Johnny Foreigner

Awesome announcement: pre-order your personalised 7″ single

admin — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:39:02 +0000

Heya. we here at JF towers really like vinyl. Unfortunately, some people don’t so much (understandably), as they usually lose money… so, we’re taking it upon ourselves to manufacture our own limited run of the next single on wax.

So, here’s the deal. Pre-order the Exciting Johnny Foreigner-Made Limited Edition 7″ of Every Cloakroom Ever, HERE HERE HERE which comes with 2 new tracks on the flipside, and your name will be incorporated into the artwork. Art of course will be put together by the inimitable (amazing) Lewes.

Deadline for pre-orders is February 11th 2010, after which we’ll go away and make it and send it to you. Does that sound cool? It does.

We’ll use the name on as per what’s on your order note - if you want a different name, include it in the notes/special requests section of your order.

PLEASE NOTE: You will also be sent Hi-Quality digital files of the tracks as well.

PLEASE ALSO NOTE: we can’t totally guarantee a release date, BUT we’d expect mid-march for shipping. And lots of updates to you ordering people so you don’t bang your heads on the wall in frustation in the meantime.

thank you as ever. We love you.
x

february uk tour / free winterval ep

admin — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:04:56 +0000

Hey all, hope you’re feeling the Christmas / non-denominational holiday vibe…

Lots of news: Firstly the band are on tour in February around the UK: The tour dates look like this:

February
1 Edinburgh Cabaret Voltaire
2 Manchester Ruby Lounge
3 Sheffield Harley
5 Birmingham Hare & Hounds
6 Cardiff Clwb Ifor Bach
7 London KCLSU

Support is tbc, tickets are available at all the usual places. We’ll get some up on this site soon as well.

Equally excitingly, the band have released a free 3-Track EP, which is available to download via this site (accessed from the front page). Alexei had this to say:

“Hello everyone!

to celebrate the coincidental happy news of our little tour being announced and the birth of little baby santa claus, please accept this free gift of songs from us to you.

Winterval is a term coined by our beloved city council some years back when a malfunctioning think tank decreed all other winter holidays to be slightly racist. The enthusiasm lasted long enough for banners to be hung around the city but never caught on with us actual humans, and was quietly dropped and forgotten about, till last week, when we thought it’d make a lovely name for this small package of songs.

ghost the festivals is from our new album, grace and the bigger picture, and is about festivals palace fires was a bside from our last single, criminals, and is about shopping dom’s yardy remix of custom scenes is new off of our hard drives. dom (of SUNSET CINEMA CLUB fame) thinks it’s hilarious, we think its awesome. make of that what you will.

happy winterval, everybody. We hope you are all warm and slightly drunk and coming to see us in february or some other month xxxxxxxx”

Download HERE:

Edinburgh show to be rescheduled

admin — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:57:49 +0000

Hi all,

We’re really very sorry to inform you that we’ve had to postpone the band’s show at Cabaret Voltaire this coming Sunday; the reasons are logistical and the requirement to be somewhere on Monday that we have to be at, but wouldn’t be able to get to otherwise.

We hate cancelling shows or messing people about, so we’re really regretful to announce this. We’ll add in the new Edinburgh show soon and hopefully you’ll still be able to make it if you were planning on going and equally hopefully, the awesome Internet Forever will be able to play too…

Apologies again.

UK shows begin next week + new London show

admin — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:06:07 +0000

Hi all,

Now that the band’s second album Grace and the Bigger Picture is out and hopefully living and breathing inside your heads, it’s time to announce a new London show as well as remind you of forthcoming shows in the UK and Ireland announced already.

Johnny Foreigner will headline London’s KCLSU - King’s College on Tuesday 9th February 2010. The show is 14+ There will be some more shows around that time as well, so hang tight for further announcements.

Tickets are on sale now and available at all the usual places - Stargreen, Live Nation, gigantic, ticketweb, See and ticketmaster

Additionally, the band are playing the following UK Shows from next week after they return from Europe:

November

23 Bristol Louisiana w/ Internet Forever
24 Southampton Joiners w/ Internet Forever
25 Reading Sub89 w/ Internet Forever
26 Guildford Boiler Room w/ Internet Forever
27 Stoke Sugarmill w/ Internet Forever
28 York Fibbers w/ Frankie & The Heartstrings
29 Edinburgh Cabaret Voltaire w/ Frankie & The Heartstrings + Internet Forever
tickets available here

December

11th Cork - Cypress Avenue
12th Belfast - Auntie Annies
13th Dublin - Academy 2
14th Leeds - Nation of Shopkeepers - FREE SHOW

hope to see you at a show!

a reminder: Rough Trade East instore - Monday!

admin — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:55:43 +0000

Hey all, just a reminder that JF are doing a free instore at Rough Trade East, off Brick Lane, East London this Monday (26th - album launch day!). They’re on stage 7pm sharp.. wristbands available during the day, but should be fine if you just walk up to the shop (it’s pretty big) from 6pm…

www.roughtrade.com

Tickets for the November Dark Harbourzz tour

admin — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:57:20 +0000

Hey there, as per the last tour, we’ve got an allocation for tickets for the upcoming shows (supported by the awesome Internet Forever) in November.

You can get them from the usual place. Unfortunately, two of the shows we couldn’t sort, so there’s just links to the usual ticket places.

Otherwise, for Southampton, Stoke, Guildford and York these are the cheapest tickets - with only a £1 booking fee.

See you on tour.

In other tour news - we’ll be announcing more UK dates in the coming weeks for next year - we’ll get to most territories eventually!

tour is over. new tour

admin — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 20:18:50 +0000

Hi everyone. Thank you very much for coming to the shows in the last fortnight - the biggest and best the band have done, in many ways. To celebrate, we’re going to go do some more in the UK very soon. Here’s a new poster to look at.

Ticket links from this site very soon - otherwise available from the usual outlets.

A message from Alexei re; Leeds last night

admin — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:38:20 +0000

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

criminals / artwork

admin — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:21:28 +0000

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.

instore! more tour! and another gig!

admin — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:36:27 +0000

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.