THE LOVE JUNKIES
Release Single
‘JOHNNY HORNER’
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The Love Junkies today give you new single “Johnny Horner” off their upcoming EP ‘Cough and Splutter’ which will be available June 30 digitally and July 7th physically. They will be launching the EP live in Perth and Melbourne throughout July.
‘Cough and Splutter’ is the first of two EP’s to be released this year, both EP’s will be combined into a vinyl release in October.
In the blistering, unforgiving, tongue-in-cheek grunge-punk style we have come to love from the Perth 4-piece, “Johnny Horner’s about being stuck at a super hip bar with super hip people blowing plumes of champion ruby up each others super hip a**holes.”
Multiple Australian tours, performances at SXSW, Canadian Music week, Music Matters in Singapore, shows in Hanoi and a five week tour of the USA with a 15 seater van and a George Foreman grill… After cramming all this into the last three years, WAMi Award winners The Love Junkies decided to lay low and get some rest. Following sold out shows at Jack Rabbit Slim’s and Badlands, the band took six months off from performing in the second half of 2016. It wasn’t long before they got the itch to get back in the rehearsal room and start making music together again.
Since the start of 2017 they’ve been in the studio working on new material and have re-emerged on the live front with performances including the inaugural City Limits Festival in Perth, sharing the stage with Gyroscope, Jebediah and Alex Lahey, and as main support for Spiderbait at their Metropolis Perth show, fulfilling a long time bucket list item for the band. In April The Love Junkies hit the stage at RTRFM’s In The Pines festival, for the second time.
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“The Love Junkies were next up and their energy and enthusiasm had the crowd pleading for more. Their diehard fans seemed to know every lyric to every song and sang along with passion. Mitch McDonald’s voice ranges from anguished screaming to sweet saintly highs and mid-range cadenced harmonies – making it all seem so easy. It’s this diversity in sound and pairing full throttle punk with dreamy pop melodies that make them such an awesome band to watch live. By the time Maybelline came, the whole place was set a light.” – Xpress Magazine
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Now, The Love Junkies are pleased to announce their next release, the EP “Cough and Splutter”. The EP contains the single “Past Intense” which has received airplay on triple j, and community radio across Australia, including RTRFM’s second most played song for April, and new single “Johnny Horner” which had its first play on 2017 with Kingsmill last night.
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“Phwoar, this is a track and a half! (Ironically, it’s about half the length of most tracks.)” – 4/5 Dave Ruby Howe triple j Unearthed
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Recorded and produced by the band’s singer/guitarist Mitch McDonald when Dave Parkin from Blackbird Studios kindly gave Mitch the keys to the joint for a few Sundays and Mondays in January, “Cough and Splutter” is the first of two EPs the band plan to release this year, culminating in a vinyl release in October. Each track contains the band’s trademark blend of grunge, pop, garage and punk alongside the Mitch McDonald’s raw, honest and humorous lyrics.
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The Love Junkies
EP Launch Shows
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FRIDAY 30TH JUNE – Cough and Splutter EP Launch, BADLANDS, PERTH
with support from Peter Bibby’s Dog Act, Nerve Quakes, Mung Dahl and Oosterbanger
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THURSDAY 13TH JULY – Hidden Treasures, FREMANTLE
with Jacob Diamond, Bill Lawrie, Felicity Groom, Boom! Pap! Pow!, Belle Harvey + more
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FRIDAY 14TH JULY – Yah Yah’s, MELBOURNE
supports TBC
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The Love Junkies ‘Cough And Splutter’ EP Due June 30
1. Cough And Splutter
2. No. 2
3. Dog Meat
4. Johnny Horner
5. Past Intense
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