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BIWFY / TWWFNO / Sour Lemon / Violet Street / Sunlit Youth / Hummingbird / Gorilla Manor

Conceived and recorded on the industrial railyard fringes of Hoboken, New Jersey, Placed by the Gideons features 10 new hard-charging songs connected by one smoldering thread. The opening track (The Interstate) is a towering narrative that introduces two young and desperate characters on the run, seeking salvation on the road while struggling to make peace with a complicated past. Thus begins a fugitive odyssey through dead-end towns (Peekskill) and into the great american west (Stolen Tags, Breaker Breaker), where the two meet their ultimate fate. Lighter themes like breakups, summertime, and youthful defiance also feature in these characters’ travels via catchy powerpop songs (Two Kinds of People, Some Summer) that balance out the album’s weightier material.

Released on DIVE Records in June 2010, Placed by the Gideons is the sophomore LP from Wormburner. Their debut album, A Hero’s Welcome (2006), was produced by David Lowery, frontman for Cracker and Camper van Beethoven. A 12-song tirade melding smart lyrics with driving guitars and vintage Moog synthesizers, A Hero’s Welcome drew stellar reviews and earned Wormburner an enviable schedule of East Coast shows that established their reputation as one of New York City’s most bombastic live bands.

Johnny and the Raindrops play inspiring, dynamic, life-affirming original music for children and families. 

All of our gigs for the Spring and Summer have been cancelled. Autumn ones may follow. Feel free to drop us a tip via the link. Many thanks.

The Nottingham-based foursome have been thrilling audiences since 2008 with their 'gigs for cool kids'. Songs from band’s seven albums are brought to life with costumes, props and a whole heap of help from the audience. Kids with a knack for punk-rock pogoing can rock out onstage with wooden guitars. Others can get dressed as fruit, vegetables, cats and superheroes. Everyone can learn a few things at Pirate School. Watch out for the flying teddy bears during ‘I’m in the washing machine’.

Johnny and the Raindrops have performed highly acclaimed shows at the Edinburgh Fringe, Wheee! International Children’s Festival and at hundreds of festivals, theatres and schools in the East Midlands and beyond.
 
The band’s lovingly-crafted songs have been played on radio and TV all over the world. Songs such as ‘Everybody’s Body is Different’, ‘What’s the Time?’ and ‘Be Yourself’ carefully balance entertainment with positive social and personal themes of hope, respect and diversity. 

‘Lend a Friend a Hand’ was nominated for a Roundglass songwriting award in New York. ‘Animals in Danger’ and ‘Shine a Light’ have been sung by schools in the Arctic Circle, New Zealand and elsewhere.

Singer and songwriter Johnny (AKA Dr Liam Maloy) has a PhD in music made for children. His publications and presentations make him one of the leading scholars in the field of children’s music.


‘Infectious, joyous fun … packed with feel-good songs … 
perfect for a family audience’. BBC Radio.

'‘Intelligent, funny, catchy songs with children’s themes and adult twists. 
A truly family music experience’. Nottingham Post

All content herein is completely, entirely, utterly and solely present to showcase my occasionally not-dreadful attempts to smush the sound of one or more people singing over the sound of one or more different people playing music. All vocals and backing tracks used remain copyrighted to the original recording artists. Download my little arrangements if they amuse you; tell your friends about them if they amuse you greatly. And if you think some of the combinations are a little off-the-wall... then good, perhaps I can get away with all this by pointing people at the various laws regarding parody. Here's hoping. Now let's play some music!

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