KISSCHASY consists of Darren Cordeaux, Joel Vanderuit, Karl Ammitzboll and Sean Thomas who formed the band way back in 2002 when they were growing up together in the country town of Balnarring on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula.

On the band’s debut album United Paper People and its follow up Hymns For The Non-Believer KISSCHASY showed a knack for energetic and melodic guitar pop that made them firm Triple J faves and earned them ARIA Award nominations. Anthems like “Do Do’s and Whoa-ohs” and “Opinions Won’t Keep You Warm At Night” saw the group’s live popularity rise to the point where they sold out major venues like Sydney’s Enmore Theatre and The Forum in Melbourne in 2008. The songs also led to both albums eventually being certified gold with combined sales of over 100,000 copies.

Fast forward a year later and their third album Seizures was nothing less than a quantum leap creatively and, as such, attracted both deeper and broader attention. Seizures featured the singles “Generation Why”, “Turnaround” and the 2010 gold selling fan favourite “Dinosaur”. The band were also awarded the publicly voted Channel [V] Oz Artist of the Year around this time.

The band farewelled the country in a sold-out national tour in 2015, all moving on to other business, musical, personal and family interests. As is the tendency for touring musicians, the lure of live music, travel and greeting fans again has proven too strong to resist, and the band will be digging their equipment out of storage and digging deeply into their muscle memory to perform United Paper People in full at Good Things Festival, 2022.