The year 2008 didn’t start with anything close to an awesome party. It was smack dab in the middle of a global economic collapse in fact. The latest single from Glasgow’s 8-piece funk-soul powerhouse Tom McGuire & the Brassholes thinks hindsight and a whole lot of non-stop syncopated funk can make a party out of all that, especially when you hold it up to 2022. Drawing on influences from the likes of Vulfpeck, Earth Wind, and Fire and Tower of Power, the track showcases a band firing on all cylinders looking to use their time in our ears to briefly make us party like it’s…2008.
“I wrote this in a time of global upset, yearning for a simpler happier time. By most accounts 2008 was a rough year, yet I recall all the good snippets, flashbulbs of youth and radness, giving hope that even recent times of turmoil might be softened in retrospect,” says McGuire
