Gang of Four called it quits after their 2025 farewell tour, but are having trouble saying “that’s all.” In support of the No Kings protests, they wrote and recorded a new song “No Kings Here!,” with their 2025 lineup that included Belly’s Gail Greenwood on bass and Ted Leo on guitar. Of course the title of the song is a bit of a misnomer, as they’ve got a King in the band — frontman Jon King — but that’s not the kind of king they’re talking about. A sample of the lyrics:
They’re locking up the children and the brown skinned refugees
They’re rewriting the future and they’re never saying please
They cable tie the youth and they make up alibis
They’re murdering the truth and they’re faking all the lies
Musically, this is pure Gang of Four, with Ted Leo doing his best Andy Gill-style angular guitar, somewhere between “Anthrax” and “What We All Want,” with the kind of backbone only drummer Hugo Burnham could provide. Listen below.
In other “not fully retired” news, Gang of Four are playing Wilco’s Solid Sound festival in June and they are doing a few other Northeast dates with Downtown Boys around that, hitting Hamden, Woodstock (Bearsville Theater on 6/25), Portland, and East Greenwich. All dates are below.
Meanwhile, Downtown Boys will release their first album in nine years in June.
Gang of Four – 2026 Tour Dates
Jun 23 – Space Ballroom – Hamden, CT
Jun 25 – Bearsville Theater – Woodstock, NY
Jun 26 – Mass MoCA – North Adams, MA (Solid Sound Festival)
Jun 27 – State Theatre – Portland, ME
Jun 28 – Greenwich Odeum – East Greenwich, RI