Goodluck: Catapulting ball of electro-wildness showers the Covid wasteland with happiness

Goodluck rocked the Guy Butler last night.

Teens took to the aisles screaming and grooving as lead singer Juliet Harding, radiant in high-wasted, big buckle white pants and thick-soled black-striped takkies, bounced, and belted out the electro-pop band’s hits aka I’ve Been Thinking About You, Be Yourself and the collaboration, Kota.

She left the stage, hung out with the heaving teens and even made her way through one of those long-distance, banana-shaped aisles.

Back on stage percussionist Ben Peters and keyboardist and sax axeman Tim Welsh kept up the most amazing bass and plethora of sounds all those five or six tech boards can produce.

The band has a clever way of reaching across all genres, even the lights switched from ultra-modern digital strobes and probes, to sweeping old-style spotlights.

The music, while keeping to the dance going, had so many influences – electro pop of course, but also swing, Afro-rhythms, jazz and was that a hint of Ska?

Welsh’s grungy sax clashed wonderfully with his hipster lit up keyboards and I loved his fresh, athletic style.

Ben Peters was the Yeti guru on those electro drums getting so many of the deepest and soft booms but I also smaaked the lighting-inspired snap, crackle and pop on some of the edges. His colour alternating illuminated drumsticks are a hoot.

Harding is the front woman though who gets catapulted like an exploding rainbow from this electro trebuchet into the crowd. Her messages were adorable and apt and efficient.

This was a carefully curated, beautiful, respectfully presented and utterly liberating hour of happy electro-wildness.