Good Shoes


Background information
Origin	Morden, London
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 an emerging English indie pop band, hailing from Morden, London. The four-piece are becoming well known for their upbeat, technical guitar pop, characterised by their five singles to date. The band is made up of:

Rhys Jones - Vocals, Guitar
Steve Leach - Guitar
Joel Cox - Bass Guitar
Tom Jones - Drums

The band have drawn comparisons with both modern bands (The Futureheads for example) and classic bands (such as The Jam and Buzzcocks).

1 Biography
2 Discography
- 2.1 Albums
- 2.2 Singles
- 2.3 EPs
3 External links
4 Sources

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. 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, 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.

2006 was the band's breakthrough year, with an EP called "We Are Not The Same" and then their first full single "All In My Head" released to critical acclaim, along with mentions in NME Magazine and an appearance on the Carling Stage at the Reading and Leeds Festivals which led to their first TV appearance on the BBC2 festival coverage. They set up a competition for 300 people to get a picture on their next single "The Photos On My Wall"; this became their first single to enter the UK Singles Chart, entering at number 48 on 6 January 2007. The following single by the band, "Never Meant to Hurt You" managed to get to number 34 in the U.K Top 40.

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.

Good Shoes

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Contents

Biography

Discography

Albums

Singles

EPs

External links

Sources