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Gillen & Turk Backs to the Wall
The new recording Backs to the Wall by Gillen & Turk was released May 22, 2008. 
Acoustic Live's Richard Cuccaro says: "...from acoustic folk to blistering rock...love songs, rants, empathy for soldiers....virtuoso musical commentary." Backs to the Wall has 12 fresh tracks including a version of Steve Kirkman's "Peace Rant." Kirkman, Abbie Gardner, Rob Morseberger, Andy LaDue, Susan Kane and David Blackshire fill out the music with G&T as the duo presents songs about our veterans, our river, our love, our community, our children and ourselves. In support of Backs to the Wall, beginning May 22 in Pittsburgh, G&T tour 10 dates in the mid-west, followed by a week in California, finishing June in the Hudson Valley, highlighted with appearances June 21 and 22 at Clearwater's Great Hudson River Revival. Visit the gigs page for info on the tour.
New Years Eve "Resolution for Peace" with Congressman Dennis Kucinich
Acoustic Live
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G&T on MSG NYC Soundtracks - UPDATE!
Thursday, Aug. 14, 2008
Many of you are wondering what happened with Gillen & Turk and MSG's show NYC Soundtracks. We are as well. We were on the show, in the competition and in the round of 16 and, like you, looking forward to this past Sunday's episode. If you saw Sunday's episode you heard that Gillen (who's name was misspelled as Gill) & Turk "got a touring gig" and could no longer be on the show. This was news to us. We toured back in May and June and will now be pretty local until November when we hit the midwest again. We were pretty shocked to hear on television that we were currently on tour. You'd think that someone from MSG and NYC Soundtracks would have informed us we were off the show because of our touring schedule before they broadcast it to their viewers. Considering that two days after that 8/10 show was aired we were in NYC again playing in the subway at 125th and 8th, the story they told of us "being on tour" seems a bit ridiculous. You'd think they would have at least checked our website which shows our gig schedule before they broadcast this. We would have appreciated a courtesy phone call before the show was broadcast. We would have appreciated and welcome a public apology from MSG and NYC Soundtracks. As it is we have received a private apology from production and have been offered a short list of possible opportunities (gigs, radio appearances, MSG website coverage, etc...) for MSG to make this up to us. Did someone just screw up or was there some other reason we were pulled from the show? We are trying to get to the bottom of this question and will keep you informed. To be honest we weren't too excited about the contest aspect of the show, but felt honored and flattered to be in a show with Gibran Soul, Matt Nichols, Dorian Spencer, Trevor Exter, and all of the other artists, some of whom we know from the subways or from their music careers outside the subways... Many of you know how much we enjoy playing in places like 125th and Lex, in the subway. You know how grateful we are to be a part of Music Under New York and to work with the M.T.A., New Yorkers, and music community. We will continue to play in the subway, our freedom of speech intact, protected by the First Amendment. When we were kids, one of the first things we saw on MTV was "Video Killed a Radio Star." For anyone who thought reality TV is real, consider our current experience and we challenge songwriters to write the new song, "Gillen & Turk killed Reality TV" If you'd like to communicate with MSG directly, please email msgnetpr@thegarden.com On the Cusp at KUSP 
KUSP's Mike Pierce showing his copy of Backs to the Wall during G&T's June 13, 2008 visit.
Everyone's glad Mike is no longer doing the graveyard shift. And we loved seeing KJ Denhert's poster nearby, made us feel at home.
Fog of War Video News 
"The Fog of War" video can now be seen on Neil Young's website Living with War and the the Hudson Valley Music Channel. The video continues to show on YouTube and myspace. Richard Cuccaro, in the March 2008 issue of Acoustic Live calls the "Fog of War" "...remarkable video." |
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Gillen & Turk were among the artists performing at Dennis and Elizabeth Kucinich's New Years Eve shindig in Manchester, NH.
After a brief poetry reading by Fred Gillen Jr., he was joined by Matt Turk in an a capella rendition of the Stephen Still's classic "Find the Cost of Freedom".
This video includes the entire night's festivities with Fred and Matt's performance appearing at about the 20 minute mark
and a little after midnight singing with Jenny Scheinman, Todd Sickafoose, Chris Brown, Teddy Butter and Anton Fier. 
