Meet Good Health, Good Wealth, the London duo proving that the disco never ends

As the title of their debut album suggests, London duo Good Health, Good Wealth – aka mates Bruce Breakey and Simon Kuzmickas – are on a mission to prove that the disco never ends.

But instead of perhaps reflecting those nights out where you’re still sitting in a random kitchen at 5am, the duo explain that the disco explored here is the unpredictable carousel of life itself. “The disco could be a metaphor for anything, but really I see it as being a way of representing life itself” explains Breakey.

It’s helpful, then, that the record goes on to offer a plethora of songs which explore life in all its knotty glory, delivered in a spoken world style that in part summons the time-honoured spirit of The Streets. At others, though, it isn’t afraid to steer off into a clubbier direction which feels more clubbier and, rather appropriately, disco-primed. All of this results in a sound which makes for one of 2026’s most fascinating debut records.

Read our interview with the duo and listen to their music via our Play Next playlist on Spotify below.

The debut album is done and it’s a matter of weeks from release. Are you excited?

Simon: Yeah! I think it’s probably the best thing we’ve ever made, and the thing that I’m the most proud of ever, so I can’t wait for it to actually be out there so I can start just sending it to absolutely everyone.

Bruce: Yeah, we’re hoping it carries on from [2025’s] This Time Next Year We’ll Be Millionaires and then we can magpie some new people as well. It’s the biggest thing we’ve done by far and the most complete. We’ve recorded nearly basically all of the instruments on it. There’s very little samples on it and it’s all built from the ground up.

What’s the overarching mantra of The Disco Never Ends?

Bruce: I think the disco could be a metaphor for anything, but how I see it is the disco is like life, and everything carries on. We’ve dedicated the record to my auntie who passed away a few years ago. One of the songs, ‘Leftovers’, I wrote about her. That was the thing behind the record, say people’s names and keep talking about people and they never go away. It’s also the ups and downs of the disco, the good times and the bad times. There are fun songs, sad songs, love songs and breakup songs. Trying to encompass it all is obviously a hard task, but I feel like we’ve done it well.

Simon: ‘Disco…’ was the first idea we worked on for the record and we brought the demo in which was quite different and a bit more dance music-y. We decided to drop everything and do it from scratch with our producer to give it a bit more of an indie sound. When we finished, we were both hugely into it.

For the uninitiated, how did you meet and start making music?

Bruce: We met through a mate of mine when we were 22 [or] 23 and neither of us had really done any proper music before. But I was always making beats for my mates that were rappers, and for a time I thought I was gonna be the English Justin Timberlake, I think. But I’d never done anything, never put anything out. I was just mucking about on GarageBand or Fruity Loops or whatever.

Simon: I’ve played guitar since I was a kid, and me and my mates would grab a few beers and go to the to the school music hall where they had a bit of gear and just muck about in the evenings. We both had a hobby of loving music and tinkering about.

Bruce: I met this geezer called Henry, who was a drummer. He’d been to Brit School and through him I ended up meeting a few of these fellas that played actual instruments, which wasn’t really my upbringing. I asked Harry if he wanted to start a band and he told me about this guy who looked like Mick Jagger at the time. That was Simon, and we just met up in Wetherspoons, got on really well and started mucking about.

That was the earliest iteration of the band. We started making a few tunes. We didn’t know how to make songs or anything, but we just sort of did it. We didn’t even have a bass player. We were going round the London circuit for a bit. After Covid, I learnt to make things on Logic, and we started just banging demos back and forward. It felt freeing. We’ve almost come out of the bedroom and we’re going a bit bigger again with this album. It feels now [like] we’ve found our voice. It feels really exciting to be able to actually go a bit grander with it and make something bigger.

How did you land upon a sound that felt right?

Bruce: I don’t think you ever land on anywhere, really – you’re always evolving. For Millionaires… we landed in a place where, conceptually, we had a world, and we knew that the world that we were building was working class graft in London and going out and about. There’s so many different aspects to that, which meant it’s eclectic, because London is an eclectic place. You can have a dance record next to a slightly more rocky record, and it makes sense, right?

For me personally, I’ve always been really drawn to artists like Bowie and Prince, people that reinvent a lot of different stuff and they’re not scared to push the envelope. I think with this record, we’re continuing that, but in a sense of, ‘Right, we really know the voice, we know that what we can really bring to the table’, and we’re just times-ing that by 100 and bringing it to a natural level.

The spoken word style you go for in part seems to be going through a revival. Does it help get the message across clearer?

Simon: It’s a lot less abstract I think.

Bruce: Yeah, I think my writing isn’t that abstract as well in general compared to someone like Antony Szmierek, who is a lot cleverer than me and a lovely bloke. He was a teacher! I’m just a bloke picking stuff that I would say in real life, do you know what I mean? But I think that’s what people obviously do gravitate towards, because they see themselves in the songs and then they get them. When they get them, they really get them. I’d rather be hated by the right people and loved by the right people than someone just be like, ‘Yeah, they’re alright’.

Who are the haters?

Bruce: Well, not everyone’s gonna get it, and sometimes we get comments from people being like, ‘Oh, you’re obviously some posh boy from Surrey’ or whatever. I’m like, ‘We ain’t mate! We’re just normal working class geezers talking about normal stuff’.

And you supported The Streets earlier this year!

Simon: It was always going to happen in my mind! We met Murkage Dave, and he’s one of Mike’s mates. We met Mike on a train to Reading Festival, so we were always in that world a little bit, so when it happened I thought, ‘Of course!’

Bruce: We started by flinging DMs to Mike saying, ‘Love you mate’, but we realised we had to graft and do our thing to properly get there. We had Maverick Sabre with us on the one of the days too, and getting support and having chat with people like that backstage is really nice.

And there’s the prospect of your own tour too later this year…

Simon: We’re really excited because we’ve got a dummer now, as opposed to the last tour which was just us with a DJ controller. Having that next step of the live show will be great. As music fans, we both love shows that feel like shows and are different from the record. Having a drummer is going to add a real push to the whole thing!