Phinius Gage


Phinius Gage are an English underground skate punk/melodic hardcore band who started up in 2001. In 2015 they played a reunion tour and announced in 2024 they had reformed. The band's first new music in nearly 2 decades came out in 2025. The band have promised a new full-length in the future.

History

The band is named after Phineas Gage, an 1840s railway foreman, who had a large iron rod driven through his head and thereby lost part of his brain.
They played over 500 shows in their existence, touring with many bands including Streetlight Manifesto, Spunge, Whitmore, Flood Of Red, Reuben, RedLightsFlash, Ten Foot Pole, Farse, and 4Ft Fingers. They released debut mini LP More Haste More Speed in 2003 on Deck Cheese Records – and their first full length, The Feeling Somethings Wrong on the same label in 2005.
Signing to Fond of Life Records in Germany, the band released a compilation of old and new tracks in 2006 entitled Brighton Rock, which included the band's only single, Brighton Rock, the video for which received airplay on MTV2 and Scuzz. The band then released their final album in 2007, Seek Out Your Foes, which is generally considered the band's best work. It made Kerrang's 'Best Albums Of 2007' list. However, the band split suddenly soon after.
Members have gone on to form many other bands, including Lay It [on the Line (band)|Lay It On The Line]. Mike Scott has also had a solo career.

Musical style and influence

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.

Members

Previous members 2002–2006

  • Damo St George – vocals
  • Carl "Karlos" Brown - guitar
  • Martyn Haigh – bass
  • Andy Bligh – guitar
  • Ben Ince – guitar
  • Paul Fields – guitar
  • Jamie Kirkpatrick – bass
  • Edward Higgs – bass
  • Chas Mataz – guitar
  • Kalem Buckham – drums
  • Keith Whitby – bass

Discography

Compilations

  • Amped Up And Ready To Go
  • Value Slices
  • Cheese Supreme
  • Punktastic Unscene
  • Punktastic Unscene 3
  • Ashcan Records 1
  • Change The Station II
  • In Defense of Rock 2
  • Quintisentially British
  • ''Brighton Rocks''