Are you ready for the madcap chaos of Australia’s largest travelling music festival? Good Things season returns with a head-spinning line-up fit for a fever dream. Across three East Coast dates, this year’s Good Things Festival will deliver a trip down the rabbit hole with a stacked bill of international heavyweights, old favourites, hungry up-and-comers, and Aussie staples. And in a boon for younger attendees, Sydney’s Centennial Park festival date will be a 16+ event for the first time!
In the lead-up to Good Things 2024, HEAVY will be running a small feature on the bands playing so you can get up to speed before the big day. Today, we bring you Electric Callboy.
Electric Callboy write their very own story like no other band around. With their modern sound between 90s pop synths, driving alternative rock and explosive metalcore, the band succeeds in every musical trick they play. Experiments like mixing German Schlager music with deathcore (Hurricane), hardstyle influenced industrial metalcore (Parasite) to their post-hardcore reinterpretation of Cascada‘s hit single Everytime We Touch are definitive proof that Electric Callboy master the strongest musical parameters of the respective genres.
Founded in 2010 in Castrop-Rauxel, it didn’t take long for the band to gain attention in Germany with their modern trancecore sound. But who would have thought that this sound could lay the foundation for a world career? The release of their debut album Bury Me In Vegas helped them succeed in charting for the first time ever in 2012 (#65). 2 years later, We Are The Mess already charted as a top ten album at #8, followed by Crystals in 2015 and The Scene in 2017 (both #6), and the album Rehab released in 2019 (#16).
In June 2020, the release of now gold-certified Hypa Hypa marked the beginning of a new era of Electric Callboy – an era that will be marked by even greater success than ever before. Their dedicated and ever-growing fanbase – collecting over 100,000 signatures to convince NDR that Electric Callboy are “radio-ready” enough for Eurovision 2022 – keeps their way to success throughout undeterred.
In 2024, Electric Callboy will keep on growing with their fans in continuing their TEKKNO world tour. Sold-out halls and arenas will once again prove how successful the band’s career continues to write itself in recent years. A remarkable phenomenon that makes you marvel.
Focus track Hypa Hypa. Get your Good Things tickets HERE
