Gallows (band)
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 Left to right: Barnard, Gili-Ross, Barratt, MacNeil, and Carter in 2011 |
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| Background information | |
| Origin | Watford, Hertfordshire, England |
| Genres | Hardcore punk |
| Years active | 2005–present |
| Labels | Warner Bros, Epitaph, In At The Deep End, Holy Roar, Thirty Days of Night |
| Associated acts | Pure Love, Alexisonfire, Black Lungs, Spy Catcher |
| Website | gallows.co.uk |
| Members | |
| Laurent "Lags" Barnard Steph Carter Stuart Gili-Ross Lee Barratt Wade MacNeil |
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| Past members | |
| Frank Carter Paul Laventure |
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Gallows are a hardcore punk band from Watford, England. The band was formed in 2005 after the disbandment of founding member Laurent Barnard's previous band, My Dad Joe. Gallows' debut album, Orchestra of Wolves, was distributed in the United States by Epitaph Records, and they were subsequently signed to Warner Bros. Records for a £1 million album contract with up to three options, a deal they were infamously dropped from after one album, Grey Britain.[1][2] The band has been particularly successful in their native country, with three songs charting on the UK Single Charts, and have been featured in magazines such as Kerrang!, Alternative Press and Rolling Stone.[3]
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[edit] History
[edit] Formation and Orchestra of Wolves (2005-08)
Gallows was founded in 2005 [4] and released their first album, Orchestra of Wolves, on In at the Deep End Records. The album caught the attention of Bad Religion's Brett Gurewitz, who released it in the US on Epitaph Records, with new tracks including a cover of Black Flag's "Nervous Breakdown". In an interview Gurewitz named Orchestra of Wolves as one of his favourite albums of 2007, praising it as being the best hardcore album since Refused's The Shape of Punk to Come.
Gallows' 2007 tour included stops at the South by Southwest showcase festival, Warped Tour 2007, Download Festival, Taste of Chaos 2007, and the Reading Festival, where lead singer Frank Carter received a tattoo onstage during the set from Chad Gilbert of New Found Glory.
The band won the 2007 Kerrang! Award for best British Newcomer.[5]
Their song "In the Belly of a Shark" is featured in Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock.
Gallows' third single, a cover of The Ruts' "Staring at the Rude Bois", was their first UK top 40 single, appearing at number 31 on the chart on 25 November 2007. The song was featured in the 2008 Jim Carrey film Yes Man.[6] The band in February released a single, "Just Because You Sleep Next to Me Doesn't Mean You're Safe", the video for which was filmed at Emo's in Texas.[7]
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In January 2008, the band's show at the House of Blues in Anaheim, California was cancelled after Disney, reportedly after listening to Orchestra of Wolves, chose to ban them from performing.[8]
Gallows contributed a cover of "Wrathchild" to Maiden Heaven: A Tribute to Iron Maiden.
On 18 August 2008, the band made available on their MySpace profile the song "Gold Dust." It has been confirmed that the song will not appear on the band's second studio album, but that it is "...just a little treat for everyone that's been asking for new Gallows songs for a while."[9]
[edit] Grey Britain (2008-11)
On 5 December 2008, Thrash Hits revealed that the title of Gallows' second album would be Grey Britain.[10] The album was released on 2 May 2009.
Gallows performed the entire 2009 Vans Warped Tour.[11][12] Gallows will be supporting AFI on an American tour.[13] In order to tour with AFI, Gallows postponed shows in Australia and New Zealand.[14][15]
In December 2009, Gallows mutually parted ways with Warner Brothers.[16]
On 6 June 2010, Gallows played at Rage Against The Machine's victory parade at Finsbury Park in London, UK. They supported Rage Against The Machine and Gogol Bordello at the O2 in Dublin on 7 June 2010.
Gallows played at the Soundwave Festival during late February and early March 2010. They performed on the second stage at the Warrior's Dance Festival at the National Bowl on 24 July 2010,[17] played at the 2010 UK Sonisphere Festival,[18] as well as co-headlining Kent's Hevy Festival on 7 August 2010.[19] They also played Reading and Leeds Festivals 2010 on the Lock Up stage under the pseudonym of The Rats.[20]
On 17 December 2010, the band played at Dingwalls, in Camden, London, during the afternoon, and performed the entire "Orchestra Of Wolves" album. In the evening, they then went onto Camden's Electric Ballroom venue, and played "Grey Britain" in its entirety, with four members of The Heritage Orchestra. Both shows were recorded for a live DVD, and Frank Carter confirmed that they will be taking time off to record a new album in early 2011.
It has been announced that they will return to Sonisphere Festival in 2011, on the Saturn Stage.[21]
In June, the band announced on their Facebook that they recorded over a dozen new demos and that they were "sounding HEAVY."
[edit] Lineup change and Death Is Birth (2011-present)
On 8 July 2011 Frank Carter posted on Twitter his separation from Gallows, at the same time he released a statement on his website.
"It is with a heavy heart that I have to announce my departure from Gallows. It seems that Gallows have hit a crossroads in our writing process and unfortunately myself and the rest of the boys have different ideas regarding the sound of Gallows going forward. Gallows have decided they are going to continue on without me and I wish the boys the best of luck for the future."
Frank's brother and fellow bandmate Steph also stated on the site. "As you all know, we've been in the studio for the past few months working on a follow up to Grey Britain. It pains me to say that as of 1 August Frank will no longer be a member of Gallows. Creatively, we could not agree on a direction for the new record and came to the conclusion that parting ways was for the best. Frank will be releasing music with his new project 'Pure Love' later this year and we all wish him best. He is & will always be our brother, as well as an integral part of the start of our career." Frank played his last show with Gallows at London ULU on 23 July 2011.
On 9 August 2011, former Alexisonfire guitarist/vocalist Wade MacNeil was confirmed as the new Gallows singer, shortly after Alexisonfire announced their disbandment.[22] On 30 August 2011, just two weeks after Wade's announcement, the band released a short teaser song entitled "True Colours", their first release with new vocalist Wade MacNeil. The 40 second song became free to download by the band with its release.[23] The band recorded an EP in Los Angeles with The Bronx guitarist Joby Ford as producer, titled Death is Birth and it was released on 5 December 2011. The EP contains four new songs; True Colours and three others: Mondo Chaos, Hate! Hate! Hate! and Death Is Birth. It was released on Thirty Days of Night Records, with whom the band previously released a split EP with November Coming Fire.
[edit] Members
- Current members
- Wade MacNeil - lead vocals (2011–present)
- Laurent "Lags" Barnard - guitar, vocals (2005–present)
- Steph Carter - guitar, vocals (2006–present)
- Stuart Gili-Ross - bass, vocals (2005–present)
- Lee Barratt - drums, percussion (2005–present)
- Previous members
- Frank Carter - lead vocals (2005–2011)
- Paul Laventure - guitar, vocals (2005)
[edit] Discography
[edit] Studio albums
| Year | Album details | Peak chart positions |
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| UK [3] |
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| 2006 | Orchestra of Wolves | 57 |
| 2009 | Grey Britain
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[edit] EPs
| Year | EP details |
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| 2007 | Gallows / November Coming Fire
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| 2011 | Death Is Birth
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[edit] Singles
| Year | Single | Peak chart positions | Album |
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| UK [3] |
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| 2007 | "Abandon Ship" | — | Orchestra of Wolves |
| "In the Belly of a Shark" | 56 | ||
| "Staring at the Rude Bois" | 31 | ||
| 2008 | "Just Because You Sleep Next to Me Doesn't Mean You're Safe" | — | |
| "Gold Dust" | — | n/a | |
| 2009 | "The Vulture (Acts I & II)" | — | Grey Britain |
| "London Is the Reason" | — | ||
| "I Dread the Night" | — | ||
| "Misery" | — | ||
| 2011 | "True Colours" | — | n/a |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart. "n/a" denotes singles that are not from albums. |
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[edit] Other appearances
The following Gallows songs were released on compilation albums. This is not an exhaustive list; songs that were first released on the band's albums, EPs, or singles are not included.
| Year | Release details | Track(s) |
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| 2008 | Maiden Heaven: A Tribute to Iron Maiden |
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[edit] Music videos
| Year | Song | Director | Album |
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| 2007 | "Abandon Ship"[24] | Orchestra of Wolves | |
| "In the Belly of a Shark"[25] | |||
| "Staring at the Rude Bois"[26] | n/a | ||
| 2008 | "Just Because You Sleep Next to Me Doesn't Mean You're Safe"[27] | Orchestra of Wolves | |
| 2009 | "The Vulture (Act II)"[28] | Grey Britain | |
| "London Is the Reason"[29] | |||
| "I Dread the Night"[30] | |||
| "Misery"[31] | |||
| 2011 | "True Colours"[32] | n/a | |
| "Mondo Chaos"[33] | Death Is Birth |
[edit] References
- ^ Punknews.org | Gallows working on new album
- ^ http://www.punknews.org/article/36590
- ^ a b c http://www.theofficialcharts.com/artist/_/gallows/
- ^ Style 43 » Blog Archive » EXCLUSIVE GALLOWS INTERVIEW
- ^ Best British Newcomer | Kerrang Awards 2007
- ^ Staring At The Rude Bois Music Video featuring Lethal Bizzle.
- ^ warnermusic "J.B.Y.S.N.T.M.D.Y.S." music video
- ^ Music News - The latest music news and gossip from Yahoo! Music UK & Ireland
- ^ Gallows to release new track on MySpace
- ^ http://www.thrashhits.com/2008/12/gallows-name-new-album-grey-britain/
- ^ http://www.warpedtour.com/warpedtour/bands.asp
- ^ Ambrose, Anthony. tour-oceanport-719/ "inTuneMusic Online: Warped Tour @ Oceanport 7/19". http://intunemusiconline.com/2009/07/27/warped- tour-oceanport-719/. Retrieved 2009-07-28.
- ^ Puget, Jade. "ShyBoysWin". http://shyboyswin.blogspot.com/2009/08/ahh-its-beautiful-thing-to-be-done.html. Retrieved 2009-08-17.
- ^ http://www.undertheradar.co.nz/utr/more/NID/1602/Gallows-Postpone-NZ-Tour.utr
- ^ http://www.metalunderground.com/news/details.cfm?newsid=47085
- ^ Myers, Ben (6 January 2010). "Gallows' great rock'n'roll swindle". The Guardian (London). http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2010/jan/06/gallows-great-rock-n-roll-swindle. Retrieved 2010-05-03.
- ^ http://www.warriorsdancefestival.com/
- ^ http://www.metalhammer.co.uk/news/sonisphere-announce-7-new-bands
- ^ http://festival.hevy.co.uk/
- ^ http://hangout.altsounds.com/reviews/121837-gallows-at-leeds-festival-the-lock-up-stage-bramham-park-live.html
- ^ http://uk.sonispherefestivals.com/line-up/gallows-2/
- ^ Annie Zaleski (9 August 2011). "Exclusive Interview: Wade MacNeil on becoming Gallows’ new singer". Alternative Press. http://www.altpress.com/features/entry/alexisonfire_wade_macneil_gallows_new_singer. Retrieved 7 December 2011.
- ^ Brock Thiessen (30 August 2011). [http://exclaim.ca/MusicVideo/ClickHear/gallows-true_colours "Gallows "True Colours""]. Exclaim.ca. http://exclaim.ca/MusicVideo/ClickHear/gallows-true_colours. Retrieved 7 December 2011.
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxhDSdBBoUw
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hvF3mDOmSo
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4ScST1yb4U
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aCHYKjVo0I
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RbMRszWOiA
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RcDzVqI250
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKr0zczQoXU
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNodyijdG_E
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMnjf2YDDy0
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpyXKB291Io
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