GoGo Penguin Concorde 2, Brighton Sunday 11th November, 2018 The Concorde usually hosts mid-ranking rock bands or popular club nights – tonight it’s completely sold out for an acoustic piano trio. Gogo Penguin walk onstage like rockstars to John Carpenter style atmospherics – Chris Illingworth plucks one repeated note from the piano from amidst […]
Pianist Chris Illingworth talks to Charlie Anderson about GoGo Penguin and their recently announced album deal with Blue Note Records. You’ve recently signed to Blue Note Records. How did that come about and what does it mean for the band? “It all kind of happened last year around the summer. We were playing […]
GoGo Penguin Brighton Dome Studio Theatre Saturday 24th May, 2014 In a veritable sea of trumpeted young rising stars, it’s often difficult to distinguish the truly groundbreaking, those who really have something different to bring to the table. Picture then, three men who create the kind of musical synergy together, which bandleader and […]