alexei, kelly and junior play all the musics. lewes does the arts. martin does the live sound and lea and vicky tour manage and drive and fix stuff and tell us where the toilets are. we use guitars and drums, a casio SA-21 and a little box we brought in japan.
theres a lock up in hockley with our name on it but this year we're chasing the perfect tour. we're connisseurs now... and we've got legends to keep up
written communication
personal - johnnyforeigner@hotmail.co.uk (noone in this band is called "johnny foreigner, k?)
management, it took us 2 years but he's a total catch - write to gareth - gareth@fearandrecords.com
for press and publicity ting, or just to praise him, write to matt - matt@devilpr.co.uk
label things and world-wide restaurant advice, write to anthony - anthony.shaw@channelfly.com
gigs, buy us bottle of gin then write to david - david@codaagency.com
Influences
and it starts like:
capn jazz, the most serene republic, broken social scene, film school, bloc party, up up down down left right left right b a start, death cab for cutie, dismemberment plan, voo, explosions in the sky, the girll in brighton who danced to joan of arc, joan of arc, owls, make believe, ghosts n vodka, vodka, american football, promise ring, oxes, love of everything, biffy clyro, seafood, friday 6pm - saturday 1pm, little dipper, twist, jetplane landing, sky larkin, free diamonds, the van pelt, minus the bear, the autolight, low, rapider than horsepower, guillemots, rainer maria, stapleton, final fantasy, the stupidly pretty girl from the ub40 show (says lex, we don't collectively hang out these types of places in general (i saw her like, 2years later, she lost her glow)), the notwist, my vitriol, los campesinos!, my bloody valentine, m83, hella, pavement, modest mouse, piperazine, drug of the future, umlaut, clem snide, hot club de paris, metric, blakfish, lady sovereign, jim o'rourke, the combination of amoxicillin n paracetamol, the national, akira the don, action plan, from monument to masses, 35 seconds, stars, deus, pixies, futureheads, !!!, hot hot heat, bright eyes, sparklehorse, an alphabet, wilco,the sea and cake, rilo kiley, boo radleys, little things, little things, the wrens, the hold-steady, longpigs (both albums, yeh?) staring vaguely into middle distance, joanna newsom, god speed! you black emperor, super 8 motels...and you will know us by the trail of dead, metronomy, the starries, art brut, the great depression, cable, local history, the invisibles, fight like apes, at the drive in, rival schools, blood brothers, tindersticks, liking someone so much you cant meet their eyes, fourtet, yeah yeah yeahs, boards of canada, urusei yatsura, mr music and his cds, dananananaykroyd, gin, shy child, paper cups and more gin, jeniferever, ac acoustics, your mom, bis, far, the wannadies, sam isaac, copy haho, kaito, the weakerthans, twinkie, kenickie, karate, pj harvey, beck, love ends disaster, grandaddy, kel moving heavy amps whilst the guys blag free tees from the other bands, ella fitzgerald, radiohead, window seats, standing alone in festival crowds, breeders, the calming presence of lea room, captain, steven malkmus, preston school of industry, micah p hinson, cay, sonic youth, the ibanez tubescreamer ts-9, distophia, the crocketts, waiting for summer, smashing pumpkins, wake'n'bake, zea, deicide, sleater kinney, machine the man, fly pan am, the holdsteady, diner dash ds, set fire to flames, king adora, tubelord, meet me in st. louis, girls vs boys, the lemonheads, ask/answer, q and not u, nearly falling asleep in metal pubs, friend/enemy, not getting lost, postal service, lali puna, deftones, metric, goodbye, motor skills!, antlers, text adventure, yourcodenameis:milo, fugazi, jesus lizard, eels, be good tanyas, belly, lftr pllr, the stills, chow chow, flight socks, actually needing a ponce rack, arcade fire, jetlag, i can make a mess like nobodies business, we'regayforsunset cinema club, getting free levis, marvel civil war, the paper chase, anathello, that night kelly showed the academy her arse, talking the proverbial shit, wedding present, teenage fanclub, jeff buckley, fear, records, fear and records, desaparecidos, calexico, your dad, sorry alexei likes (sleeper), k, dexys midnight runners (not the drug its rubbish) the 'reimagined' battlestar galactica, i fly spitfires, elastica, the go! team, duran duran, wow and flutter, matmos, lewes herriot, crimson curse, akon, dublin, futureshock studio crew, redditch, shibuya, tuttlingham, west philly, v for vendetta, xiu xiu, no-one knowing the answer to my dynasty warriors 5 question cos no-one else plays it, alexei and ryans 7 year plan, microphones, feeling you should really be somewhere else, cornelius, do idea, death in vegas, robot chicken, korean grills, the dears, breaking into hotel rooftop gardens, swimming in yr villa pool with cocktails at 3am, being on first name terms with famous bands crew, tegan n sara, the big ass emulator discs 1 and 3, nada surf, weezer, her space holiday, dntel, figurine, not having arrest warrants, winuae and winuae-x, dive dive, gofaster, frank sinatra, rocketship, europa cafe on 42nd and broadway, settlefish, shy child, the teenagers, the changes, claires mix cd, arms at last, mezzanine owls, hotdog machines, elle s'appelle, barr, pete the tm, casiotone for the painfully alone, the casio sa soundboard, the headlights, nigel, mild recreational drugs, thomas tantrum, squarepusher, fight like apes, shellac, mr harvey birrell, seu jorge, luna, neverwhere, thinking you have hours left on flights when you have minutes, hiding from bayliffs, joy division, ides, 6th street and keeping austin weird, jesus & mary chain, mclusky, pull tiger tail, tender forever, hiding our weed from the rozzers, advance wars dual fronts, john spencer blues explosion, van she, waking on arrival, kexp seattle, remembering that it used to be called college rock, candence weapon, BA long haul inflight entertainment, operator, please!, taco bells 4th meal of the day, sub of the day, japanese mcdonalds, simons lovesick calls to kelly, shocked elevator family, hotel awesome ny, ibizian dancing girls, the subways, arco, dead relatives you hate talking about, good concierge, bad concierge, good taxi, bad taxi, good soundchecks, bad soundchecks, good customs, bad customs, francoise hardy, promotors that feed us, miss kittin, atienne de rocher, hole, r4/TTds, clinic, sleepy jackson, mouldy peaches, late of the pier, getting our proper rider, getting surplus rider, the black panther movement, 59c orange tropical fantasy, not being violently sick all day, knowing layouts of capital cities, shotgunning this, shotgunning that, yo la tengo, the mae-shi, by suprise, miles davis, dirty three, sheryls magnetic aura/meneguar, volcano, i'm still excited!!!, piers, lakes, free bars and bat colonies, laura who never added us, anticipation, where's the gin, there's the gin, everyone you ever met, ever. ping!
wait..
laura added us. everythings alright forever. xx
. hello this is the ongoing interactive story of johnny foreigner. there are 3 of us, we come from birmingham, we dont go out too much and we have a tendency to overcompensate. we write noisy pop songs for people what like the same bands as we do. last year we put out two 7" records on Laundrette Records. they both sold out and got played on the rah-dio and stuffs. we were pretty fucking proud. last summer we signed a proper record deal, with cone-tracts and everything, for Best Before Records. we recorded an eepee called arcs across the city at southern studios, it got mega good reviews from magazines we'd almost stopped buying and a lot more people started listening to us. we went to new york to make a proper album at the end of last year, it came out in spring and we had like, 4 months living in a van and peoples floors touring it round the country (with the occasional overseas holiday/show). we spent the summer alternately jetting around the world and vanning around the uk playing festivals. we just finished a yookay tour with some awesome other bands, if you weren't there you so missed out.. junior lost his ipod, alexei went crowdsurfing and kelly got totally bloody.
After that, there was a headline tour of the UK (again) with Dananananakroyd (yay) and then the end of 2008 saw us playing the biggest places we've ever played in support of the Futureheads, who are all amazing, and equally very, very tall. In 2009 - this year - we sat and wrote songs and songs and more songs. Then we did our first tour of Europe with Sky Larkin. That too was good. Show great. Repetition. Show amazing. Repetition. We like gigging. On 8th March we flew from Sweden to Heathrow, we then didnt leave Heathrow and got on another plane to NYC which is where we are right now recording ALBUM NUMBER TWO. You'll be hearing more about that real soon. After we're done we're playing more gigs with 100 Reasons and then... TBC. But obviously it will involve more gigs. Obviously...
Anyway, the plan is to keep playing shows and making records until we explode or run out of fingers. we're permanently achey but its still the best job we'll ever have..we do what we can...
if you would like to know more about us, click thusly. or you could always ask....
“近道とブランケットを秘密と交換した、人々に囲まれるように未来を念入りに計画して、そんなにすぐ終わってしまうとは考えつきもしないような、ガス灯の下のロマンティストのように、無邪気な抱擁をした”
―“クリミナルズ”より
高い評価と多くのブログでの賞賛を得たデビュー作である「Waited Up ‘til It Was Light」の一年後、ジョニー・フォリナーは素晴らしい二作目「Grace and the Bigger Pictureグレース・アンド・ビガー・ビクチャー」をベスト・ビフォア・レコーズよりリリースして戻ってきた。このアルバムでは、プロデューサーにアレックス・ニューポート(DeathCab, Rival Schools, At the Drive In, The Mars Volta)を迎え、ニューヨークで録音された。
「グレース～」は成熟して陶酔的な、エキサイティングで雑多なアルバムだ。そしてある部分においては、彼らが去年バンドとして共に過ごし、ツアーのために愛する人々から離れなければいけなかった、というドキュメントでもある。ニューヨークでのレコーディングとギグから「僕らはタクシーの後部座席でタイムズスクエアでの渋滞に巻き込まれてる（カスタム・シーンズ）という言葉が、そして世界中でのフェスティバルの経験から「冷たいテントの中で僕らはただ酒を飲む（ゴースト・ザ・フェスティバル）」という言葉が生まれた。フロントマンのアレクセイは詳細に描きだす―野心と挫折、愛と喪失の物語を。そして、それにまつわる素晴らしく、鼻につく、必要で、不必要な、後悔に満ち、そして忘れがたい出来事すべてを。
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Here's this show’s playlist :- 1. Tempting Rosie - Fagin (4:10) 2. Machine Boy - Spooked (4:52) 3. The Courtesy Group - Questret (3:36) 4. Czech Cheque Checkers - Two Thirds of Nothing (3:47) 5. The Heels - Shot in the Dark (2:13) 6. Jo Hamilton - Winter is over (studio session) (2:33) 7. SpeedTheory - Cursed (6:18) 8. Tiny Cinema - Epilogue / Prologue (2:46) 9. Circus Town - Hear My Devil (3:14) 10. Wiseblood - Desert Children (5:47) 11. Johnny Foreigner - Security to the Promenade - Napoleon iii Remix (3:41) 12. Mr Bones and the Dreamers - Lend Me a Looking Glass (4:15) 13. The ME Band - Living in a Council Flat
ARGGGH, there was a t-shirt design at your gig in Brum but had run out of mens ones, it was black with yellow ghosts and like electricity pylons or something, please get it back in the store, I must have it, it was the most freaking awesome band tee i've seen in ages.
Hey! Just got GATBP and it's awesome :D Got a couple of vinyls too, wish I could've got to the instore tomorrow :( Ahh well, next time eh? I'd go to Guildford or Reading but the age limits are just too high :(
the new album is some of the best music i've ever heard before. i was the guy singing along when you supported hundred reasons in edinburgh. i will come see you another time with a bottle of gin. you set an example for other bands.
I LOVE THE NEW ALBUM SO MUCH :) ourr favourite is more heart, less tongue andddd what i hearted was, that it sold outt in liverpool probe :) howw acee.! adoreeeeee brittany&jacky♥ (so sorry about nott making the gigg the other week,, we couldnt buyy train fare with dollars i guess ha - gutted though) keepintouchhhhhhhhxxxxxxxxxx x
yet another smashing free gig, you guys really do spoil us :) That's three times I've got to see you in the last few months; lovin it. Can't wait for the new album to come through the post and see myself at the front of the crowd on your DVD. lookin forward to seein you again, traaaa! Joe
... now if only i could find some blu-tac to put up your poster with.
Just purchased yr album, whilst im waiting for recordstore to deliver, could you please compare its lovelyness with the lovelyness of an other object so I can prepare myself x
OMG yeah i just got an email saying you guys are playing rough trade FOR FREE *SCREEEEAAAAM* BUT could you please tell me how long your sets gonnna be because DISASTER OF DISASTERS i have to babysit from 7-8 NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO but if its like up til 9 then ill come if not then ill trek down to birmingham or something and see you there
oh yeah and what rough trade is it is it the brick lane or the other one
i cant wait for your next album!! i've learned up criminals but i just cant figure out the lyrics. its such a good song.
everything on waited up till it was like is like super good, im serious. ur album's like w hole experience, one has to listen to it from a-z to fully grasp it.
its so cool. im blabbering.
u guys rock. keep doing what u do. n maybe one day u guys could drop by my small country of Malaysia and perform.
arcs across the city, 2007 
waited up till it was light, 2008
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