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| How did you all get together? Well we added members 1 by 1, me and jonny shock knew each other from school and i saw him once on a bus and he was wearing a depeche mode t-shirt so i went up to him and we started chatting. We loved music but didn't start a band for another 2 years. Nash Francis was Jonny's mate and just looked so cool, he was into the Who and stuff, so we were like 'You're in.' Matt was a drinker in the local in Sidcup where Jonny used to drink and I met up with Matt and he loved Guns n Roses and had a great style, which was similar to ours so he was perfect. Thus Johnny Panic exploded into existance. How would you describe your sound? Rock n roll......... We have alot of influences both musically and lyrically (manics, clash, deftones, JEW, hanoi rocks, smiths, specials, dizzy raskal, rancid) and we are a hybrid of them. What's been the band's greatest achievement to date? Recording our album 'The Violent Dazzling' but truthfully we've achieved nothing so far. What's the most rock n' roll thing that's happened to the band? Define rock n roll......... A good story is Jonny Shock in New York. Were off to record our debut ep in NY and jonny drinks the plane dry on the way there, then goes straight to the bars once were there and proceeds to systematically get thrown out of every bar in time square as he constantly tried to take over from the DJ who he said 'was crap'. He had to be 'escorted' away from time square for his own good. Then go drum on our ep..... What is the most embarrassing thing that has happened to you on stage? Matts fallen off the stage. I've fallen over and Nash has tripped over me, but nothing too embarassing. How would you describe a typical Johnny Panic gig? Violent, dazzling. Which one song/artist made you think “ I want to be in a band “? The Manic street preachers. I was into all old skool punk bands (clash, pistols, ramones, MC5, only ones) then i saw the manics and it was like, this is happening now. When they started to fade I knew it was down to us in our generation to not only cause a riot but speak out for people and hopefully represent them, they're emotions, feelings and attitude. How did you get together with X-taster, who run your street team? We were aware that we needed a street team as that is precisely where we are. So we asked our manager whose the best? He replied instantly Xtaster, so we arranged to hook up with them. They came to a gig, had a chat and now we are here. How does it feel having fansites set up about the band? Awesome. We really want to reach out to people so the fact that, hopefully, this is starting to take effect is both humbling and electrifiying. Any Johnny Panic secrets up your sleeve you want to reveal? 'The only duty we owe history is to rewrite it.' What CD’s are you listening to at the minute? Taking back sunday, the bronx, the streets, radiohead, thrice,interpol, the beatles. Any bands you’ve played with we should keep a look out for? no So when you're not being Johnny Panic, what do the band like to do for fun? Rob- Taekwondo, been doing it for 12 years, gives me an edge when it comes to the live show. As we said 'violent, dazzling.' Nash- is an artist, he does all our art work. Matt- goes to gigs and plays with his pro-tools. Jonny- Drink. |
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| JOHNNY PANIC - THE VIOLENT DAZZLING (TRACK BY TRACK WITH ROB SOLLY) 1. Destiny Calling- “Jonny and I used to work in WH Smiths in Bluewater. I worked on my own in the warehouse just stacking boxes. The radio was my only friend and I was always being told to turn it down by the hierarchy. I went home and wrote an ode to the radio and the result is, we'll give the DJ something to play so they can shut up and play records: I don't wanna hear a competition or a joke. I want music.” 2. Winona- “The fact that Winona Ryder is featured in this song is not important, it is no ode to Winona, in-fact, it’s an observation of the public and media's fascination with stars. We were in New York watching the case unfold. I couldn't believe that the designer whose suits she stole supplied her with a different suit for each day of the case, the news items read 'what's Winona wearing today? Who cares. If she went to prison, the audience would soon forget, they wouldn’t hold a vigil outside the prison. Would they?” 3. Feel the Sound- “This is a tribute to Phil Spector. I've adored his music since an early age and became fascinated by his character and compulsions, he wasn't a particularly nice bloke but his chaotic and violent mind created these 'mini-symphonies for the kids'. He couldn't communicate with people in any other form than music. I particularly like the line 'I'm only 5"4, that's why I wear Cuban heels to your door. I guess I'm a little insecure.” 4. Chemical Girlfriend- “The girlfriend in question is a drug. I think it’s sad we’ve replaced real emotion for a chemical replacement, one that isn’t your true character. Do you dis-like yourself? It's a brief story of someone going out to a club with the sole intention of taking drugs. They think that it seems pretty exciting but it all depends on the drug kicking in so they can remove themselves and their character.” 5. Lunatic- “This song centres around a character who has no fear as they know they’re going to die…..one day.” 6. Hurt (I see you around)- “Kids feel the need to self-harm, to a degree we all do it, myself via Tae Kwondo. I think it's important to address taboos and this song doesn't glorify self-harm, it just acknowledges it exists and tells self-harmists they aren't alone. The Oxford centre for suicide research claims that 1 in 5 teenage girls commit self-harm. It’s time we became aware of the society that we live in.” 7. Burn your Youth- “Youth is wasted on the young.’ This song asks the listener 'are they living in a comfort zone?' If so reject it or at least question it. There is an the irony that the people who should be having the 'best time of their lives' are killing themselves. The biggest killer of 16-24 year old males in this country are themselves.” 8. Shut Up (with your silence) - “Started out as a comment on social and political apathy but quickly transformed into a rant about relationships and honesty. The lyrics were relevant to my life at that time. When I really needed to talk to someone, we sat there in virtual silence, talking about everything except the one thing that mattered to me..” 9. Automatic Healer- “There's been quite a few songs on prostitutes, most famously ‘Roxanne’ by the Police. Whenever I heard these songs they used to really wind me up because they were always saying lady you don't need to do that or were tongue in cheek. They never addressed the fact that men go and shag these women and pay money. Could the problem not be with men?” 10. The Constitution Blues- “This is a very straight forward critique of American gun laws 'a law of anarchy'. It appears to me that the mentality of the Wild West has never really left America. The constitution is seen as sacred, like it’s the 10 commandments. Yet it can be as misguided to claim that ‘Negroe’s are 7-10th’s of a man. Wake up and smell the coffee, it’s an American blend.” 11. She Goes Again- “Written after watching ‘Magaloof Uncovered’ or something like that. I was talking to my girlfriend about the characters from the show and it really got me wondering about what we (the youth) are searching for from relationships. Are we loyal or transitory? We can be obsessed with someone one day and have forgotten about them and moved on the next. I find the character in question tragically sad, because they feel no real emotion yet they describe the way they feel with real beauty, but note they only ever talk about themselves.” 12. You're a fool- “Most albums of our genre finish with their ballad or softer Pink Floyd type song. We wanted to do something which kept the theme of the album. ‘Destiny Calling’ and ‘Fool’ are like the bread holding the sandwich together. It’s a declaration that we have something to say. Who is the fool? It could be us (the band, should we fail) or you, the listener, for not seizing your life the way Johnny Panic would.” Read this and more Johnny Panic info at http://groups.msn.com/johnnypanic |
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| Johnny Panic, the UK's fastest rising punk activists, are threatening to wake up the socially un-conscious – just don't call um Scousers. 14 Jul, 2004 Q) How are you? A)Surviving Q) Your fantastically upbeat first single 'Burn Yoyr Youth' doesn't shy away from politics – what really gets your goat about the system? A)That we seem devoid of any real emotion. 'Burn Your Youth' was inspired by the fact that in the UK the biggest killer of 16-34 year old males is themselves. Evidently there is something not quite right with 'the system' otherwise people within our demographic wouldn't be rejecting it with their lives. No-one appears to ask why, and although we in Johnny Panic have no answers to this problem, we believe people should be made aware of society's true make-up and what some people feel against it. Suicide is generally quite a quiet protest, there are no banners or demonstrations. Ultimately we hope that by supplying this information to our audience we can raise awareness and spark debate. Q) Forget the Beatles, Lily Savage is easily the best thing ever to come out of Liverpool right? Or could that crown go to the lovely-legged Cilla Black A) No-way the beatles rule. I can't stand Cilla Black. She reminds me of Sunday nights and her tuneless burst into Surprise, Surprise meant that the weekend was over and it'd be school tomorrow. Q) Ever knicked a hub cap? A) Yeah i have, quite a few. My Fiesta was never in that good shape, so if you had better hub-caps i'd have them, to try and make my car look better. Q) Are there any bands you'd refuse to play with? A) Yeah all that pop, boy band bollocks. I don't think I'd be able to control myself from hitting them for 'crimes against music.' Particularly that Ronan Keating, I'd have him good. Q) And bands you'd love to play with? A) Loads. Foo fighters, Guns n Roses, The Darkness, Depeche Mode, Libertines, Blondie, The Clash, Jimmy Eat World, Razorlight, Franz Ferdinand, Muse, James Brown... the list goes on and on. Some we'd like to play with cause they're great and we love them. Others because we'd show them for what they really are, average. Q) Is there any logical thought behind so many Scousers insisting on wearing their socks over their shell suits and up to their knees? A) I'm starting to get the feeling you think were scousers? If I told Orient and Millwall. I think you might guess where we're from! (Sorry chaps there's another band doing the rounds with your name in the north west! – Ed) Q) Now tell us about your upcoming album A) 'The Violent Dazzling' – out in September Q) What next? A) Touring, single 'Burn Your Youth' out August 16 Alex Hardie |
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| BBC Guernsey Nominated for Kerrang's Best British Newcomer Award and having received a fair amount of press in terms of reviews but who are Johnny Panic?. I grabbed them before their gig at Chandler's, right after their sound-check, to find out. I had been pretty nervous about this interview - they look like real rock boys on their website. They turned out to be lovely really (Johnny is even nice enough to buy me a drink!) Johnny Panic are: Rob Solly Vocals, Guitar Matt James Guitar, Vocals Johnny Shock Drums Nash Francis Bass, Vocals How did you all meet? Rob: I met Johnny on a bus 10 years ago… he was wearing a Depeche Mode t-shirt, and I recognised him, so I went and asked him if he was into Depeche Mode, and he was. We came together through a mutual love of music. Johnny knew a guy who knew Nash… we dragged him out with us one time. So there were three of us, and we really wanted four, and Matt drank at Johnny's local. He was into Guns 'n' Roses, so he seemed a logical choice. This was way before we ever played instruments. I think that makes a healthy background as a band - we were all friends first. So no musical screwing around goes on. How long have you been playing together as Johnny Panic then? All: 2 years, about. Rob: We're all into bands, see. We're fans before we're musicians. Whereas a lot of people play instruments first and set out with a view to form a band, we fell into it. More than anything we wanted to be good. Matt: I'd say we have truer foundations than a lot of bands. How did the name come about? Rob: It's from Sylvia Plath's short story, "Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams." If you read it you'll understand. The music we play is Johnny Panic, the CDs we record are Johnny Panic, the gigs we play are Johnny Panic - we are not Johnny Panic. We're the sum of the parts. Johnny Panic is something above us. So, you're nominated for Kerrang's Best British Newcomer. How's that feel? Rob: Exciting. I guess it's all down to the way things have happened for us - we have a great street team of… Johnny: Fanatics. Rob: No, not fanatics! They're just a crew of normal people who are willing to buy into our music. Do you feel famous yet then? All: (Laugh) No! Rob: I had a vegetable kebab for dinner last night. How can I possibly be famous?! I was told once that this band will do something. I believe that - I don't know what it is, but we'll do something. I read an article about the shooting of the video for "You're A Fool" at Liverpool St. Station. I heard the police were involved, and you caused a bomb scare! Is this true? Rob: Yeah. We went down to Liverpool St. Station at about 5pm and set up our kit, put our song on and started recording ourselves miming to it... Nash: The police were on us in minutes. It was a cool day out! We actually didn't finish the song. Some of the footage later in the video is actually from stuff we shot intended for earlier on in the song. Johnny: The only way we got enough footage was to push it to the limit. A policeman asked me how to turn the sound system off, and I told him first that I couldn't hear him because I was busy playing, and secondly that I didn't know. That bought us, what, thirty seconds, while he fumbled with the controls... Rob: And the guy we'd left our van with wandered off, leaving the van outside Lloyd's bank. The police had put up tape and everything because this was a serious bomb threat. So our driver, a real pikey, comes back and sees what's going on, walks right through all the red tape and drives the van off. At one point a policeman in the station told me to keep playing because it was distracting people from the bomb scare! What genre would you place your music in? Frontman Rob in action. (All look at each other) Rob: I don't think there's any doubt about that. I think a lot of bands are far too precious about their music and won't place themselves in a genre. We're rock 'n' roll. (General agreement) When is your album out? Rob: It depends if we get another single out before Christmas. If we do, the album should be out in January. If not, before then. Matt: It should be a welcome break from the fight for Christmas Number 1 between Blue and whoever else… What would you say about your album then? Nash: It's ours. Rob: Like I've said, we're massive music fans, so we had a great blueprint for our album. We had the ideas for it five years ago. In fact the name, "The Violent Dazzling," has existed for a long long time. It has twelve tracks on it at present, like many of the great albums - "Nevermind" by Nirvana. It should also be a good representation of our live sound. We wanted to avoid overproducing. I like to think of it as a documentation of ourselves. We really wanted to contribute something to music, so to us it's really special. We gave it our best shot, anyway. Who writes this stuff then? Rob: All of us. Matt: But being Rob's the vocalist, he has a really strong part in what goes in. Just from talking to you guys, it's pretty obvious that Rob is the most talkative. Being the vocalist I guess that's not surprising. But does that reflect driving force, or is it something else? Johnny: Well he's the front-man, he's as mouthy as… Rob: (Interrupting) I think it's a matter of character, not driving force. Nash doesn't speak - I've known him for years and he's said about twelve words to me! I know it's a crude analogy, but think of a military team landed into a country like - I don't know - Bolivia. Sure, the team leader is important, but without the radio guy the team wouldn't get anywhere. If you don't have one - well you're bust, aren't you? What do you guys think of Guernsey? Rob: It's peaceful, and very pretty. A welcome break from London. Matt: (With a look of amazement) There's loads of green things. And cigarettes are cheaper! Indeed they are! Which band have you most enjoyed playing with? All: Uhh… Rob: I guess we're really competitive as a band, I can't really think of anyone as an answer to that. But there are bands we'd like to play with. We're playing with A before the Reading festival, which is great. The gig you're playing tonight is in a small pub venue, Chandler's. What kind of venue are you used to playing? Rob: All kinds. Matt: The other week we played in some basement place - it was baking hot, and tiny. Soon though we're playing a venue the Foo Fighters have played. Johnny: We're big fans. We play anything from tiny pubs to the Mean Fiddler gigs. Rob: We'll go anywhere! |
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| Johnny Panic Taking their name from the Sylvia Plath's "Johnny Panic And The Bible Of Dreams", Johnny Panic are a band who clearly come from the Manic Street Preachers school of thought. Bizarrely enough the foundations for the band were set when an early incarnation of the band were managed by the same manager as Busted. They made a conscious decision to break away from the pop route the manager clearly saw them fitting into and recently toured the country as part of Kerrang's New British Rock Tour. With two singles behind them, "Burn Your Youth" and "Chemical Girlfriend", 2005 looks set to be the year that the debut album "The Violent Dazzling" blows away all the competition. Designer Magazine caught up with the band in Manchester to find out more. Q: You're still a relatively new band so apologies for this, but we're going to have to ask the boring question first - how did the Panic boys get together? Rob: It actually goes back 10 years ago. Can you believe it? That's Oil Of Ulay for yer. I recognized Jonny from school, but we didn't know each other, and I saw him on a bus one time from Woolwich to Orpington and he was wearing a Depeche Mode T-Shirt. He had an older brother and I had a older sister and they'd both taken us to see Depeche Mode at Wembley Arena, the same gig but we didn't know each other. So in my famously high pitched voice I said... Jonny: ...(adopts high pitched voice) Hi, do you like Depeche Mode? I like them too Rob: And basically we started chatting about music and we forged very much a friendship over music. None of us could play an instrument at this time. He had the better record collection and had all these indie top 20's. Quite simply still in this frame of mind Jonny brought Nash to the table. At the time he looked like Tim Armstrong Nash: (laughs) I was in a punk band, thought I looked like Tim Armstrong and checked out Johnny Panic and realized I didn't. Jonny: He did used to look like Steve Marriot. You know from the Small Faces and he had all the suits like Weller in his early days. Rob: And finally after watching all these dreadful bands at Sixth Form college (that either sounded like New Model Army, Led Zeppelin or Jimi Hendrix) we thought we better start a band cos these people had no taste in music and otherwise there's no hope for the future. And to do that we had to have a member that could play. Jonny knew Matt from a pub in Sidcup and luckily he could play. Matt: The very first rehearsal it was like lets get together and see how it works. And I thought it went really well. Then I'm following Jonny home and managed to go smack right into the back of his car and smash up the back of his car and the front of mine. I think at that point we thought we've got something here. Rob: And to end on an important note I think the thing that makes us different from a lot of other bands is there's a lot of virtuoso going in those other bands. In this band we worship the song, that's our god, because that's what we used to listen to and that's what we like. We have very strong ideals for a band because we're fans. Jon was the first person I knew who had a car so I used to make him drive me to see gigs and follow bands. Matt: We're very much a band like Rage Against The Machine in the way that they're four equals, but when you put them together their value is greater than any one individual. Q: How is coming into these times where by bands have to have a gimmick, whether that's The Darkness, Scissor Sisters or Hurricane Party? Rob: Hurricane Party - did you say the word gimmick? (laughs) I don't think we've got a gimmick. We've got ideals because I honestly think, and this may be a cliché, what we're doing with "Chemical Girlfriend" and the RAPT thing, there is something that unfortunately has been part of our past and the people that have been around us and the thing's we've seen. I honestly think it's our duty if we can make some sort of small difference rather than to ignore it and drink a bottle of Jack Daniels cos that's what rock'n'roll is to most people. Perhaps some people may see that as a gimmick, but we went to Wandsworth Prison to see the RAPT program in action and it was quite a humbling experience. I'm a big fan of the Darkness and I saw them in Manchester at In The City a few years back. After seeing them play in London to 30 people we drove up here cos they're a great band. But it always felt a bit gimmicky like they'd got an angle. I don't know how much they believe or how for real that angle that is, but it works. I'd like to think our angle is full on and is part of our make up even if you took the music away. Q: So like the Manic's previously you are 4 Real? Rob: Yeah, except i'm not into carving. The only carving I do is with roast beef. The Manic's are a big big influence and there's no denying that. We used to follow them and I mean follow them. James Dean Bradfield called me an annoying wanker in the past Jonny: That's a direct quote as well cos I was the one driving him there Rob: I told him he should get back to running the four minute mile and lose some weight. He was like "F**k off, you're becoming an annoying wanker". The point was they are a band for me who were so close to greatness and I'm not to sure whether they're destroying their own legacy. Of a band that were so aware of legacies they seem to have contradicted themselves. That "Know Your Enemy" album was piss poor and "Lifeblood" has got a couple of good songs on, but it's ain't really my cup of tea. I think the best song on there is "To Repel Ghosts", which is quite a good lyric as well, and I think that's the other weakness - Nicky Wire's lyrics. He's run out of things to say lyrically. Q: I think the thing with Johnny Panic is you have to see you live to make sense of it. I heard the "Burn Your Youth" single a while back and just didn't get it, then saw you on the Kerrang New British Band tour and was blown away Rob: I think the thing with that single is it was quite poppy. We wanna sell a lot of records, we aren't scared of it and it's something we actively wanna do. Like I said, we worship the song, and we grew up listening to the radio so you hear the majority of pop songs. Nash really likes the Beach Boys, I really like Phil Spector, John really likes Chas and Dave and i'd even go as far as Avril Lavigne. I'm not really endearing ourselves to you by saying that, but i'm telling the truth and i'm saying there is this quality to the band - that we write big choruses. The "Burn Your Youth" thing was funny. I thought it was a song that would really capture a lot more people's imaginations that it did. Q: One of the things I keep reading about Johnny Panic is you're best mates with Busted. Manic's, Busted - the scenarios getting even more bizarre. Rob: That's an absolute myth. Let's get this straight cos this is my fault and i'm not particularly endearing myself to talking about it. In the early days of this band, before Matt joined, I used to have the same manager that became their (Busted's) manager. They had a place and rented it out and I used to stay there. When the band first started they used to stay there and hang out, but we made a conscious decision as everything came to be with Busted we realized we didn't want to be associated with that and go down that route. Whether you like that band or not and we go back to the question of integrity, I think that shows an integrity because we could have gone down that pop route and got a lot further. The truth is I still know Matt, how well I know him is debatable. Q: Was this flat on the famous Room On The 3rd floor or whatever it's called? Rob: I think you'll find that's McFly, but I shouldn't really say that I know that. Nah, this was miles before that, in a place in North London. Q: Who would you class as your contemporaries? Rob: Rock'n'roll is a very broad church. I actually got on very well with Hurricane Party, but I had a couple of blues with their fans. They had this idea that rock music was this thing, I was like f**k off - do you really think rock music started in 56 and just evolved to this one point? Q: What's the plan for next year in 2005? Matt: The next single's likely to be out February called "The Minority Of One" which we've just finished recording. Nash has just got a bit of time over Xmas to get the artwork done, because he does all of it. Rob: The album should be out in March called "The Violent Dazzling". Next year is going to be all about the album. I honestly believe that it will be the best debut album next year. I've heard a few bands coming out that have got pretty good albums, but none of them will match the calibre of these songs. We may not be the coolest out there or the NME favourite, but it will be the best debut album!!! Words: Alex McCann http://designermagazine.tripod.com/ |
| how life affirming is it to have a conversation with musicians with passion bursting from them... like a recent conversation with rob of johnny panic... so whats the latest? In the words of Sylvia Plath, "What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.... If I sit still and don't do anything, the world goes on beating like a slack drum, without meaning." That philosophy isn't lost on Johnny Panic, whose name is taken from that Pulitzer prize-winning author and poet's 'Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams'. 8 years ago they took the glut of musical mediocrity as the inspiration to raise the bar on it all. But as infectious as their pop-rocking grooves may be, they aren't shy about infusing those contagious melodies with a dose of social consciousness. Or beating their drum for all to hear. "There's an ethic missing from a lot of bands" says singer Rob Solly. "We live in a society that refuses to question. That's where rock 'n' roll comes in. We're not here to shove them down people's throats, but every single one of our songs is trying to get something across." And that includes the one about their patronage of a local hooker. But Johnny Panic aren’t making any apologies, and it's probably that same vitriol that led The Fly to reckon that this quixotic quartet has "the polemics of a pre-lard Manics, the trashy anthemics of The Wildhearts, and a Rotten sneer to wipe away all memory of 'I'm a Celebrity'." But make no mistake - Johnny Panic has always put writing good music front and centre. As drummer Jonny Shock (he’s got a thirst for Aftershocks) explains, "Most of the bands I'd go and see ten years ago were rubbish. Sure, I wasn't playing anything back then, but I'd think 'JeezÉ these guys are dull'. I knew I could do better." Meanwhile, future-frontman Solly had just been introduced to The Jam by his older sister, and an obsession with the likes of The Only Ones, The Buzzcocks, The Sex Pistols, and The Clash wasn't far behind. He'd soon have a fateful encounter with Shock - a fellow Sidcup native - who had just purchased his first drum-kit - in fivers. "The kick-drum had a pair of some geezer's school trousers from when he was 7 years old" laughs Shock. But that didn't stop the dynamic duo from forging a pact to set the records straight. They'd soon enlist the talents of local bassist Nash Francis - the son of a professional club musician - and the seeds of Johnny Panic were planted. But a critical ingredient was needed before they could describe their erstwhile 'Blondie-sound' into the 'Cheap-trick with depth' that's become their trademark. That would come in 2002 in the form of guitarist Matt James, a regular of a Jonny Shocks watering hole, the Hogs Head in Sidcup High St.' Like his future band-mates, Matt had already experienced his share of no-hope bands without a future. But that was all about to change. "We’d had a few people out to jam with us, but Matt’s the only bastard who crashed his car into mine" explains Shock, referring to a fateful post-audition mishap. But it was Matt's talents on the six-string that made him memorable. "I’d played with a load of other bands, but nobody really had the hunger" he says. "And then Rob calls me and asks me if I want to join the biggest band in the world. How could I say no?" Good thing he didn’t, because while they may have yet to achieve the star-studded status of their idols, it looks as if Johnny Panic are already well on their way to hitting the big-time. They've toured the UK far and wide. The video for 'You're A Fool' was recently added to the Kerrang! and Scuzz TV playlists, taken from their debut EP it beat out the Von Bondies for XFM's 'Single of the Week'. And dowload only single ‘Chemical girlfriend’ was Kerrang!’s ‘track of the week.’ But Johnny Panic aren't bothered if they don't achieve overnight success. "Any band worth listening to has had to struggle to achieve something" says Solly. "Music needs to keep pushing, keep questioning and there just aren't enough bands doing that. We're bringing these much missed qualities to the table." What he's referring to is Johnny Panic's very own debut album. Recorded in Hastings’ Parkgate Studio with famed producer Al Clay (Pixies, A, Pink), 'The Violent Dazzling' is set for release in March ‘05. In the words of one Kerrang! journalist, "Their time will come." http://www.lovepeacemusic.clara.net/aspjp.html |