Ahead of the release of his fifth solo album, Not Bad For New Jersey, The Gaslight Anthem frontman Brian Fallon has announced that he’s bringing his band The Painkillers on the road for the Not Bad For New Jersey tour, which comes to 3Olympia Theatre, Dublin on Friday 13th November 2026.
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With his new album Not Bad for New Jersey, singer/songwriter Brian Fallon doubles down on the defiant romanticism that’s always fueled his songwriting, resisting any impulse to grow more guarded with time. Before bringing his fifth solo LP to life, the Gaslight Anthem frontman returned to the fatalistic love songs that rewired his brain as a child—moody radio mainstays authored by rock icons deep into their second act, voiced by wild-eyed dreamers he alternately refers to as “beautiful losers” and “desperate lunatics.” As he assembled a set of songs populated by characters who love too hard and risk too much, Fallon built up a body of work that charges forward with a reckless momentum: the singular internal motion of someone who’s been knocked off course more than once but still chooses to believe, refusing to surrender to cynicism’s easy gravity.
Produced by his repeat collaborator Butch Walker (Green Day, Jesse Malin), Not Bad for New Jersey features guest spots from Brandon Flowers of The Killers, Def Leppard guitarist Phil Collen, avant-garde guitar legend Marc Ribot, and folk/country luminary Lori McKenna. Through a series of freewheeling sessions with Walker (who handled bass, piano, backing vocals, and more) and Dr. Dog drummer Eric Slick, Fallon summoned a frenetic collision of power-pop and heartland rock, arriving at a perfect sonic counterpart to the album’s hot-blooded sincerity. “From the beginning I knew I had to fully lean into the passion and lunacy of all these songs I felt inspired by—there wasn’t much room for subtlety,” says Fallon, naming Bryan Adams’ “Run to You” and The Police’s “Every Breath You Take” among his touchstones for the LP. Mostly tracked live at Walker’s studio near Nashville, Not Bad for New Jersey ultimately reveals an artist driven by the same rapturous abandon that animates his storytelling. “There was so much childlike joy in writing and recording all these songs,” says Fallon. “The whole album came together so naturally, with a level of creative fulfillment I hadn’t experienced in a very long time.”
