WE WERE NEVER BEING BORING COLLECTIVE PRESENTS:
GEE WHIZ! RELEASE THE VIDEO FOR “BIG FIREWORKS”
FROM DEBUT ALBUM “HOW TO MANAGE A CRISIS”
OUT NOW
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The Bologna-based supergroup Gee Whiz! today unveil the new video for “Big Fireworks”, one of the key tracks from their debut album How To Manage A Crisis, released via We Were Never Being Boring Collective and now available on all platforms.
Listen to the album HERE
Watch the video HERE
The video for “Big Fireworks” was shot entirely with a 1999 camera. Director Tommaso Buldini, heavily influenced by the visual world of Harmony Korine, creates a surreal environment where the creatures from his grotesque paintings come to life and interact with the band members. The result is a sequence of absurd and unpredictable scenes set within an almost post-apocalyptic seaside landscape, where violence is always filtered through a sense of irony that aims more to provoke a smile than discomfort.
Buldini is an Italian multidisciplinary artist working across painting, video animation and mechanized devices, and with this video he brings his visual universe directly into the world of Gee Whiz!, turning Big Fireworks into a short circuit between contemporary art, rock energy and lo-fi imagery.
“Big Fireworks” was also the first song written for the album: two minutes of nervous, nostalgic rock blending fuzz guitars, driving basslines and explosive power pop energy. A track that looks back to the “good old days” with lifelong friends, balancing chaos, irony and escapist spirit. “Space cake pillows and super fuzz,” sing Gee Whiz!, while subtle nods to Beck and Blur appear between the lines and riffs.
The supergroup brings together Michele “Mike” Giuliani (Lùnapop, Clamat), Mariagiulia Degli Amori (Iosonouncane, Daniela Pes, A Toys Orchestra), Paul Pieretto (Settlefish, A Classic Education) and Giacomo Gelati (Altre di B, Lo Stato Sociale, LaPara) — in other words, a true “dream team.” Completing the picture is producer Bruno Germano, who hosted the band at his Vacuum Studio for the recording sessions, while mastering was handled by Carl Saff in Chicago.
The quartet’s sound is defined by hook-driven melodies, propulsive rhythms, power-pop energy, pyrotechnic fuzz guitars and psychedelic reverbs. Across ten tracks, there is hardly a moment to catch your breath — and, above all, the infectious sense of joy that fuels the entire project never fades. Even the album title carries both irony and intent: “How To Manage A Crisis” is not a survival manual, but rather an encouraging collective response to chaos.
Managing a crisis – even the final, definitive one – requires a particular set of skills, and Gee Whiz! handle the task with remarkable ease and unmistakable enjoyment. It’s no coincidence that the first song written for the album was “Big Fireworks,” overflowing with electric nostalgia and a desire for escape – a return to the “good old days” with the same “good old fellas.” Two breathless minutes of rock’n’roll urgency and chaos, acidic guitars, driving bass, “space cake pillows and super fuzz,” where the euphoric shockwave tips its hat to both Beck and Blur: “We’ll take off and get high.”
Yet the energy of Gee Whiz! refuses to remain confined to a stage or locked inside a studio. It demands to involve everyone within reach – whether longtime friends or those about to become one.
About Tommaso Buldini
Tommaso Buldini is an Italian multidisciplinary artist working across painting, video animation and mechanized devices, developing a distinctive and often surreal visual universe.
Over the years he has worked and exhibited internationally, across Italy, the United States (New York and Miami), Switzerland (Basel), the Netherlands, Belgium and France — a country he considers his second artistic home — presenting his work in museums, art fairs and galleries.
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