Goose

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"various press quotes"

Press Quotes:-
Artrocker ''Goose are the future”
Daily Telegraph "Exhilarating"
Independent On Sunday "Imagine the Jesus and Mary Chain strapped to a big rack of synthesizers....4/5"

The Sun "Insatiable, infectious and not a little bit bonkers ....4/5"

NME 8/10 album review “This album is immense”
NME “one of the underground dance singles of the year”
NME “lairy electro rock precision-tooled to make your indie dancefloor go into meltdown”
Daily Star “possibly THE dance track of the summer”
Mix Mag “these future stars will be rinsing out your iPod within months”
The Sun “one of the most interesting dance releases in ages 4/5”
Disorder 8/10 album review “This album is fantastic”
Artrocker "They've got more bang than a nuclear bomb. Watch these guys piss all over Hot Chip whilst laughing in the Klaxon's faces next year. Yes, they're that good."
Music Week "A big stomping sleazy bassline is at the heart of this track like Kasabian doing Daft Punk"
Notion "With guttural guitars and korg-infested riffs they'll have your booty a-shaking quicker than you can say "blow your whistle". And with a front man that jiggles his hips like Bryan Ferry, every girl with half a mind will be drooling over these four winged lovelies"
Update Essential Electro Tune 5/5 “This is gonna cause a riot over the coming months”

Club:-
Pedro Winter/Justice “Original version is the one I play all the time, one of my favourite tracks this year”
Acid Jacks “GOOSE bring it on JFK mix.. apart from being a total pimp, jfk is also the unrecognised buildup heavy weight champion of the world! teenage bad girl mix destroys too! amazing tracks”
Digitalism “I like the teeange bad gril rmx”
Alan Thompson “Boris does it again, twisted and fu**ed up, brilliant!”
Anu Pillai (Freeform Five) “Excellent work from teenage bad girl - perfect brain frying track!”
Capoeira Twins “This is crazy sh**....Like a jar of angry bees on prozac! Love it, the Teenage Bad Girl is the one that kills for me, niiice”
Cass (Cass and Mangan) (FINE/Wall of Sound) “Monster production on both remixes here”
Decky Hedrock (The Japanese Popstars) “Jesus Christ that Teenage Bad Girl remix is MASSIVE!”
Demi “TBG MIX - ruthless, relentless and cannot wait to unleash”
Griff (Manumission) “JFK mix is the one some real raw power there good almagamation of guitar sound and dance sensibilty will drop it like its hot”
Kris Bones “Teenage girl is doing it for me!! Festival crowd love it” Timo Garcia (Berwick Street Records) “Wow! Noise!”

- uk press

"various press quotes"

Discography

British Mode - single
Black Gloves - single
Bring It On - album
Low Mode - single
Bring It On - single

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Bio

If some music comes on like a caress, the music that Goose make is more like a slap in the face with a velvet glove. Taking a blowtorch to the boundaries between rock and dance music, the Belgian four-piece make records like Cadillac make cars – a tough and sleek, perfect fusion of man and machine. On their debut album ‘Bring It On’, Goose create dance music with ferocious metal teeth. Buzzsaw synthesisers, sternum-shaking drums and electric shock riffs combine to make something that is aggressive as it is compulsively danceable. Songs like singles ‘Black Gloves’ and ‘British Mode’ show a state-of-the-art rock band making music like a DJ plays a set, with breakdowns, building tensions and ecstatic release.

Live, Goose have already ripped up dance clubs from Ghent, Belgium’s legendary Culture Club, to London’s Canvas, but the traditional band circuit is theirs for the taking too. “Last night,” says singer and keyboard player Mickael Karkousse, “there was a guy who said ‘I came in the venue, I saw the synthesizers and I was thinking Kraftwerk’. But then when he heard the music he heard a rock band. Dave (Martijn, guitar and keyboards) treats his keyboards the way he used to play guitar. It’s a massive sound – it’s powerful.” It’s also a sound that’s completely in tune with 2006, where indie kids wave glowsticks and clubbers dance to powerchords, where producers and DJs like Justice, Paul Epworth, Simian Mobile Disco and Goose’s fellow Belgians Soulwax can unite musical factions with electronic music you can mosh to and guitar records with a groove. Fans of Daft Punk and AC/DC alike, it’s a moment in music that’s perfect for Goose.

The band, whose other two members are bassist and keyboard player Tom Coghe and drummer Bert Libeert, come from the textile city of Kortrijk. Bert, Dave and Mickael have played together since 1996 when they were at school, and in 2002, having recruited Tom, Goose was born, named after Tom Cruise’s sidekick in ‘Top Gun’, a film that, says Dave, was “part of our youth”. The band recorded their first single ‘Audience’ with Placebo producer Teo Miller (now a bonus track on ‘Bring It On’). The follow-up, ‘Good Times’, spent ten weeks in the Belgian charts. But something wasn’t quite right. “We were a lot more rocky then,” says Mickael, “but everybody was fighting and wanting to do other stuff”. He and Bert started getting into electronic music – “we went on a little trip” – experimenting with the new sounds they could make on the software package Protools. “What we did, the other guys liked so then we said ‘let’s go in that direction’. Nothing in particular influenced us, just the energy that electronic music has. Because we’re young we like to party and we like to dance and it’s especially nice to enjoy yourself onstage when you’re playing. Before it was more like an act.”

“It didn’t feel natural,” adds Dave. “Now doing a breakdown live, where the drums stop, is fun. It’s also still totally live – there’s no sequencer. Sometimes you feel like playing faster or slower and you can’t do that if you have to play along with a tape.” In fact, the Goose gig experience combines the heady rush of dance music with the attack and bite of rock, while visually the band manage to be both rock stars and part of the audience, raving irresistibly along with the rest of the room. “We have fun and the audience has fun,” sums up Mickael simply. “I don’t try to act like a singer, I just try to be natural.”

Goose were careful not to jump into bed with the first label that offered them the chance to make an album and spent most of the first half of this decade perfecting their sound, holding out for the right people to work with. Their profile was raised immeasurably when in 2004 Coca Cola used ‘Audience’ in TV adverts across Europe; a live show at music industry conference Popkomm increased the buzz. However, it wasn’t until February of 2005 that the right label came along. Dave had gone on tour, playing guitar with Soulwax, where he met Damien Harris from Skint. “I met him in Brighton and gave him a demo and I guess he liked it,” explains Dave simply. “It all happened quite naturally.”

Now, the plan is to get off the dole, to play as much as possible in both rock and dance venues, and to provide a hands-in-the-air good time for every crowd they encounter. “When we see bands we’re a bit sick of standing there, nodding our head,” says Mickael. “I think people need more excitement during gigs. At festivals, when you get a rock band who are a one hit wonder they’re good for those five minutes but then they go back to the ordinary songs and it’s just masturbation for them. But when you’re in the dance tent and a big beat comes in everybody dances and everybody participates – like sex!”

Ah, sex. Titles like ‘Black Gloves’ and ‘Bring It On’ more than suggest a darkly kinky side to Goose, which the band do nothing to dispel, though Mickael adds that his lyrics are more like film stills than narra

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