Thought you might to know that new fruits from recording world are now available.

It’s called ‘with who, who and what i’ve got’ and was recorded in February in South Africa as a collaboration with a lovely man called Peach who’s some sort of shit-hot producer / electronic genius. Hope you like the results.

There’s a full blog about it over at http://bloggyforeigner.blogspot.com/ as per. Read Alexei’s words.

In the meantime; enjoy. Oh, and download.

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So, since the UK tour ended a couple of months back, Johnny Foreigner went to South Africa and played headline shows and a massive festival. It was amazing. So I’m told. Web monkeys don’t get to go to South Africa.

ANYWAY. There’s lots of stuff going on. Just because it’s not on the internet, doesn’t meant it’s not happened.

Firstly, there’s shows booked - Live at Leeds, Dot to Dot, and various UK festivals, plus a first London show since February (that’s in June). See the gigs page. There’ll be more added soon. Oh, and we did Hinterland in Glasgow last week and it was great. Thanks Glasgow!

Secondly: vinyl’s on it’s way - thanks everyone for being kind and patient, and we’re almost there. Everyone who’s ordered will have got their digital versions by now - if you haven’t, contact us!

Thirdly; we’re recording new material, and there’s going to be exciting announcements soon. WE WILL NOT FORSAKE YOU! See you at a show soon, and much love.

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

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:

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.

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!

www.roughtrade.com

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!

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