THE GOA EXPRESS

Teenagehood, brotherhood and a genuine love for alternative music has united THE GOA EXPRESS from the off. Hailing from the industrial towns of Burnley & Todmorden and adopted by the Manchester culture carriers, their teenage years can be viewed as something of a hedonistic pilgrimage into the underbelly of suburban rock and roll. Their first gig blasting songs out of their mates garage and their second taking place on top of a local vintage shop where the floor nearly caved in. “When there’s fuck all to do, you make do with what you got”. This sentiment is nothing new but in an age where artists and bands often exist as heavily constructed facsimiles, it certainly feels new.

Their genuine joy in the everyday harks back to the glory days of the NME. If they talk about a night out, you want to be there. This purist approach to creating music through experience and stimulated good times is married with the plain fact that they are very much young people of this generation. While they see its flaws, hyperreality and sheep-like tendencies, they still understand the importance in the immediacy of pop music.