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News: JOHN share the single ”Riddley Scott Walker, taken from their forthcoming album
Seeing the light of day today is the pulsating single ‘Riddley Scott Walker‘ which features a guest turn from former Bad Seed & Magazine man Barry Adamson. Drawing its title from the Russell Hoban novel Riddley Walker, which imagines a post-nuclear war future in which society has regressed and history has been obliterated to such an extent its …
News: JOHN share new single ‘The Common Cold’, from new album A Life Diagrammatic, which comes out in September
Landing online today ”The Common Clod” which closes out the album A Life Diagrammatic, uses sampled noise to hammer home the damaging role of traditions in our present – and how these traditions often prevent positive changes in our future – and builds from distorted, industrial drums and wailing, siren-like guitars into repeated ruminations of “it’s comical, …
News: John announce new album ”A Life Diagrammatic”
Today, cryptically-named duo JOHN – comprised of John Newton (drums, lead vocals) and Johnny Healey (guitar, backing vocals) – announce their fourth album, A Life Diagrammatic. The follow-up to 2021’s Nocturnal Manoeuvres LP, which broke new ground for the band by crashing the top 75 of the UK album chart, it arrives Sept 22nd via Brace Yourself and Pets Care Records. Its release in September will be accompanied by a tour of …
Live Review – John at the Georgian Theatre with support from Wych Elm and Onlooker 12.10.21
By Steve White Last week John released Nocturnal Manoeuvres, their third album and probably one of the best albums that will see the light of day in 2021. So tonight’s gig at The Georgian was potentially also going to be a highlight of the year. I wasn’t prepared for just how good it would be. …