Joeys coop, featuring Died Pretty songwriter/guitarist Brett Myers, return with new album and tour. New album Sawdust Memories out today.
The all-star Sydney group, which has flown under the radar for too long thanks to a general reticence to let people know who they are, is a must-hear for fans of the band members’ previous bands, which include not only Died Pretty but ’90s indie faves Glide and ’80s indie faves Decline of the Reptiles.
Joeys Coop Sawdust Memories wine selection also available for your imbibing pleasure!
Brett Myers of Died Pretty, Mark Roxburgh of Decline of the Reptiles, Marc Lynch of Glide and Lloyd Gyi of Perry Keyes and Dave Warner (amongst others). That’s a pretty decent line-up anyway you look at it. Decent enough for people to be paying attention, but because of their general unwillingness to push the more than impressive contents of their collective CV, and because they’re clearly not new kids on the block, Joeys Coop have struggled to get the attention they’ve deserved.
With new album Sawdust Memories out today and a national tour starting soon – AND their own Sawdust Memories Wine Selection on sale now to help fund it all (available from www.thewinepoint.com.au/shop/fundraisingwines/joeys – that’s gonna change.
Purveyors of a sound that’s been (self-) described as something like “Mix a touch of the Velvets, a reasonable dose of melodic pop, add a good shot of alternative country and follow it with a blues chaser (with a nod to the Stones) and your halfway there” (or even “alt.country and roots sounds; sure. Splashes of adult pop, Stones, Velvets, yep. Died Pretty, Wilco, Big Star, Decline of the Reptiles; well naturally”), Joeys Coop’s music is everything anyone could hope from a combination of their two founding members and songwriters.
With Died Pretty, Brett Myers was responsible for the rich, melodic and incandescent sound guitar that bedded Ron S. Peno’s otherworldly vocals; with Joeys Coop, he does much the same for Mark Roxburgh, who came out the same Sydney inner-city scene that nurtured Died Pretty in the mid-’80s with the likeminded Decline of the Reptiles. Decline of the Reptiles were mid-’80s Triple J faves, Waterfront Records recording artistes, and a band that, like Brett’s mob, took influences from the late ’60s through to the late ’70s and created something both startlingly original and contemporary. Before DOTR, starting in ’79, Mark had fronted the heavily Detroit influenced ME 262, and around the same time, in Brisbane, Brett fronted the heavily Velvets/Television influenced The End. Both had shaken off their teenage proto-punk roots by the mid-’80s and 40 years later they’re making some beautiful noise together.
After two albums on the now inactive seminal Sydney indie Citadel Records, Joeys Coop have decided to do it all themselves this time, but Sawdust Memories ups the ante and delivers ten new Coop killers.
After an album launch at Mullum Roots Festvial over the weekend of July 11 and 12, Joeys Coop will hit the road around weekends throughout July, August, September, October, November and beyond. Audiences in Bellingen, Newtown, Newcastle., Woy Woy, Marrickville, Castlemaine, Ballarat, Brunswick, Canberra, Lismore, Brisbane and probably elsewhere can expect to see them. Now that the band is happy to talk about itself, we ask you to help spread the word and suggest punters check them out when they get the chance.
ORDER LINK – https://joeyscoop.bandcamp.com
