aaamusic | On 17, Jan 2011

JONNY

Self-titled album set for 31st January release

Single ‘Candyfloss’ released today

Debut London show on 19th January followed by UK tour in February

Norman Blake and Euros Childs are pleased to announce details of their debut album together as Jonny. The self-titled, co-written album will be released on 31st January onAlsatian Records (Turnstile) preceded by single Candyfloss on the 17th January.

The album artwork is also revealed to be the inspiration behind their unusual name. Blake came across the image on a friend’s website “and thought it would make
a great record sleeve… and name for a band”. “Sleeve first, band-name after”, confirms Childs, “that’s always the best way”.

Inter-twining the musical DNA of two of Britain’s most gifted songwriters, Jonny’s debut album proclaims the advent of an irresistibly infectious new strain of psychedelicpop.

Blake’s Teenage Fanclub and Childs’ Gorky’s toured together in 1997, and when Blake contributed guitar and vocal harmonies to Gorky’s bitter-sweet How I Long To Feel That Summer In My Heart in 2001, Euros remembers “it just felt like he was part of the band… from that point on it always felt like we might do something together in the future, it just took a few years to actually get it organised”. Euros eventually made it up to Norman’s house in Glasgow in 2006 to record “what we thought was an EP”, and the duo played a handful of rapturously received live shows, before finally getting down to putting a whole album together early in 2010.

“Jonny” album track listing:
1. Wich is Wich
2. Candyfloss
3. Waiting Around For You
4. Goldmine
5. You Was Me
6. Circling The Sun
7. English Lady
8. The Goodnight
9. Bread
10. Cave Dance
11. I Want To Be Around You
12. I’ll Make Her My Best Friend
13. Never Alone

Live:
Jonny play their first London show on 19th January at King’s Cross Water Rats before a full UK tour in February.
Tickets from http://www.artistticket.com/link/?s=Jonny
The dates are…
Tour dates 2011
JANUARY//
19 // LONDON, Water Rats
FEBRUARY//
03 // BRIGHTON, Brighton Ballroom
04 // CAMBRIDGE, The Haymakers
05 // READING, Play
07 // BRISTOL, Cooler
08 // CARDIFF, Clwb Ifor Bach
10 // NOTTINGHAM, Bodega
11 // LIVERPOOL, Mojo
12 // SHEFFIELD, Harley
14 // MANCHESTER, Deaf Institute
15 // BIRMINGHAM, Glee Club
16 // YORK, The Basement
18 // MIDDLESBROUGH // Westgarth SC
19 // GLASGOW, Platform
20 // NEWCASTLE, Cluny
21 // SUNDERLAND, Independent Room 2
http://www.turnstilemusic.net/label/jonny/