# Confidence Man (band)

Confidence Man are an Australian electro pop band formed in 2016 in Brisbane, Queensland. They released their debut album, Confident Music for Confident People, in 2018. Their second album, Tilt, was released in 2022, followed by their third album, 3AM (La La La), in 2024. The front-duo and their band members have been a part of many festivals across the United Kingdom, Europe and Australia, most notably Glastonbury Festival.

## Background
### 2016–2022: Formation, Confident Music for Confident People and Tilt

The band was formed in 2016. The members had met on the Brisbane music scene, and had been in other bands including: The Belligerents, Moses Gunn Collective and The Jungle Giants, and use pseudonyms in Confidence Man; McGuffie and Goodchild reportedly took their stage names from tombstones. They started writing dance songs together, initially as a "kind of joke", but eventually realised the material was worth pursuing.
Planet and Bones provide vocals and dancing while Goodchild and McGuffie, who appear as masked figures, play keyboards and drums. The band signed to UK label Heavenly Records and released their debut UK single, "Bubblegum", in March 2017.
Confidence Man released their debut album, Confident Music for Confident People, on 13 April 2018. They toured Europe extensively in the middle of the same year, with festival slots and a sell-out at London's Scala before returning to Australia for dates in September.
The band released a Christmas single, "Santa's Coming Down the Chimney", in December 2018.
On 17 November 2019, Janet Planet and Sugar Bones were guests on Richard Kingsmill's '2019' programme on Triple J to premiere their new single "Does It Make You Feel Good?" During the interview, they revealed they have made celebrity friends with U2 and had been partying with them and Noel Gallagher while in Melbourne. They continued to explain their plans to feature The Edge playing tambourine on a future recording.
On 21 August 2020, Confidence Man released the non-album single, "First Class Bitch".
On 10 November 2021, the band announce the forthcoming release of their second studio album, Tilt and released "Holiday" as its lead single. Tilt was released on 1 April 2022 and peaked at number 7 on the ARIA charts. In late 2022, the band toured Australia, the United Kingdom and Europe, which also included a performance at Glastonbury Festival which received critical acclaim.
In September 2022, the band released a remix EP, titled Re-Tilt. The EP featured collaborations with Tame Impala, CHAI, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs and more.

### 2023–present: 3AM (La La La)

In April 2023, Confidence Man released "On & On (Again)" with Daniel Avery. The single continued the shift from electro-pop towards a club-focused sound which had begun with Tilt, and marked their debut at new label home at Polydor. In July, the band released a collaboration with Swedish producer DJ Seinfeld on dance-pop record "Now U Do". Band member Sam Hales, who had initially been behind the pseudonym "Clarence McGuffie", stopped being credited on songs from this point forward; McGuffie's current identity is unknown.
In November 2023, after releasing several bootlegs and mashups through their SoundCloud page, the band released "Firebreak", and in February 2024, the band released a single in collaboration with DJ Boring, "Forever 2 (Crush Mix)". In May, Confidence Man released ConMan Club Classics Vol. 1, a compilation EP featuring the non-album singles and their remixes, including a new remix of "Boyfriend (Repeat)" by Cowboy Rhythmbox.
On 5 June 2024, the band announced their third album, 3AM (La La La), with the release of the single, "I Can't Lose You", along with a video of Planet and Bones singing the track in a helicopter naked over the London skyline. The album is inspired by the band's move to London, and by British rave culture of the 1990s.
In August 2024, Fabric Presents Confidence Man, a DJ mix by the band, was released.

## Members

* Janet Planet (Grace Stephenson) – vocals
* Sugar Bones (Aidan Moore) – vocals
* Reggie Goodchild (Lewis Stephenson) – production
* Clarence McGuffie (currently unknown)
* Previously Lachlan McGeehan
* Sam Hales – production

## Discography
### Albums

List of albums, with selected chart positions :
| Title | Details | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions |
| Title | Details | AUS | SCO | UK | UK Dance | UK Indie |
| Confident Music for Confident People | Released: 13 April 2018 Label: Heavenly, Amplifire Format: CD, vinyl, download | 31 | — | — | 13 | 30 |
| Tilt | Released: 1 April 2022 Label: I Oh You Format: CD, vinyl, download, streaming | 7 | 34 | — | 1 | 11 |
| 3AM (La La La) | Released: 18 October 2024 Label: I Oh You Format: CD, cassette, vinyl, download, streaming | 40 | 4 | 9 | 1 | — |

### DJ mixes

List of DJ mixes, with selected details :
| Title | Details |
| Fabric Presents Confidence Man | Released: 23 August 2024 Format: Digital Label: Fabric Records |

### Extended plays

List of EPs, with selected details :
| Title | Details |
| Re-Tilt | Released: 30 September 2022 Format: Digital Label: I Oh You |
| ConMan Club Classics Vol. 1 | Released: 10 May 2024 Format: Digital Label: Confidence Man |

### Singles

| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Album |
| Title | Year | BEL (WA) | UK | Album |
| "Boyfriend (Repeat)" | 2016 | — | — | Confident Music for Confident People |
| "Bubblegum" | 2017 | — | — | Confident Music for Confident People |
| "Better Sit Down Boy" | 2017 | — | — | Confident Music for Confident People |
| "Don't You Know I'm in a Band" | 2018 | — | — | Confident Music for Confident People |
| "Out the Window" | 2018 | — | — | Confident Music for Confident People |
| "Try Your Luck" | 2018 | — | — | Confident Music for Confident People |
| "Santa's Comin' Down the Chimney" | 2018 | — | — | Non-album singles |
| "Does It Make You Feel Good?" | 2019 | — | — | Non-album singles |
| "First Class Bitch" | 2020 | — | — | Non-album singles |
| "Holiday" | 2021 | — | — | Tilt |
| "Feels Like a Different Thing" | 2022 | — | — | Tilt |
| "Woman" | 2022 | — | — | Tilt |
| "Luvin U Is Easy" | 2022 | — | — | Tilt |
| "Angry Girl" (CHAI Version) | 2022 | — | — | Re-Tilt |
| "Heaven" (triple j Like A Version) | 2022 | — | — | Non-album singles |
| "Toy Boy" (RAW SILK Remix) | 2022 | — | — | Non-album singles |
| "On & On (Again)" (with Daniel Avery) | 2022 | — | — | ConMan Club Classics Vol. 1 |
| "Now U Do" (with DJ Seinfeld) | 2023 | — | — | ConMan Club Classics Vol. 1 |
| "Chez Moi (Waiting for You)" (with CC:Disco) | 2023 | — | — | TBA |
| "Firebreak" | 2023 | — | — | ConMan Club Classics Vol. 1 |
| "Forever 2 (Crush mix)" (with DJ Boring) | 2024 | — | — | ConMan Club Classics Vol. 1 |
| "I Can't Lose You" | 2024 | — | — | 3AM (La La La) |
| "Break It Down" (with IN2STELLAR) | 2024 | — | — | Fabric Presents Confidence Man |
| "So What" | 2024 | — | — | 3AM (La La La) |
| "Let Them Bells Ring" | 2024 | — | — | Fabric Presents Confidence Man |
| "All My People" (with Sweely) | 2024 | — | — | 4AM (La La La) |
| "Control" | 2024 | — | — | 3AM (La La La) |
| "Real Move Touch" | 2024 | — | — | 3AM (La La La) |
| "I Heart You" (with Eliza Rose) | 2025 | — | — | 4AM (La La La) |