GYPSY PISTOLEROS New Album "DARK FAERIE TALES" Out 17 April 2026 | UK Tour April–May
Get it here - https://www.plastichead.com/artist/gypsy-pistoleros
The vanilla music industry has had it easy for too long.
While the safe and the sanitized fight over shrinking scraps of relevance, Gypsy Pistoleros are building something far more dangerous…
A cult. A movement. A glitter-drenched uprising.
In 2026, the world’s only Glam Punk Goth ’n’ Roll outlaws return with their most grandiose, theatrical, and feral statement yet — Dark Faerie Tales: A Fairytale for the Damned, released 17 March 2026 via The New Church Records.
This isn’t retro posturing.
This isn’t industry cosplay.
This is high-voltage, gothic-glam punk with venom in its veins.
Forged in the outlaw bloodline of The Damned, Hanoi Rocks, Killing Joke and The Cult — and supercharged with the modern insurgency of YUNGBLUD — Gypsy Pistoleros don’t follow trends.
They summon storms.
Produced and co-written by long-time sonic conspirator Dave Draper (Michael Monroe, Ginger Wildheart, The Wildhearts, Therapy?, Elvana), Dark Faerie Tales is a widescreen collision of glam excess, punk danger, gothic theatre, and street-level attitude.
It doesn’t politely knock on the door.
It kicks it off the hinges.
As Overdrive declares:
“A love letter to the beautiful and broken, a twisted hymn for the strange of heart, and proof that rock ’n’ roll still has room for danger, drama and glitter in the dark.”
THE FAIRYTALE TURNS SAVAGE
How do you follow one of the most electric underground rock statements of recent years?
You don’t play safe.
You go bigger. Darker. Louder.
“We crown the wrong kings and call it salvation,
Follow wolves in borrowed halos straight into damnation.
Even when the lies crack, we bow and obey —
Sheep to the slaughter, giving our souls away.”
Dark Faerie Tales plays out like myth carved into neon splatter vinyl:
Churches burn.
Saints fall from grace.
The beautiful misfits rise from the wreckage wearing glitter and war paint.
This is fur-clad decadence colliding with gothic ritual and punk rock rebellion — a record built for the outsiders who never saw themselves in beige, algorithm-fed rock.
No filler.
No fear.
No compromise.
Just danger… dressed in glitter.
vailable worldwide via The New Church Records and Plastic Head Distribution: https://www.plastichead.com/artist/gypsy-pistoleros
Neon Purple & Black Splatter Vinyl in gatefold sleeve
Neon Green & Black Splatter Vinyl in gatefold sleeve
Deluxe 4-panel Gatefold Digi sleeve CD
Already being whispered about as one of 2026’s must-hear rock records.
The faerytale has begun. Choose your side.
UK TOUR — APRIL–MAY 2026
Dark Faerie Tales UK Tour
To ignite the release, Gypsy Pistoleros launch a full UK assault, with European and festival dates incoming.
2026 Tour Dates
11 April – St Austell, The Band Club
16 April – London, The Underworld
(with Slady, Continental Lovers, Bai Bang)
17 April – Worcester, The Marrs Bar (Album Launch Party!)
18 April – Pontypool, The Dragonffli
22 April – Newcastle, The Cluny
24 April – Dunfermline, The Brasshouse
25 April – Edinburgh, Bannermans
1–2 May – Beltane Gathering Festival, Wales
9 May – No Sleep Till Blackpool Festival @ The Waterloo
10 May – Stoke-on-Trent, Eleven (Matinee Show)
15 May – Nottingham, The Old Cold Store
16 May – Stockport, The Holy Diver
23 May – Breaking Bands Festival, Birmingham
6 june - Stourjam Festival, The Civic Hall, Stourport
7 August – Rebellion Punk Festival, Blackpool Winter Gardens
Special Guests: James Kennedy & The Underdogs
ABOUT GYPSY PISTOLEROS
The world’s only Glam Punk Goth ’n’ Roll band — a volatile collision of punk grit, gothic decadence, outlaw glamour, and pure incendiary rock ’n’ roll.
For fans of: The Damned • Hanoi Rocks • The Cult • Ghost • Killing Joke
Their live shows are post-apocalyptic glam rituals — cloaks, skull-painted faces, crowd incantations, and high-drama punk-glam chaos. Festival-tested at Rocklahoma, HRH Festivals, Planet Rockstock, Rebellion, Phoenix and beyond.
MANAGEMENT & PRESS
Management:
Jay Shredder – SLL Artists
jayshreddermusic@gmail.com
PR & Radio:
Judith Fisher – BJF PR
judith.f@hotmail.co.uk
Distribution:
Plastic Head Distribution
https://www.plastichead-distribution.com
BOOKING AGENT: Rebel Meets Rebel Live
victoria@rebelmeetsrebellive.co.uk