Johnny Panic continue where they left off in 2007 and that is releasing another great single from the excellent album 'The Good Fight' This time it's the track 'The Rebel' a self portrait of a song from the band that has struggled together from the ups and downs of life, 'The Rebel' is one of those songs that has an infectious hum along tune that will bounce around inside your head all day long with Rob Solly's vocals having that ability to articulate the words with a great singing voice. The second song on the single is 'Hurt' a complety reworked song taken from their bands first album and is a good balence to the up tempo 'The Rebel'.
'Johnny Panic' have won a hard earned reputation these past three years with their ability to write great melodies and tie them together with strong lyrics full of social understandings and observations and with a punks built in desire to change things it is no surprise that the latest single chosen from the album is 'The Rebel'.
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 the 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 found Rob training and fighting in mixed martial arts - yes, that’s Ultimate Fighting Championship and Cage Rage stuff to the 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 producing and mixing the record.
Rob Solly: Vocals,Guitar
Jonny Shock: Drums
Sean Mannion: Bass, B Vox
Matt James: Guitars, B Vox
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'Dislocation' the first single and video taken from the album 'The Good Fight'
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