Cult New York rock legends Warrior Soul have announced their 2026 UK Tour, celebrating the 35th Anniversary of their landmark album Drugs, God and the New Republic, with very special guests Gypsy Pistoleros.
Formed in New York in 1987, Warrior Soul exploded onto the international rock scene with their incendiary fusion of hard rock, punk attitude and politically charged lyrics, fronted by the incomparable Kory Clarke. Landmark albums including Last Decade Dead Century, Drugs, God and the New Republic and Salutations from the Ghetto Nation earned the band a fiercely loyal worldwide following, a major-label deal with Geffen Records, and cemented their reputation as one of rock’s most fearless and uncompromising acts. Nearly four decades later, Warrior Soul remain one of the most electrifying live bands on the planet.
Joining them are one of the UK’s most original, theatrical and genre-defying bands…GYPSY PISTOLEROS
Tour dates with Warrior Soul/Gypsy Pistoleros:
18th Sept Holy Diver, Stockport
19th Sept The Face Bar, Reading
21st Sept 1865, Southampton
26th Sept Underworld, Camden
27th Sept The Waterloo Music Bar, Blackpool
28th Sept The Cluny, Newcastle
29th Sept The Fulford Arms, York
30th Sept The Boiler Room, Guildford
1st Oct KK’s Steel Mill, Wolverhampton
2nd Oct The Baths, Ipswich
4th Oct The Forum, Tunbridge Wells
Fresh from the release of their universally acclaimed new album “Dark Faerie Tales”, Gypsy Pistoleros arrive on the tour riding the biggest wave of critical acclaim in their career. The album has been hailed by critics around the world as their finest work to date, earning glowing reviews across the rock press.
Maximum Volume Music perhaps summed it up best:
“Once upon a time there was a band called Gypsy Pistoleros. They were one of the best bands in Britain. ‘Dark Faerie Tales’ underlines it again.” 9/10
Other standout reviews include:
• Powerplay Magazine – 10/10″ Just brilliant. Always have been.”
• Pete’s Rock News & Views – 10/10 “A triumphant 10/10.”
• Fireworks Magazine – 10/10 “Rock music may play it safe — Gypsy Pistoleros are burning the rulebook.”
• Classic Rock Magazine – 8/10 “The best of the lot.”
• The Punk Site – 5/5 “A safe place for broken people.”
“Dark Faerie Tales” is available now via The New Church Records, distributed worldwide by Plastic Head Distribution.
Watch the video for “Dark Faerie Tales”: https://youtu.be/
For Gypsy Pistoleros, the invitation to join Warrior Soul is particularly meaningful.
Warrior Soul have long been a major influence on the band, making this tour not simply another run of dates, but the opportunity to share the stage with one of the defining underground rock acts of the last four decades.
The pairing promises one of 2026’s most explosive touring packages—two fiercely independent bands united by the same philosophy:
Rock ‘n’ Roll should challenge. Rock ‘n’ Roll should surprise. Rock ‘n’ Roll should never be vanilla.
Expect danger. Expect glamour. Expect punk. Expect theatre. Expect the unexpected.
DEATH TO VANILLA ROCK ‘N’ ROLL.
A unique collision of swagger-drenched punk, gothic glamour, dark cabaret, flamenco flourishes, massive hooks and cinematic storytelling, Gypsy Pistoleros continue to prove that rock music doesn’t have to sound like everybody else.
GYPSY PISTOLEROS release their new album ‘Dark Faerie Tales’, out now via The New Church Records.
Watch ‘King Of Almost Everything‘ here: https://youtu.be/
In 2026, while much of rock music plays it safe, Gypsy Pistoleros are burning the rulebook.
The world’s only Glam Punk Goth ’n’ Roll outlaws return with their most dangerous, theatrical, and uncompromising record yet — Dark Faerie Tales: A Fairytale for the Damned, released 17th April 2026 on The New Church Records Label
This is not nostalgia. This is not cosplay. This is feral, glitter-streaked, gothic punk rock with teeth.
Drawing openly from the bloodlines of The Damned, Hanoi Rocks, Killing Joke, The Cult, and the modern defiance of YUNGBLUD, Gypsy Pistoleros don’t imitate — they mutate. The result is an album that feels lived-in, earned, and gloriously unhinged.
Produced and co-written by long-time sonic conspirator Dave Draper(Michael Monroe, Ginger Wildheart, The Wildhearts, Therapy?, Elvana), Dark Faerie Tales fuses glam-soaked punk energy with gothic grandeur, raw fire, and apocalyptic swagger — a record for outsiders, believers, romantics, and beautiful misfits.
Available worldwide & instore on three-colour vinyl, digipak CD, and digital:
Neon Purple & Black Splatter Vinyl
Neon Green & Black Splatter Vinyl
Deluxe 4-panel Digisleeve CD
Order here: https://www.plastichead.
Following the success of Church of the Pistoleros — hailed as one of 2025’s most fearless and eclectic rock albums — the Pistoleros have conjured something even bolder: a dark fairytale for the damned, a love letter to the beautiful and broken, and a twisted hymn for the strange of heart.
Other live shows:
6–9 August – Rebellion Punk Festival, Blackpool Winter Gardens
3rd Oct – The Dreadnought Bathgate
10th Oct – The Giffard Wolves
24th Oct – Level 3 Swindon
31st Oct – The International Leicester
8th Nov – The Cluny Newcastle
Many more dates TBA
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Order Gypsy Pistoleros albums here: https://www.plastichead.
Gypsy Lee Pistolero – Vocals
Kerry Pistolero White – Bass & B.Vox
Shane Pistolero Sparkz – Guitar & B.Vox
Chris Pistolero Hopton – Drums
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