So where were we? Oh right, running down the tracks from Johnny Foreigner’s unreleased first full-length WeLeftYouSleepingAndGoneNow, recorded by the nascent trio in 2005 or so, prior to bassist Kelly Southern’s tenure in the band. But before we lay another two tracks on you — we’ve decided to go two at a time as our blogging efforts [...]
These true facts in from noise pop superheroes Johnny Foreigner: the band’s sophomore set “is pretty much done,” save for what sounds like some rough mixing to be done by Alex Newport. Mr. Newport and the band have been tracking the as-yet-untitled record for the last few weeks in Brooklyn; we expect there will be a third-party [...]
We thought today we’d bring you two tracks fromWeLeftYouSleepingAndGoneNow, as you’ve already heard one of them if you’ve followed our sage advice and logged on to hear the tracks streaming at this ghosted MySpace outpost. So “Caution! Vampires!” will not be new to you, but we expect the track that emerges from it on Johnny Foreigner’s [...]
People are excited about WeLeftYouSleepingAndGoneNow, and for good reason. The “lost” first Johnny Foreigner record is a very solid, incredibly rare collection of expansive, textured tunes recorded by one of the earliest iterations of the band. And so on the heels of our review last week, to which we appended MP3s for “Looking Up Is Not Enough” and [...]
Just a quick update for you today, but a worthwhile one nonetheless. Over on MySpace, Johnny Foreignerhave posted a new blog which references yours truly here at KSDS (which is a totally unofficial and completely comprehensive fan site made by some good friends of ours) as well as the revived Bloggy Foreigner (no baby raping or phishing here). The [...]
WeLeftYouSleepingAndGoneNow, the “lost” firstJohnny Foreigner record, was recorded in the band’s practice space and issued in 2005 in an edition of 40 copies packaged in handmade sleeves bearing photos of its beloved hometown of Birmingham, England. The surprise of the collection, recently unearthed through some persistent research conducted by our colleague Luke Cotton, is that [...]
[Behold our inaugural tour report, as sent in by Parisian reader and blogger Vanessa Deroo. KeepingSomeDarkSecrets aims to relay as much on-the-scene reportage as we can get from readers, so if you make it out to a show or in-store, please drop us a line with all the details and links to photos at keepingsomedarksecrets (at) [...]
As you should know by now, Johnny Foreigner are currently touring around Europe supporting Sky Larkin and we have a number of updates for you. Two blogs on Johnny Foreigner’s myspace recount the tour so far, and they can be found here (Johnny Europa) and here (part 2, the Germanic States). Those long-term fans will recall that [...]