The Goa Express are excited to announce their long-awaited self-titled debut album

THE GOA EXPRESS ANNOUNCE SELF-TITLED DEBUT ALBUM

ARRIVING OCTOBER 2023

FEATURING NEW SINGLE

‘TALKING ABOUT STUFF’

HEADLINE SHOWS IN MANCHESTER & LONDON THIS MONTH

Credit: Harvey Pearson hi res here

The Goa Express are excited to announce their long-awaited self-titled debut album. The Goa Express will arrive in October via Communion, following a summer of festival appearances and headline shows across Europe.

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The Goa Express’ debut album will feature new single ‘Talking About Stuff’. A melodic and sunny counterpart to the spikey punk of recent offering ‘Good Luck Charm’, ‘Talking About Stuff’ packs a similar bleary-eyed balladry to early live favourites like ‘Second Time’.

Both tasters from the debut album to date have seen playlisting from BBC 6 Music and The Goa Express will punctuate the release of ‘Talking about Stuff’ with headline performances at YES in Manchester and London’s The Lower Third on 26^th and 31^st May respectively.

‘Talking About Stuff’ arrives alongside a visualiser shot at The Goa Express’ recent homecoming show at The Golden Lion in Todmorden.

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The Goa Express, led by Clarke alongside his brother Joe and best friends Joey, Naham and Sam, met as young teenagers in Burnley. Growing up in the rural shadow of England’s industrial north, music was a means of escape and a vessel for friendship. Their shared adolescent experiences (late gigs at The Golden Lion in Todmorden, camping underneath the cliffs at Hebden Bridge) shaped their collective attitudes and behaviours and, ultimately, the sound and spirit of their band.

Post-lockdown, the 5-piece stormed out of the gates with intent. The Goa Express played over a hundred UK/EU gigs in 2022, including stops at Glastonbury, Latitude and The Great Escape.

It was in the immediate wake of their Glastonbury debut that recent single ‘Portrait’ was put together in the Welsh village of Raglan, with the boys returning to the studio six months later to record ‘Talking About Stuff’ and ‘Good Luck Charm’ early in 2023. Both new tracks have seen Ocean Colour Scene’s Damon Minchella pairing with Tom Manning on production duties.

There is a sense of melody and a looseness in the music that brings to mind Supergrass or The La’s (for the online generation). But it is all delivered with a forward-facing urgency that places the band firmly in the year 2023. Any new young guitar band – especially from the North of England – is naturally cast into a sea of references and comparisons before barely getting a chord out. But in truth, The Goa Express are confidently breaking free of these and taking their own strides towards adding a fresh chapter to the story of modern British guitar pop.

Punctuating their status as burgeoning hometown heroes, The Goa Express can be seen performing to thousands at Burnley’s Turf Moor stadium in Bank of Dave, Netflix UK’s most watched film upon release week.

Catch The Goa Express live:

Tickets available here from 10am Friday 26^th May

May

20^th May           Get Together Festival, Sheffield, UK

26^th May          YES Basement, Manchester, UK

27^th May          Neighbourhood Weekender Festival, Manchester, UK

28^th May          In It Together Festival, Port Talbot, UK

29^th May          Primavera Sound Festival (a la Ciutat), Barcelona, ES

31^st May          The Lower Third, London, UK

July

28^th-30^th Jun    Watt En Schlick Festival, Varel, DE

September

9^th Sep             Confessional Music and Arts Festival, Blackburn, UK

November

3^rd Nov            Iceland Airwaves, Reykjavík, IS

9^th Nov             Rough Trade, Nottingham, UK

10^th Nov           Trades Club, Hebden Bridge, UK

11^th Nov           Workmans Club, Dublin, IRE

13^th Nov           Broadcast, Glasgow, UK

14^th Nov           Yellow Arch, Sheffield, UK

15^th Nov           Brudenell Social Club, Leeds, UK

17^th Nov           New Century, Manchester, UK

18^th Nov           District, Liverpool, UK

19^th Nov           Hare & Hounds, Birmingham, UK

21^st Nov           Exchange, Bristol, UK

22^nd Nov          Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff, UK

23^rd Nov          Scala, London, UK

24^th Nov           Komedia Studio, Brighton, UK

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The Goa Express

• Honey
• It’s Never Been Better
• Good Luck Charm
• You’re The Girl
• Small Talk
• Can’t Stay Quiet
• Better Than Ok
• Talking About Stuff
• Portrait
• Prove It