GANS share new single 'THIS PRODUCT DUB' | Debut album 'GOOD FOR THE SOUL' out now on Strap Originals | UK headline touring upcoming
GANS share new single
'THIS PRODUCT DUB'
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Debut album GOOD FOR THE SOUL out now on Strap Originals
UK tour dates continue through Nov and Dec
Midlands noisemakers GANS released their debut album 'GOOD FOR THE SOUL' in September via Peter Doherty’s Strap Originals label. Produced by Ross Orton (Arctic Monkeys, Amyl & The Sniffers, The Fall, Working Men’s Club), it's a rollercoaster of surprises that sees the band traverse heated post-punk and darting electronics, residing in a world of dusky, after-hours brooding. They've become mainstays on the BBC 6 Music playlist, winning further support from the likes of Clash, DIY, The Line of Best Fit, Louder Than War, Rolling Stone UK, So Young and more.
Today, the band shares 'THIS PRODUCT DUB', a reworking of album track 'THIS PRODUCT' that twists the original source material into a throbbing, dancefloor-ready, anti-capitalist party.
The band sums things up, saying: "Buy. Consume. Eat. Breathe. Repeat. Type. Read. Listen. Look. Dispose. Compose. Waste. Produce. Walk. Run. Stop. Go. Always. Never. Start. End. Feel. Touch. Burn. Nothing. Something. Sleep. Watch. Smile. Cry. Scream. Pain. Rest. Circle. Back. Finish. Begin. Hello. Goodbye."
Hear GANS' debut album GOOD FOR THE SOUL here.
Share new single 'THIS PRODUCT DUB' via YouTube below.
Tickets available here.
Nov 13th - Boiler Shop, Newcastle, UK ^
Nob 14th - Oran Mor, Glasgow, UK ^
Nov 15th - La Belle, Edinburgh, UK ^
Nov 16th - O2 Academy Brixton, London, UK &
Nov 18th - Trades Club, Hebden Bridge, UK
Nov 19th - Polar Bear Music Club, Kingston Upon Hull, UK
Nov 20th - The Tin Music & Arts, Coventry, UK
Nov 21st - KOLA Basement, Southsea, UK
Nov 22nd - John Peel Centre, Stowmarket, UK
Nov 24th - O2 Academy, Oxford, UK &
Nov 25th - Face Bar, Reading, UK
Nov 26th - O2 Academy, Birmingham, UK &
Nov 27th - Electric Ballroom, London, UK ^
Nov 28th - The 1865, Southampton, UK ^
Nov 29th - Epic Studios Norwich, UK ^
Nov 30th - O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester, UK &
Dec 15th - KOKO, London, UK &
Dec 17th - Crookes Social Club, Sheffield, UK **
Dec 26th - Hare & Hounds, Birmingham, UK (Xmas foodbank fundraiser)
& = supporting Babyshambles
^ = supporting Pop Will Eat Itself
** = supporting The Moonlandingz
GANS live dates 2026
Jan 3rd - Rockaway Beach Festival, Bognor Regis, UK
Jan 14th - Eurosonic Festival, Groningen, NL
Feb 13th - Waterfront, Norwich, UK ^
Feb 14th - Rock City, Nottingham, UK ^
Feb 15th - Digital, Newcastle, UK ^
Feb 18th - Stylus, Leeds, UK ^
Feb 19th - SWG3, Glasgow, UK ^
Feb 20th - New Century Hall, Manchester, UK ^
Feb 21st - O2 Institute, Birmingham, UK ^
Feb 24th - Electric, Bristol, UK ^
Feb 25th - 1865, Southampton, UK ^
Feb 27th - The Roundhouse, London, UK ^
^ = Supporting BIG SPECIAL
GANS – GOOD FOR THE SOUL album tracklisting
1. A FOOL
2. IN TIME
3. IT'S JUST LIFE
4. NIGHTWALKING
5. FAR AND WIDE
6. EVERYTHING IN EXTREME
7. I THINK I LIKE YOU
8. THE KING'S HEAD
9. THIS PRODUCT
10. OH GEORGE
11. WELL DONE
More about GANS and debut album GOOD FOR THE SOUL
GANS are Euan Woodman (drums, vocals) and Tom Rhodes (bass, vocals).
Growing up in working class areas of the Black Country to parents who worked in factories and mills has helped define how they approach GANS. As Rhodes puts it, “We both come from places where people get locked in by their surroundings – trapped by jobs and ambitions that go as far as getting married and settling down by the time you are 23. We knew we did not want that. We felt connected when we met and we had ambitions that lay beyond that world. We are fiercely proud of where we are from and we strongly believe in how we were raised. It’s just we have ambitions that are more Copacabana than Costa Del Dudley.”
Woodman would sit scribbling away in his books. Not only does he write poems, but he also paints. Some of his paintings are disturbing Francis Bacon-like images of animals dressed as humans. There’s a Goose smoking a cigarette. Ironically this is where the band got their name - GANS is “Goose” in German.
Woodman says, “I have to be creating, and I will do until I die. I know people say that, but I truly don’t know any other way, I don’t know what I’d do.” He is the main lyricist in GANS. His words reflect a sense of discomfort and unease with life.
GANS went away in November 2024 to Wales to a remote cottage to write their debut album GOOD FOR THE SOUL, a direct, honest, noisy, heartfelt collection of songs to reflect the times the band find themselves in. There are songs about electronic gadgets to improve your life (‘THIS PRODUCT’), ‘OH GEORGE’ tackles mental illness head on, and stories of “Little England” mentalities and the ghosts of Reform supporters shine through on ‘A FOOL’ and ‘IN TIME’.
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