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Clean shoes

Overview

The band clean shoes are an indie/alternate rock band from Bury, North of Manchester, UK. The band is a three piece consisting of Toby Taylor, the drummer, (also known as Ginger or Ginge.) Lucas Goodier, the guitarist and Danny Darlington, the bassist and lead vocalist.

The band’s music has been influenced by the Arctic Monkeys, The Vaccines and The Catfish And The Bottlemen. However Some have compared some of there music to Viola Beach. This includes there debut single “Blue Moon.” However the band has promised that the full Blue Moon EP, consisting of three other songs, “Just Another Day,” “Typical Boyband” and “Balaclava.” Will be released during the same year of 2019.

The band are constantly making new original music and enjoying there time doing so. The bands music and the overall good times that they’ve shared has made the three members very close friends.

Origin of the band.

The youthful three piece band first met eachother through the school Woodhey High School In the small town of Ramsbottom. They became good friends during there time taking GCSE music and after a while of playing together started writing there own original songs.

The band was formed during September of 2018. In the beginning the band was called Indigo Blue. This name has been changed to Clean Shoes As there is another musical artist called Indigo Blue.

The first original song the band wrote was called Typical Boyband and a live demo was released onto Soundcloud before a live demo of Blue Moon was also released. There music was liked by locals and school friends and after Blue Moon’s release onto all streaming platforms including Spotify, iTunes, YouTube, etc, the fanbase has expanded beyond.

The story behind the name, Clean Shoes.

During the bands time in the recording studio, Big City Jacks, they realised they had to change their name from Indigo Blue as another music artist had the same name.

When The band member, Toby Taylor was setting up the dumkit, he brought mud and dirt into the recording room from his shoes. The owner of the studio noticed this and made him clean his shoes. The band found this very amusing and when they left the owner said “Clean Shoes next time.” As they were leaving, that’s when they decided they’d call themselves Clean Shoes.