GOOD CHARLOTTE

WALDORFWORLDWIDE
good CHARLOTTE
good CHARLOTTE, THE BOOK
motivation PROCLAMATION
east seashore ANTHEM
THANK YOU MOM
MY BROTHER'S PLACE
THE young AND HOPELESS
life styles OF THE RICH AND THE FAMOUS
PIRATES!

WALDORFWORLDWIDE
The twin blood brothers that do up the core of Good The Queen City were born on March 11, 1979 in the "middle-of-nowhere-suburbs", Waldorf, Maryland. The brothers, Joel and Benji Madden were turned on to music by their aged brother, Josh. Their influences started with sets like Rancid, Child Threat, the Remedy and the Smiths. Benji started learning to play the guitar at 16 while Joel developed his vocal talent.

GOOD CHARLOTTE
After their bassist, Alice Paul guitar player Truncheon joined the twins, Good The Queen City took their name from a children's book and played their first gig in a neighbor's cellar for an audience of 20. Benji recalls, "We only played our ain song so we weren't good adequate to larn anyone else's songs!"

GOOD CHARLOTTE, THE BOOK
That children’s book they took their name from have got a similar subject to what they have come up to represent, it's about a immature miss that acquires picked on by other children because she is different. These cats cognize what it is to be outcasts.

MOTIVATION PROCLAMATION
The blood brothers dedicated themselves to their music, although they had almost no money for equipment and no connexions in the industry. They cut their first demo, wrote their ain bio, and began mailing bundles off to a listing of record companies obtained from a magazine. "I wrote this missive saying, we're Good The Queen City and if you subscribe us now it will be a batch cheaper than if you wait!" remembers Benji. "Our ignorance was sort of a blessing. We couldn't be discouraged by knowing too much about how the concern really works."

EAST seashore ANTHEM
When the twins graduated high school in 1997, their ma presented them with two unfastened air hose tickets to Golden State as a graduation present. "Some of our favourite sets like Green Day had started out at this East Bay baseball club called 924 Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman Street. So when we graduated, that summertime we made a pilgrim's journey to see the club. We'd never even been on a airplane before, but we have got an auntie in Bishop Berkeley who allow us clang with her." This gave the set a whole new sort of mentality when they returned place to the east coast.

THANK YOU MOM
While life in Annapolis, Maryland, the set won a local contest, and their song "Can't Travel On" was included on a sample cadmium of local country talent. This helped them pull the attending of a manager, and Lit offered a encouraging slot on a series of sold-out East Seashore dates. "We had no money, no transportation, and no manner to make the gigs. Our ma was living in like a cast on a neighbor's property, and the lone thing she really owned was a mini-van. She said, you cats take the mini-van to play the shows and I'll catch drives or walk to work. That just demoes you how she's been there for us the whole time." "Thank You Mom" is a concealed path on their first album, about a minute after the last listed song, "Change". The song is a rich acoustic melody and shows where these "I'm so punky" rockers' Black Maria really are.

MY BROTHER'S PLACE
Despite their spiked hair and pierced exterior, "Good Charlotte" is a poppy-slightly-emo-punk sound that is clearly distinct from the remainder of their equals and the fans have got taken notice. You'll most likely never error them for anyone else. Their recent hit album, "The Young and the Hopeless" is a premier illustration of their punkrock-independent attitude.

THE young AND HOPELESS
Honesty is the yarn that runs through every song on The Young and Hopeless and binds Good The Queen City to their devoted fans. "I don't believe we're break than any other band," states Benji, "although I make believe we're more than sincere, more real, than some of them. We desire to be judged for what we're really doing, not set in a genre with a clump of other sets with which we have got got nil in common."

LIFESTYLES OF THE RICH AND THE FAMOUS
"We have a batch more to state than some of the sets we're compared with, and I trust people will hear it on this album. The children that we were, five old age ago just desire to give those children something to assist them through the day." "Our ends right now as a set are to do the music we desire to make, and give our fans what they have got given us - positivity, dedication, loyalty, hope, truth, and a place to belong. we really just experience like the luckiest cats in the world, cause after all we just fans too."

- Joel Madden