Globo News
Globo News
Globo, one of the 1990s’ great electronic music outliers, return after more than 15 years since their last live show to deliver a special performance at The Lower Third, London on Monday 29 June 2026.
The London date marks their first show since the late 00s, when the Globo project busied itself bringing Mark Mothersbaugh's (Devo) art show to the UK for the first time. They also performed their version of The Fall’s album ’This Nation’s Saving Grace’ in its entirety for a one-off extravaganza, which itself led to a memorable encounter with Mark E Smith’s mum and sisters in Salford.
Ahead of the London show, the avant-electronic renegades have shared a video for ‘Pro War’ (created by Halo Jones), a regenerated version of the title track from their 1995 sample-heavy debut album of the same name. The track will be released as a new Redux version via Hydrogen Dukebox on 25 June 2026.
The live show lineup comprises Paul Thompson (electronics/vox), Mark Wernham (electronics), Steve Appleton (guitar/electronics) and Kaoru Sakurai (violin/vox/electronics).
Speaking about the upcoming live date, Globo said: “We made ‘Pro War’ in 1995 and we were reacting to what we saw around us. Everything has changed since then, and yet it’s all somehow the same. We never played tracks from the album live back then in the way we’re presenting some of it now. Expect some 'Pro-War' highlights, the singles, including the full 2026 version of the music we wrote for Stewart Lee’s and Richard Herring’s ‘Fist Of Fun’ BBC TV show. There’s some inevitable new material too."
More than three decades later, the themes explored in ‘Pro War’ feel, perhaps to no great surprise, strikingly current. Against the backdrop of ongoing global instability, from the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East to the increasingly blurred relationship between media, politics and conflict, the track’s buoyant breakbeats, cut-up vocal samples and a satirical anti-conflict message underscore the uneasy atmosphere that permeates 21st century society, with renewed urgency.
‘Pro War’ is an anthem of “supreme irony” and a dark inversion of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s famous slogan, “War Is Over (If You Want It)”. Written against the backdrop of Rwanda, the Gulf War and Bosnia, the track explored not only the machinery of conflict itself, but humanity’s recurring attraction to it.
One of the song’s sampled refrains - “Haiti was called off, I was pissed off” - references the aborted 1994 US military intervention in Haiti, while satirising what the Globo describe as “humanity’s love of war”. Absurdist and intentionally darkly comic, ‘Pro War’ now feels as relevant as ever: a disorientating broadcast from an age of propaganda, conflict and media overload that never really ended.
The Norwich-London force that is Globo emerged in the mid-1990s as one of the UK underground’s most singular electronic acts, fusing sample collage, transmitted media, breakbeats, found sound, cinematic melody and rhythmic vocal montages into a sound that felt both human and eerily technological.
While often mentioned alongside contemporaries such as Underworld, Globo occupied a far more fractured, satirical and confrontational space. Decades on, their work endures as an eerily accurate blueprint for the world that followed.
Pro War (Redux) from Globo is out 25 June 2026 via Hydrogen Dukebox. Tickets for Globo at The Lower Third (29 June 2026) are on sale here: https://thelowerthird.co.uk/.
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