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。
It seems that Christmas time is here once again, and it is time again to bring in the New Year. We wish the merriest of Christmas to you and your loved ones, and we wish you happiness and prosperity in the year ahead. Yola
HELLLOOOO :) I love you guys alot, fancy like coming to Oxford? :P Im so gutted I missed you last time :( :( :( It might be a dumb question... but... I was wondering if your kings College concert was just for people at the Uni? I very much hope not :) xxxxxxxx
Your concert in Hamburg last week was so awesome! One of the best I've been to this year. Please come back to Germany soon. Thanks to Johnny Foreigner!
Hey Alexi ! Got yer new album , 2nd try at Rough Trade ! !so save hassle , time , money energy and waste . Btw is Kelly into spliffs as well.....? Should I bring down some more next time?!sx
very nice set tonight guys, i enjoyed it a lot. definitely beat Colston Hall 2months ago :) also, i took photos and a couple of videos which shall be on youtube sometime soon if that is quite alright with your lovely selves. come back soon? lotsa love x
Hey Alexi 'n Junior ! Thanx for t-shirt . Just had cold wash no.3 - needs 6 at least not to have it shrunk afterwards : ) Hope u got back ok + enjoyed goodies , those are the ones i do while DJ-ing ! Does Kelly fancy any of that as well , I gotta bring down some more next time .........sx
Hey guys! As I write it was a pleasure to listen to your music yesterday at "Astrastube". Altogether with "Parts and Labor" the best concert I have heard this year! :-) Thank you!
arcs across the city, 2007 
waited up till it was light, 2008
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