The Gaslight Anthem follow up incredible weekend with the release of "The '59 Sound"

BAND JOINED BY BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN ON STAGE AT BOTH EVENTS

June 29, 2009, 01:29 PM

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New Jersey’s favourite sons The Gaslight Anthem experienced an astonishing patronage this weekend from legendary neighbour Bruce Springsteen when he joined the band onstage at both Glastonbury and the Hard Rock Calling event in London’s Hyde Park this weekend. Springsteen joined the band on guitar and vocals for a storming version of their new single ‘The 59 Sound’ and provided one of the real highlights of both festivals.

To return the favour, Gaslight Anthem’s frontman Brian Fallon also joined Bruce Springsteen at both events for the song ‘No Surrender’ to prove their mutual respect and provided yet another classic festival moment.

“Bruce just turned up backstage yesterday,” explains Fallon talking to Absolute Radio. “He asked if he could play with us and today he said ‘Hey, I’m going to play with you’. I guess God likes me a little!”

“I’m amazed how gracious he is,” he continues. “You’re aware of his presence, his stature, the history he has and his legacy, but you get the sense he’s encouraging us, like an older brother would be. We’re carrying on in the traditionalism of rock n roll and you could tell he is super supportive of that and that means the world to us. The fact that he’d join us to play makes us the ‘beautiful loser’ as they say. The underdog triumphs!”

Today also sees the single release of the title-track from last year’s critically-acclaimed album – ‘The ’59 Sound’ on Sideonedummy Records.

The single is available via download, as well as in 7” and CD versions. The B-sides include Gaslight’s brilliant cover version of ‘State of Love and Trust’ by Pearl Jam and ‘We Came to Dance’ off the band’s first full-length SINK OR SWIM.

The Gaslight Anthem will bring their explosive live performance to the following shows and festivals in the UK and Europe this summer:

July:
2nd ROSKILDE FESTIVAL Roskilde
3rd VAINSTREAM FEST Munster, Germany
4th VAINSTREAM BEASTFEST Weisbaden, Germany
5th RUISROCK FESTIVAL Turku, Finland
9th BBK ALIVE FESTIVAL Bilbao, Spain
10th ALIVE FESTIVAL Lisbon, Portugal
11th OXEGEN FESTIVAL Dublin, Eire
12th T IN THE PARK FESTIVAL Glasgow, Scotland, Scotland
16th GURTEN FESTIVAL Bern, Switzerland
17th ART SONIC FESTIVAL Briouze
18th DOUR FESTIVAL Dour
19th LATITUDE FESTIVAL Southwold, Suffolk, UK
25th FUJI ROCK FESTIVAL Niigata
2nd ALL POINTS WEST FESTIVAL Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
7th LAPALOOZA Chicago, Illinois, USA
29th LEEDS FESTIVAL - NME Stage Leeds, UK
30th READING FESTIVAL - NME Stg Reading, UK

Check out the exclusive-to-online version of the video for ‘The ’59 Sound’ here –

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