The Good Mournings formed around 2011 when two carboot sale friends started writing songs together. Jase Cannon recites from his notebook, esoteric observations of his hometown, vague aggressions towards people we don’t know, simple lines with deep meanings, drawing from the band’s mutual love of The Monks and The Fall. Jake Powell on guitar laying down off-kilter riffs, repeating and distorting, frantic but going nowhere, disonant and lonely, a million miles away from the immaculate drum machine that keeps the whole thing from bursting at the seams.
For a while Gareth also played guitar, laying down shimmering jargon, delayed chaos and soul-ripping screeches, he features on the first EP, recorded in 2012 and released, finally, in 2022 following a decade long hiatus. The trio played three nights in 2012 to celebrate the release before reverting to a duo once more. May happen again, never impossible.
The first EP, A Permanant Solution to a Temporary Problem was produced and mastered by Dave Draper in a boat shed in a garden in Evesham.
Since 2024 the duo have been releasing singles and EPs of new material and performing in South Wales and Bristol.The first single, Man On The Moon was released in January of 2025 and this was quickly followed with The Griffin House EP and the Gamble single. All their tracks in 2025 were produced and mastered by Taylor Rowe in his spare room studio up the valleys.
As of 2026 the duo are actively writing songs and have studio time planned. The Good Mournings are actively gigging – contact through Instagram / Facebook / Email: dukeofearl@theshonk.co.uk