Band Bio:
Zoey Van Goey is a band made up of Matt Brennan, Michael John McCarthy, and Kim Moore. Hailing from Canada, Ireland, and England respectively, they assembled rather accidentally in Glasgow, Scotland, and now make music together.
Zoey Van Goey the band is named after Zoey Van Goey the artist. Born on June 8, 1969, in a rural Amish Community in Pennsylvania, Zoey van de Kamp was the youngest daughter of the Dutch-descended van de Kamps. Raised in a strict observant Amish environment, Zoey did not see an automobile until the age of twelve.
When she was sixteen (some say fifteen) years old, she ran away from her family and eventually arrived in New York City in the autumn of 1986, where she changed her name to Zoey Van Goey and quickly became involved in the growing street art movement in Manhattan led by Keith Haring (also born in Pennsylvania). Although she never met Haring, it is believed that she may have been inspired by his 1986 trip to Europe painting murals and moved to Berlin herself later that year. In Berlin she found her greatest success creating street art and installation-based work, becoming a constant if peripheral fixture in the Berlin cultural elite of the late 1980s. It has been alleged that she had a brief affair with (and broke the heart of) Wim Wenders, a rumour consolidated by a brief glimpse of an early Van Goey mural in his 1987 film Der Himmel Uber Berlin / Wings of Desire.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall at the end of decade, Zoey Van Goey's biographical details become less clear, as she moved early on into the newly democratised East Berlin and faded from the public cultural scene. Zoey Van Goey the band has made numerous attempts to get in touch Zoey Van Goey the artist, but has failed establish contact. If you have any information about the whereabouts of Zoey Van Goey the artist, please drop us a line.
Press Reviews:
"Mixing frothy folk-pop tunes with a slight electronic edge and some weird percussion, while swapping instruments like swingers at a musical orgy, the Van Goeys certainly leave their mark. From the experimental soundscape of ‘The City Is Exploding’ to the more carnal pleasures of ‘I Want To Jump Your Bones’, they manage to engage both head and feet with alarming regularity. Definitely one to watch." - Is This Music?
