Member Since: 3/10/2006
Band Website: johnnygoeswest.co.uk
Band Members: Mike Boyd - Lead guitar/rhythm guitar/vocals/clicks/claps/bass guitar/songwriting
Thomas "Walls" Walley - Rhythm guitar/lead guitar/backing vocals/cheese-licking
Charlie Hodge - Drums/telephone
Henry Edmund Davis - Bass guitar/trilby (not skull cap)
Influences: - The Cribs,
- Good Shoes,
- The Maccabees,
- Kings of Leon,
- Third Eye Blind,
- Spiky British indie music from 2005/06,
- Reading Festival,
- The (oxymoronic) commercialisation of indie music,
- Our mates (we love them and their quirky phrases),
- Rhys Thomas (the inventor of Precious Butter),
- Parties,
- "Hearts",
- Changing times,
- The scene,
- Peer pressure,
- Mysterious crumpet situations,
- Popularity and fame,
- Rory Richardson's summer "to do" list,
- Getting drunk till we can't feel feelings anymore,
- Arrogant people,
- House abuse,
- MySpace,
- Girls,
- Relentless,
- Buckinghamshire,
- Lavan Jeyarupalingam,
- Softcore porn channel jargon,
- "Worms",
- Dilemmas,
- Mark Gould lying half-dead next to Kate Osborne's house as a result of excessive alcohol consumption,
- Morality,
- Self-reflection,
- sickanimation.com,
- Fields and nature,
- Miss Treherne,
- Chaz's uncles,
- The South Park "You Got Served" episode,
- Alexander McCall Smith,
- Girlfriends,
- Every piece of music we like
Sounds Like: A party!
GIGS WE’VE PLAYED:
Smyllie’s party, Wing Village Hall, Apr ’06
Transfest, JJ’s house, Jul ’06
Linslade Community Centre, Sep ’06
Walls’s party, Walls’s house, Oct ’06
The White Horse, Oct ’06
Gilberts Youth Centre, Oct ’06
Band Blitz, Cedars, Nov ’06
Henry Floyd, Dec ’06
Cedars, Dec ’06
Multi, Jan ’07
Profile Fest, Civic Centre, Feb ’07
The Venue, Feb ’07
Cedars, Mar ’07
Battle of the Bands, AGS, Mar ’07
British Legion, HW, Mar ’07
Henry Floyd, Mar ’07
Decades, Mar ’07
British Legion, H&R, Mar ’07
Year 11 Prom, AHS, Apr ’07
Cedars, May ’07
Max’s party, Max’s house, May ’07
Multi, May ’07
Profile Fest, TLC, Jun ’07
The Venue, Jun ’07
MK4U, Campbell Park, Jul ’07
Nite Life, AHS, Jul ’07
Renoirs, Aug ’07
Bedford Esquires, Sep ’07
The Venue, Sep ’07
The Venue, Oct ’07
Battle of the Bands, Cedars, Nov ’07
The Venue, Dec ’07
Bands Night, Cottesloe Dec ’07
Multi, Jan ’08
Leighton Buzzard Library Theatre, Mar ’08
Record Label: None
Type of Label: None