12/7/2023 0 Comments Low confidence man![]() “I wanted to bring in new costumes and do new songs. I realised I’d been playing these songs for almost six years,” she says. The label was like, ‘Where’s the album?’ We didn’t have any time. It was a good thing, we’re a little surprised to hear Planet say. They dropped stopgap single ‘Does It Make You Feel Good’ in 2019 and hit the road again – then the coronavirus stopped everything. European shows led to an eventful night in Primavera Sound in Barcelona where they turned up as nobodies and won over a 2AM crowd of 15,000 frothing Spaniards. Sneering keyboard warriors couldn’t stop the tour dates from rolling in. “If this is the best… then we as a nation are fucked”, read the most popular comment.īut Confidence Man licked their wounds and got on with the job, putting out ‘Confident Music For Confident People’ in 2018 with piss-taking dance-pop cuts ‘Don’t You Know I’m In The Band’ and ‘Better Sit Down Boy’. In the bad old days before triple j moderated their Facebook page, Confidence Man were tall poppies scythed down after lacklustre footage from Splendour in the Grass went up with the caption: “Is this Australia’s best up-and-coming live band?” The throng sprung up and just like that, Confidence Man became the talk of the weekend. ![]() Planet held the revellers back like William Wallace in Braveheart before leaping in the air and yelping “Get down!” as the band kicked back in. The quartet had an unlikely breakout moment at the festival Golden Plains in 2017, where McGuffie and Goodchild wore black beekeeper headwear as Bones and Planet threw shapes out front and snake-charmed 10,000 people to crouch low during the breakdown for ‘Boyfriend (Repeat)’. Confidence Man’s career went from zero to turbo very quickly.
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