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Fri 10th Apr JOHNNY FOREIGNER & TUBELORD TO PLAY THE ROCKHOUSE

JoFo and Tubelord hit The Rockhouse on Friday 8th May 2009. Tickets now on sale...

Waited Up ‘Til It Was Light is the debut album from Johnny Foreigner. Confirming their prolific nature, the album has as many surprises as it does their branded form of frantic, melodic, indie-rock exuberance. The band’s rigorous touring, most recently alongside Idlewild, Los Campesinos, Young Knives, Blood Red Shoes, The Subways and Forward Russia including appearances at NME Brats, SXSW, and the Great Escape swiftly cemented last single Eyes Wide Terrified as a live favourite. Fractured melody and unpredictability collide, in characteristic Johnny Foreigner fashion, before erupting in a juggernaut chorus that a 100 Broken Windows-era Idlewild would have killed for. With the Arcs Across The City mini album having been rapturously received with plaudits such as Kerrang!’s album of the week, The Fly’s single of the month and both Artrocker’s Single Of The Month and Album Of The Month, their debut full length documents the band’s continual rise in fine fashion. Sometimes a band comes along that you want to obsess over, collect all the B-Sides, search out the demos. They’re very few and far between, but, almost certainly, this is one of them. 
 
This summer check out JoFo at one of their many festival spots including: Hurricane and Southside Festivals (Germany), Truck Festival, Zoo Festival, Lounge on the Farm, T In The Park, Summersonic (Japan), Lovebox, Latitude, Stand Calling Festival, Surfstock and Sugarhill.

They will be joined by buddies Tubelord who themselves are fast becoming an household name via the DIY route. Think Biffy-Clyro-meets-Foals-style rock.

Local support comes in the form of My Psychoanalyst and Beyond This Point Are Monsters.

 

Price: £6.00
Age Limit: 16+
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Location: The Rockhouse, Babington Lane, Derby, DE1 1SX

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