PETE GOODALL & ZOOT MONEY are GOODMONEY Pete Goodall is part Trogg, part Thunderclap, and part Kung Fu Fighter who once shared a dressing room with The Beatles.

Zoot Money has been associated with Georgie Fame, The Animals, Eric Burdon, Steve Marriott, Kevin Coyne, Kevin Ayers, Humble Pie, Mick Taylor, Spencer Davis, Geno Washington, and Alan Price. Together they are GOODMONEY.

Originally Pete and Zoot accosted each other in the late 60s somewhere in the depths of the Speakeasy Club. Zoot was completing the album “Ellis” with pop singer Steve Ellis from the Love Affair, and Pete took on the onerous task of booking the band around the Earth and other planets “or universes in their case” says Pete. And that was the start; a meeting of musical minds.

In the early 2000s Pete asked Zoot to sing and play on an album Pete was creating with with ex Cream lyricist Pete Brown and Steve Winwood, drummer Richard Bailey together with the late great Dick Heckstall-Smith, Nick Payn from Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings and others.

The album was titled “GoodMoney” – a flash of brilliance by Zoot! The band toured for a while and was acclaimed in the press. Musician Magazine said it was “totally evocative of Fitzrovia and Soho in the days of the Speakeasy” (hardly surprising!) and that “there wasn’t one duff track on the album”.

In the mid noughties Pete escaped metropolis life for a cottage in the country and set up a studio in Hereford. Pete and Zoot held a celebrity concert which formed part of a regional Battle of the Bands competition and agreed they must get serious about GOODMONEY in its own right and not have it continually associated by managers agents and labels with their previous individual successes.

And there for a few years the matter lay dormant ……….until now. GOODMONEY will appear in London at the Bulls Head, Barnes on 23 February 2017 at 9:00 PM.

An opportunity not to be missed. “Having been some days in preparation a splendid time is guaranteed for all and tonight GOODMONEY is topping the bill”

As we pass into the era of Trumpf, Brexit and post-truth GOODMONEY feel the urge to once again push their uncanny traditional R&B fusion forward. The on-line sales of “Pick n Tell” on Pete’s Speakeasy label have been consistent and good for the past 10 years, and a new distribution deal has been agreed with Cadiz so the Bulls Head is amongst other things an initial showcase for their penetrating evocative music.

“We’ll be seeking a top class booker” says Pete “who will respect our vintage - we’re both well over 70 …….and to paraphrase Jimi really experienced. We don’t want our music to go to waste and rolling round the world one more time will suit us just fine” ……..and quips ……..”so long as the money’s right and the hotels and tour bus is luxurious”

A further album is planned; this time of R&B and blues classics. www.zootmoney.com and www.petegoodall.com ©Jane Quinn www.mightyquinnmanagement.com

Based on information supplied by Jane Quinn.