Gas Food Lodging (EP)

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{{Infobox album

| name = Gas Food Lodging

| type = EP

| artist = Drag

| cover = Gas Food Lodging EP.jpg

| alt =

| released = {{Start date|df=y|2002|6|3}}

| recorded = 2002

| venue =

| studio = {{flatlist|

• Sunshine Studios, Brisbane
• Milkbar Studios, Sydney

}}

| genre = {{flatlist|

• Rock
• pop

}}

| length = {{duration|m=21|s=57}}

| label = Dew Process/Universal

| producer = {{flatlist|

• Wayne Connolly
• Darren Middleton
• Mark McElligott

}}

| prev_title =

| prev_year =

| next_title = The Way Out

| next_year = 2005

}}

Drag or Gas Food Lodging is the debut extended play by Australian rock band, Drag, which was released in June 2002 via Dew Process/Universal Music Australia.{{cite web | archiveurl = https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20051121130000/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/44131/20051122-0000/www.amo.org.au/releasedbde.html | url = http://www.amo.org.au/releasedbde.html | title = Releases :: Gas Food Lodging | work = Australian Music Online | archivedate = 21 November 2005 | accessdate = 2 October 2017 }}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}{{cite web | url = http://thebrag.com/darren-middleton | title = Darren Middleton | last = Omagari | first = Lisa | date = 28 October 2013 | work = Brag Magazine | accessdate = 2 October 2017 }}{{cite journal | date = 3 June 2002 | archiveurl = https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20020626140000/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/23790/20020627-0000/www.aria.com.au/Issue640.pdf | title = Week Commencing – 3rd June 2002 – Issue #640 | last = Kellaghan | first = Ronan | work = The ARIA Report | format = PDF | publisher = Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) | issue = 640 | page = 28 | url = http://www.aria.com.au/pages/documents/issue640.pdf | archivedate = 26 June 2002 | accessdate = 29 September 2017 }}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} The track, "Take Me with You", received airplay on Triple J radio after the EP was released.

The EP reached No. 19 on the ARIA Alternative Albums Chart and No. 6 on the ARIA Hitseekers Albums Chart.{{cite journal | date = 10 June 2002 | archiveurl = https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20020626140000/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/23790/20020627-0000/www.aria.com.au/Issue641.pdf | title = Week Commencing – 10th June 2002 – Issue #641 | last = Kellaghan | first = Ronan | work = The ARIA Report | format = PDF | publisher = Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) | issue = 641 | pages = 9, 12, 16 | url = http://www.aria.com.au/pages/documents/issue641.pdf | archivedate = 26 June 2002 | accessdate = 29 September 2017 }}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} The group's founding guitarist and lead vocalist, Darren Middleton, later explained how the group's work was "universally themed and full of obscure metaphors that don't really mean anything, which is what I really did with Drag. There wasn't really any focus in that project."