THE GEROGERIGEGEGE – The Gerogerigegege 12″

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New Gero, first vinyl since the “reappearance”. The A side is a stolen Japanese disco track with a bit of huffing over the top and the B side is wee excerpts of the same track repeated a few times. The back cover has a press release lifted completely from some US hip-hop live 12. I guess most people would consider this one of the worst and most pointless records ever produced; for me it confirms that Gero is the best fuckin band who isn’t The Fall to have ever existed. I kinda hope everyone hates what he’s coming up with now, cos I saw a lot of folk jump on the “oooohhh a ker-azeee LEGENDARY Japanese band are back together….yeaaaaah!!!” without having half a fucking clue what Gero is all about. Here’s a story actually: a guy got in touch with me about 10 years ago asking my then-band to submit a track to his Gero tribute album. I guess he’d seen we were little more than a tribute band and played sort-of noisecore. So I said “yes, of course”, and proceeded to tape a conversation of some workies out my back door having their lunch. I submitted it and he was like “erm this is not what The Gerogerigegege sound like”, to which I replied, “YES IT FUCKING IS YOU IDIOT. I DON’T WANT TO BE ON YOUR POSER CLOWNSHOE COMPILATION ANYWAY”. Track remains unreleased. It’s a belter.