GIG REVIEW - Johnny Foreigner
- Posted on October 31, 2007 10:45 AM
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Camden Barfly
October 24th 2007
- Review By Holly Groom
Johnny Foreigner are Alexei (guitar, vocals), Kelly (bass guitar, vocals) and Junior (simultaneous drums and Casio keyboard) - you need to see them now while they are still the wonderfully shambolic, half punk, half pikey, half cut racket that I saw this week at the Barfly.
It's not that they give the impression that they are going to change or grow up, it's just that this band have been getting media coverage from the likes of Vice magazine, the NME and Radio 1's Huw Stevens , so if you're not quick about it, everyone else is going to get there first.
Their sound is a bit like Cap'n Jazz, Help She Cant Swim or Atari Teenage Riot , but they stand out on their own in terms of clattering, noisy, sweat-soaked enthusiasm. Junior is a surprisingly brilliant drummer for a band that look like they formed at a bus stop five minutes before the gig. His perfect timing holds together the competing noises of Alexei and Kelly whose battling vocals and thrashing guitars might otherwise, at times, have been lost. Their raw, unpolished energy is increasingly gathering mainstream attention. Catch them now before the daytime playlists do.
For more info on Johnny Foreigner, check out their MySpace.
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alexei foreign
wow, thanks!
flattered, yip yip
x alexei
Posted on November 4, 2007 4:24 PM
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