[BAND BROKE UP: August 25, 2022] The Goon Sax
I first heard of The Goon Sax in June of 2021. Bob Boilen raved about them and I really liked the song he played.
I decided they would be fun to see live.
They were scheduled to do some U.S. shows opening for Interpol, Spoon & Pavement. And during the tour, they set up a headline date at Johnny Brenda’s. I was so excited to see them.
And then on July 12, they posted to Twitter that they were breaking up. Before the big tour!
“after nine years of giving it our everything we’ve decided to draw the curtain on this band.
It’s taken us places stranger, more beautiful, and far beyond anything we could have imagined, and brought us to meeting and working with so many special and incredibly inspiring people. Our gratitude to everyone who’s been with us and allowed the madness of the last 9 years to happen is far beyond anything we can palpably express.”
So that sucks for me.
It’s crazy that they’ve been around so long and I’d never heard of them:
The Goon Sax formed in 2013. The band released their first album, Up To Anything, to widespread acclaim in 2016, and followed up with We’re Not Talking in 2018. In 2020, the trio of Riley Jones (drums, vocals), Louis Forster (guitars, vocals) and James Harrison (guitars, vcoals) signed with iconic New York City label Matador. The Goon Sax’s third album, 2021’s Mirror II, was described as “a new beginning” by the label.
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