Good Morning ‘warned you’ Brunswick Music Festival was going to be a huge one.
This weekend saw the likes of All Our Exes Live in Texas, Harvey Sutherland, Gordi and The Dacios take to the stage but this week is also looking like an absolute cracker thanks to Audrey Powne Band, Adalita, and a double dose of Melbourne desert rock duo, Good Morning.
Taking to the fabulously revamped Brunswick Ballroom, Good Morning will be playing across two nights, Thursday 10 and Friday 11 March from 7PM and they’ll be pulling out all the big guns.
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“It’s a fancy type of room so we might wear a collar – I don’t know – there’s a grand piano in there so we might use that a little bit. We might sit down! Either way there will be good bands playing before us so it takes the pressure off when you have a good cast,” says half of the founding Good Morning fathers, Liam Parsons.
They’ll be in good company with support from friends, Way Dynamic and Solo Career for the Thursday night showing, and a swap to Sleeper and Snake, and Solo Career for the Friday evening.
“We’ve played with all of these people on and off for a little while, here and there around Australia in Good Morning and other bands. We all sort of know each other so it will be nice to hang out with our friends,” says Parsons.
That good cast also extends to their internal setting. Having sporadically performed throughout the last two years between lockdowns, Liam Parsons and Stefan Blair have emerged as a more fleshed out live act with more members to add into the morning routine.
“We’ve just put together an updated version of the band. We have some new members and have fleshed it out a little bit more so we are learning the whole catalogue at the moment,” explains Parsons.
“I mean we’ve always had a revolving door of friends joining us in terms of what they played. It’s always been a fun way to keep it fresh. We like it because we never want to do the same thing every night.”
Playing two consecutive nights, this round of Brunswick Shows will be fairly consistent as they double as an album launch for their latest record, ‘Barnyard’. Whilst technically released last October and recorded pre-pandemic, Brunswick Music Festival is the perfect launch pad for its live life.
“We made it at the end of 2019. We made it in Chicago at the end of an American tour. We did five days in the studio and had this plan that we were going back on tour at the end of March 2020 and when that was done we were going to go back to Chicago and do a couple more days work on it and mix it and whatnot. Obviously that all fell through and we couldn’t do that so we just decided to call it and sit around for a while and not feel too much pressure to put out a record straight away. I don’t think we had the motivation to put something out straight away,” Parsons explains.
The motivation came not long after playing Brunswick Music Festival last year – their first live show post-pandemic which has sparked a slew of live shows for 2022.
“It was sort of the first show back for us so it was quite weird playing an outdoor show for us and still had to sit down at the time and stay especially distant but it was nice to be back. The first cab off the ranks!”
It will be the last time to catch Good Morning live in their hometown for a little while as they will be jumping straight on a plane and heading to the US for an extensive ‘Barnyard’ tour.
“We start in San Diego and end in LA so we just do a full lap really. It’s about five weeks of shows in a van. It will be quite different to the last time we did it because ideally we don’t want to get Covid so there will be a lot of not going out after the show and thinking of fun things we can do in the bubble, like learn a language – probably just play a lot of video games I guess.”
Tickets are still available for both shows via the Brunswick Music Festival site.
