May 10, 2008 - The Brandos scheduled to perform in concert in New York City on August 22, 2008, 8:00 pm. It has been a very long time - almost ten years, but the band has agreed to play a semi-acoustic show at the great cultural center known as "El Taller Latinoamericano" (The Laitin-American Workshop), located on Broadway & 104th St. on the upper-west side of Manhattan. El Taller's director Bernardo Palombo offered the show after discovering that Dave Kincaid, who has been continuing his study of the spanish language there over the last year, is a professional musician and a member of The Brandos. The show will feature the lineup from the last european tour: Dave Kincaid -guitar, mandolin, vocals, Ernie Mendillo - bass, vocals, Eric "Roscoe" Ambel - guitar, vocals, Phil Cimino - drums. We hope to feature some other friends and great musicians as well. El Taller has a wonderful atmoshpere for an intimate concert, and we hope you'll be there for this very special evening.

April 26, 2008 - For the first time in almost three years, David Kincaid will get out to play an Irish festival, this time it will be the Colorado Irish Festival, July 12-13, 2008. And, as has been the tradition the last nine years, he'll also be performing at the 14th Annual Gettysburg Music Muster, August 23, 2008, which is always a pleasure and a great honor.

We're also happy to announce that continuing with David's series of songs of the Irish in the American Civil War, there is also a new album in the works, which we hope to have released by the fall of this year.

January 27, 2008 - The Brandos' "Town to Town, Sun to Sun" live album CD/DVD box set scheduled for release on February 15, 2008 on Blue Rose Records. The DVD will include the entire set from german televsion's Rockpalast/Crossroads festival which took place at The Harmonie, Bonn on Oct. 20, 2007. It will also feature seven bonus tracks from the Oct. 24 gig at the K4, Nuremberg. The audio CDs will feature most of the Nuremberg show, with a smattering of tunes from the Bonn gig. A DVD only version will also be available. This will be released on the european PAL system, and will only work in the states if you have a DVD player that will play all formats. If you haven't got one of these, it will play on any computer with a DVD player program. The band will be touring europe on this new release in February and March 2008 (tour dates).

The Brandos' Dave Kincaid is now a proud endorsee of Hiwatt Amplification UK. An endorsement offer was made and gratefully accepted this last week, which means Dave will be playing through a new Hiwatt CP-504 Townshend amp head with a Hiwatt Fane-loaded 4 x 12 speaker cabinet on the upcoming european tour. While the sound of one of these amps can be heard all over the band's recent album, "Over the Border," it has been sorely missed on the live stage. We'd like to thank Hiwatt UK's Mark Lodge for making it happen.

The Brandos at myspace.com Like just about everyone else on the planet, it seems, The Brandos now have a page on myspace.com: http://www.myspace.com/brandosny

Patrick Fitzsimmons to miss upcoming Brandos european tour - We are very sad to announce that due to circumstances beyond anybody's control, our drummer, Patrick Fitzsimmons will not be able to tour with us this Feb./March. His great energy and drive as a drummer, as well as his sense of humor off stage, have made him a real Brando, and he’ll be missed very much by everyone on this tour. He’ll get things sorted out though, and we look forward to his return. The only good news is that we were able to find a replacement pretty quickly: Phil Cimino, who comes to us by recommendation from Eric Ambel, will take the drummer's chair on this tour. They have done a lot of work together both live and in the studio, and Phil has worked with numerous other bands and artists, including John Cale and Chris Barron (Spin Doctors). Phil’s got a tough job learning 2 hours of material in a very short time, but we know he’s up to the task, and look forward to working with him.

On this note, some of the fans have asked why there have been so many changes to the live band lineup in recent years. We understand how this might be difficult to understand, but we can only say that it’s not because we want it that way. We have three major factors do deal with: 1. finding the right people who fit in both musically and personally, 2. finding people who are available at the time we need to tour. 3. you have to have the good luck that the two previous factors line up at the same time. We have suffered some hard luck with this recently, and are just hoping it stabilizes soon.

January 10, 2008 - The Brandos would like to wish everyone a very Happy New Year! We want to thank you all for your support this last year, and hope we see you again on our upcoming tour in February/March. As two of the shows were recorded and filmed during the last one, we will be releasing a live album/dvd, to be called "Town to Town, Sun to Sun," on the Blue Rose label. We've been hearing for years from the fans how much they'd like to see a dvd, and new we're happy to have one released. After the next tour we will begin work on the new album, which we hope to have out by the end of the year. 

The band would like to express our sincere apologies to the fans in Potsdam and in Dresden, who were dissapointed during the last tour this October. Dave was struck with a pretty sever case of the flu during the tour, was barely able to sing at all in Postdam, and which caused the next show in Dresden to be cancelled. We very much appreciate everyone's understanding, these things happen sometimes, and we are determined to give you all a great show in the future.

European tour Feb./March 2008 - Dates for this tour are now on our tour page, and it's shapping to be a great one. On that note, we're very happy to announce the addition of Eric "Roscoe" Ambel (guitar & vocals) to the live band lineup for the upcoming european tour. Many of you will no doubt recognize his name, as the list of bands and artists Eric has played with is long an impressive, including the Del Lords, Rosoe's Gang, The Yahoos and the great Steve Earle. You don't want to miss this one...

Let's all have a great (and peaceful) year.

Dave & Ernie