Launch of new London venue AND news of second Johnny Foreigner album?!

It’s a two-for-one special here, we’ve got a pair of very exciting exclusives: the super brilliant Johnny Foreigner have been working on their second album with producer extraordinaire Alex Newport (Death Cab, Rival Schools, At the Drive In, The Mars Volta) in NYC, previewed via a June-released single, ‘Feels Like Summer’. Yelpers!

The band will be playing very very very shiny and brand new London venue Flowerpot on May 18, in an invite-only special. Flowerpot has been set up by the team behind Nambucca and FROG and opens on May 1. It’s in Kentish Town, don’t you know. And to celebrate, they’re putting on 30 free gigs in the month of May! Well, strictly speaking, it is a celebration – but for the fact that the future is similarly free. The Flowerpot is free entry all year round, putting on one band a night every night. How bloody brilliant. More information is available at their website here.

They look like this:

1/5 FLOWERPOT OPENING NIGHT: LUKE AND HUGH (The Kooks)
2/5 GIRLS CAN’T DANCE
3/5 KID HARPOON
4/5 ALAN POWNALL + KATE NASH DJ
5/5 RUM SHEBEEN
6/5 FRANK TURNER
7/5 KING CHARLES
8/5 AYAH MARAR
9/5 SAM MCCARTHY
10/5 THE PADDINGTONS
11/5 MI MYE
12/5 MORE ALARMING
13/5 MY SAD CAPTAINS
14/5 RYAN O’REILLY
15/5 DAG FOR DAG
16/5 OPERAHOUSE
17/5 PLANET EARTH + NOAH AND THE WHALE DJ
18/5 JOHNNY FOREIGNER
19/5 KID CARPET
20/5 ANGRY DAN
21/5 MUMFORD AND SONS
22/5 INNERCITY PIRATES
23/5 BUSTER SHUFFLE
24/5 LIANNA LA HAVAS
25/5 I BLAME COCO + GOLDIEROCKS DJs
26/5 THE AGITATOR + DANNYBOY DJ
27/5 SCREAMING TEA PARTY + EASY WHITE GIRLS DJs
28/5 PEGGY SUE AND THE PIRATES
29/5 JAY JAY PISTOLET
30/5 THE MUSICAL DIFFERENCES
31/5 THE RIVER RAT PACK ALL DAYER

Phew!