Two Gallants to Headline The Fillmore

Two Gallants Finish Up Year With Festivals, Benefit Shows, And Take Autumn Break Until Headlining The Fillmore On December 26, 2008.

It has certainly been a long and steady road for the Gallants. Growing up together in San Francisco, the horizon constantly beckoned. They wanted to see the world, but would do it on their own terms. Free from any musical template, they created a sound all their own, marrying folk and punk elements – dusty as the paths they’d travel, sharp as a razor’s edge. Upon this landscape, the boys spun their wanderlust tales, infused with their essential struggle: the lure of the unfamiliar road and the comfort of a familiar perch. Ultimately, their music did the work – traversed the golden gates and reached out to those who wanted to hear. So Two Gallants followed, two silhouettes against the sun.

The past year, instead of doing four tours like the previous year, the band played mostly festivals and certain new destinations like the southern region of Andalucia, Spain; above the Arctic Circle via Tromso, Norway; with other stops in France, Belgium, and Germany. They were handpicked to accompany ELBOW on their UK tour, and toured Ireland, which included 3 nights in Dublin supporting THE NATIONAL. They also found time to make their network television debut on ABC’s JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE!, in support of their self-titled 3rd album.

This past June, the boys made their first appearance at BONNAROO, playing two sets: one electric, one acoustic – garnering some attention from The NY Times. This was two days after they were in Seattle for a sold out BENEFIT FOR NOISE FOR THE NEEDY.

In August, Two Gallants headlined the PRESIDIO STAGE on Day 2 of the very first OUTSIDE LANDS MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco alongside TOM PETTY, RADIOHEAD, WILCO, and BECK, among others. They capped off their summer with two rousing performances at BUMBERSHOOT. Their early set at the KEXP Music Lounge certainly made an impression: the station promptly invited the band to headline the KEXP pledge drive, JOHN IN THE MORNING AT NIGHT, on October 3rd, at Neumo’s in Seattle. Their later set had those in attendance buzzing with phrases like 'my favorite performance of Bumbershoot 2008.'

After a recent stop in the UK, which included an appearance at the End of the Road Festival, the boys will take a well-deserved autumn respite (save for the KEXP spot, of course) which will mark their first fall without a full-fledged tour in 5 years.

On December 26th, Two Gallants will re-emerge to headline the famed Fillmore in San Francisco. Tickets are on sale now.

Two Gallants Acoustic EP, 'The Scenery Of Farewell', and their 3rd Full-Length Album, 'Two Gallants', are In Stores Now (Saddle Creek).

'The duo’s crackpot crock-pot of antediluvian folk, rustic Americana… laid atop stripped-to-the-bone punk revels in dark and timeless thoughts and themes: loss, abandonment, regret, betrayal, revenge… As brutally sad as it is starkly beautiful.' – Boston Globe

'Two Gallants have emerged from the mess and continue, with this, their third LP, to blow all other current drum-guitar combos out of the water. That’s right – all of them.' - VICE Magazine

Click here to watch Two Gallants on Jimmy Kimmell Live!