Play Johnny Foreigner Radio
Johnny Foreigner
On Tour
1,246,317 plays (72,039 listeners)
Birmingham, England (2005 – present)
There are two artists using the name Johnny Foreigner.
1) Johnny Foreigner is an indie rock trio from Digbeth in Birmingham, England, consisting of guitarist Alexei Berrow, drummer Junior Elvis Washington Laidley and bassist Kelly Southern.
Before forming the band in December 2005, Alexei played in an act called Panda Love Unit. Kelly, who joined Johnny Foreigner some time later, had previously played with Twist and Baxxter, playing drums for the latter.
Panda Love Unit formed in Winter 2001 and split in Summer 2004. The band featured Alexei alongside Alan Wilson, Susan Ennis & Liz Hamblin. They released a 4 track EP, “fireworks to stick us…together” on Awkward Records.
Kelly replaced Twist’s bassist Lisa Lavery in 2001 after the release of Twist’s debut album, Magenta. The band featured vocalist Emma Fox, Vanessa White and Leanne Taylor. Upon her joining the band Emma said of Kelly, “She looks like, smells like, plays like and swears like us…she’s well in!” Soon after Twist released the EP “14,” and then signed a six-song deal with Bug/Library Publishing. Prior to joining Twist, Kelly played drums in another act called Baxxter.
The “prototype” Johnny Foreigner formed as “a country band with pretensions” (according to Alexei) with Kelly’s predecessor Daniel Boyle on bass in December 2005. Boyle left Johnny Foreigner to attend university, and now plays in London-based band Gentle Friendly. Prior to his leaving the original Johnny Foreigner line-up released We Left You Sleeping And Gone Now, a self-produced, 11-track album recorded in 2005 in a hand-made edition of 40 copies.
1) Johnny Foreigner is an indie rock trio from Digbeth in Birmingham, England, consisting of guitarist Alexei Berrow, drummer Junior Elvis Washington Laidley and bassist Kelly Southern.
Before forming the band in December 2005, Alexei played in an act called Panda Love Unit. Kelly, who joined Johnny Foreigner some time later, had previously played with Twist and Baxxter, playing drums for the latter.
Panda Love Unit formed in Winter 2001 and split in Summer 2004. The band featured Alexei alongside Alan Wilson, Susan Ennis & Liz Hamblin. They released a 4 track EP, “fireworks to stick us…together” on Awkward Records.
Kelly replaced Twist’s bassist Lisa Lavery in 2001 after the release of Twist’s debut album, Magenta. The band featured vocalist Emma Fox, Vanessa White and Leanne Taylor. Upon her joining the band Emma said of Kelly, “She looks like, smells like, plays like and swears like us…she’s well in!” Soon after Twist released the EP “14,” and then signed a six-song deal with Bug/Library Publishing. Prior to joining Twist, Kelly played drums in another act called Baxxter.
The “prototype” Johnny Foreigner formed as “a country band with pretensions” (according to Alexei) with Kelly’s predecessor Daniel Boyle on bass in December 2005. Boyle left Johnny Foreigner to attend university, and now plays in London-based band Gentle Friendly. Prior to his leaving the original Johnny Foreigner line-up released We Left You Sleeping And Gone Now, a self-produced, 11-track album recorded in 2005 in a hand-made edition of 40 copies.
Top Albums
-
Arcs Across The City
Johnny Foreigner
Buy- Download Album
- Amazon MP3 $5.94
- 7digital $7.77
- iTunes Search
- Buy Album
- Amazon $21.99
- eBay Search
Shoutbox
-
martinengel1 wrote:
they are so damn good!
-
Mycodenameis wrote:
Play Norwich for the sake of my sanity
-
blith-hears-all wrote:
hardworking Band an awesome Album.. enough said :D i want to see them Live :D
-
grayx wrote:
Salt, Peppa and Spinderella would be much higher if it wasn't for all the variations of tagging : (
-
Harve750 wrote:
Johnny Foreigner Is Aces, Feels Like Summer, Gin Dagger Cite Her Bar Cut and Winterval - 4 free EPs this year, not bad at all.
-
Hybrid_Demon wrote:
didn't want it to happen like this but graces may take my album of the year really surprised at the general opinion on the album, i think it's incredible.
-
mutexplosion wrote:
Didn't even know they released a new album until I read Gareth Campesinos' 'top 10 of 2009' list on Los Campesinos!' website. Liking it so far.
-
TheStoke wrote:
Good work on Palace Fires.
-
borisnummerdrie wrote:
Ghost the Festivals, great
-
Daaaaaaan wrote:
would somebody be kind enough to rip the acoustic bbc songs and upload them? i'm not in england right now and the bbc website seems to not like that.
-
Urbanov wrote:
Cause it's an official photo.
-
Ituri wrote:
Why is this picture always the first? // The new record is good as well.
-
matt_white wrote:
cool :D
-
DrinkCoke412 wrote:
they gotta tour the US FAST
-
Neooooooo wrote:
Not sure how I feel about the new material. Not bad, not fantastic--? I really loved Waited Up, so I'll give it a few more listens.
-
LukeCotton wrote:
I woke up on a beach is yes, its "mostly designed to make tubelord go "aaaaaaww"" Kingston called is a reference to New Slang (kingston indie-night with live bands which jofo have played 4 times)
-
matt_white wrote:
are 'I woke up on a beach...' and 'Kingston called...' references to Tubelord?
-
Mycodenameis wrote:
How the champagne girls sit on the stand and look out though the crowd, how nothing is wasted or compromised the champagne girls won't get you in.
-
Mycodenameis wrote:
Your town's run by Criminals
-
ARZICHOKE wrote:
Ev-ery sin-gle, sin-gle night out!
Videos
See more
Featured Tracks
|
|
Champagne Girls I Have Known | 3:21 |
|
|
Our Bipolar Friends | 3:20 |
|
|
Salt, Pepa and Spinderella | 2:55 |
Events
-
Feb
2
Johnny Foreigner
Ruby Lounge, Manchester, United Kingdom
Add shout
| 13 attendees
-
Feb
3
Johnny Foreigner
The Harley, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Add shout
| 26 attendees
-
Feb
5
Johnny Foreigner
Hare and Hounds, Birmingham, United Kingdom
1 shout
| 18 attendees
News
OMG READ THIS NOW OR YOULL DIE!!!
30 Jun 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/johnnyforeigner
OMG yeh, i wrote this blog about our new website, the one that we just made, and i sort of implied that said website was much better for knowing about our band than myspace, and then the blog got dele. …
-
1 Jun 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/johnnyforeigner -
30 Apr 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/johnnyforeigner -
29 Apr 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/johnnyforeigner
Listeners
-
Moghedien21
Listening now
to Eyes Wide Terrified -
palauris
Listening now
to Yes! You Talk Too Fast -
JPart
Listening now
to Yr All Just Jealous -
Zadolballi
Top Listener
-
NickAged7
Top Listener
-
Whillow
Top Listener
Recent Activity
-
unbelievers91 added Johnny Foreigner to unbelievers91’s library. 2 hours ago
-
DFA1979 wrote about Johnny Foreigner in 2009 albums - part 1. yesterday evening
-
thatstonergurl, villaamstrand, Ryan-Hughes and 1 other person added Johnny Foreigner to their libraries. yesterday evening
-
stereocassia tagged Johnny Foreigner with ‘british’. yesterday afternoon
-
DaRabbit90210, sykchan, xxGiZUxx763xx and 4 other people added Johnny Foreigner to their libraries. yesterday morning
-
WAARP tagged Johnny Foreigner with ‘seen live’. Monday afternoon
-
dyjiraga, NewLeifErikson, Gabuzna and 5 other people added Johnny Foreigner to their libraries. Monday morning
-
ha_ha_ha_ha uploaded DSC00431 to Johnny Foreigner’s images. Saturday evening
-
ha_ha_ha_ha linked Johnny Foreigner to DSC00431. Saturday evening
-
mtomson tagged Johnny Foreigner with rock, alternative and indie. Saturday evening
Related Journals
-
2009 albums - part 1
by DFA1979 |
6 Jan 2010 | Add comment
-
2009!
by caro_g |
2 Jan 2010 | Add comment
-
New Artist Voting for the British Rock Artists League!
by Gilaventi |
31 Dec 2009 | Add comment
Groups (32)
-
Johnny Foreigner
77 members
-
Tubelord
136 members
-
the muzack
58 members
-
Offbeat Sheffield
110 members
-
Born 1990
11,243 members
