Multi-platinum-selling rock icons, Good Charlotte announce their return to the UK in late 2017 for a headline tour. 2016 was a monumental year for the band.  It saw their highly anticipated live return with dates around the world including a UK tour with All Time Low, a scorching summer run of dates on the Vans Warped Tour, festival performances and a US headline tour.   2016 also saw the critically acclaimed release of the their sixth studio album Youth Authority via the band's’ own indie label MDDN, distributed worldwide through Kobalt .

Formed in the mid-90s, Good Charlotte have six albums and two collaborations under their belt.  The band was integral in establishing a global critical mass for the pop-punk genre. The group’s 2000 self-titled debut laid the foundation with the singles ‘Little Things’ and ‘Festival Song’. Then in 2002, the breakthrough success of The Young and the Hopeless catapulted pop-punk into the stratosphere and set them on the path to worldwide superstardom. The group followed with multi-platinum albums including The Chronicles of Life and Death (2004) and Good Morning Revival (2007). Following their most recent release Cardiology (2010), the group needed to take a breather. “We had grown up inside the band and it was all we knew,” Benji says. “We all needed to step away to find out who we were outside of it as well as do some growing personally.”

The Madden brothers focused on the fully-functional recording studio they own and operate in the heart of Hollywood where they write, record and produce music for other artists in many genres. The brothers also serve as coaches on the highly-rated Australian version of The Voice. The drive resurfaced and Benji and Joel credit the young Australian pop-punk group 5 Seconds Of Summer for re-igniting the Good Charlotte spark. After working with 5SOS in 2014, it reminded the brothers of how much fun they’d had with their own band--and in 2015, the timing felt right. “We got the bug and the writing just started flowing,” explains Joel. “We worked on a few records that made us realize it would be fun to make our own record again. There’s a certain record that only we can make; those Good Charlotte records. We got a little nostalgic and we went our best instincts.”

NOVEMBER 2017

27th Southampton, O2 Guildhall

28th Nottingham, Rock City

30th Glasgow, Barrowland

DECEMBER 2017

1st Birmingham, O2 Academy

2nd Manchester, Academy 

3rd London, O2 Academy Brixton

A year in the making, Noise Reduction System reaches out into the European mainland, taking in tracks from key figures on the electronica cassette label underground alongside early releases by ground-breaking innovators.

Enthralled by the mysterious synthesiser and inspired by the DIY ethos of punk, a quiet revolution took place across Europe in the late 1970s and early 1980s. From Norway to Greece, the microchip and the affordable synthesiser inspired artists for whom guitars, drums and bass had become old hat, and in home studios and art spaces across the continent electronic musicians began to stretch the boundaries of sonic experimentation. Some wanted to dance, some to relax and others to confuse and confront – all are represented here.

Noise Reduction System explores every corner of this chapter in our musical history via over four hours of futurist, modern and sometimes challenging music. And who better to tell this story than the artists themselves - Noise Reduction System features sleevenotes from artists and their biographers, unseen photographs and an introductory essay by Sounds and Wild Planet legend Dave Henderson.

Tracklisting

DISC ONE

1. DIE GESUNDEN KOMMEN - Die Gesunden

2. PARTY TALK - André De Koning

3. SHE'S GOT BLUE EYES WOW - Pseudo Code

4. ICH WILL – D.A.F.

5. CLAXON - De Fabriek

6. CARAMEL - Cluster

7. INVALĪDU TRAMVAJS - NSRD

8. MARBLES IN THE GARDEN - Daniele Ciullini

9. KREMATORIEN - Universalanschluss -

10. NY NY - Truus de Groot

11. SPEAK & SPELL - Christina Kubisch

12. GLUE HEAD - Yello

13. TROR NOK JEG - Famlende Forsøk

14. EN GANG - Levde...

15. SECRET AFFAIR NO 2 - Borghesia

16. LUX - Schaltkreis Wassermann

17. C33H35N5O5 (ERGOTAMINE) – M.A.L.

18. UKAASI - Gagarin-Kombinaatti

19. DIE INTERNATIONALE - Saal 2

  DISC TWO

1. OHNNE TITEL - EMAK

2. TV TREATED - The Neon Judgement

3. HYMNE AU VER - BeNe GeSSeRiT

4. ZU TOT UM ZU STERBEN - Der Künftige Musikant

5. IMPERSONATOR - Carlos Perón -

6. POLAROID/ROMAN/PHOTO (INSTRUMENTAL FIRST MIX) - Ruth

7. SOVIET INVASION - Doxa Sinistra

8. LAST LIFT - Not Only Bones

9. BIRDS IN A CAGE - Stratis

10. GELD - Malaria

11. PETITE OTITE - Ericka Irganon

12. MULTITRACK SUGGESTION - Vangelis

13. LOVE YOU GENERATOR - Van Kaye and Ignit

14. MACHINE DANCING - Yuri Morozov

 

DISC THREE

1. GODOT WAS HERE - Human Flesh

2. GRADEATIA (EXTRACT) – Octavian Nemescu

3. P.I.E. (Versión) - Esplendor Geométrico

4. APRÈS LA PLUIE - Vox Populi!

5. ZITTERNDE LUFT - Giancarlo Toniutti

6. SEXUAL DISCIPLINE - Die Form

7. KARAVAANI - Aavikon Kone Ja Moottori

8. IL CASTELLO (DEDICATO A F. KAFKA) - Tasaday

9. SOLILOQUIO - Amok

10. VERMIFUGE - Mario Marzidovšek

11. FLANCO–DAMA - Diseño Corbusier

12. TROGLODYTEN - Asmus Tietchens

13. 1984 - Klaus Schulze

14. STONED (PART 1 EXTRACT) - Gunner Møller Pedersen

15. INDUSTRIAL TAPE TRACK 3 EXTRACT - Maurizio Bianchi

  

DISC FOUR

1. PRINCIPLES – Front 242

2. ALIEN - Ende Shneafliet

3. DEKA DANS - Njurmännen

4. RAID (DEMO) – Das Ding

5. WAT'S DAT? - Der Plan

6. BIOMUTANTEN - Les Vampyrettes

7. SON – Minny Pops

8. MORE FUN WITH KORG - Plus Instruments

9. TANZEN & SINGEN - Monoton

10. LIGHT - DDAA

11. PLANCTON - Walt Rockman -

12. SHAÏ HULUD - Bernard Szajner

13. TARZAN - Anar Band 

14. ROMANTIC - Cosmic Overdose