Gallows Recent News

Gallows on the cover of Big Cheese Magazine!

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:02:00 -0800

Check out the latest cover of Big Cheese Magazine featuring Gallows.

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Gallows on Complete Control Radio

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:02:00 -0800

If you missed Complete Control Radio with Joe Sib interviewing Gallows watch it at the CCR youtube page.

You can check it out here:
Part 1:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=yFjTok7OfOs
Part 2:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=szLawTZbobc

Orchestra Of Wolves, out now!

GALLOWS' US Tour Begins January 9th!

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:01:00 -0800

UK hardcore group Gallows will embark on their first ever headlining US tour on January 9th. Fronted by NME magazine's 2007 pick for "coolest man in rock 'n' roll," Frank Carter and crew return to the US in support of their debut album, Orchestra of Wolves, out now!

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GALLOWS: Featured in this months' Rolling Stone!

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:12:00 -0800

Check out the Gallows' in this months' issue of Rolling Stone magazine. Click Here to view the article.

And don't miss their first ever headlining US tour in January with THIS IS HELL and CANCER BATS. It's 2008's most electrifying tour! Click Here for a list of dates.

ORCHESTRA OF WOLVES, in stores now!

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GALLOWS To Invade The US In 2008

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:11:00 -0800

THE UK'S MOST BUZZWORTHY BAND ANNOUNCES US TOUR

UK hardcore group Gallows will embark on their first ever headlining US tour in January. Fronted by NME magazine's 2007 pick for "coolest man in rock 'n' roll," Frank Carter and crew return to the US in support of their debut album, Orchestra of Wolves.

For the last nine months Gallows have crisscrossed the globe ravaging venues from Australia to the US, where the group made an unforgettable debut in March with two shows at SXSW followed by a headlining slot on the Van's Warped Tour and a brief US tour opening for Bad Religion in October.

"An anthemic mix of early '80s hardcore and pure stage aggression that made watching this group of Brit punks like watching a pack of veracious wolves devour its prey." - SPIN

Gallows' onstage melee has been described as a non-stop barrage of adrenaline fueled chaos, where the band's unruly antics often commandeer entire venues. Led by their rowdy frontman Carter, who spends most shows entrenched in the circle pit, Gallows provide an intensely skillful soundtrack to the mayhem with the blistering dual guitar assault from Laurent Barnard and Steph Carter and rhythmic rollicking of bassist Stu Gili Ross and drummer Lee Barratt. Circling back for their fourth visit, Gallows are ready to get up close and personal with their American fans.

Don't miss 2008's most electrifying tour!

Tour Dates (More Dates To Be Announced Soon):
1/9 - The Masquerade - Atlanta, GA
1/10 - Jack Rabbits - Jacksonville, FL
1/11 - The Social - Orlando, FL
1/12 - Common Grounds - Gainesville, FL
1/14 - Red Room at Meridian - Houston, TX
1/15 - Emo's - Austin, TX
1/16 - The Door - Dallas, TX

Gallows' Frank Carter Tops NME "Cool List"

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 00:11:00 -0800

CARTER TAKES #1 SLOT AS "COOLEST MAN IN ROCK 'N' ROLL"

England's most dynamic frontman, Frank Carter, has topped the NME's (New Musical Express) annual "Cool List." Featured on the cover of the UK's top music magazine in all his tattooed glory, the Gallows' singer surpassed indie favorite Amy Winehouse, Alex Turner of Arctic Monkeys, gossip queen Beth Ditto and the legendary Keith Richards among others to take the crown as the "coolest man in rock 'n' roll."

Known for his riotous antics that include being tattooed onstage, self-inflicted whiplash and virtual bloodlettings, Carter has made lasting impressions with critics and fans around the world.

From their jaw-dropping performance at SXSW to headlining duties at Van's Warped Tour and most recently a US tour with Bad Religion, Gallows continue to stun crowds with their mind-blowing live shows.

"Gallows, the most vicious storm to sweep the musical landscape in god-knows-how-fucking-long, seem intent on rattling the cage in which is kept the blundering beast of male primacy." - Filter

"Gallows are a major buzz band on their home turf and deserve to be received with just as much fanfare in the states." - Revolver

"Gallows, the great punk hope grabbing Britain by its face and punching sense back into its jaded troops." - NME

"Gallows are here to put true punk rock back on the map." - Transworld Skateboarding

"Say hello to the house band for your next back-alley brawl." - SPIN

For more information on NME's "Cool List" visit: www.NME.com

Gallows Get "Rude" With New Video

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:10:00 -0700

UK BASED PUNKS RELEASE NEW VIDEO FOR HIDDEN TRACK, "STARING AT THE RUDE BOIS," FEATURING UK RAPPER LETHAL BIZZLE

Punk rock prodigies Gallows, have premiered their riotous new video for "Staring At The Rude Bois" on MySpace. Directed by Paul Gore (The Bravery, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club), the video was shot at a railway station in East Grinstead, England, and features famed UK rapper Lethal Bizzle.

The video for "Staring At The Rude Bois" will be featured on MySpace's music page on October 17th and can be viewed now on the group's page here: myspace.com/gallows.

Originally released by reggae/punk band The Ruts in 1980, "Staring At The Rude Bois" blends the Gallows' signature hardcore style and raucous attitude with Lethal Bizzle's hip-hop skills for a modern take on the punk pub anthem.

"Staring At The Rude Bois" can be found on the Gallows' critically acclaimed debut album, Orchestra of Wolves, which has been described as "a chainsaw symphony of relentlessly lurching hardcore riffs, punctuated by melodic skill and rhythmic complexity." (Filter) The song is also available for download on iTunes.

"Gallows' catchy hardcore punk is a bracing antidote to cookie-cutter, fashion-fueled music." - Alternative Press

"One of the most intense punk bands from the U.K. has come to remind good ol' American folks that great music is still supposed to sound like a sonic kick in the teeth." - Metal Edge

"This album makes it clear why Gallows are a major buzz band on their home turf and deserve to be received with just as much fanfare in the states." - Revolver

"Say hello to the house band for your next back-alley brawl." - SPIN

Alternative Press Comp featuring The Matches and Gallows

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:09:00 -0700

Enter to win the Epitaph/AP Comp Contest at: myspace.com/apcomp

1 grand prize winner will get:
*The Matches, Gallows and Epitaph merch.
*cds (epitaph catalog)
*a copy of the AP comp
*Epitaph dvd
*original art from Shawn(The Matches)
*pair of vans shoes and vans gear

and 5 runners up win:
*AP subscriptions
*a copy of the AP comp

Trivia questions are:
The Matches: in the Matches new video for "SALTY EYES" they reference a classic rock video - name the artist and the video they reference.

Gallows: what was Frank's profession before he became the lead singer of Gallows?

Gallows on the cover of Hour Weekly Montreal

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 00:08:00 -0700

Gallows break out of England brandishing a new, scary kind of punk rock.

They're young, they're brash, they're brimming with confidence and sure that if they do their damnedest, they're going to set the punk rock world on fire and inspire the purging burns needed to reinvigorate growth in the scene.
If you think you've heard this song before, you have. The chorus usually goes "you'll forget about them in a year," though everyone swears that this time it'll be different. But mark my words, Gallows is different. There's a different kind of swagger afoot here, a nastier bit of cough medicine. From where I sit, it begins and ends with Frank Carter, who's quite possibly fronting the best and most important English punk band since the Sex Pistols.
"I think I am," says Carter confidently, aware of what the comparison entails. "That's a big accolade right there. It doesn"t get much bigger than that. Sex Pistols are history.
"There's an enormous amount of pressure, and an enormous amount of responsibility. There are people that I don't even know and will probably never meet, they look at my band and they think it's so important and it gives them so much inspiration and so much energy and the last thing they want us to do is let them down, you know?"
Maybe that's what makes Carter, and Gallows, different. They care. They actually get that they're not a standalone entity in this thing called punk rock, but rather its future. It's not as fired, righteous and holy a thing as saying that as Gallows go, punk goes, but those in the know are already aware that

the Watford five-piece might not only symbolize the beginning of the end, but also the beginning of a new beginning.

A WARPED KIND OF EXPERIENCE
This summer, Gallows has been tearing up Warped Tour stages all across North America. Their stage times have varied, but lately they've been up early. In years past, I've heard bands bellyache to high heaven about this, but for Carter, the "when" doesn't much matter; to play's the thing.
"It's 10:30 in the morning, and I'm about to play a fucking show," he says, undaunted. "We're going to get up there - we've just got woken up - and we're going to fucking destroy it, because that's all we know. We like to set the bar. Whatever time we play [we want to] make sure that whoever's there watching, the next band they see, they'll be disappointed. That"s why we're here."
Sources have confirmed this. Gallows is the it-band of this year's tour, the one that everyone, including all the other bands, don't want to miss. For Carter, who credits much of Gallows' success to his straight-edge lifestyle, this equals the ultimate high: "Seeing bands that you've loved and respected your whole life coming out to see you and saying that you smashed it, and they really love your band, and they love what you're doing - there's nothing better than that."

THROWING DOWN THE GAUNTLET
"No one cares enough anymore" is Carter's impassioned indictment of the music world's current state. "People were writing music not for themselves, but for what they thought people wanted to hear, and it shouldn't be about that. It should never have been about that. The whole point and reason behind Gallows was that we were the band that was so sick of music being stale, you know, music that wasn't fun, wasn't exciting, wasn't dangerous anymore."
And there it is: danger. It's funny to think that music can be dangerous, but punk rock used to be. It was about anarchy, rebellion, disobedience - an ugly, angry voice screaming for change. If Gallows has its say, punk rock might yet return there. "[When it started], if you were a punk, you were dangerous, you know? You were a nasty bit of work, and very few people wanted to even talk to you, let alone like you. They were scared of what you were and what you stood for. And that's exactly what we love about punk."
It's in this interpretation of what punk is supposed to be that the Gallows ethos sneaks out. Call it a salvo, call it a warning, call it whatever you want. Just stand up and pay attention, because Carter and his mates are coming, and they've got a message for you:
"We're here to make people realize that if there's gonna be music, in whatever genre it wants to be, it has to be fucking good. There's no more of this coasting, no more fucking about, no more getting by just because of the way you look. If you want to be in a band, you've got to give 400 per cent every single night.
"You've got to keep up with Gallows."

-Dave Jaffer

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Gallows featured on Chartattack.com

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 00:07:00 -0700

Gallows Are Loud And Proud

The origins of Watford, England's Gallows seem like an almost textbook case of rock 'n' roll creationism: a collection of downtrodden youth with little to do but vent their angst through songs.

That's about where the predictability stops, though, 'cause Gallows are no run-of-the-mill outfit. Vocalist Frank Carter, his guitarist brother Steph Carter, bassist Stu Gili-Ross, guitarist Laurent Barnard and drummer Lee Barratt's brand of seminal hardcore punk mixed with melodic undertones elicits comparisons to some of the scene's most respected longhorns. Names such as Minor Threat, Black Flag and Circle Jerks constantly crop up in reviews and interviews in an effort to convey the passion, frustration and attitude that defines them.

Maybe that's why Gallows are garnering so much attention. They're the "buzz" band of this year's Warped Tour, heralded by press and public alike despite the fact that their Epitaph debut, Orchestra Of Wolves, only saw the light of day in North America earlier this month.

"I think it's the music and the sincerity of our live show," says Frank Carter. "When we play, it's in earnest.

"We channel from every bit ourselves to make sure that no matter how big or small the show is, we're giving it everything we've got. Hype isn't important to us... we don't give a fuck if people don't want to hear us either. We give our heart and soul, bleed and cry if that's what it takes to make people listen at the basic level."

With the throngs of people jumping on the Gallows bandwagon, someone seems to be listening. Then again, how could we ignore them? They recently topped out a sound metre at more than 130 decibels (higher than the average jet engine) to become the world's loudest band.

Still, despite being pleased that his band draw comparisons to those from punk's most formative years, the singer is adamant that people understand that they aren't striving to sound like their idols. Instead, Gallows takes that inspiration and bastardize it with hatred for what has happened to punk over the past decade. Driven to reinvigorate the scene with elements of interest, danger and, well, volume, Carter notes that while you may not love Gallows, you can't ignore them.

"When you're young, there are so many bands you love that you want to be like. But when you get older, you realize it's not about wanting to be in a band like anyone else. It's about striking out against what is wrong. That's what bands that influenced us were doing in the first place. I'm sick of the trend of stale soft rock that seems to fucking penetrate everyone. People are happy listening to the most banal, tasteless, boring, uncharacteristic rock ever. It's not right. Music shouldn't be boring. It should be exciting, intimidating and dangerous. You should feel something when you listen to it. You shouldn't be able to just put it on in the background."

Gallows and the rest of the Warped Tour will hit Park Place in Barrie, Ont. on Aug. 11 and Montreal's Parc Jean-Drapeau the next day.

- Keith Carman
ChartAttack.com