Good Shoes

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Good Shoes
Origin Flag of England Morden, London, England
Genre(s) Indie rock
Years active 2004–present
Label(s) Brille Records
Website http://www.goodshoes.co.uk/
Members
Rhys Jones
Tom Jones
Joel Cox
Steve Leach

Good Shoes is a four-piece English indie pop band, hailing from Morden, London.

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[edit] Biography

Good Shoes was formed by lead singer Rhys Jones and guitarist Steve Leach who often wrote and played music together as a hobby. Rhys and Steve appeared as a two piece under the Good Shoes name for a friends charity gig (Tom-Fest) at a venue in Kingston called The Peel in early January 2004. Eventually, they decided to formalise their hobby into a fully-fledged band, bringing in Rhys's brother Tom and then later Joel Cox (who was friends with Rhys and Steve from secondary school - Raynes Park High School).

The band started looking for gigs in January 2005, their first gig was put on by a friend at Fitzwilliam College Cambridge University on 1 February.[citation needed] Their second was at a secret party on Eel Pie Island with Mystery Jets and from then on they played as many gigs as possible in and around London. This led to them playing the Artrocker clubnight in August put on by Artrocker Magazine. At this gig, the band were recommended to their current label, Brille Records by a member of the band FC Kahuna, and after playing In The City music festival in Manchester they signed with Brille in November 2005. John Kennedy (a DJ at London-based radio station Xfm) started to give the band airtime based on a demo which was recorded in the bands shed[citation needed], and a new demo, recorded at Southern Studios started to get the band recgonition from stations like Radio 1, 6 Music and other mainstream radio stations, with both Steve Lamacq and Zane Lowe playing the demo.

The band travelled to Malmö, Sweden to record their first album, called Think Before You Speak, with Per Sunding at Tambourine Studios. It was released 26 March 2007.

On 28 May 2007, the band performed a secret free gig at Morden Park bandstand. The bandstand and other landmarks from the local area are featured in the video for their next single "Morden", released on 11 June 2007.

"All In My Head" from their album "Think Before You Speak" was used to advertise Channel 4's Brat Camp series.

They are currently touring on the 2007 Kaiser Chiefs Tour (with Pigeon Detectives, Little Ones and We Are Scientists).

[edit] Discography

[edit] Albums

  • 2007 Think Before You Speak
  • 2007 Live at the Astoria (Limited Release of 1000, recorded at the Astoria, London 21st November 2007)

[edit] Singles

[edit] EPs

  • 2006 "We Are Not The Same"

[edit] Members

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