What do you do when you’ve formed a pop band, they’ve become immensely successful, released an awesome debut album which spawned the number one requested song on a national station? Why, you go electronic, of course.
A couple of months ago, we mentioned that if you wanted to go and catch a jacSharp gig, you could either see the regular band or an acoustic or electro version. Upping the musical ante, Juliet Harding and Ben Peters have taken jacSharp electro a step further to form Goodluck to give you every live electronic beat you’ll ever need to feel.
While we’re normally not excited about music that doesn’t have roaring guitars in it, we like Goodluck’s vibe because unlike the flavourless one-beat-repeated-for-an-hour music you find in some clubs, Goodluck produces house music that is about the vibe, about the sound, and about the beat that envelops the LED-lit dancefloor you’re watching the band from. It’s masterful electro music á la Basement Jaxx, Faithless and, (sorry to draw the obvious comparison), Goldfish; and it’ll drive crowds wild, just you wait and see.
As a testament to what the new band can achieve, they recently toured Geneva and Ibiza, partying it up and playing successfully in the house music capital of the world – no small feat, even for an established band!
Back home in South Africa, you unfortunately won’t get to see them playing live too often in the coming months, but luckily this is because they’re heading into studio to work on their debut album.
Go to their Myspace page to listen to Goodluck’s first few tunes, or become a fan on Facebook for regular updates about the band.
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