Goodbooks

Formed in Sevenoaks, Kent in 2005, UK indie-rockers GoodBooks arrived on the scene in the era of skinny-tie '00s indie à la the Mystery Jets and the Young Knives. Frontman Max Cooke and drummer Leo von Bulow-Quirk were childhood friends prone to thrashing out Beatles covers in their attic. They formed the Fingerprints with Christopher Porter and JP Duncan at school, before morphing into GoodBooks in 2004 and channelling a more electronic-tinted sound. In late 2004, the quartet bagged a career-changing deal with indie tastemakers Transgressive Records and re-recorded their debut single, "Walk With Me," which was released on the label in April 2006. The next month, they signed a major-label deal with Columbia and unleashed their debut album, Control, the following July. GoodBooks split up in 2009 after playing a set on Glastonbury's John Peel Stage on June 28.