GOOD MORNING ANNOUNCE 2022 WORLD TOUR IN SUPPORT OF RECENT BARNYARD LP OUT NOW VIA GOOD MORNING MUSIC COMPANY WORLDWIDE / VIRGIN MUSIC AU/NZ + POLYVINYL ROW

Riding high from the release of their recent album Barnyard, today Good Morning announce their worldwide tour across Australia and the United States in 2022. Tickets are on sale this Friday 3rd December, 9 AM AEST. 

BUY TICKETS HERE

In their near decade long tenure, in the wake of Barnyard's release Good Morning have been internationally celebrated, with widespread acclaim from Rolling Stone, NME, Stereogum, The Line Of Best Fit, Consequence, Alt Press, Paste, DIY Mag, Music Feeds, The Music, Northern Transmissions, KCRW, 6Music and many more, including a warm embrace across local community radio stations Triple R, PBS, FBi Radio, 2SER, Edge Radio and SYN. The album's release also tracked New Music playlist support upon release across DSPs, alongside tastemaker editorial.

Thoughtful, catchy, idiosyncratic, and nearly twice the average length of their back catalogue, Barnyard is all the things one might love about Good Morning, this time around presented with the fat trimmed and the edges sharpened. Recorded at Wilco's famed studio The Loft, for the first time in a long time the record was made with the help of an outside engineer and featured as an international release on a record label not operated by a friend, but instead, Polyvinyl, joining the likes of Alvvays, Julia Jacklin, STRFKR, Kero Kero Bonito and joining the ranks at Sub Pop Publishing.

Those seeking grand reinvention or earth-shaking hubris in Barnyard will come up short. This is an album of good, well-made, finely-written songs, notable for its purity and coherence of vision, but not by any means a concept album; it is a record significant in Good Morning’s history, but not one with such self-importance that it would consider itself historically significant for all. That is likely what those drawn to it will love about it. Including the singles 'Country', 'Burning' and 'Depends On What I Know', Barnyard is not too little and not too much. It’s just right - just Good Morning. The local leg of their world tour across so-called Australia follows their recently announced appearance at the upcoming Sydney Festival and regional Victoria tour earlier this year. Plus the band will play their biggest headline show to date at the Belasco Theatre. Supports and more dates will be announced soon!

Barnyard is out now, buy/stream it HERE.

AUSTRALIA

Sat 8 Jan - The Bridge - Dja Dja Wurrung Land / Castlemaine - TICKETS

Wed 12 Jan - Sydney Festival @ Speakers Corner - Warrang / Sydney - TICKETS

Thu 27 Jan - Altar - Nipaluna / Hobart - TICKETS 

Fri 28 Jan - The Lab - Kaurna Land / Adelaide - TICKETS

Thu 3 Feb - The Zoo - Meanjin / Brisbane - TICKETS 

Fri 4 Feb - Repentance Creek Hall - Bundjalung Land / Repentance Creek - TICKETS 

Sat 26 Feb - Ok Motels - Dja Dja Wurrung Land / Charlton - SOLD OUT

Sat 5 Mar - Nine Lives - Meanjin / Brisbane - TICKETS
Fri 18 Mar - Wombarra Bowls Club - Dharawal Land / Wombarra - TICKETS

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NORTH AMERICA

Thu 31 Mar - Soda Bar - Kumeyaay Land / San Diego, CA - TICKETS

Fri 1 Apr - Glass House - Tongva Land / Pomona, CA - TICKETS

Sat 2 Apr - The Chapel - Ohlone Land / San Francisco, CA - TICKETS

Mon 4 Apr - Polaris Hall - Chinookan Land / Portland, OR - TICKETS

Wed 6 Apr - Neumos - Si'ahl / Seattle, WA - TICKETS

Thu 7 Apr - The Shredder - Shoshone, Bannock Land / Boise, ID - TICKETS

Fri 8 Apr - The Beehive - Pi'a-pa / Salt Lake City, UT - TICKETS 

Sat 9 Apr - Ophelia's - Apache, Ute, Cheyenne, Comanche, Arapahoe Land / Denver, CO - TICKETS

Mon 11 Apr - 7th St. Entry - Dakhóta Land / Minneapolis, MO - TICKETS

Tue 12 Apr - Cactus Club - Millioke / Milwaukee, WI - TICKETS

Wed 13 Apr - Sleeping Village - shikaakwa / Chicago, IL - TICKETS

Thu 14 Apr - Loving Touch - Anishinabe, Haudenosauneega Land / Ferndale, MI - TICKETS

Fri 15 Apr - Great Hall - Tkaronto / Toronto - TICKETS

Sat 16 Apr - La Sala Rossa - Tiohtiá:ke / Montreal, QC - TICKETS

Sun 17 Apr - The Sinclair - Massachusett Land / Cambridge, MA - TICKETS

Wed 20 Apr - Elsewhere Hall - Lenape Land / Brooklyn, NY - TICKETS

Thu 21 Apr - Johnny Brenda's - Coaquannock / Philadelphia, PA - TICKETS

Fri 22 Apr - Capital Turnaround - Nacotchtank Land / Washington, DC - TICKETS

Sun 24 Apr - Richmond Music Hall - Algonquin Land / Richmond, VA - TICKETS

Tue 26 Apr - Grey Eagle - Cherokee Land / Asheville, NC - TICKETS

Wed 27 Apr - Purgatory at The Masquerade - Creek, Cherokee Land / Atlanta, GA - TICKETS

Thu 28 Apr - Proud Larry's - Chickasaw Land / Oxford, MS - TICKETS

Fri 29 Apr - Chelsea's Live - Chitimacha Land / Baton Rouge, LA - TICKETS

Sat 30 Apr - The Satellite - Atakapa Land / Houston, TX - TICKETS

Sun 1 May - Paper Tiger - Payaya Land / San Antonio, TX - TICKETS

Tue 3 May - Hotel Vegas Patio - Tonkawa Land / Austin, TX - TICKETS

Wed 4 May - Deep Ellum Art Co - Nermernuh Land / Dallas, TX - TICKETS

Fri 6 May - Club Congress - Ts-iuk-shan / Tucson, AZ - TICKETS
Sat 7 May - The Belasco - Tongva Land / Los Angeles, CA - TICKETS

GEORGIA MAQ SHARES RAW & INTIMATE LIVE PERFORMANCE OF BIG EMBARRASSING HEART + PLAYING VERY SPECIAL SHOW AS A PART OF MELBOURNE MUSIC WEEK THURSDAY 27TH JANUARY @ MELBOURNE MUSEUM

Overnight Georgia Maq shared a glorious live rendition of 'Big Embarrassing Heart' ahead of her debut headline show at Melbourne Music Week on January 27th.

Filmed at Meat Market by Shoelace Creative and accompanied by her step mum Bec on piano, she presents a breathtakingly raw and beautiful performance. A one shot video, Georgia's voice fills the space with simultaneous strength and vulnerability, a gut wrenching odyssey of begging for love and meditation on acceptance of self, all in a single song.

A track from her debut album Pleaser, this take on 'Big Embarrassing Heart' is a glimpse at what to expect at Georgia's headline show at Melbourne Museum on Thursday January 27th as part of Melbourne Music Week. An ardent performer Georgia will weave heartbreak and euphoria across the set through well loved tracks from Pleaser and as yet unheard anthems. Tickets are on sale now from the Melbourne Music Week website.

Keep an eye out for a little holiday treat from Georgia coming soon and watch the video for 'Big Embarrassing Heart' here.

Since debuting with 2019’s Pleaser LP, Georgia Maq has chased a more genuine form of pop music in her solo career, a vision in the vein of that pioneered by the likes of Robyn, Charli XCX, Carly Rae Jepsen and others, that retains all of the glamour and universality but feels unburdened from capitalist underpinnings. Full of DIY electro-pop that mined evergreen themes of romantic, sexual and self-love, Maq’s solo debut was not so much a transformation as it was a revelation, opening up on her vulnerabilities and heartbreaks, finding strength in this self-exposure and revealing the multitudes to herself beyond the Camp Cope project.

If Pleaser was a left-of-field toe dip, 'Someone Stranger' is a full, unencumbered immersion: the chrysalis. Linking with Alice Ivy, 'Someone Stranger' continues the revelation of Georgia Maq, musing on loneliness, desire, the need for connection and the therapeutic potential of dancefloors, whilst proving once again her penchant for a surprise that rewards.

Tickets to Melbourne Music Week are on sale now here.

CHITRA SHARES NEW SINGLE 'GIVE UP' + ANNOUNCES SINGLE LAUNCH SHOW THURSDAY JANUARY 20

Chitra, Naarm / Melbourne-based singer-songwriter, today returns with the shimmering new single ‘Give Up’. 

~STREAM/BUY 'GIVE UP' HERE~

‘Give Up’ is a transportive release that sees Chitra footnote her contemporaries - Julia Jacklin, Angel Olsen, and Adrianne Lenker - and fuse their influences onto a bed of rousing rock, forged with an alt-folk twang. Praised for her ability to deliver sophisticated emotional complexity through her lyrics, on ‘Give Up’ Chitra details the dissolution of a relationship, amidst a tempo that picks up and shifts with each verse, before culminating in an entrancing storm of emotion. 

Of her newest single Chitra reveals that ‘Give Up’ is “about the end of a relationship and sitting directly in the feelings of anger and exasperation. Feeling like it was too brief and wallowing in that for a moment. Or 3 minutes. Whilst writing this song I was thinking a lot about choices. A friend said to me, relationships don’t just end, someone has to stop trying, someone makes the conscious decision to end it whether it's communicated or not. I thought this was interesting and started to write about the nasty feelings that live inside when you feel let down in a similar scenario, even if those feelings can be a bit dramatic and turn out to be fleeting."

The release of ‘Give Up’ follows Chitra’s self-titled debut EP, which was released right at the dawn of the pandemic in February 2020. A three-year in-the-making endeavour, Chitra’s music is the vessel for an old soul growing up and navigating the world with a firm lens of the present. Growing up in the Bellarine Peninsula, her adolescence as a coastal kid - jubilant and carefree - shines across her vocals and production work. Though the instrumentation and melodies appear as breezy, catchy jaunts, Chitra’s magnetism lies in catching listeners off guard with her astute observations of relationships, the world, and her place amongst it all. Stay tuned for more Chitra coming soon. 

To celebrate the release of Give Up Chitra will play her very first headline show in over 18 months at the Northcote Social Club on Thursday 20th of January 2022. She’ll be joined on the night by very special guest David M Western, tickets are on sale now and full event details can be found below.

‘Give Up’ is out now via Our Golden Friend, buy/stream it here. 

Photo by Georgia Wallace. Poster design by Sebi White.

RVG LIVE ON KEXP + ANNOUNCE CASTLEMAINE SHOW THURSDAY DECEMBER 9

Today sees the release of RVG's Live on KEXP at Home session, a rip-roaring set that includes some of the band's most beloved songs and two brand new unreleased tracks. Filmed amidst the latest lockdown RVG reunited for the first time in months, invoking the energy and magnetism of their live shows within the familiar walls of Soundpark Studios.

~Watch the full KEXP session HERE~

Directed by Nick McKk with sound by Andrew 'Idge' Hehir the session is an electric look at the renowned live band (recently nominated Best Live Act at the Music Victoria Awards) in action, with their energy and earnest intensity an intoxicating thread throughout the set. The debut of two new songs 'Tropic of Cancer' and 'Tambourine' is a look into what the band have been working on these past two years, a glimpse of what 2022 holds.

RVG today also announce a show at the Theatre Royal Castlemaine on Thursday December 9th. Marking their first headline show in Castlemaine it will be a chance for the band to celebrate Feral for the last time before moving onto their next chapter. RVG will be joined by special guests Mod Con and Blonde Revolver, you can buy tickets here. Closer to home tickets to their show at the Corner Hotel on Saturday November 27th are selling fast, get them while you still can here.

Released in April 2020 Feral was both a cry for help and call to action, resonating deeply with audiences, the album was nominated for five Music Victoria Awards, received Album of the Week on Double J, RRR, PBS, 2SER, 4ZZZ, SYN FM, Edge Radio, Radio Adelaide, The Music, Tone Deaf, was album of the day on Bandcamp and landed on a glut of end of year lists. Recorded at Head Gap studios with producer Victor Van Vugt (PJ Harvey, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Beth Orton), Feral was RVG’s first full-length release in three years, coming just as the world went into hibernation.

To Romy Vager, RVG’s lead singer and lyricist, to feel feral is to feel outside of everything. Throughout the album that feeling of isolation is incited, but it never feels hopeless: these songs channel the raw energy of despair and frustration into melodies that often feel victorious, perhaps only because they so aptly supply a soundtrack to the end of days.

This year has seen a collaboration with Julia Jacklin, covering Björk's 'Army of Me', a slot at Boogie Festival, and what would have been an Australian tour. RVG end the year and the Feral era with two shows, November 27th at the Corner Hotel and December 9th at Theatre Royal. Tickets are on sale now.

RVG live is Romy Vager,Reuben Bloxham, Marc Nolte and Isabele Wallace.

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RVG ANNOUNCE MELBOURNE ALBUM LAUNCH SATURDAY NOVEMBER 27 AT THE CORNER

Today RVG announce their long awaited Feral Album Launch. Now well over a year since it's release, and with plenty of time for the band and fans alike to ruminate on it's themes in isolation RVG are bringing the album to life for one night only at The Corner Hotel on Saturday November 27.

Playing one of the first full capacity shows of the year at The Corner, RVG will be joined by special guests Leah Senior, Enola and Kill Bell.

Released in April 2020 Feral was both a cry for help and call to action, resonating deeply with audiences, the album was nominated for five Music Victoria Awards, received Album of the Week on Double J, RRR, PBS, 2SER, 4ZZZ, SYN FM, Edge Radio, Radio Adelaide, The Music, Tone Deaf, was album of the day on Bandcamp and landed on a glut of end of year lists. Recorded at Head Gap studios with producer Victor Van Vugt (PJ Harvey, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Beth Orton), Feral was RVG’s first full-length release in three years, coming just as the world went into hibernation.

To Romy Vager, RVG’s lead singer and lyricist, to feel feral is to feel outside of everything. Throughout the album that feeling of isolation is incited, but it never feels hopeless: these songs channel the raw energy of despair and frustration into melodies that often feel victorious, perhaps only because they so aptly supply a soundtrack to the end of days.

This year has seen a collaboration with Julia Jacklin, covering Björk's 'Army of Me', a slot at Boogie Festival, and what would have been an Australian tour. This Melbourne show will be both a celebration and a closing of the chapter that was Feral. Tickets are on sale now.

RVG live is Romy Vager, Reuben Bloxham, Marc Nolte and Isabele Wallace.

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GOOD MORNING SHARE NEW ALBUM BARNYARD RELEASED VIA GOOD MORNING MUSIC COMPANY WORLDWIDE / VIRGIN MUSIC AUSTRALIA AU/NZ + POLYVINYL ROW

Mavericks, iconoclasts and renegades are all words to describe Good Morning, energised and invigorated on their new album Barnyard. As friends first, band second, business third, often in spite of function, Liam Parsons and Stefan Blair today present their latest record together with a couple of incidental and accidental, self-imposed rules broken.

~LISTEN TO BARNYARD HERE~

Barnyard is Good Morning at their most meditative, thoughtful and careful in its evocations - their catchiest too. It’s a world-weary record concerned with the state of things in a loose, unfocused sort of way, like many who are also frustrated both with the way things are and with everyone’s general inability to fix any of the many issues endemic to our society, complete with everything we’ve come to know them for - drone synths, ambient sketches and country ballads with their token sense of humour. Every time the machinations of the industry have zigged, Good Morning have zagged and it’s probably why people like them so much. Barnyard, however, proves just how serious their craft has been all along.

Recorded for the first time in a long time with the help of an outside engineer and released on a label that’s not operated by a friend, what you now hear on Barnyard is exactly what was laid down in that first spell of recording. From demo’s tweaked gently in the lead up to a lengthy American tour, Liam and Stefan decided to go back to basics, recording as they had prior on Shawcross and Glory, as a duo again. Decamping in Chicago at Wilco's famed studio, The Loft, they found not only more gear than they could ever want or need, but also a kindred spirit in the studio’s in-house engineer, Tom Schick. Credited as their guiding force, Schick became a close accomplice, enabling that same ethos of the records past that continue to breathe through The Loft's walls - to make first, and break apart second.

Including the previously released, part Tweedy, part 'Taxman' piano ballad 'Burning', a scathing address to climate inaction; the rousing appeal to return to a simpler time in 'Country'; and the groovy, power chord laden 'Depends On What I Know'; are new features including 'Big Wig // Small Dog', a takedown of the generally useless and pigheaded ego’s who parade through life and the music industry; a recount of bellyache inducing love on 'Tree', the kind that sees one overcome with a desire to do literally anything for their lover; and a considerate reflection of vices in 'Green Skies', to name a few.

Although those seeking grand reinvention or earth-shaking hubris in Barnyard will come up short. This is an album of good, well-made, finely-written songs, notable for its purity and coherence of vision, but not by any means a concept album; it is a record significant in Good Morning’s history, but not one with such self-importance that it would consider itself historically significant for all. That is likely what those drawn to it will love about it. Barnyard is not too little and not too much. It’s just right - just Good Morning.

Barnyard is out now, buy/stream it HERE.

GOOD MORNING SHARE NEW SINGLE 'DEPENDS ON WHAT I KNOW' + VIDEO DIRECTED BY AIDAN MCDONALD + BARNYARD LP OUT OCT 22

Good Morning today share 'Depends On What I Know', continuing to feed heavy anticipation for their forthcoming album Barnyard, out Oct 22. 

~LISTEN/WATCH 'DEPENDS ON WHAT I KNOW' HERE~

Presenting another snapshot of the meditative and considered nature of Good Morning's Barnyard is their latest single, 'Depends On What I Know' built exclusively on a series of power chords. Like its predecessors 'Burning' and 'Country', the release too reconciles with those single instances, memories and experiences that continue to play over in your own life movie - in this case, tales of epochs lifted from the lives of duo Liam Parsons and Stefan Blair. However 'Depends On What I Know' sees the band refrain from spilling their guts across a bedroom floor, leaving interpretation of "what I know, depends on what I know" open to all. Stefan reveals "I usually try to bury the words in some level of abstraction so that they can be interpreted in different ways, but I suppose the overarching idea is that you can only do what you do, and make the decisions you make, based on the information you have at your disposal."

~WATCH THE 'DEPENDS ON WHAT I KNOW' VIDEO HERE~

Visually, the band continue to reference the sass-infused humour they have inbred on records past, taking shape in 'Depends On What I Know's music video - a gentle cheekiness whose endearing quality has become synonymous with Good Morning as a band amongst listeners and fans. Folk music plays gently in the background of super zoomed, peep-hole sized, reels of a farm voyage, complete with sheep and ducks and horses oh my! Stefan continues, "We’ve really outdone ourselves with the video for this one, pure finesse and class I’d say. I dunno that much needs to be said about it, just watch it for yourself if you feel like it, if not, huge loss for you I guess."

With their triptych of releases in tow, ahead of Barnyard's official release, Good Morning have accumulated international acclaim from the likes of Rolling Stone, NME, Stereogum, The Line Of Best Fit, Consequence, Alt Press, Paste, DIY Mag, Music Feeds, The Music, Northern Transmissions, KCRW, 6Music and many more, including a warm embrace across local community radio stations Triple R, PBS, FBi Radio, 2SER, Edge Radio and SYN, together with New Music playlist support upon release across DSPs, alongside tastemaker editorial.

Barnyard is a world-weary record, concerned with the state of things in a loose, unfocused sort of way. In other words, like we all are — frustrated both with the way things are and with everyone’s general inability to fix any of the many issues endemic to our society. Although those seeking grand reinvention or earth-shaking hubris in Barnyard will come up short. This is an album of good, well-made, finely-written songs, notable for its purity and coherence of vision, but not by any means a concept album; it is a record significant in Good Morning’s history, but not one with such self-importance that it would consider itself historically significant for all. That is likely what those drawn to it will love about it. Not too little and not too much, it’s just right – just Good Morning.

Barnyard is out October 22, pre-order it HERE.
'Depends On What I Know' is out now, buy/stream it HERE.

GOOD MORNING SHARE NEW SINGLE 'BURNING' + VIDEO DIRECTED BY CAROLYN HAWKINS + BARNYARD LP OUT OCT 22

Following their rousing emotive return with 'Country', Naarm / Melbourne indie-folk duo Good Morning share new single 'Burning', taken from their forthcoming album Barnyard, out this Oct 22 via Polyvinyl.

~LISTEN TO 'BURNING' HERE~
 

A part Tweedy part 'Taxman' leaning jaunt, 'Burning' sees Good Morning capture the sense of dread felt by many across the nation and beyond, that in spite of the rising significance of taking action in activism, how draining that fight can be in the face of the blissful ignorance of world leaders. Over steady lounge piano chords, Liam and Stefan ruminate on existentialism, markers of success and purpose, to the climate crisis, before reaching its pensive pre-chorus "Some folks will swim and some folks will drown / Me I just hold onto to whatever I’ve found."

Lifting the veil on 'Burning's meaning, Liam shares "The lyrics for the song were written in the middle of recording at the end of 2019. We had been touring America for a month and a bit and then were doing a little recording in Chicago. The whole time we’d been looking back at Australia and you could just tell that the upcoming summer was going to be fucked. It was only September/October and already the fire season had begun and heat records were being broken all the time. There was an impending sense of doom that within a matter of weeks was completely justified.

In Australia, there is this prevailing rhetoric coming from Scott Morrison and the like that in the midst of a crisis isn’t the time to be talking about climate change or our country’s coal addiction, and that to do so would somehow be opportunistic or shallow. So when is the right time when the crisis is never-ending? When can we talk about it when both sides of our federal politics live in the pocket of the fossil fuel industry, their silence and compliance bought while the clock ticks? There’s a necessary numbness that sets in as an occasional coping mechanism for being alive in this present moment. If you felt it all, all the time, you’d be crushed. This song isn’t an endorsement of complacency, but rather an admission that sometimes you need to disassociate for a minute before you can face up to the moment."
 

~WATCH THE VIDEO FOR 'BURNING' HERE~

With 'Burning's release comes an animated collage video, created and directed by Carolyn Hawkins. Of the process, she reveals "I stuck with a washed out colour palette - I was thinking about the 2020 bushfires and all the smog and hot concrete. The song also got me thinking about how we try to make sense of the world and cobble together meaning in such confusing, chaotic and troubling times. I wanted to play with images of deconstruction and reconstruction to explore how humans build all these systems - whether it's politics or the built environment or our own personal worldview - but at the end of the day it's all so fragile and can so easily be dismantled. I had to be resourceful as it wasn't easy to go out and get materials with shops shut, but this forced me to think outside the box and look to other methods of creating source material. I printed out a lot of images of Brutalist architecture, people, and textures using my crappy printer, and then created a few hand-drawn textures using whatever I had lying around."

Lifted from their forthcoming record Barnyard, 'Burning' follows 'Country', the band’s appeal to return to a simpler, easier way of being, that has garnered support from Rolling Stone, NME, Stereogum, Alt Press, Paste, DIY Mag, Music Feeds, The Music and many more, including a warm embrace across community radio nationally, via Triple R, PBS, FBi Radio, 2SER, Edge Radio and SYN. Plus New Music playlist support on Spotify and Apple Music upon release alongside tastemaker editorial.
 

Barnyard is out October 22, pre-order it HERE.
'Burning' is out now, buy/stream it HERE.

GOOD MORNING SHARE NEW SINGLE 'COUNTRY' + ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM BARNYARD OUT OCT 22 + INK PUBLISHING DEAL WITH SUB POP

Today Naarm / Melbourne based duo Good Morning announce their forthcoming record Barnyard via Polyvinyl out this October 22, with their latest single 'Country'.

~ Listen / Watch 'Country' HERE ~

If there’s one thing we’ve come to expect from Good Morning's output, it’s their staggered, separate but only possible with the help of the other, approach to songwriting between members Liam Parsons and Stefan Blair. Written and sung by Liam, new release 'Country' persists in spite of its appeal to return to a simpler, easier way of being. Introduced with a polyrhythmic melody, guitar, synth and percussive elements enter slowly, layered and growing gently almost like a battery on charge. What the duo establish here, without a lyric yet sung, is a stirring emotive force that distils the impressions, analyses and impact of pivotal life moments into a string of chords, as immediately transportative to their memory and moment in time, as a single pinprick.

'Country's pensive refrain sees Liam reflect on his younger desires, wants and needs, and how they panned out into adulthood. He explains, "I’m still not sure if I’m singing to old friends, an old lover or my old self. I think probably all three. At the time, I was having a rough one reconciling my life with what I had expected adult life to be. I knew that my younger self - a more virtuous, kind-hearted and patient person - would be perplexed by how I had turned out, and I felt a kind of second-hand embarrassment for myself looking over the last few years of false starts and dead ends. This song is an attempt from me to reconnect with my younger self as well as some key ghosts from my past and to move forward by looking back - pretty futile stuff really."

It’s a feeling as universal as it is instantly understood, with lines such as "You know that I’m incapable of changing / Some people just get stuck in their ways / Never thought it’d be me like this / I was meant to be brave," that see Parsons deliver a vocal performance comparable to Brandon Flowers and Dave Le’aupepe, with lyrics just as authentic and meditative. Visually, 'Country' is brought to life against a recurring backdrop of Liam’s childhood, the 1st Eltham Scouts Hall. "I was always too embarrassed to admit that I was a scout to my school friends, the same way I was too embarrassed to admit that I got piano lessons. Both of those things are ridiculous. Scouts is cool and so are piano lessons" he shares. Directed and produced by Aidan McDonald, 'Country's music video sees Good Morning joined on stage by a swag of friends and peers that bring the two-piece into full band mode; with members of local outfits, Cool Sounds and Skydeck, to arts and culture writers Shaad D'Souza and Greer Clemens trading pens for instruments, and more.

Of its making, Aidan McDonald reveals "Besides the performance itself, a ton of meticulous detail can go into a music video, though it’s not so often people get to see what’s happening behind the camera. We wanted to embrace the contrivance of performance music videos in general. Here we are with a bunch of lights, cameras, food and crew that we’re spending money on, why not place all of that on display rather than just the band playing." Completing 'Country's release and the reveal of Barnyard today, Good Morning also share the news of their signing to Sub Pop Publishing. “We’re so happy to be working with Sub Pop publishing going forward," says Liam. "Over the course of several Zooms and even a few rounds of beers in Seattle, Gareth and the crew have proven themselves to be kind, enthusiastic music lovers and we’re thrilled to know that our lil’ songs are in safe hands.” Gareth Smith, Vice President/General Manager of Sub Pop Publishing continues, "We love Good Morning and we couldn't be more stoked to be working with them!''

Good Morning are rulebreakers. Not in a sexy, flamboyant way - more in a casual, resigned kind of way. Accidental and incidental rulebreakers. The creation and release of their sixth album, Barnyard, is the result of a process of patient refinement and the breaking of a couple of self-imposed rules. Thoughtful, catchy, idiosyncratic, and nearly twice the average length of their back catalogue, it’s all the things one might love about Good Morning, this time around presented with the fat trimmed and the edges sharpened. Recorded at Wilco’s famed studio The Loft, for the first time in a long time the record was made with the help of an outside engineer and will see an international release on a record label not operated by a friend, but instead, Polyvinyl, joining the likes of Alvvays, Julia Jacklin, STRFKR, Kero Kero Bonito and more. A milestone in the history of the band it’s also their most meditative record, thoughtful and careful in its evocations. Not too little and not too much, it’s just right - just Good Morning

BONNIE KNIGHT SIGNS TO OUR GOLDEN FRIEND FOR MANAGEMENT

Today we are so excited to announce that Bonnie Knight has joined the Our Golden Friend Management roster. Bonnie is the first producer on the Our Golden Friend lineup and we can't wait to work with them on their studio endeavours alongside current management acts Chitra, Elizabeth, Georgia Maq, Good Morning and RVG.

On signing Bonnie Our Golden Friend's owner / director Lorrae McKenna says “We’re super excited to welcome Bonnie to the OGF family today. Bonnie has an astounding musical brain and I am completely in awe of the incredibly high level of production, technical skills and industry experience that Bonnie  has amassed at such a young age. I feel very excited to get to work with an extremely talented non-male producer and sound engineer who has been proudly forging their way through the very heavily male dominated spaces of studio production and live sound.” 

Keeping it simple and to the point Bonnie adds "Hello! Very excited to join the OGF family!" and the feeling is mutual.

Bonnie Knight is a sound engineer, producer and songwriter, with a depth of experience across all aspects of sound. Having honed their skills as a live engineer through expansive touring across Australia, New Zealand and North America they've found a home in the studio, recording and producing tracks for beloved bands and rising stars. 

A background in sound design has given Bonnie a passion for unique sounds that allows them to challenge pop conventions and work across genres. Channeling their live sound experience with acts such as Julia Jacklin, Stella Donnelly, Good Morning, Simona Castricum, Divide & Dissolve, Pinch Points and Horrorshow has given Bonnie a unique perspective, letting their creativity roam as they works closely with artists in the studio. 

Bonnie has most recently engineered Amyl and the Sniffers soon to be released album Comfort To Me and produced songs for artists Willing, Ali Jef, Punko and Mohini. This year sees Bonnie taking full command of the producer's chair, working with artists across the country and cementing themself as a sought after creative force in the studio.  

For all producer booking enquires and quote please contact lorrae@ourgoldenfriend.com

Our Golden Friend are stoked to welcome Bonnie Knight to the family and are so excited for all the great music ahead!