Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub) and Euros Childs (Gorky’s) release their debut album together as Jonny on 28th January on Popfrenzy. The self-titled, co-written album is preceded by single “Candyfloss”.
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 psychedelic pop.
Childs and Blake ate a heroic amount of candyfloss in the making of the video for the single. Those of a savoury disposition are advised to look away now.
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.
Free four track EP “Free EP” available now from
http://soundcloud.com/popfrenzy/sets/jonny-free
