Stuart Pearce: Gas Band of substance immemorial in an era of temporal content.
A band from the Midlands’ shires with a healthy distaste for the contemporary hellscape, in which we are left confused and divided by decades of postmodern irony, alienated labour and neoliberal economics.
The past 12 months has seen support slots with Nightingales, The Cool Greenhouse and Benefits, establishing the frontiers of the Klang-Bop aesthetic for contemporary aural contemplation.
The next step on their long millennial march through the institutions is the imminent release of debut studio album ‘Red Sport International’ – 14 songs covering football violence, the fall of the Berlin Wall, critiques of contemporary social-relations and the importance of collectivism as a bulwark against the morass of nihilism and decadent individualism we find ourselves inhabiting in 2023.
Whereas most bands merely observe the arc of history, their purpose is to change it.
