...according to our Maggie on Thu 24 May, 2007.
Now split single from Johnny Foreigner with Yes you talk too fast and the Sunset Cinema Club with Down on the Farm. First up Johnny Foreigner with their punky fast riffed guitars chugging bass and that expressive vocals that drive the single like a breathy express train. The structures are always jumping around with gusto and explosive excitement. A chuffing great song. The Sunset Cinema Club (named after a closed down Porno Cinema in Birmingham). Another punk inspired jolt of distorted shouted angst. Angry and anarchic but not without an ear for the melody and structure of pop. Each band plays 2 songs and their 2nd is a cover of the other bands making it a big love in.. arrrrhhhhh!! It all comes with 3D specs and postcards and some rocking tunes.
Johnny Foreigner/Sunset Cinema Club split single with 3D artwork
Description:
The Laundrette Recording Company continues it love affair with Birmingham with their 3rd release.
Yes you talk to fast/Down on the farm is a split single from long time friends Johnny Foreigner and Sunset Cinema club.
The
single contains an original track from each band as well as their
unique take of their favourite track by each other bands and also comes
with 3D artwork and postcard!
Johnny Foreigner:
Following
their sold out debut single ‘sometimes in the bullring’ and gigs with
the likes of los campineos, blood red shoes and Action plan, Johnny
Foreigner return with their second single with the Laundrette Recording
Company. Johnny foreigner is Alexei and junior and Kelly from
Birmingham, they listen to a lot of music. They have been together for
just over a year. Indie spazz pop is the pigeon hole they dislike the
least. They probably have too many songs with local references in and
seek to eulogise their city the way lifter puller burned Minneapolis.
They don’t sound like editors or the twang instead they make noisy pop
songs about girls and gin and sound like a bolt of anarchy! Their
Pixie-esque Black/Deal shouty vocals and guitar fuelled frenzy has the
obvious potential to drive you wild when performed live! A perfect mix
of frantic scratchy guitars, relentless drums and shouty overlapping
boy/girl vocals. Lo-fi pop genius.
Sunset Cinema Club:
Taking
their name from a closed down porn cinema in Birmingham, Sunset Cinema
Club have been making a racket in the second city for well over two
years, earning themselves a Maida Vale Session on Huw Stephen’s
‘Underground/Unsigned’ show and a spot in NME’s ‘Best Midlands’ band
expose in November last year. But with the said article being led by
bands like The Twang and The Enemy, SCC were keen to separate
themselves from the ‘Scene’ by wearing homemade Johnny Foreigner
T-shirts and pointing out at every given opportunity that they are, in
fact, from Redditch.
Bringing elements of punk, funk, metal and jazz
into their leftfield guitar pop, their triple-vocal assaults bring to
mind 80’s hardcore oddballs Minutemen or perhaps Fugazi tackling
Funkadelic songs. As unlikely a combination this may sound, the end
result is always ultimately a punchy, catchy pop song. Combine this
with their charmingly self-deprecating stage personas, ironically
misplaced pop clichés and lyrical penchants for awkward sexual
encounters and it’s no wonder why they are winning friends across the
length and breadth of the country
Tracklisting:
Side A
Johnny Foreigner: Yes! you talk too fast
Johnny Foreigner: Ninky vs Dingle (Sunset Cinema Club Cover)
Side B
Sunset Cinema Club: Down on the farm
Sunset Cinema Club: Candles (Johnny Foreigner cover)
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