JOEYS COOP (2013 - present)

 

The Personnel
Joeys Coop is the combined musical muscle of some of Australia’s most seasoned independent musicians whose collective pedigree extends back to the late 1970s. Joeys Coop consists of:

 

Brett Myers - guitar & vocals
Founding member and principal songwriter of legendary Australian indy band Died Pretty. That kinda says it all.

 

Mark Roxburgh - lead vocals 
Singer/songwriter of late 70s Sydney indy band ME 262. Singer/songwriter of critically acclaimed early 80s indy band Decline of the Reptiles. 
 

Andy Newman - bass, keys & vocals
Bass player/keyboardist/songwriter of late 70s Sydney indy band ME 262. More recently Andy has played bass with Australian Rock Hall of Famer and ex-Radio Birdman guitarist Chris Mazuak’s North 40 and fellow Hall of Famer, and Radio Birdman founding guitarist, Deniz Tek’s The Visitors, The Soul Movers, and The Deniz Tek Group. Andy also played bass with the reformed Decline of the Reptiles from 2009 - 2012.

 

Matt Galvin - guitars & vocals
Member of critically acclaimed 90s alt rock band Eva Trout. Matt has played with various legendary Sydney indy bands including The Whitlams, Tactics, The Barbarellas, Perry Keyes and more recently Loose Pills. He’s a bigger band tart than Andy!

 

Lloyd G - drums, percussion & vocals
Lloyd has played with a vast array of musicians including Lionel Ritchie, Tina Arena, Skyhooks, Christine Anu, Deni Hines, Jenny Morris, Jimmy Barnes, Perry Keyes, The Atlantics, and Dave Warner... to name but a few. 

 

With this kind of pedigree it’s not for nothing Joeys Coop are dubbed the Indy Supergroup.

 

The Story
The mean age of contemporary popular musicians is 26. Talented though these little fuckers may be they have limited life experience, appeal largely to their own age bracket, and tell the facile tales of a wet behind the ears self interested generation. Well we say enough!

Joeys Coop gives voice to the life experiences of those who’ve lived a bit.  Built around the songwriting of Myers and Roxburgh, with all members contributing deft musical touches to arrangements,  Joeys Coop tell tales of fractured family, loss, the oddities of 21st century life, the burdens of overleveraged real estate commitments, mid life existential angst, memories of landscape lost and mediations on the lives of friends gone wrong. 

 

The Fuck We Sound Like
Joeys Coop draws on a wide palette of musical inspiration. If Keith Richard’s and Nico had a love-child who’s god parents were Eno, Ron Asheton, Patty Smith and Chrissy Hynde and said love-child started a band then you’d get a vague idea of the ballpark Joeys Coop play in.