After Years In The Spotlight, Brian Fallon Is Finally Comfortable With Who He Is
“You know when you see people walking through the stairway of a venue carrying a hot dog, and you’re onstage like, ‘This song is about my dead friend’?” No, Brian Fallon is not setting up the punchline of a joke. He is reliving the nagging moment he realised that he didn’t want to be famous anymore. Mid-performance, during a “window between 2011 and 2014”, the musician was headlining a 10,000-capacity venue with his band, punk rock greats The Gaslight Anthem. The evening prior, Tom Petty had been standing in the very same spot. It was an honour, and the kind of towering achievement that Brian and his bandmates had spent the past decade-plus working towards. But as the frontman stared in bewilderment at the colossal crowd before him, it all felt… well, a bit off. “I was like...