HERE YOU GOOO

 
Ok so this is the performance they did at the huuuuge NRL finals last night. It's crazy how many people were there, makes me so proud of them. Crazy crazy. But I thought of some stuff while watching this:
  • It looks kind of ridicilous in the beginning when they arrive in cars and motorcycle(?) shit hahaha, it's like an upgrade of the The Anthem video. So funny. 
  • WHY IN HELL WOULD YOU PUT DANCERS AROUND THE STAGE. It looks so wrong I can't even find words. I laughed through the whole video because of that. Wouldn't it have been better if they had invited GCFAM to be by the stage to watch them? Oh my god.
  • Feel sorry for Paul who didn't get to experience this special show.
  • It also annoys me that they only talk about Joel and Benji without even mentioning the other guys.
  • Joel have no idea what to say between the songs, awkward. "ENJOY.... the show...".

AFL.

 
Here's a video of Good Charlotte performing at another big event a couple of days ago, the AFL footy show in Asutralia. I love the sound they opened The Anthem with, you know that slow thing that's usually in the middle of the song before the jumping-part. And Joel's voice sounds fantastic! Think he felt the need to be a bit punk rock with walking jumping up the tables after the Billie Joe iheartradio thing haha? Anyways, this was really fun to watch!
 
Unfortunately Paul couldn't be there since his wife gave birth to a son a few days ago! Happy for them! This means we have two newborns in the GCFAM at the moment.

Good Charlotte about the NRL.

 
A video where Joel and Benji talks about Australia and the honor to play at the NRL's which was held tonight. I'll put up videos of the performance as soon as it will be out.

J&B to jail?


Read this article about Benji getting in trouble with the law haha.

NRL

Good Charlotte are going to perform at the NRL finals in Australia on September 30. The Script will headline with them in front of 80,000 people. NRL is a huge proffessional football league in Australia from what I understand. Exciting!

Acoustic set

Here. Enjoy two videos showing the full acoustic set they did on the 19th in Melbourne.

1. Dance Floor Anthem
2. Girls And Boys
3. Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
4. The Anthem
 
 

They're back

So, Good Charlotte played their first real show in over one year yesterday. The show was held at the Festival Hall in Melbourne where thousands of people came to watch them. The setlist seems to be the same as it was last year except they put on Misery. Benji played two acoustic songs, Emotionless and Beautiful Place. No encore. They joked around a lot and seemed to enjoy being back playing together. They also talked about making new records and stuff, that the reason they won't be active in a while is because of babies poppin' out (Paul&Billy).  Here's a review from the show. A fan's story.
 
They also played a pretty small acoustic gig on the 19th, also in Melbourne. Only Joel and Benji. 
 
From the Melbourne show. I Just Wanna Live.

Hold On.
 
Next up is a show in Sydney tonight, a gig at the Fat as Butter festival (Newcastle) tomorrow and finally a gig at the V8 Supercar's on October 20th.

Also, Billy got a son last week. We're happy for him!

Easy

Here you have it! Lionel Richie performing with Joel and Benji on the Jay Leno Show yesterday.
They sing beautiful! Joel looks so good with the purple hair again. I wished Benji had been singing too, now he just looked like som countrysinger in the background haha. Idk.
 

Jay Leno Show

The Man himself  (Taken with Instagram)
Joel and Benji are doing a performance with Lionel Richie tonight on the Jay Leno Show. I have no idea what channel, timezone or anything but I guess those of you who live in America knows more about that. I'll put up the video of the performace later when it's out. Also, Joel seems to have purple hair again. Nice.

Just a small update.

I never write here anymore. The blog doesn't have a single reader. Haha. I don't really know if there are that many people interested in reading about GC.

 

Anyways, a lot has been happening since I last wrote. I'm going to do a list to update you and myself a bit. I'll probably forget everything but wellllll...

 

  • The Voice Australia is over (for those of you who don't know, Joel was one of the four judges/coaches on the show). His candidate, Sarah, ended up on forth place (I think?). There are rumours going on that Joel will be on the next season of the show too. I really hope those rumours are fake since that would make Good Charlotte's pause even longer. Anyways, it was fun to watch the show and see a new side of Joel (and a new side of his hair hehhh). But now he's back in the U.S again!
  • The band met and had a BBQ party when Joel had arrived home again waowoao. It had probably been a while since they last met.
  • Paul said in an interview that GC won't start record a new album until next year, and that the paus will be until then.
  • Good Charlotte will play four shows in Australia during September-November. Two normal shows, one festival and then V8 Supercars they played last year too. It won't be a tour or anything, just a few shows. A lot of Aus fans are excited and are ordering tickets already! Yay!
  • A while ago, Benji tweeted that the "Madden Brother's Acoustic Album" is on its way. Album? I still don't understand what they're up to haha. Is it going to be like their last mixtape, only the songs are more acoustic and not electronic? Or is it going to be acoustic versions of GC songs? I believe it's going to be the first thing. We'll see.
  • Billy is releasing an EP with songs like the ones on his soundcloud. The EP is also going to be on his new serie "Vitriol: The Hunter".
  • Deano keeps tweeting youtubelinks.
 
That's all I can think of right now.

Daddy Paul!

 
Today Paul told us some great news! He and his wife have a second baby on its way, expected in October! Happy for them. Yep. It would be so funny if it was born on October 5th just like the first kid and Paul himself.

HEY

It's been a while now since I last wrote here. It isn't that funny since nobody reads it haha.. Anyways, a lot has been happening if we're talking about Good Charlotte!


"The Paus"

The band is still on their paus they decided to take a few months ago which means they won't do any shows or new music for a while. Therefor Goodcharlotte.com has been dead for a pretty long time (WHOAH no news exactly -.-).


"Before"

The Madden Brother's mixtape "Before" is now out for free lisening and download here.

 

"The JD Set"

 I can't remember whether I wrote something or not about this earlier but Good Charlotte did a few shows in cooperation with The JD Set a time ago. The shows were held in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore if I don't remember this wrong. They played Weezer's album "Blue", an album that has inspired the band very much during their career. They also played some of their own songs. The band seemed to appreciate to do something new and different from what they're used to. There was also a "mini documentary" done. Extremely fun to see something new from GC. Amazingly high quality on the documentary too. This is part one of four parts, I recommend you to watch them all. 

Ok, so apparently you can't watch the JD set in my country anymore and the video was removed from my blog. But you can just go to youtube and search for "the jd set good charlotte" and the videos will appear...


 "Not single anymore"

Benji is officially not single anymore. Her name is Eliza Sophie Caird and you may know her under the artist name Eliza Doolittle. She's a pretty famous singer from the UK. The thing that weirds me out a bit is her age, she's 9 years younger than Benj. But whatever, age doesn't matter. This also explains why Benji has been spending so much time in London lately. Happy for him!

 

"The Voice"

Joel has gotten the honor to participate as one of the judges/coaches on this coming season for "The Voice Australia". It's a tvshow where they try to find new singing stars from Australia, you may seen it in your country. So Joel will be in Australia for the next 2-3 months, I guess. Here you can watch the commercial movie for the show (PRETTY CHEEZY):


 

 
 

Ryssland

After a few months paus Good Charlotte yesterday arrived in Moscow, Russia, where they will play a festival tomorrow.


baby good charlotte

going-ons

- The mixtape should've gotten out today, but it didn't. Joel and Benji says that it will be out very soon though.

- Deano got himself a website for his drumclinics, butterworth.com. He's playing in South America soon, and is going to New Zealand and Australia too.

- New tourdates for Good Charlotte. They're going to play in Singapore and three times in Australia in November.

- A lot of birthdays. Deano, Nicole, Roger (J&B's dad) and Sparrow have all gotten one year older. It's soon time for Paul and his daughter Willow too.

 

Probably more but I'm too tired haha...

Update about Joel's book.

Joel isn't releasing any book. It was a rumour.

New music from Billy.

Billy just tweeted "I've been promising some new music for a while now! I'm producing/engineering/remixing under the name Villain. Gotta have a cool name right?" followed by a link to his soundcloud profile. The songs are electronic and very different from Good Charlotte, nothing suprising. I think the songs sound pretty good, though I don't like that kind of music. He's talented!

Click here to listen to Billy's new music.



Paul also has soundcloud where he for en example has made remixes of Standing Ovation and a lullaby version of Wondering.
Click here to listen to Paul's music.

Paul in another band


Seems like Paul is in another band except GC, Seeking Empire!
He's in this musicvideo and plays bass. He's also responsible for the lyrics.
I don't know how of a serious member he is but the bandsite says he's the producer/bassplayer.
 
Fun!

Mixtape

1 Oktober släpper Joel och Benji ett "mixtape" där det kommer finnas nya låtar som de har skrivit/kompositerat/kommer att framföra med flera kända artister som t.ex. Machine Gun Kelly och Rockie Fresh.
Låtarna kommer att vara helt gratis.



Det är så här jag har fattat det åtminstoen. Men jag är lite osäker på vad ett mixtape egentligen är, så säg till om jag har helt fel.

Paus.

Nu är det helt klart att Good Charlotte ska ta en paus, ett avbrott, "they're taking a hiatus".
Alltså, inget turnérande på ett tag. Dock så har jag för mig att de sa att de ska till Sydamerika nu snart och turnéra lite? Vi får väl se hur det blir.

Jag blev ganska chockad när jag hörde detta. Det kändes som om det inte var sant, blev väldigt rädd. Men samtidigt så är jag glad för killarna då de kommer att få mer tid för sina familjer och barn. Vara mer delaktig i barnens uppväxt. Det är antagligen grymt svårt att vara borta så mycket från sin familj.

Men oroa er inte för mycket. De älskar fortfarande Good Charlotte, att skapa musik, spela live och träffa fans.
De är säkert tillbaka snart!

Det är bara att fortsätta reppa :)



Joel ger ut bok.

Redan 2009 fick vi veta att Joel höll på att skriva en bok. Då var han inte ens säker på om boken skulle bli klar, eller om den skulle ges ut. Men nu har vi äntligen fått veta att hans bok "Everything I Needed To Know About Being A Dad I Learned From Rock And Roll" kommer förhoppningsvis att börja säljas den 1 Maj 2012.
Boken handlar om Joel's liv, alla stora förändringar han gått igenom, som t.ex. att bli pappa, flytten till L.A, Nicole, osv.

Boken kommer förmodligen endast utges på engelska, ha 208 sidor och kosta ungefär 140:-.

losmadden:  Dressing room. Right now. Germany 2011.    you look tired!

Endast två datum kvar på Europa-turnén nu. Däremot finns ett nytt datum: 21 Oktober ska Good Charlotte spela på en festival i Ryssland.
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