for booking please email: goodnightman@gmail.com (attn: David Hewson)
Influences
U2, The Police, The Cure, David Gray, Led Zeppelin, Bright Eyes, terrible architecture, urban skylines, hearts, america, helicopters, and The Beatles.
Sounds Like
"Their music spills out in a technically precise torrent of heavy cascading riffs, atmospheric slide guitar alternating with choppy squawks, throbbing bass lines, dynamic percussion and primal screams...The band channels Jimi Hendrix's "Voodoo Chile" and the Who's "Tommy" through a modern polyphonic scree whose blueprint was drawn sometime ago by bands like Radiohead and Coldplay."
-Jordan Green, YES! Weekly
Goodnight Man began in the spring of 2007 when Austin Pfeiffer, a solo acoustic artist, began to write for a band because his friend Brian Johnson told him his music was codependent, it was addicted to the attention of young girls and was a little short of artistic or challenging.
Austin lived in Winston-Salem, NC, which is a very interesting town if you like cigarettes and/or race cars.
The underwhelming city is a great source of inspiration because it requires creativity to keep life interesting, so Austin rose to Brian's challenge and began writing music for a band.
Brian moved to Spain for 8 months.
While Brian was gone Austin met Philip Pledger and they played in the short-lived band Robot Jesus Attack where they developed a great connection through their guitars. Philip's deep knowledge of theory, the Stratocaster, ambient sounds and Austin's rhythm rooted playing, Edge inspired stereo delay setup, and vocal dexterity tangled into some beautiful work.
Austin Pfeiffer fronts the band as a vocalist first and foremost. He moves between a Les Paul and a Strat run through intricate driven, rhythmic, stereo delays to two amps at different delays and phaser patterns. Philip Pledger moves between multiple Strats with varying tones all effected by different overdrives and delays uniquely voiced through a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe and a '66 Bassman Head. The lyrics are spiritual, eclectic, and cynical. The Haunting EP poetically examines a fictional exorcism, eating disorders, globalization, and love on a spiritual level. The music visits folk, rock, and blues through an array of different instrumentations influenced by U2, Bright Eyes, The Police, Radiohead, The Beatles, and David Gray.
Many bands of the indie/rock/alternative persuasion of late are notorious for deliberate shyness for the sake of appeal. The veiled glamour and oxy-moronical nature of borrowing your sisters jeans and spending 30 minutes making your hair look unkempt is lost on these guys, because they admit they think about what they wear, just a little bit, is that okay to admit?
Austin Pfeiffer is very skinny and as a result wears very small clothes, but the band does not find its identity through being deliberately inaccessible to create some sort of faux artistic mystique.
Goodnight Man aspires to engage a holistic music experience the way operas, symphonies, and only a few rock bands have offered their audiences. They write and generate their music with uncensored creativity and practice with scientific precision. The band continues to write, already has a healthy rotation of songs used in live shows, and enjoys covering U2, Newcomers Home, Sam Cooke and The Killers to reveal the diversity in their instruments and performing, but drawing one motif, which is their consistent sound.
the armies of the old testament were led by musicians and the future vision of goodnight man...not necessarily musically, but as a whole...not necessarily "apocalyptic," but when humanity will giveway to goodness.
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Just wanted to let you know that we will be in Raleigh at The Lincoln Theatre this Thursday, July 10, with All Time Low, There For Tomorrow, Hit The Lights, & Valencia!!! We would love to see you there!
Thank you so much for being our friend. You have a cool page here. Let's stay connected. Stop by anytime.Take care and have a nice day! Cheers....................................
Hey there, Thanks for checking out my music and for the friendship. I really like the songs, they're unique, but catchy. Keep on rockin it and take it easy!
I really hope your music sounds just as ethereal live as it does here. I look forward to catching a show very soon. I am in awe that something like this could ever come from around here.
for booking please email: goodnightman@gmail.com (attn: David Hewson)
