Scottsdale's Good Boy Daisy books Club Congress for February

The Arizona rock band plays Tucson's Club Congress on Friday, Feb. 19, with Lake Drive opening and tickets at $17.

Arizona bands that break out usually do it by leaving: summer tours, out-of-state festivals, Midwest clubs a long drive from home. So there's something satisfying about a Scottsdale band coming back down I-10 with a year of road miles behind it. Good Boy Daisy plays Club Congress on Friday, Feb. 19, 2027, with Lake Drive opening. The show starts at 7 p.m., tickets are $17 through DICE, and the date was announced Oct. 22.

Good Boy Daisy is a homegrown story. Coverage of the band traces it back to Scottsdale, where sisters started the project in 2015, and Phoenix-area outlets have long treated it as a local act worth championing; one Valley music blog headlined a Marquee show simply as the local Scottsdale band rocking out. Alt AZ 93.3's Homegrown segment has spun the band's song "Figure It Out" alongside other Arizona acts.

What's changed lately is the size of the map. In March 2026 the band released Blitz, and it has spent the months since touring on it. This summer's run, billed at some stops as the Summer Love Tour, took Good Boy Daisy to rooms like the Duck Room at Blueberry Hill in St. Louis in early August, and the band also played Milwaukee's Summerfest. Profiles describe a band actively campaigning the new release, which is a polite way of saying they've been living in a van.

A Scottsdale band coming back down I-10 with a year of road miles behind it.

That makes a February Friday at Club Congress a homecoming of sorts, even if Tucson isn't technically home. Club Congress holds about 400 people, a room big enough to feel like an event and small enough that a band with a loyal regional following can pack it. For an Arizona act, it's one of the rooms that tells you where you stand in-state.

The opener, Lake Drive, fills out a bill that is priced to get people in the door. At $17, this is one of the more affordable ways to spend a Friday night downtown, and a 7 p.m. start leaves room for dinner on Congress Street beforehand or a later stop afterward.

The listing files Good Boy Daisy under indie, which fits the do-it-yourself path the band has taken, though anyone who has caught them on a festival stage knows they lean toward the louder, guitar-forward end of that word. Expect the new songs from Blitz alongside the material that built the local following in the first place.

For Tucson listeners who have only heard the band on Phoenix radio or seen the name on a summer festival poster, this is a cheap and easy chance to see what the fuss up north has been about. For anyone who has followed them since the early Valley shows, it's a chance to see what a year on the road has done to a band you already liked.

Tickets are $17 through DICE via the link on this page. Get there for Lake Drive, stay for the sister act that has been making Arizona proud one out-of-state club at a time.

Sources: Local Scottsdale Band, Good Boy Daisy Rocks at Marquee (Beneath a Desert Sky) (beneathadesertsky.com); This week on Homegrown: Courtesy Call, Good Boy Daisy, Figure It Out and Thoughts Like Rockets (Alt AZ 93.3) (altaz933.com); Good Boy Daisy (Mile of Music) (mileofmusic.com); Good Boy Daisy (Blueberry Hill) (blueberryhill.com); Good Boy Daisy - Duck Room - St. Louis, MO - 08.03.26 (The Pageant) (thepageant.com); Good Boy Daisy (Sennheiser artist profile) (sennheiser.com); Good Boy Daisy at Club Congress (JamBase) (jambase.com)