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Johnny Panic have a new single ready for release on May 19th, it will be available from download sites as well as good record shops. 'THE REBEL' is the second single taken from the bands aclaimed album 'The Good Fight' released in November 2007.

In October last year Johnny Panic released new album ‘The Good Fight’, to commercial and critical acclaim. It’s an album of stadium sized hooks and melodies wrapped around concerns of mental health, prostitution, drugs and prisoners of conscience. “There’s an ethic missing from a lot of bands” explains singer Rob, “we live in a society that refuses to question. That’s where rock n roll comes in. We’re not here to shove them down people’s throats, but every single one of our songs is trying to get something across.”

Not that they stand on their soap-box, but if there’s a cause they feel needs some attention, they’re not scared of highlighting it; they’re not afraid of a fight. But then front man Rob Solly, knows a thing or too about fighting. From th~ age of 14 he’s been practising Tae Kwon-Do, reaching a level that found him competing in the US and Australia, he’ also done Thai Boxing in Thailand and trained in Brazilian Ju Jitsu and boxing as well. The last two years have foun Rob training and fighting in mixed martial arts - yes, that’s Ultimate Fighting Championship and Cage Rage stuff to tI uninitiated.

They scored a British Arts Council grant to travel and play at last years infamous South By South West festival in Austin, Texas, they won a large sum of money from the Windows Live Spaces competition and covered The Turtles ‘Happy Together’ for NPower’s 2006 cricket sponsorship theme tune! All of this helped keep the band afloat and enabled them to self-finance the recording of their second album, inevitably and appropriately named ‘The Good Fight’. Rob even collared Biffy Clyro and Therapy? producer Chris Sheldon in the street and talked him into producir and mixing the record.

‘The Rebel’ is the second single taken from album ‘The Good Fight’ and is unleashed on the public on May 19.

Read the Rock3 review of the new single HERE:

Watch the video single 'Dislocation' released in October 2007...