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CMU favourites Johnny Foreigner are busy preparing their second album, 'Waited Up 'Til It Was Light', and have a single out on 22 Jun called 'Feels Like Summer'.
Having taken a little time off from their relentless touring schedule, which has seen them share stages with the likes of The Futureheads, Hundred Reasons, Dananananaykroyd, and Sky Larkin, the album was recorded in New York in March this year. Now they're back to gigging again, which they will be doing a hefty amount of over the rest of this year.
In a rare quiet moment, we threw our SSQs at the band's Alexei Berrow.
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Q1 How did you start out making music?
With a tiny brown Yamaha keyboard my parents gave me when I was eight. I used to sit for literally hours playing four chords with the autochord button.
Q2 What inspired your latest single?
A raggedy permafucked, bad for each other ketacouple, and a sweaty cellar full of (awful) bands, and a patio beer garden by the canal.
Q3 What process do you go through in creating a track?
Bits of songs appear in my head, then I show them to the rest of the band and we assemble them like Lego. Or Duplo.
Q4 Which artists influence your work?
The drunk / sincere / hopeless ones.
Q5 What would you say to someone experiencing your music for the first time?
Do you like it? I did that bit. Do you like it? DO YOU?
Q6 What are your ambitions for your latest album, and for the future?
That people like it as much as we do and it goes to number one forever. The album. The future, God knows. Stability? Swimming pools?
published june 2009
