Hi, yesterday was the most YAY!!!/NO!! off our most YAY!!/NO!! tour yet. Parking tickets and powercuts and our guitars/amps/shoes falling apart, that was a point at the end of the show where I was floating around on my back in the top of the audience with a big dumb smile realising that all this is probably worth it. And the someone robbed my microphone and sort of tarnished the evening. Im sick of whining musicians so I’ll not dwell on us being another 100 quid down, but the sentimental value of that sm58 to the person who trustingly lent it to me isn’t something we can replace by jacking up shirt prices or not eating for a couple of days. If you know our band, then you’ll know which we’d sooner do, and the love in the room last night was proof to us that we’re justified in skinting ourselves to do this band. I reckon some drunk kidlet took it in revenge for having to wait round while the venue fixed it’s flux capacitor. well done, you really showed them. We’re doing a free show in December, it’ll probably be billed as an apology for last night but really we just love what we do, any excuse. If you bring us the severed head of the guy who robbed our mic, we’ll give you our gin. We won’t have much else to offer any more. Thx leeds, 99percent of you are wonderful xxx
xlex

So, as you know the single Criminals is available now with two new bsides - Palace Fires and Things We Should Have Left On The Beach.

It’s only available digitally, so there’s no beautiful artwork when you purchase your little bits of bytes.

However, you can download hi quality front and back covers here and do as you will.

FRONT

BACK

and here’s your bonus WALLPAPER

Johnny Foreigner: Being nice to fans since 2007.

Gig gig gig gig.

Hello people who like Johnny Foreigner / especially in London.

After last night’s triumphant London gig, we’re excited that they’ll be back in the big smoke on Monday 26th October to perform an instore gig at Rough Trade East. That, as you might have noticed is also the UK release date of the new album. SYNERGY.

so:

26th October - London - Rough Trade East - FREE ENTRY - 7pm.

Also, because there’s just too many towns in Britain to do in one go, here’s six more shows for the end of November.

November
24th Southampton Joiners
25th Reading Sub89
26th Guildford Boiler Room
27th Stoke Sugarmill
28th York Fibbers
29th Edinburgh Cabaret Voltaire.

Tickets available now from usual places. If you hang on for a few days, you can get them from this site for only a £1 booking fee. Cheapest prices going, we tell ya!

Finally (ish) there’s another special album launch show on Thursday, 29th October at New Slang in Kingston, run as ever, by those lovely Banquet Records people.

Oh, our single Criminals is available now via itunes for £1.29 for three songs. HIT ALERT.

Hey all, for those of you who dowloaded the gin dagger… ep, and want a nice completed package, you can download front and back images below:

Front FRONT

Front BACK

Hello Johnny Foreigner website visitors: A note from Team JF

“In advance of the release of their sophomore album ‘Grace and the Bigger Picture’ on October 26th and the single ‘Criminals’ on October 12th, Johnny Foreigner today unveil details of a free 7 track download remix EP to celebrate the start of their UK tour.

The ‘gin dagger cite her bar cut’ EP is available from www.musicglue.com/johnnyforeigner and contains remixes of 7 tracks from the band’s forthcoming album, as reworked by the likes of Los Campesinos!, Sky Larkin, Internet Forever, Response and the band themselves. ”

Full tracklisting:
1. Security to the Promenade - Napoleon IIIrd Remix
2. More Tongue, Less Heart - Response’s Cycle Mix
3. I’llChooseMySideAndShutUpAlright - (Sky Larkin) Coati Remix
4. Choose Your Side And Shut Up - JOCKS Cover and Run Remix
5. Criminals - Los Campesinos! Remix
6. Feels Like Summer - Internet Forever Remix
7. More Heart, Less Tongue - Johnny Foreigner Remix

All files are hi-quality 320kps MP3s.

In addition, we’re are excited to reveal that every 50th downloader will win a pair of tickets to a Johnny Foreigner headline show of their choice.* Winners will be notified by email.
The band’s tour begins tonight in Nottingham and calls at the following dates:

JOHNNY FOREIGNER headline October tour - Support comes from TELLISON and JAPANESE VOYEURS

05 Oct Bodega - Nottingham
06 Oct Jericho Tavern - Oxford
07 Oct The Flapper - Birmingham
08 Oct The Caver - Exeter
09 Oct Audio - Brighton
10 Oct The Garage - London
12 Oct The Harley - Sheffield
13 Oct Deaf Institute - Manchester
14 Oct Brudenell Social Club - Leeds
15 Oct King Tuts - Glasgow
16 Oct Korova - Liverpool
17 Oct Soul Tree – Cambridge
23 Oct – SWN Festival – Cardiff

Tickets available at www.musicglue.com/johnnyforeigner

*The lottery will be ‘drawn’ by us fair folk at the website. We understand that some of you might not live near the places the band are playing in 2009, so we will honour your tickets as and when the band get to near where you reside. If you want to ‘gift’ your tickets to someone else, you need to email gareth@fearandrecords.com - we will notify you promptly if you have won. We like you. Thank you.

You probably know that the new album ‘Grace And The Bigger Picture’ is coming out next month - October 26th - and a single, ‘Criminals’ is released on 12th October.

To make some extra special versions of the album, we’re filming a show THIS SATURDAY (12th September) at the Borderline, London for a DVD to accompany ‘Grace..’, and we’d like you to come down. It’s free, of course.

The show starts at 1pm prompt, so it’s doors at 12pm - all ages invited.

In order to get in, all you need to do is email johnnyfreestuff@gmail.com and give us your name - all people are allowed to bring a friend. A plus 1, as they say in the evil music biz. It’s limited to 150 people, so please mail us soon as you can.

Where’s The Borderline? It’s here:

Hope you can make it.

There’s going to be lots more news in the coming week, so stay tuned to the website / myspace / things like that.

And don’t forget that the band are on tour soon - we’ll also be visiting the rest of the UK, Europe and beyond in the coming months.

thanks

Team JF

hello pony up!
thank you for selling our new record!
CAN WE COME TOUR NOW PLZ?

hello look: real news

these bands will be touring the england + glasgow with us in october:

tellison

 and

japanese voyeurs

srsly tellison! arghhhhhhhhhhhhh! we = tres excited!

i’d forsure like to write about these bands and how much we like them but im afraid MUSIC CRITICISM IS DEAD. 
so listen yrselveses ..

here is AN OFFICAL POSTER OF IT!

click to buy tickets! FOR US!

kthxby