KING GOON
OH, My!
11th April 2026
“A Glorious Day On The Welsh Riviera” on Friday 27th March. It’s the second single to be taken from our upcoming album and will be accompanied by a lyric video beautifully drawn and put together by Drew Hamley of Unit 15 Productions. “A.G.D.O.T.W.R.” is four, shiny minutes of power-pop gloriousness, turbocharged by a gigantic chorus that we feel is surely destined to be hollered from the stands of the swansea.com stadium for years to come…and on that note: Snoop – if you want to drop some bars on a remix, have your people talk to our people. Let’s make a deal. Uppa Swans.
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls – humans of all descriptions, we’re delighted to be able to finally announce the release of our second album, “Oh, My!” on Saturday, April 11th, 2026.
“APRIL GOONS DAY” ???
It’s been a labour of love and hate getting this one over the line, kids…
The story starts back two year ago, when we all packed our bags, decamped from our various south/mid-Walian boltholes, and took a meandering route way out west to the beautiful county of Pembrokeshire, in three vehicles packed to the roof racks with gear and Goons.
Five days and nights we were there; during that time, we completed recording all the music you hear on the album.
We also managed to have a couple of really good, barn-storming rows, drink about two dozen bottles of red wine, and at one point set off all the properly serious fire alarms in the studio by cooking late-night sausages. We also had some top-notch bolognese. Strikes and gutters.
We drove our producer and ourselves so far round the bend that we don’t think he or anyone else involved will ever recover fully from the experience; but honestly, my friends – there was no other way to get it done righteously.
And we would do it all again.
The album will be available to pre-order at a reduced price from Saturday 21st March, and will be available on 12” vinyl and CD digipack, as well as digitally, in high-quality, lossless format. All formats will be available for purchase from our Bandcamp from Saturday, April 11th, the same day we’ll be hosting a launch/celebration at Hippos, High Street, Swansea, which will be absolutely free to attend.
Any pre-orders received will be dispatched the week before the launch, and all physical orders will also immediately receive a download code. What that means is that, if you pre-order a physical copy, not only do you get the album a little cheaper, but you’ll also be able to listen to it before the official release date.
As an extra bonus, the first 50 physical albums sold will also be bundled with an extremely exclusive, limited piece of merchandise that will never be available again. And it’s awesome.
“Oh, My!” will also be available on the (deep sigh) monster streaming services from Monday 13th April. Yeah, we know…but we really do want as many people as possible to hear this album, so what’s a band to do?
Buy the vinyl/CD/download, we say. It sounds better for a start, and you won’t be helping some techbro somewhere to pay for the (hopefully botched) penile/hairline/buttock implant he’s having to assuage his terrible feelings of inadequacy.
Ahem.
As for the album itself, it’s 11 tracks of flat-out Goonery. What else did you expect? We don’t mess about. The knives are sharp and the targets carefully chosen. Lyrically, it takes regular and profane aim at the various foul institutions and groups of morally-bankrupt chancers that collectively befoul both our natural world and our body politic…with jokes, big choruses and big riffs, of course…and it wouldn’t be a King Goon album without the occasional digression into nostalgia and surrealism.
Musically, it’s a kaleidoscopic, genre-fluid, drive-by of a record, taking in (and spitting out) elements of ska, punk, folk, country, classic rock, and even a bit of goth – in a pure and profound expression of where we are, both as people and as musicians, as we enter into the back end of this wretched and beleaguered decade.
We hope you like it.
Let’s have a little dance, shall we?
“OH, MY!” TRACKLISTING & CREDITS:
- KING VERSUS THE FUZZ
- FILTHY STINKING RICH
- I LOVE MY CB!
- POUR SOME GREEN ON ME
- ATGOFION O DREFORYS
- A GLORIOUS DAY ON THE WELSH RIVIERA
- BREATHE
- A FAN’S NOTES
- PLAYING FIELDS OF ETON
- A.B.C.
- FUCK ‘EM ALL
©2025 KING GOON
All Music Written and Performed by KING GOON
Lyrics by Joel Morgan
Recorded, Engineered and Mixed by Rooster at Mwnci Studios, Pembrokeshire
Mastered by Gethin John at Hafod Mastering, Cowbridge
Cover Painting: Leon Seesix | dotmasters
Design: Graham Morse | GMiD
GOONS:
ELAINE FORDE: THE SAX
HYWEL GRIFFITHS: DRUMS/PERCUSSION
JAMES MORGAN: BASS/VOCALS
JOEL MORGAN: GUITAR/LEAD VOCALS
MORGAN BREEZE-NELMES: GUITAR
JAMES MITCHELL: KEYBOARDS/BOUZOUKI
“Admit Nothing! Deny Everything! Lie! Lie! Lie!”
King Goon – A Glorious Day On The Welsh Riviera
King Goon – Filthy Stinking Rich
King Goon – Pour Some Green on Me (live session)
King Goon – Pretty Words (live)
King Goon – Language of War (live)
King Goon – Gambling Fool (acoustic live)
King Goon – Beauts and Consequences (live)
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