Good Shoes
If Good Shoes were a pair of shoes they'd be pop-primary red plimsolls, with silk ribbons for laces and witty marker pen scrawls all over them. It's hard not to love their shed-rock, upbeat-miserablist indie-pop, 'replete with punchy melodies, spiky guitars and frantic vocals'.
Long before Good Shoes were singing about Morden's fifty pence shops, the four-man band were talent spotted at the Artrocker club night by Brille Records, who signed the band shortly after in 2005. John Kennedy (Xfm) started to show the band some airtime appreciation, playing a demo recorded in Good Shoes garden shed. The 'Shoes travelled to Sweden's Tambourine Studios to lay down their debut album, 2007's Think Before You Speak.
In May the same year, the band played a secret gig at Morden Park Bandstand, moving on to slightly more sweaty venues to play alongside Kaiser Chiefs, The Maccabees, and Maximo Park, rounding it off with a gig at the last ever night at the iconic London Astoria (2009).
Listen to Good Shoes = Think Before You Speak:
Live at New Slang, Kingston
Good Shoes - Never Meant To Hurt You
Good Shoes - Morden
