Johnny Foreigner

New album ‘vs Everything’ out now on Alcopop Records

OFFICIAL WEBSITE - http://www.johnnyforeignerband.com

Johnny Foreigner follow up the release of their third album (with their highest ever first week sales) and two sold-out launch shows with news of a further UK dates for 2012, with the Brudenell one of them!

The band closed 2011 with tours of France and Japan with further European and North American shows to take place in the first half of 2012 as well.

About… ‘You vs Everything ‘

Johnny Foreigner’s third full album, ‘You vs Everything’ was released in November 2011 via Alcopop! Records. The realisations of six months of recording in various studios and spaces around the West Midland, it became the band’s fastest selling album and the subject to much acclaim from press and fans alike.

Speaking about their new album, guitarist and singer Alexei says: “We are bursting with excitement to be able to start talking about our wonderful record. It was made this spring and summer in our hometown by our old friend Dominique James, and will be released november 7th on Alcopop. it’s going to be called Johnny Foreigner vs Everything.

“We started writing it two years ago, and staggered recording and mixing over 5 months. the title came first. This is the first full length record we’ve made without a grammy - nominated producer, without contracts and new york and professionals. the biggest challenge we’ve faced as a band, and the worst thing about leaving the world of corporate-funded labels, was knowing that sooner or later we’d come to this point; having to make a way better record for a way worse budget… and i’m beyond proud to say that i think thats exactly what us and dom have achieved. we’ve made the record that sounds like we do in our heads.”
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more about Johnny Foreigner…

Hello. This is supposed to be one of those awkward 3rd person resumes that read like a CV whilst attempting to convince you how vital and relevant the band is. I’ve wasted many curious, then morbidly curious hours reading band press releases; I guess if yr reading this then you have too, and you’ve long since become immune to the hyperbole and wary of the language of omission. There’s nothing here that isn’t google-able for more detail or opinions, and we’d hope to be judged on our band and not our ability to write convincing prose. So with that in mind, here is me trying to write an unbiased and neutral summary of something that means more to me and my two friends than anything else, ever, ever. Fuck the 3rd person tho.

Our band is called Johnny Foreigner. We’re from Birmingham. You can read what you want into that. We’ve been a band since 2006. We’ve released 5 eps, 2 albums and 10 singles. We’ve lost track of how many shows we’ve played. We’ve toured in 4 continents, done enough major festivals to impress girls and guitar techs alike, been wowed and appalled by The Music Biz and we’re still here, bedazzled by what we’ve achieved and in love with the future.

We play what we’d mostly describe as college rock, with occasional bursts of electronica or alt-country or anything else that seems like a good idea at 5 in the morning. We’re at that 3rd album stage where we’re learning to relax, but we’re also learning to be more abrasive. I quite don’t know why I feel so obliged to point that out; but so many of the bands we’ve loved have got to this point and lost their spark, and from our completely subjective viewpoint at least, we still have demons to exorcise.

We write songs about our lives and the things that occur around us. It’s the same dull everyday (or mostly night) things that pass through everyone’s mind, only more overdramatic. girls, drink, distance, closeness, hope and defeat. We don’t think too hard about how songs are going to sound.

Our artwork is always drawn by our friend Lewes Herriot. You may have realised we have a theme.

We seem to garner a lot of press from the way we treat our fans and how open we are about the machinations of the industry we exist in. We grew up on limited edition glittery 7”s, american imports, record store gossip and pre-broadband downloads. Being young and in love with our favourite bands was like being in a gang, the shows like joyous drunken family reunions. Being able to soundtrack peoples lives is an amazing privilege, and the bands were always at the least courteous and friendly as we’d shakily mumble thanks for a signed setlist. We’ve been on the other side of the barrier for a while now and it never gets any less flattering. The best bands feel personal, and it’s no parlour trick or marketing campaign. We’re using the same channels available to everyone else, and I think it’s pretty sad that we stick out mostly thru lack of competition; To our minds, this is what a band should do.

We release our records with Alcopop. When our last label became a mess of corporate* facepalm, we avoided the subject for a year. We put a record out ourselves, paid for by presales. Like bitter divorcees, we talked about how we didn’t need anyone else. *We were right but we were lonely. We’ve always had respect for Alcopop and BSM, we’re in love with many of their bands. We share some good friends and everything we heard about Jack made us want to be on their roster. He understands what we’re doing and why, and, less personally, sees the decline of The Music Industry and value of songs as an excuse to put more effort and imagination and FUN into the end physical product. Alcopop are everthing we’d want from a record label apart from A Giant Bag of Someone Else’s Money; but we’ve all been broke since long before we started this.

In as much as we plan ahead, this year we’ll be touring the UK, then mainland Europe and then the USA, telling the world who we just releasing our 3rd album. It’s going to be awesome.

Thanks for taking an interest, I hope you are convinced.

Now Go Listen, Buy the Record, and Come to our gig!
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