History
The Brighton based foursome have toured the UK, Germany, France, Austria, Luxembourg and Holland with bands including, 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.
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 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.
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 29 January 2007.
The band has reported that the latest record was slightly delayed due to a change to a larger UK distribution company. 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 choosing 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
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