappling with adult disappointments, a far cry from the cinematic storytelling associated with The Gaslight Anthem. And the music he’s made on his own has veered far from the rousing, Springsteen-inspired fist pumpers that populate well-loved Gaslight Anthem albums like 2008’s The 59 Sound, 2010’s American Slang, and 2012’s Handwritten, which debuted in Billboard‘s top 10. The 42-year-old singer-songwriter has put out solo albums at a steady clip since the hiatus, including his fourth full-length release, Night Divine, in 2021. In addition to a reunion tour slated for the fall, there are plans to record their first album since 2014’s Get Hurt.įor followers of the band’s frontman Brian Fallon, all of this might have registered as a surprise. This week, New Jersey arena-punk band The Gaslight Anthem announced that they would be returning to full-time status as a concert and recording outfit.
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