Manager - John Ellis john@chicfestivals.com
Gypsy Pistoleros are a thrill-a-minute collection of melodic eye-patch swagger that smells of exotic spices and forbidden concubines. The Gypsy Pistoleros sound like Hanoi Rocks, if Hanoi Rocks were sultans and snakecharmers- Sleazegrinder - Classic Rock Magazine
FOR BOOKING - Festivals, Shows, Tours Contact info@gypsypistoleros.com
https://offyerrocka.com/artists/gypsy-pistoleros/
Manager - John Ellis john@chicfestivals.com
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By Order of the Gypsy Fookin Pistoleros!
UK Headline Tour begins with release of new very Special Blinding Single!
The renegade flamenco rock rumba punk 'n' roll pioneers Gypsy Pistoleros will release a brand new single The Ballad of Tommy Shelby (Good, Mad & Beautiful) on October 13th 2022. (Which includes a most amazing, not to be missed special guest vocal contribtion!!! ) Pre-Save here - https://bfan.link/the-ballad-of-tommy-shelby
Recorded, mixed and produced by fast-rising legend Dave Draper (The Wildhearts, Kerbdog, Terrorvision, The Professionals) at The Old Cider Press Studios, Pershore. Draper is also set to record the full new album Duende a Go Go Go! Winter 2022.
The new material promises to be an edgier, punkier and heavier side of Gypsy Pistoleros, whilst retaining the Flamenco Rumba heart and fully embracing their fiery flamenco/rumba passion, with their distinctive crossover of punk rock 'n' roll leanings!
GYPSY PISTOLEROS begin a U.K headline 'The Good, The Mad & The Beautiful 2022 Tour' throughout October to accompany the single release. Guests include BLITZ, Fyresky, Ransom, The Suicide Notes & Dead Hombres
Tickets - http://www.gypsypistoleros.com/gigs.html
They are also on the Hard Rock Hell Festival, Great Yarmouth bill on November 3rd & 4th performing on the main stage alongside Skid Row, The Darkness & Ugly Kid Joe.They finish the year with three Special XMas Festivals!
GYPSY PISTOLEROS LINE UP:
Gypsy Lee Pistolero – Vox, Bad Rumba Guitar
Pistolero Pete Mann – Great Guitars
Kerry Pistolero White – Bass
Craig Pistolero Sharpe – Drums
https://carnivalrecords.co.uk/new-releases-1/p/gypsy-pistoleros-exclusive-signed-vinyl-package
See ya on our Headline "The Good, The Mad and The Beautiful! U.K Tour " October 2022!
NOW GET THE FULL ALBUM! COZ ITS an ICONIC Cracker!!!
REVIEWS
https://rockmediauk.wixsite.com/rockmediauk/gypsy-pistoleros-the-mescalito-vampire?
Booking info@gypsypistoleros.com
For GYPSY PISTOLEROS - P.R/ Press & Radio enquiries please contact charl@hrhmediahub.com
For further information, or to book an interview/podcast please contact: U.K & Europe PR & Promo - info@gypsypistoleros.com
NEW ALBUM, CD & SINGLE RELEASES ARE AVAILABLE HERE
https://gypsypistoleros.bigcartel.com/products
https://carnivalrecords.co.uk/new-releases-1/p/gypsy-pistoleros-exclusive-signed-vinyl-package
'The Mescalito Vampires' is out NOW on Special Double 10" (Dusk n Dawn ) Moon coloured Vinyl's & gatefold sleeve
(Vinyl/CD/Digital ) 'The Mescalito Vampires' on Off Yer Rocka Recordings
LATEST PRESS
https://heavymag.com.au/gypsy-pistoleros-make-semi-finals-to-play-kiss-kruise/
https://maximumvolumemusic.com/kruise-it-with-gypsy-pistoleros/
https://rocknloadmag.com/news/gypsy-pistoleros-announced-at-hard-rock-hell-sleaze-festival/
https://blazingminds.co.uk/gypsy-pistoleros-announce-new-uk-headline-tour-dates/
https://planetmosh.com/gypsy-pistoleros-announce-brand-new-single-and-uk-tour
https://bravewords.com/news/gypsy-pistoleros-announce-uk-headline-tour-and-new-single#disqus_thread
https://confinedrock.com/gypsy-pistoleros-anuncian-el-lanzamiento-de-un-nuevo-single-y-gira-uk
https://allabouttherock.co.uk/the-flamenco-rock-rumba-punk-n-roll-pioneers-gypsy-pistoleros-announce-uk-headline-tour-and-new-single
https://www.hrhmag.com/2022/04/22/swashbuckling-flamenco-rock-rumba-punk-n-roll-pioneers-gypsy-pistoleros-announce-uk-headline-tour-new-single
https://amnplify.com.au/gypsy-pistoleros-the-swashbuckling-renegade-flamenco-rock-rumba-punk-n-roll-pioneers-announce-uk-headline-tour-new-single
https://thealike.com/blog/gypsy-pistoleros-announce-uk-headline-tour
https://metalshockfinland.com/2022/04/22/gypsy-pistoleros-announce-uk-headline-tour-new-single-the-good-the-mad-the-beautiful http://petesrocknewsandviews.com/gypsy-pistoleros
https://maximumvolumemusic.com/gypsy-roads https://mhf-mag.com/news/gypsy-pistoleros-announce-uk-headline-tour-new-single
https://blazingminds.co.uk/gypsy-pistoleros-uk-headline-tour-and-new-single
https://rockandrollcircusradio.com/news/gypsy-pistoleros-uk-tour-announced
http://promotehorror.com/2022/04/25/swashbuckling-flamenco-rock-rumba-punk-n-roll-pioneers-gypsy-pistoleros-announce-uk-headline-tour-and-new-single/
Whats all the fuss about?
Gypsy Pistoleros Show Review HRH Sleaze 2022
11 September 2022
Gypsy Pistoleros live at HRH Sleaze 27/08/2022
You can’t have a sleaze festival without a healthy dose of the Gypsy Pistoleros. Clear HRH favourites, they return again to Sheffield O2 Arena this year, bursting onto the main stage mid-afternoon like a bunch of fireworks, with a brand new set and the much loved flair and theatre in abundance. This time Gypsy Lee, Kerry, Craig and Pete are resplendent in black and white face paint and ‘Peaky Blinders’ themed outfits giving the nod to the new single about to drop on October 7th ‘The Ballad of Tommy Shelby’, which will be accompanied by another of their legendary music videos – fans have a lot to look forward to this autumn.
How to describe the Gypsy Pistoleros? Lee himself happily announces – ‘We don’t know what music we play… and we don’t CARE!’ They are a glorious cauldron full of so many absorbing elements. Drama, flamenco, glam rock, rumba, sleaze, punk, flamboyance - the best way to describe that which sets them apart from other bands is that they are just EXTRA. Extra theatre, extra showmanship, extra variety musically of sounds and styles, and they seem to get bigger and better every time they return to the stage. In short, take everything you know about sleaze glam rock bands, add a bit more, and multiply it to the power of, well, the Pistoleros, and you’ll get somewhere close.
The band hit the stage with the seasoned familiarity of greeting old friends, and there are a lot of them here repping the band with T shirts and merch, anxious to see what they have brough us this time. There are others that have heard about Gypsy Pistoleros and understand they have to be seen to be believed, a few curious cats wandering across as the set progresses, and by the time they’re done they have a pretty healthy-looking crowd rocking out with them. They kick off with ‘Loco Loquito’, quickly followed up by ‘Close as You’ll Ever Be’ and by the time they are three songs in with ‘Pistolero’, one of their original and best-known anthems, the devoted crowd are revved up and bouncing.
The band are on their best form ever. There’s no mariachi trumpet this time around, but it really isn’t missed given everything else on offer - we get Pistolero Pete’s eye-watering guitar solos that generate a fair few dropped jaws in the audience, Craig Pistolero’s hair-flying, spine tingling thunder drums, and Kerry Pistolero’s Quatro style bass, plus additional vocals that make you want to ask if you can have whatever she’s having a la When Harry Met Sally. That girl can seriously SING! And of course, fearless frontman and guitar player Gypsy Lee Pistolero, his savage, punk vocals and elaborate, fiery charm – the stuff legends are made of.
‘Forever is Para Siempre’ comes next, attacked fiercely by Lee who has lost none of his punk edge and carries as much swag as ever, in the same style they slam out a couple of new songs for us - ‘What’s it Like to be a Girl’ and ‘Thrill Kill, Thrill Kill Killer Club’ before slowing things down to go into the dreamy acoustic tones that begin ‘Soho Daze’; nobody is lulled into this false sense of calm however, we know what’s coming and can’t wait to get dancing when the track takes off and rockets away. It’s a favourite of mine and I’m away with the rest of them on the Pistoleros infectious, crazy ride. Another new song ‘Maybe Tomorrow’, before the pure passion and beauty of ‘Una Para Todo es Bandido’; like a call to arms the flamenco-rumba tones of Lee’s guitar (sans guitar strap since he broke it) cast their spell, Billy the Kid himself would have had a tear in his eye.
‘I Got It All’ and ‘Good, Mad, Beautiful’ follow on, the latter being another song that seems to have been eagerly anticipated by the crowd, given the sudden surge during the opening chords and the ‘Whoa-oh-oh-oh’ refrain taken up by people who can clearly relate.
Annoyingly, the set was cut short, due to some stage management issues which although disappointing, meant that they finished with ‘Livin’ La Vida Loca’, which as Lee quite correctly points out is ‘everyone’s guilty pleasure’ and I’m taken back to hitting a drumkit in a tiny gold dress and Day of the Dead make up for the video; this should have been last year’s Xmas No 1 but we won’t go there just now… Anyway, this is another great song for showboating the band’s collective skills and gets everyone dancing whether they intended to or not. Despite being cut they finish on a massive high, leaving a breathless, sweaty audience and a huge bunch of smiles.
This show is glorious – the band are a unique bunch of extroverts that you can’t help but need to know what’s coming next with. They are ostentatious, colourful, up in your face and create just as much atmosphere and thrill with the visual element of their set as they do with the music – as always with the Gypsy Pistoleros there is always more than one way to tell a story, and the incorporation of theatre makes enough of a mark to be noticed, although never to be taken so far that it detracts from the serious calibre of musicianship and songwriting they’ve got going on. If you’ve yet to see them grab a ticket for the forthcoming shows between now and Xmas and get the experience - it will make your head spin, leave you in a complete daze and is just what you need for a perfect dose of rock n’ roll escapism.
Gypsy Pistoleros may be best described as being the ideal house band for the fictitious Titty Twister bar of Rodriguez’s From Dusk Til Dawn. Between the nods to Morricone’s tense, tumbleweed atmospheres and the Gypsy Kings’ manic Mediterranean energy, a New York Dolls raw glam spark and a surplus of prime G ’n’ R attitude!
The sound is flamenco in a head on collision with punk/rock riffs, pounding bass and thrashing drums. The songs span madly in the best rock 'n' roll tradition with big hooks, attitude, and sleaze. Yet those flamenco breaks got into your head and refused to leave - this hybrid rocks.
LIVE SHOWS - GYPSY PISTOLEROS
Thursday 29th September – The Tap n Tumbler, Nottingham
Guests LIFE OF A HERO
OCTOBER
Saturday 1st Oct - Y LLEW COCH The Red Lion Wales
ROCKTOBERFEST with STOP STOP
RRhttps://www.yllewcoch-mach.com/gigs
Friday 7th Oct – Hangar 18 Swansea
GUESTS BLITZ & LIFE OF A HERO
https://ticket247.co.uk/Event/91379
Saturday 8th Oct - The Dev, Camden London
Guests The Sucide Notes & Dead Hombres
FREE ENTRY!
Thursday 13th Oct - North Street Social, Wolverhampton
https://uncover.seetickets.com/event/gypsy-pistoleros/north-street-social/2402799
Friday 14th Oct – The Craufaud Arms , Milton Keynes
GUESTS FYRESKY & RANSOM
https://www.thecraufurdarms.com/events/2022-10-14-gypsy-pistoleros-the-craufurd-arms
Saturday 15th Oct– The Cobblestones, Bridgwater
https://www.seetickets.com/event/gypsy-pistoleros/the-cobblestones/2325478
Sunday 16th Oct – Queens Hall, Nuneaton
GUESTS BLITZ , LIFE OF A HERO & FYRESKY
https://www.ticketweb.uk/event/gypsy-pistoleros-queens-hall-tickets/12060155
Wednesday 19th Oct – Nightrain, Bradford
GUESTS BLITZ & LIFE OF A HERO
https://www.ticketweb.uk/event/gypsy-pistoleros-nightrain-tickets/1201704
Thursday 20th Oct – Bannermans, Edinburgh
https://tickets-scotland.com//events.html?event_method=viewevent&event_id=d3ec63cb-bff0-11ec-bee6-068a576e08fe
Friday 21st Oct – The PUB, Lancaster
Saturday 22nd Oct - VORTEX, Wakefield
https://www.seetickets.com/event/gypsy-pistoleros-venomous-rose-guests/the-vortex-bar-and-nightclub/2395087
Sunday 23rd Oct – Trillians, Newcastle
Guests FYRESKY
https://trillians.nuwebgroup.com/events/16721
Saturday 29th Oct – Subside Rock Bar, Birmingham (Halloween Special)
FREE ENTRY!
Sunday 30th - 45 Live, Kidderminster (End of Tour Party)
Special guests RANSOM
https://www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Dudley/45Live/Gypsy-Pistoleros/36083884/
Hard Rock Hell Fest Nov 3rd & 4th 2022
with Skid Row, The Darkness, Ugly Kid Joe, Terrorvision, etc
SATURDAY 10th DECEMBER
Rock n Roll Circus XMas show Redhouse Cymru, Merthyr Tydfil
https://www.fatsoma.com/e/gil6n1uj/a-rock-roll-circus-christmas-at-the-redhouse
FRIDAY 16th December The Giffard Arms Wolverhampton
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/booking/select/RdiEJKhzXNnT
SATURDAY 17th DECEMBER AMPLIYULETIDE 2022
Gloucester Guildhall
https://www.wegottickets.com/event/539293
Thursday 22nd December Hometown XMas Show Special - Drummonds, Worcester
2023
DEMENTIA AWARE-FEST WOLVERHAMPTON 2023
January 14th - The Giffard Arms
Planet Rock presents Winter’s End
Friday 3rd Feb Trecco Bay Holiday Park, Porthcawl, Wales
April 1st SOUNDBAY FESTIVAL
Friday 28th April - DEMENTIA AWARE FEST The Arches, Coventry
HRH Roadtrip , Ibizia May 3rd -10th May
MAY 4th with The Quireboys, REEF, GYPSY PISTOLEROS, Slyder mith & The Oblivion Kids
(Plus acoustic show)
SavFest 2023
Aug 4, 2023 - Aug 5, 2023
HRH Sleaze Festival 2023
A NEW DAY FESTIVAL 18th-20th August Faversham, Kent
(Phil Campbell & the Bastard sons, Lindisfarne, Eddie & The Hotrods, Pearl Handled Revolver, Pentangle, From the Jam, etc)
Hard Rock Hell Festival 2023
Booking - Rock n Roll Gypsy rocknrollgypsy@talktalk.net
PAST SHOWS
Saturday 16th September WORCESTER MUSIC FESTIVAL MARRS BAR (HEADLINING)
Saturday 27th August – HARD ROCK HELL SLEAZE FEST , Sheffield 02
( Main stage alongside Hardcore Superstar & Mike Monroe )
19th March Crazy Cowboy 7 Festival Facebar Reading
Gypsy Pistoleros, South of Salem, Stevie R. Pearce and the Hooligans, Pearler, The Suicide Notes, The Liberty Slaves...
LAKEFEST BBC Introducing Stage August 13th (Headlining) https://lakefest.co.uk/
Hard Rock Hell Sleaze Festival 02 Academy SheffieldSaturday 28th August 2021
HARD ROCK HELL FESTIVAL Sat 6th November 2021
Headlining the Crazy Cowboy Festival 7 at Reading Facebar Sat 19th March
VIDEO
https://youtu.be/EVJzXUD6C9M
Mescalito Vampires Track List:
Lost in a Town called Nowhere
Viva la Revolution, Viva Zapata
Mescalito Vampires (Welcome to the Hotel de la Muerta)
Soho Daze, just another Friday Night
Roses, Gallows and the Wild Preachers Daughter
The Forsaken
The name's Django
Cisco Kid
Wild is the Wind
Alone again or
Sangre on the Roses
Gonna die with a Gun in my Hand
GYPSY PISTOLEROS LINE UP:
Gypsy Lee Pistolero – Vox, bad rumba guitar
Pistolero Pete Mann - Great Guitars
Kez Pistolero White – Bass
Craig Pistolero Shape – Drums
REVIEWS:
"Imagine the house band from ‘From Dusk Til Dawn’ jamming with (early era) ZZ Top, a youthful Guns ‘N’ Roses and the Gypsy Kings and you get the Gypsy Pistoleros. Latino fuelled punk rock doesn’t get much better than this. ****'." -Review by Jason Ritchie -Get Ready to Rock
"Its catchier than a dose exhumation of the spirit of Joe Strummer, dusts him down, places a Rickenbacker around his still leather jacket clad shoulders and places him at the front of the Dia de la Muerte parade, where he struts and swaggers with all the cool ease of a true troubadour. A party anthem for the undead generation, without a doubt.
"The Mescalito Vampires is the perfected strain of the Pistoleros, just absolutely incindiary, and more infectious than a dirty needle from Sid Vicious, so raw, melodic, and devastatingly beautiful." Andy Thunders Miller DJ Ally Radio
The Pistoleros are a band who live up to their own hype, as they tick all of the boxes they attribute to themselves, and then some, with some of the most infectious, sleaziest, dirtiest, rock ‘n’ roll vibes around, all mixed with enough dust to bury a spaghetti western set several times over.
This may be the perfect soundtrack for a night of blood-drenched debauchery but it also that for glorious summer afternoons, packed to the brim with rambunctious riffs, mellifluous melodies and choruses that will rest in your aural cortexes for days afterwards." - UBER ROCK
"Another deft dose of Latin laced, Mariachi sleaze. A Day of the dead, guillotine theatre with cinematic Morricone pretensions. Contrived, preposterous, irresistible" CLASSIC ROCK, Album review 7/10
“You'll love it i'm sure! The World’s Greatest Flamenco Sleaze Glam Rock ‘N’ Roll band Ever! … now with extra trumpet…” MarkDiggins - The Rockpit 8/10
"The Pistoleros are sheer musical escapism" – Malcolm Yates, Classic Rock Magazine
"Once in a while something special comes along and turns the musical world on its axis and makes you listen to music and lyrics in a totally different way. That something is Gypsy Pistoleros." - WeBleedMusic
"Gypsy Pistoleros are a thrill-a-minute collection of melodic eye-patch swagger that smells of exotic spices and forbidden concubines. The Gypsy Pistoleros sound like Hanoi Rocks, if Hanoi Rocks were sultans and snake charmers." - Sleazegrinder, Classic Rock Magazine
"Gypsy Pistoleros were, and still are, a breath of fresh air. You will never hear another band like this. They are the greatest flamenco sleaze glam band ever." This, actually, is as good as sleaze ever got in the last decade." - Andrew Thorley, Maximum Volume Music
"Gypsy Pistoleros dub themselves "The World's Greatest Flamenco Sleaze Glam Rock 'N' Roll band Ever!" Doesit work? Are you fucking kidding me? When Kris Jones drops the mariachi trumpet, it's on! - Dave Wilks, Beaver Buzz Radio
"Can you imagine Sleaze, Glam, Hard Rock, Punk and some Flamenco rolled into one with a whole lot ofSpanish attitude oozing out it? Imagine no more - The Gypsy Pistoleros will give it all to you, and you will love every minute of it and want to reach for a tequila shot" *****. - Michele Storm Hairspray Heaven
"The Gypsy Pistoleros sound seems to have one underlying function, and that is to bring joy, in this they have succeeded in spades, this is a truly brilliant release and already one of my albums of the year." Review by Martin Granville Jace Media
"This will be my go-to piece of music for escapism, in fiery technicolour, and as all Pistoleros songs do – have me reaching for the dancing shoes and the tequila!" -Rocket Queen Crazy Cowboy
AVAILABLE NOW!!!
https://backl.ink/147627624 DIGITAL
https://offyerrocka.com/product-category/artists/gypsy-pistoleros/ VINYL & CD
https://carnivalrecords.co.uk/new-releases-1/p/gypsy-pistoleros-exclusive-signed-vinyl-package VINYL
August 14th Full album 'The Mescalito Vampires' released on Special Double 10" (Dusk n Dawn ) Moon coloured Vinyl's & gatefold sleeve
(Vinyl/CD/Digital ) 'The Mescalito Vampires' on Heavy Rocka Recordings
MEDIA KIT:
Access high-resolution photos: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ey1rx2smx4c04mu/AADtFZxlRXepU_Y3JlYfn3k2a?dl=0
SOCIALS:
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https://twitter.com/GPistoleros
https://www.instagram.com/gypsypistoleros/
http://www.gypsypistoleros.com/
For further information, or to book an interview/podcast please contact:PR & Promo: info@gypsypistoleros.comHeavy Rocka Recordings:https://offyerrocka.com/artists/gypsy-pistoleros/
For further information, or to book an interview/podcast please contact:
PR & Promo:info@gypsypistoleros.com
Heavy Rocka Recordings:https://offyerrocka.com/artists/gypsy-pistoleros/
Off yer Rocka Recordings
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ALBUM HERE!
Full album on Double (Dusk n Dawn) Moon coloured 10" Vinyl's & Gatefold sleeve is released
(Includes 2 extra tracks)
(CD & fan bundles) - 'The Mescalito Vampires'
ORDER HERE - https://offyerrocka.com/product/gypsy-pistoleros-the-mescalito-vampires-hrr003-vinyl-pre-order/
THE GREATEST HITS ALBUM ! GET IT HERE!!!
Gypsy Pistoleros are still something truly unique and interesting in today’s predictable musical landscape. A sound and style that mixed sleazy glam rock with flamenco influences and a shout out to Mexican folklore and Spanish tendencies.
Gypsy Pistoleros may be best described as being the ideal house band for the fictitious Titty Twister bar of Rodriguez’s From Dusk Til Dawn. Between the nods to Morricone’s tense, tumbleweed atmospheres and the Gypsy Kings’ manic Mediterranean energy, a New York Dolls raw glam spark and a surplus of prime G ’n’ R attitude!
The sound is flamenco in a head on collision with punk/rock riffs, pounding bass and thrashing drums. The songs span madly in the best rock 'n' roll tradition with big hooks, attitude, and sleaze. Yet those flamenco breaks got into your head and refused to leave - this hybrid rocks.
This mongrel offspring of fiery flamenco passion and gritty gutter glam, the Gypsy Pistoleros' were born roamin' somewhere between Barcelona and Birmingham, brought into the world to a soundtrack stack-heeled anthems of sleazy ‘70s America. Standing alone in musical ancestry and sum sound, they are one one of those most rare acts who can honestly claim the tag 'unique'
The insane inspiration came from frontman Lee Pistolero GLP, who struck on fusing his roots in the British glam punk circuit to the traditional flamenco/rumba sounds of Spain when living in Zaragoza and supporting Motorhead, The Ramones, Dio, Nazareth, The Cramps, Sepultura and U.F. O during the mid-90s., from stale-beer scented Midlands rock dives, to the majestic Med-coast just upwind of exotic Morocco.
"Cool video for sure!" - Glen Matlock (The Sex Pistols, etc)