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Johnny Foreigner are playing Saturday on Gaymers Great Escape Stage

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. Alexei’s distinctive guitar playing tears through Yes! You Talk Too Fast, a highlight of 2007’s Arcs Across The City mini album, as it does on Henning’s Favourite, an altogether heavier and more robust outing. The surprises come with the arrival of Salt, Pepa and Spindarella which is as quietly contemplative as it is climactic; qualities echoed later on the album on the string-laden DJs Get Doubts.

The band’s rigorous touring, most recently alongside Idlewild, Los Campesinos, Young Knives and Blood Red Shoes including appearances at NME Brats and SXSW, swiftly cemented current 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.

To view the band’s forthcoming tour dates with Forward Russia, The Subways, The Drowned In Sound Tour w/ the Mae Shi, followed by festival spots at The Great Escape, Redfest, Truck Festival, Zoo Festival, Lounge on the Farm, Summersonic, Lovebox and Latitude please visit: www.myspace.com/johnnyforeigner