Gascan Ruckus

Gascan Ruckus are a Northern Irish band that originate from Middletown, County Armagh.  They are an unsigned band and use websites such as facebook, myspace and bebo to promote themselves, as well as using Bandcamp, iTunes etc. to distribute their music to. They are a four piece band made up of Michael Woods: guitar and vocals, Declan McBride: guitar, Conor Langan: bass, and El Rosso: drums. They describe their sound as Punk/Rock/Alternative. They are quite similar to More Than Conquerors in their sound. Both videos the band has released have been shot by Tristan Crowe and the video for vitamins was edited by Phillip Matier



The video for Pieces is just a fun video featuring only the band. It starts out capturing the band performance. The room is very simple as it only consists of the band's instruments and amps. The room is in complete darkness except for a light shining down on the band themselves. The interesting thing about the band video is that it appears to the viewer to be shot in slow motion, although the singer's lip sync is in exact sync with the song, the drummer's beats match up to the music, as well as the guitarists strumming and chords. As the camera has a pan of the band it seems to disappear behind a black pillar and when it comes out the band are no longer performing, but instead sitting in old fashioned gentlemen clothes. They are seen smoking a pipe, listening into an original radio, reading a newspaper and watching an old tv. The camera continues to pan across each of the members until it passes by another black pillar to once more come out onto the band performing again. This technique continues throughout the video always ending up with different scenarios as it pans across.