STUD FARM MAFIA

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“Gun Show” is STUD FARM MAFIA at their most self-aware and unapologetically British. What started as a private joke about gym culture and sleeveless T-shirts turned into a full-blown rap-rock anthem (think tracksuits, turntables and a healthy dose of nu-metal chaos)) that’s heavy, hook-packed and deliberately over the top.

The track was born out of a real-life lockdown pivot. After getting back into shape and falling hard for weightlifting, frontman Cole decided to channel that obsession into something tongue-in-cheek: a “gym anthem” built on laddish in-jokes, absurd flex culture and the immortal line, “Two tickets to the gun show.”

Lyrically, it’s crammed with sharp British references — from John Prescott and Only Fools and Horses to Blackadder and The Italian Job — a conscious move to lean into their own accent and identity rather than flatten it into transatlantic neutrality.

The humour is knowingly daft, but there’s subtext: a wink at performative masculinity, gym bravado and the idea of reclaiming space to be loud, ridiculous and free with your mates at the weekend.

“Gun Show” captures the band’s core identity: cheeky, boisterous, proudly British and smart enough to know they’re taking the mick while doing it.

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Released 17th March 2026, “Did You Have A Good Weekend?” is Stud Farm Mafia’s six-track debut EP recorded with David Radahd-Jones (Wargasm, Jacoby Shaddix, Heavens Basement, Chris Robertson) at Red City Recordings, Manchester. Built on baritone riffs, hip-shot groove and chant-ready hooks, the EP sits somewhere between Royal Blood, Skindred, Queens of the Stone Age and Don Broco, but with a sharper British bite.

What sounds like a casual Monday-morning question becomes something more pointed: a look at work, time and the quiet panic of selling your hours while pretending everything’s fine.

Reborn from previous band projects, Oxford’s finest Stud Farm Mafia snapped into focus and decided that if they were going to graft, it had to be on something that truly sounded like them – heavier, funnier, and a hell of a lot more honest.

Across the record they hit everyday pressure pain points hard. “Ten Past Ten” takes aim at the 9–5 loop, while “So Pretty” and “Gun Show” lampoon toxic masculinity via gym-floor bravado, falsetto hooks and rap-rock swagger. On “S.O.S.”, a main riff spelling out Morse code anchors a charity track supporting ActionAid, turning doomscroll-era helplessness into something loud, physical and oddly hopeful.

For all its humour, “Did You Have a Good Weekend?” keeps circling back to one blunt idea: time is the only real currency you’ve got. Stud Farm Mafia sound like a band who’ve stopped waiting for permission – they’re a new name from Oxford’s heavy underground with big-room choruses and enough real-world grit to give heavy rock fans something worth shouting about.

Expect neck breaking riffs, sing-your-heart-out hooks, and a live show that should, by rights, send them straight to detention. Stud Farm Mafia came here to chew bubble-gum and drop breakdowns, and they’re all out of bubble-gum.

“Did You Have A Good Weekend?” is out 17th March 2026.