GoodBooks

GoodBooks
GoodBooks live in 2006
GoodBooks live in 2006
Background information
OriginKent, England
GenresIndie rock
Years active2005–2009
LabelsTransgressive Records
Columbia Records
MembersMax Cooke
Chris Porter
JP Duncan
Leo von Bülow-Quirk
Websiteblog.ilovegoodbooks.com

GoodBooks were an English indie rock band from Sevenoaks in Kent. They first received media attention upon releasing their self-published EP Valves and Robots in June 2005.

The band signed to Transgressive Records in late 2005 for one single (bassist Christopher Porter has the date the band signed their record deal tattooed on his left wrist[1]) and released "Walk With Me" in April, before being signed by Columbia Records shortly after. GoodBooks disbanded after their last gig on 28 June 2009.

The name GoodBooks was suggested to Max Cooke at a gig by the children's TV presenter Holly Willoughby.[2]

  1. ^ "GoodBooks: Control - NME". NME. 6 August 2007.
  2. ^ New Musical Express, January 2006