After a two year break, the San Francisco guitar-drum duo TWO GALLANTS will begin touring again this summer across the North America and Europe. The well needed time off came after six years of incessant touring and the release of three full-length studio albums and an acoustic EP. The band consists of childhood friends Tyson Vogel and Adam Stephens who met on their elementary school playground at the age of five. Despite an initial disagreement and ensuing scuffle over the supremacy of White Lion vs. Whitesnake, the two have been best friends ever since. They have been playing music together in some capacity since 1994, when their parents made the mistake of giving them both electric guitars for Christmas. Around 2002, the two college dropouts found themselves with some time on their hands and silence to kill; and so with an acoustic guitar and a trap set they formed TWO GALLANTS in the basement of the Vogel residence. In an ongoing unspoken competition to out do one another, the intervening years have seen the two-piece increase their volume and gear ten-fold. The bands’ sound is somewhat of a syncretism of American old-timey roots music with the grunge and east bay punk of Tyson and Adam’s formative years. The last show they played together was headlining The Fillmore in their hometown in December 2008. In the two years since, both have released solo material under Devotionals and Adam Haworth Stephens, respectively. But now they are looking forward to getting back to the haranging strident noise that fueled them across the world for six years. Come see TWO GALLANTS perform in a town near you this summer and look forward to a new album in the not too distant future.
TWO GALLANTS 2011 SUMMER TOUR DATES
June 19 San Diego, CA / The Casbah
June 21 Los Angeles, CA / The Echo
June 22 Santa Cruz, CA / The Crepe Place
June 24 Portland, OR / Mississippi Studios
June 25 Kennewick, WA / The Red Room
June 26 Vancouver, BC / The Media Room
June 27 Seattle, WA / Neumo’s
July 5 Vienna, Austria / Arena Wien Open Air
July 6 Zurich, Switzerland / Abart
July 7 Dudingen, Switzerland / Bad Bonn
July 9 Madrid, Spain / Moby Dick
July 10 Barcelona, Spain / Apolo
July 12 Hannover, Germany / Cafe Glocksee
July 13 Munster, Germany / Gleiss 22
July 14 Amsterdam, Netherlands / Paradiso
July 15 Dour, Belgium / Dour Festival
July 16 Herk de Stad, Belgium / Rock Herk
July 18 London, England / Hoxton Bar & Kitchen
July 20 Bristol, United Kingdom / Thekla
July 21 Nottingham, United Kingdom / Bodega Social
July 22 Manchester, United Kingdom / Night & Day Cafe
July 23 Russelsheim, Germany / Phono Pop Festival
(more dates to be announced soon)
FOR MORE INFO ON TWO GALLANTS:
http://www.twogallants.com
http://www.facebook.com/twogallants
http://twitter.com/twogallants
FOR MEDIA AND INTERVIEW REQUESTS:
Tony Bonyata
Pavement PR
p: 262.903.7775
e: bonyata@wi.rr.com
https://pavementpr.com