It’s no secret that this electronic music sensation has one of the best live performances around, and now they’re returning to the Northern Hemisphere for a much overdue tour!
GoodLuck have announced their six city tour ‘GoodLuck Live in UK & Ireland’ for this October and November and have already broken their own record by selling out the London show in less than 8 hours. The multi-city tour will see the band perform in Brighton, Southampton, Sheffield, Manchester, and at London’s O2 Academy, and for the first time ever, performing in Ireland at Dublin’s The New Academy venue.
Last in the UK in 2019, their sold out performance at The Garage had sweat dripping off the ceiling and a horde of dance music-mad fans frothing for more. We all know what kept them away for the past few years, but it seems their UK fans are more than making up for it as tickets to their shows are selling out faster than you can order a Nando’s ¼ chicken and chips!
The band’s lead vocalist, Juliet Harding says, “We are so looking forward to connecting with all of our beautiful fans from across the pond! It has been a hot minute and we have lots to catch up on. The energy of our UK fans is unmatched! I’ll never forget the sweat dripping off the ceiling the last time we played The Garage – it was a wild and crazy hot night! On this tour we are bringing a show that takes people on a ride, it picks them up, knocks all the bad energy out of them and sweeps them off on a fast paced roller-coaster of dancing! It’s a show that is about forgetting your worries, putting aside all the nonsense the world is throwing at us and letting go for a few hours of absolute fun!”.
Moving further East, we see a return to Vietnam – a tour that has also been postponed for the last two years, and if their last performance back in 2016 was anything to go by, Hanoi is in for a treat! Returning for a headline slot at the The Monsoon Festival in the historical setting of the Imperial Citadel of Thang Long, the concert attracts over 25,000 festival-goers every year.
Ben Peters, the band’s founder and producer had this to say, “I’ll never forget that 10,000 strong Hanoi crowd! What a night it was! Everyone in the audience had LED glow sticks and it just made this sea of colour and light – it was magical! We came off stage just buzzing – they were an incredible crowd.’’
Born and raised in Cape Town, South Africa – GoodLuck is a trio of live-electronic musicians, pop producers, songwriters, entrepreneurs and philanthropists. As one of the country’s most successful exports, the band has been touring the world since 2013 with a clear focus to use their music as a force for good.
GoodLuck’s music is madly diverse and continually evolving, it seems the trio of Jules, Ben and Tim are never satisfied with resting on what they have achieved. Since the band’s inception, GoodLuck has reached 23 x Top40 radio singles, 9 charting number one singles and performed 1000’s of shows around the world.
It is high-energy, high engagement and a whirlwind of saxophone, keyboards and the maddest array of electronic instruments that all create a backdrop for a strong female frontwoman.
In some ways, GoodLuck is the biggest best-kept secret. An act that has performed alongside some of the top artists in the world (like Pharrell Williams, Groove Armada, Martin Garrix, Lost Frequencies, Basement Jaxx, Jungle and more) and still control the underground hype of the undiscovered gem.
“We know that if we keep writing great songs that can help people through all the chaos in life and if we can keep us all dancing… everything else will fall into place.” – GoodLuck
GoodLuck fans are devoted and the band have sold out shows across South Africa, The UK, Germany, The Netherlands, Namibia and Vietnam. They founded and produced their own summer festival series Get Lucky Summer as well as their music & safari festival Beats in the Bush which have grown to sell around 25 000 tickets every year. You’d understand why there’s such ardent support when you see their live show. Simply put, it’s crazy.
As GoodLuck prepares for the next phase of their career, the band keeps true to the core of who they are and why they exist.
