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‘Lairy electro rock precision-tooled to make your local indie dancefloor go into meltdown’ – NME
‘This is gonna cause a riot over the coming months, greebo shoulder to shoulder and disco pogo at its best….Essential Electro Tune 5/5’ – Dean Thatcher, UPDATE
‘Possibly THE dance track of the summer’ – Joe Mott’s Hot, DAILY STAR
Van Gogh compared the mystery of the country to Venice and Arabia, Ernest Hemingway to the world of the Brothers Grimm. The Surrealist painter, Rene Magritte (bowler hats, apples, shrouded figures etc) captured the strange atmosphere in his paintings. Nevertheless Belgium gets a bad press. But things are beginning to change. There are many recent creative successes - as in France, there is now an exciting music scene, and the Dardenne brothers won their second Palme D'Or for 'The Child' at the most recent Cannes Film Festival.
You get the same sinister undercurrent and cinematic quality in the music of rising Belgian band GOOSE, who merge rock'n'roll with dance rhythms and nasty, filthy synths. Its all live, no clicktrack or samplers, but using breakdowns like a DJ does. GOOSE are signed to Skint Records. Play next to Justice, Daft Punk, Kasabian, Who Made Who, Infadels, LCD Soundsystem.
Mickael Karkousse (vocals / keys), Dave Martijn (guitar / keys), Tom Coghe (bass / keys) and Bert Libeert (drums) grew up in the textile city of Kortrijk, listening to a cocktail of sounds including AC/DC, Michael Jackson, Daft Punk, Stone Roses, The Fucking Champs, and watching as many films as possible.
Their debut album BRING IT ON features the swinging, sleazy, insistent ‘British Mode’, ‘3T4’ with its psychedelic Beatles harmonies against an electro groove and stomping T-Rex beat, the raving ‘Everybody’, the taut Euro-electro title track, ‘Bring It On’, and the kinky 'Black Gloves' which comes on like a nest of angry hornets rockin’ to a super-fast beat. Look out for the video featuring the band racing round a shopping centre and Brighton seafront in motorised wheelie bins like something out of 1960’s cartoon, Wacky Races.
GOOSE gigs are an experience. Buzzing synths, the happy dancing crowds, the breakdowns and all hands in the air waiting for the beat to come right in! and bam!!
GOOSE return to the UK for shows in December '06 and February '07.
www.goosemusic.com |www.myspace.com/goosemusic
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