Gareth Sager

A key figure in British post-punk rock, multi-instrumentalist Gareth Sager was the driving force behind The Pop Group and Rip, Rig + Panic. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on August 10, 1960, he studied piano and joined Mark Stewart's post-punk band The Pop Group, with whom he produced the influential albums Y (1979) and For How Much Do We Tolerate Mass Murder? (1980). After splitting up in 1980, he joined the Rip, Rig + Panic collective alongside Neneh Cherry and Mark Springer for three eclectic albums, followed by the Float Up CP project in 1985. A guitarist renowned for his creativity and saxophonist with The Flying Lizards, Sager then joined the group Head, forerunners of trip-hop, for a series of three albums released between 1987 and 1989. In 2003, he signed his first solo album The Last Second of Normal Time under the name C.C. Sager, then collaborated with Jock Scot on The Caledonian Blues (2006). He continues his musical adventure, divided between the experimental rock of Slack Slack Music (2009), Maelstrom in the Bare Garden (2023) and Play Yr Heart Out (2025), and his classical training on the minimalist albums 88 Tuned Dreams (2017) and Ghost Ship Trance Lamentations (2023).

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