Phinius Gage

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Name = Phinius Gage


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Origin = United Kingdom
Genre = Punk rock
Years_active = 2002-2008 (on hiatus)
Label = Small Town Records and Fond Of Life
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Current_members = Ade Holder
Mike Scott (Phinius Gage)
Karlos Brown
Matt Steele
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Phinius Gage are an established UK underground skate punk band who started up in 2002. They have received regular airplay on national BBC Radio 1's punk rock show The Lock Up - including a session at Maida Vale studios - and are featured on MTV2,Fact|date=July 2007 and in magazines including "Rock Sound", "Big Cheese", "Kerrang!", "Metal Hammer", "Rhythm" and "The Source". They play music in the vein of Pennywise, Rise Against, Strung Out and Ignite.

The band have not played a show since September 2007 when they played the Concorde2 in Brighton, and on Mike Scott (Phinius Gage)'s solo music site, he reports they are currently on hiatus.

History

The Brighton based foursome have toured the UK, Germany, France, Austria, Luxembourg and Holland with bands including [spunge| [spunge] ] , Ten Foot Pole (U.S), Farse, Reuben, Whitmore, Red Lights Flash (Aus), The Anti-Nowhere League, Rufio, Pulley (U.S.), Captain Everything!, 4ft Fingers, Antimaniax (Aus) and Streetlight Manifesto (U.S) gaining fans over the period of 400 live shows in the last 4 years.Fact|date=July 2007

Phinius Gage have appeared at festivals across Europe, including Primsrock Germany, the National Adventure Sports Show UK, and Old Place New Sounds Festival in Heunburg, Austria.

Phinius Gage have released two full length albums in the UK, the first, "The Feeling Something's Wrong" on UK independent label Deck Cheese Records, which received positive reviews from the UK mainstream press including "Kerrang!" and [http://www.punktastic.com punktastic.com] , and a second, "Seek Out Your Foes" on Small Town records released on 19 March 2007.

A music video for their single "Broken Wings" is currently aired on Sky Digital's Redemption TV, and Luxembourg's national music channel, Tango TV. It had a brief airing on MTV2.Fact|date=July 2007

The band signed to European labels Fond of Life and Winged Skull Records in early 2006 to re-release an album of rare material and B-sides entitled Brighton Rock. Originally only distributed outside of the UK in Germany, Luxembourg and Japan, the record became available in the UK via Plastic Head Distribution on 29th January 2007. The band has reported that the latest record was slightly delayed due to a change to a larger UK distribution company.Fact|date=July 2007 It is also being licenced to Fond Of Life Records of Germany, Shattered Thought Records of Switzerland, in Australia on SameSameSound Records from March 2007.

The record was recorded in four separate sessions at Cambridge's Lock Up practice rooms from May-August2006. The band cited frustrations with traditional studios and producers not capturing the live sound they wanted on previous recordings as a reason for chosing to record the new album themselves. The decision was supported by reviews claiming Seek Out Your Foes is the best sounding Phinius Gage record to date, despite its relatively low budget and DIY ethic, it received 4KKKK from Kerrang magazine, 8/10 from Metal Hammer magazine, and 7/10 from Rock Sound.

The album has the following tracklisting:

*Battered and Bruised - "a song known to be about the UK punk scene"
*Mary Kelly
*Seek Out Your Foes ... (And Make Them Sorry)
*Temptation
*This Song Is About You
*Stop Looking Up
*Behind Darkness You've No Light
*Traffic Lights Party
*The Young and the Restless
*Provocation Song (on the non-UK release, this track is "Got A Way With Words, Got Away With Murder")
*Why Don't You Ask Yourself Why
*My Eyes Bled Colours

Trivia

Phinius Gage are named after a science textbook case study called Phineas Gage, an 1840s railway worker who had an unfortunate incident with a sharp object and lost part of his brain. The story is often used in psychology lessons.

Master copies of The Feeling Something's Wrong album were printed with a photo of the band's Producer at 811 Studios, Sussex wielding a baseball bat called The Persuader in front of the mixing desk.

The studio space during the recordings of Seek Out Your Foes had only one chair in the entire building.

In the song Sick Mick (from More Haste More Speed), a can of warm beer was opened at the beginning and fully drunk by the end.

Influences

Phinius Gage plays fast, melodic hardcore music in the style of Pennywise, Strung Out, Consumed, Rise Against, and other bands of the SoCal description from record labels including Fat Wreck Chords and Epitaph.

Current members

*Carl "Karlos" Brown (guitar and vocals since 2005)
*Mike Scott (vocals and bass since 2003) [http://www.myspace.com/mikephiniusgage Acoustic page]
*Matt Steele (drums and vocals since 2002)
*Ade Holder (vocals and guitar since 2002)

Previous members 2002–2006

*Damo St George (vocals)
*Martyn Haigh (bass)
*Andy Bligh (guitar)
*Ben Ince (guitar)
*Paul Fields (guitar)
*Gary Yay (bass)
*Jamie Kirkpatrick (bass)
*Edward Higgs (bass)
*Chas Mataz (guitar)
*Kalem Buckham (drums)
*Keith Whitby (bass)

Discography

Compilations

*Amped Up And Ready To Go (In At The Deep End Records, UK)
*Value Slices (Deck Cheese, UK)
*Cheese Supreme (free promo CD with Big Cheese Magazine, UK)
*Punktastic Unscene (Punktastic Recordings, UK)
*Punktastic Unscene 3 (Punktastic Recordings, UK)
*Ashcan Records 1 (Ashcan Records, Luxembourg)
*Change The Station II (White Russian Records, Netherlands)
*In Defense of Rock 2 (Fond of Life/Winged Skull, Germany)
*Quintisentially British (UK)
*Brighton Rocks (UK)

References

External links

* [http://www.myspace.com/phiniusgage Phinius Gage Official MySpace page]
* [http://www.punktastic.com/index.php?navID=2&reviewID=1315 Review of Phinius Gage album "The Feeling Something's Wrong from national website Punktastic]
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/mikedavies/index.shtml Phinius Gage tracks played on BBC Radio 1's Lock Up Punk Show]
* [http://www.myspace.com/phiniusgage Positive reviews for the Seek Out Your Foes album]