Relationship goals change as your priorities shift, don’t they. What do we look for in a significant other? Although someone with exact same taste in absolutely everything waves massive terrifying red flags visible from outer space, surely someone who sings Orange Juice songs for your pleasure is a true Tinder keeper? Answers on a Postcard, but we think so, anyways. Good taste is good taste. And Good News are good news.
This idea and more is raised in the new single by the Sheffield trio in the aptly named ‘Orange Juice In The Shower’. The spiky pop with deadpan post-punk vocal delivery and clock-y rhythmic percussion and tight deep bass, is out today, with the short sharp shock that is ‘Tits’ the flipside of the a double A-side single.
Good News is a multi-lingual outfit comprising of vocalist, clarinetist, guitarist and percussionist Beth Aylward, drummer Erin Hoggard and bassist Dan Philpott. There is a debut album to come, via Bingo Records (The Bug Club, Mr Ben & the Bens, Melin Melyn, Wesley Gonzalez) and a tour.
Recorded in a studio built in the band’s attic with in-house Bingo Records producer Zac Barfoot, this new music follows 2023 debut EP Same As That, which earned the band a live session with Marc Riley & Gideon Coe (6 Music). Since then, their feisty clarinet, bass, and cowbell-propelled rhythms have bounced around the North & London supporting The Bug Club, Kid Congo & The Pink Monkeybirds, Wesley Gonzalez & Wild Garlic and Acid Klaus.
Tour dates
15 June Bodega Nottingham
14 September Breakfest Bristol
Oct/Nov headline tour
Oct 25 Leeds Wharf Chambers
Oct 26 Clitheroe Bowland Bikes CIC
Oct 29/30 Bristol TBC
Oct 31 Birmingham Hare & Hounds
Nov 1 London The Finsbury
Nov 2 Nottingham JT Soar
Nov 8 Gulliver’s Manchester
Nov 9 Delicious Clam Sheffield
