Aussie 'Johnnys' insist on Ohakune gig

Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 6, Issue 258, 11 October 1988, Page 7

Aussie 'Johnnys' insist on Ohakune gig

Those ain't too proud to beg, only their mothers love 'em and yo could be jivin' too . . . Johnnys have gone and dun another durned album on everyone!! And they'll be in Ohakune Tuesday, October 18, for this season's first overseas Hot Lava Band appearance. Evolving from the depths of Surry Hills, Sydney, and now to the front porches of Beverley Hills, The Johnnys have thrown a large lassoo around a range of influences from punk to country to hard rock, to come up with their second LP "Grown Up Wrong". The Johnnys first appeared in 1983 as a three piece of Radalj, Graharn "Hoody" Hood and Billy Pommer Jr. Spencer P Jones moved from Melbourne and threw cans at them until they let him join, and within minutes The Johnnys released their

first hit "I Think You're Cute" and toured Australia with the Dead Kennedys and I g g y Pop. The Johnnys gained a nation-wide reputation real fast for being real

fast on their feet and fast in the saloons. The Johnnys toured as a three piece, refined their love songs and roped in Steve Nieve from Elvis Costello's Attractions to produce

"My Buzzsaw Baby (Really Cut Me Up)". Then, out of the west strolled Slim Doherty, the man'they had all been waiting for. A guitarist/barman who was the best at both.

They toured with Public Image, supported Neil Young, Los Lobos and The Cramps. They blitzed New Zealand with "Highlights Of A Dangerous Life", with "Injun Joe.