Talk:Gallows (band)

new member
some dude from Alexisonfire was asked to join the band and it's all over the press, you may want to add that >>>That's not been confirmed yet.

Australia/New Zealand cancellations
Claiming/implying Gallows left the Australia/NZ tour for money is borderline libel unless there's proof. Is there an interview with Frank Carter where he admits the band left the tours to play with AFI because the AFI tour will pay more? Maybe, but I doubt it. Neither of the sources (Under the Radar and Metal Underground) mentions money. Neither mentions fan indignation. The cancellation situation is so minor that it feels like it's only included to complain about the cancellations. Is that why it's included? If so, it's fancruft. Şłџğģő 06:06, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

Here is my position:

-I would like to repeat that whilst I understand that you consider mentioning Gallows repeated cancelations in Australasia fancruft, applying that criteria to some information, whilst letting other gems slip by (such as: "The third version featured the band's name in a spray-paint-like font on the front in a plastic wallet. The final version has different artwork (a drawn bug of some sort), and comes in a plastic wallet."), is itself fancruft. Because Gallows are a band in the era of globalization much of the information on the page is purely subjective to the reader, if we are going to use the precedent of fancruft as a rule of thumb lets just get rid of 3/4 of the information on this page that isn't bare utilitarian fact resulting in a stub that says Gallows are a hardcore band from england on a record label that have released a handful of albums and EP's

- I do not consider that the statement "this tour led to widespread indignation amongst fans of the band in the Southern Hemisphere because in order to tour with AFI Gallows canceled their shows in both Australia and New Zealand for the second consecutive time in order to seemingly pursue a larger audience" in any way libelous. The statement does not suggest that gallows dropped from the Australasia tour for money, it says "in order to seemingly pursue a larger audience". Their own press release as cited on the reference from www.undertheradar.co.nz said: "The band were offered an unmissable opportunity to build on their already rabid following in the US with a national tour supporting AFI. Gallows and promoters RW Entertainment apologise for any inconvenience this has caused but promise it will be worth the wait! "We're so sorry to our friends in New Zealand for pulling out of this tour and from all the messages we've received we know there are a lot of you out there. We've been huge AFI fans since the beginning and we don't want to turn this opportunity down to later regret missing out on the chance to tour with one of our favourite bands. Hopefully this gives you time to learn the lyrics and scream your hearts out with us when we return next year"

-The material facts  of the situation are as follows: Gallows were coming to do a two stage tour of Australasia, Gallows chose for whatever reason - either the stated chance to tour with their 'idols" AFI (a prospect which seems decidedly iffy on balance given that the dropped NZ and australia shows were to be in 2010, they were touring with AFI in October 2009), or to peruse larger audiences (more likely situation given that they canceled shows in september 2009 in  order to tour with AFI in october, rebooked the shows for march 2010, then canceled those shows in order to tour with Billy Talent in North America during march 2010). Although my edit opts toward the reading of the evidence that Gallows dropped a smaller tour in Australasia too pursue North American audiences, it sill presents the basic material facts of the of the Australia/New Zealand tour situation.

- I can provide you with page after page of "fan indignation" from forums etc. if you want evidence of fan indignation

- I do not suggest you are editing information based upon your own fandom. But we are left a situation whereby you are using the rational that I am just including information based upon the need to complain about gallows not coming down under, and you are removing my fact based edits. At the same time you are leaving details about canceled shows in the house of blues in early 2008 or details regarding the identity of forms on limited run cover art. This situation would suggest some kind of bias, probably unintentional, toward negative or non anglo american information.

I suggest one way forward is - we leave my edit as is with a view toward removing it in six or so months when the information is outdated and extraneous to new developments.

I look forward to finding a mutually satisfactory solution User:Elhooseroyal --Elhooseroyal (talk) 09:11, 12 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Forums are almost always unacceptable as a source; see WP:SELFPUBLISH and number 10 at WP:ELNO. While it's obviously not likely, a forum full of pissed off fans could have been composed by one guy who is angry Laurent Barnard cut him off in traffic. You mention "material facts" and, in the following parentheses, use the word "seems." These contradict each other and back up my belief that we can only add what we know. I personally feel that including any mention of this obscure situation is unhelpful, but I can let it go provided there are no guesses as to Gallows' motivations and no unsourced claims of angry fans. The claims are right next to two sources that do not back up the claims in any way, so it definitely has to go.


 * "Fancruft" does not cover obscure information. You are, however, right to claim that a lot of that info is kind of useless, especially descriptions of the band's logo on an out-of-print CD cover. Şłџğģő  19:45, 12 January 2010 (UTC)


 * I think we can almost call this a solution, but may I point out again that Gallows own press release does say, "The band were offered an unmissable opportunity to build on their already rabid following in the US with a national tour supporting AFI. Gallows and promoters RW Entertainment apologise for any inconvenience this has caused but promise it will be worth the wait!". I am using http://www.undertheradar.co.nz/utr/more/NID/1602/Gallows-Postpone-NZ-Tour.utr , in both Australia and New Zealand (at least) everything under the statement Press Release is normally  taken verbatim from a press release. To me at least the statement, "The band were offered an unmissable opportunity to build on their already rabid following in the US", would indicate the cancelation of tours for  the pursuit of larger audiences User:Elhooseroyal

--Elhooseroyal (talk)


 * As a sign of good faith I will not edit anything until I get your response User:Elhooseroyal

--Elhooseroyal (talk)


 * If you can explain, precisely, why you want to include claims about Gallows wanting to gain more fans, fine. From the looks of it, it looks like you want to include it as a roundabout way of accusing Gallows of ignoring established fans. Why does the article need to include it? Does it provide any insight into the band? I don't see how it does. Şłџğģő  06:37, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

Problems with including "future plans" in the text
PLEASE do not add information in the text that are the plans for the band's future, no matter how firm they are. It becomes a problem in keeping articles up to date. It's really awful to read an article that mentions plans to release an album, or start a tour, and that's the last thing you read about them, when the projected date for such plans has passed a year before. --Leahtwosaints (talk) 05:21, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

Post-Hardcore?
Not even close guys. Find a source for this because it's absolutely ridiculous. Otherwise I'm taking it off.Korylytle (talk) 17:47, 28 June 2010 (UTC)

Adding metal-punk to genres?
Now Gallows have always been primarily a hardcore punk band, with some melodic hardcore elements, and they still are, but you can't deny the metal elements in some songs like the breakdowns in Belly of a Shark or Misery, also the Riverbed has quite a metal tone to it. I mean it's metal punk; punk with metal elements. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.37.20.25 (talk) 12:42, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
 * We're going to need some sources before we go calling them metalcore. Jasper420 19:54, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
 * well actually hardcore should include some metal elements. also as i remember breakdowns were borrowed to metalcore and then other genres from hardcore. so calling "gallows" as a metal-punk has no sense. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.64.218.41 (talk) 04:09, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

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