There have been occasional posts about them, mostly in Go-Betweens threads. Louis Forster is likely a bit tired of that angle:
Sometimes people will come up and ask me about a record or certain songs or whatever, and it’s really embarrassing to me because I just don’t know them. I have to be like, ‘Sorry, I actually don’t know what you’re talking about.'
They have a stupendously wretched pun for a name, but their second album was released last week, so let's grant them a dedicated thread anyway.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Saturday, 22 September 2018 04:19 (five years ago) link
I've only seen very positive reviews of the new record, but I'm undecided after just one full listen.
This is the third track they unveiled just before the album, We Can't Win.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Saturday, 22 September 2018 04:26 (five years ago) link
they are nice, but they lack a certain edge that transforms bands from "good" to "great" i think
― nostormo, Saturday, 22 September 2018 05:37 (five years ago) link
They have a stupendously wretched pun for a name,
What's the pun?
― Zach Same (Tom D.), Saturday, 22 September 2018 06:58 (five years ago) link
here are some youths playing "goon of fortune" with a goonbag
https://totalbullshitblog.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/screen-shot-2014-05-22-at-7-49-34-pm.png
― Bitty Gingham Sheet (sic), Saturday, 22 September 2018 07:45 (five years ago) link
goonbags are known as goon sacks in brissie
― Bitty Gingham Sheet (sic), Saturday, 22 September 2018 07:48 (five years ago) link
OK, a goonbag, an Australian Thing?
― Zach Same (Tom D.), Saturday, 22 September 2018 09:33 (five years ago) link
The term "goon bag/sack" seems to be. I seem to recall wine-in-a-bag-within-a-cask was itself an Australian, er, innovation as well.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Saturday, 22 September 2018 09:47 (five years ago) link
To me, Goon Sax are Brisbane's most interesting band since the Blank Realm/Kitchen's Floor era. They are like a new generation in BNE music. They have a really good side project too called Soot, although I'm not sure if I'm spelling that right since I have heaps of trouble finding any online links about that band.
― lightonthefloor, Monday, 24 September 2018 20:14 (five years ago) link
Soot appears to be the right spelling. Interesting. With Riley Jones on vocals and bass, it seems!? eg. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JegeFNLfD8o
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 25 September 2018 05:51 (five years ago) link
love this band
― flopson, Friday, 8 November 2019 20:37 (four years ago) link
the last album had ups and downs but the good songs were really really good
― na (NA), Friday, 8 November 2019 20:59 (four years ago) link
Thought this thread was about Kenny G
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Saturday, 9 November 2019 08:55 (four years ago) link
I keep coming back to this one for the way it threatens to turn into Swell Maps or something in the second half. And...for the obscure utensils.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Saturday, 9 November 2019 10:25 (four years ago) link
I guess it falls to me again to mention they're back! Third LP released July 9th, etc, etc. Sounding ever less rickety...
- In the Stone- Psychic
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 15 June 2021 13:58 (two years ago) link
i think the new album is really good! a bit nervier than their previous releases but i think the songwriting is top notch, clever lines throughout and memorable choruses.
― bart harley-jarvis cocker (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 14 July 2021 20:15 (two years ago) link
i wasn't sure about it at first but it's growing on me
― na (NA), Wednesday, 14 July 2021 20:37 (two years ago) link
I had never heard them at all before, but I caught "Desire" on the local indie radio station the other day and absolutely loved it. Ordered the new record.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 14 July 2021 20:37 (two years ago) link
that was a highlight, yeah. i also loved the two singles, and i'm powerless to resist the big rock moves of "the chance."
― bart harley-jarvis cocker (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 14 July 2021 20:52 (two years ago) link
This is really good! I didn't expect it to be as absolutely charming as it is, for lack of a better word.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 18:51 (two years ago) link
between this and the dry cleaning album, john parish is having quite a producing year
― na (NA), Friday, 23 July 2021 14:22 (two years ago) link
... are no more :(
pic.twitter.com/eTi7zRtuNt— The Goon Sax (@thegoonsax) July 12, 2022
Bummer because I really liked the most recent album.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 12 July 2022 18:45 (one year ago) link
yeah that album was really good. i'll be watching what younger forster does next
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 12 July 2022 21:12 (one year ago) link
I had "Sleep EZ" on both year-end and decade-end lists.
Not that I'm any help--except for in the car, I barely listen music anymore--but I don't know how any moderate-sized band lasts anymore. If you took today's conditions--streaming, COVID, economy, etc.--and applied them across time, we wouldn't know who the Velvet Underground or the Clash or the Replacements or just about anybody were today.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 12 July 2022 21:20 (one year ago) link
Their Twitter feed is a little spooky. So many announced shows that won't happen. : (
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 13 July 2022 09:26 (one year ago) link
― clemenza, Tuesday, July 12, 2022 5:20 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
100%
― Paul Ponzi, Wednesday, 13 July 2022 09:59 (one year ago) link