Little John Rocket play The Classic Grand main ballroom this Fri 10th Oct
Tickets on door. probably an early show...
4 great rock bands for the price of one.
Including the touring "Life Among People"
hope you can make it.



Well, George Sq gig was wet and wild!
Thanks to everyone who came along, sexy students and everyone at Scotcampus.

Fortunately we were too high on all the IrnBru32 to call our lawyers about the set falling down on our drummers head!
The Cub is fine, he keeps his brains elsewhere.
Backstage with Coolio, yes that Coolio, an LJR homeboy... go on... show us your grammy !?

Our new official website launched yesterday.
Thanks to BAR at L'Mondial Design... quite the job they have done for us! ;-)
Lots of fresh content to come... sign up there for all the future free stuff.
http://littlejohnrocket.com

peace

Little John Rocket x

"Their intensity LIVE is startling!"
The Skinny Live Review

"This band is an excavation of genius."
London's Subba-Cultcha Magazine

"A great band and wonderful live!"
The Dead Kennedys

Well... another King Tuts show under our belt.
We actually chose to support Regurgitator... and we are glad we did. Great bunch of people and some killer tracks.
Good luck to them with the rest of the tour.
check them out...
http://www.myspace.com/regurgitators



Tuts looked after us all again as always, the sound was great and so was the crowd.
So if you were there... thanks for coming and going crazy.
As promised... new song EXIT was played there for the first time, all worked pretty well.



If you are a student you can see us for free at George Sq... if not, then Classic Grand is our next gig.
That one is a big rock night, so hope you can make it!



Thanks again for hanging and drinking, Tuts really is the best small venue in the world.


LJR x

Random LJR news.




Phew, it's all go backstage at LJR myspace.... (it's a shit hole back here!)

All the gig info is the other blog...
This is other bits and pieces....

More LJR gigs to be announced when confirmed, stay tuned in.



As you know we opened the show for The Dead Kennedys at the DKs ONLY Scottish gig. Quite a thrill, and we are still in touch with them which is very cool indeed. They are working on new material (hope that isn't a lawyer tickling comment... you heard it here first.) So, more LJR & DK news soon.






We have a new track EXIT we hope to premier! at KING TUTS (where else) if we can buff it up in the studio for you before then... maybe other little surprises.


A brand new official website for Little John Rocket is about to go 'live'
We have seen most of the screen tests and it looks fantastic.... (and the backstage area is shit hot :-)


Our free downloads of Nurnberg at our current official site have been up much longer than we planned.
You can still download them from there.. and when the new site goes 'live', rumour is.. there will be another free download. :-)


Our current single BASEMENT can still be had at roughtrade.com with all artwork by LJR
Limited edition!, grab a CD of all 3 songs on one CD or download it from iTunes, napster etc etc
We HONESTLY would appreciate you taking the time to buy it.


All songs on iTunes and other download sites.


Check out Framingorecords.com to buy or find links to our songs, they also have a roster of other bands for you to stroke.
Listen to the bands sites that we are playing with in the coming gigs (in gig blog)


ENOUGH NEWS!!!!!!


Thanks for reading.


Truly hope you can make it to our up coming gigs.
Sign up to our newsletter at LittleJohnRocket.com
so you don't miss ANYTHING!


peace LJR x


-THANKS TO FRAMINGO RECORDS FOR THEIR CONTINUING SUPPORT-
FRAMINGORECORDS.COM




Little John Rocket
http://littlejohnrocket.com
http://MySpace.com/LittleJohnRocket


"This band is an excavation of genius."
London's Subba-Cultcha Magazine


"A great band and wonderful live!"
The Dead Kennedys


"A tight single from a powerful band that sound like they mean business -
and a singer who sounds like he'd give Eddie Vedder a run for his money."
Tom Robinson BBC6 Music


"BASEMENT is exactly the kind of track I love.
A great song and brilliant sound, a great dark ambience to it."
Alan Mair - The Only Ones


"Basement creeps in like a demented stalker,
perfect if you like your music tinged with black!
LJR burn brightly"
The Daily Record


"A serial killing love song!"
Noize Makes Enemies


"Their intensity LIVE is startling!"
The Skinny Live Review


"Basement‚ is a sensational creation!
It's another faultless performance from the band likely to never fail."
Baillie, subba-cultcha.


"Wonderfully Dark! FANTASTIC!"
Jim Gellatly Xfm Radio

Hi all,



Who says we don't do enough gigs?!?!

(everyone!)



It's only because that myspace 'shows,gig' section never works properly for us! So we thought it best not to book any!

Not really :-(

But it doesn't work for us!... that's why the info is in this blog.




gigs

Well... now you have a few to come to.






KING TUTS 7th Sept £10

(less expensive tickets available from the LJR!)

It fantastic to go back to King Tuts, what band does not want to play there?!?

When we did, it was everything is should be, great people.. so going back is great!

supporting Australian stars...Regurgitator.

Some really really good tracks, check them out!

(not nearly as scary as they sound) http://www.myspace.com/regurgitators

Regurgitator After constant touring, in particular with the Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Regurgitator recorded UNIT in three weeks during 1997. The short 35 minute album was a change from the style of Tu-Plang, moving over to an 80's pop type thing. UNIT was extremely successful, making it double platinum (over 140 000 copies sold) by 1999 and 5 prizes at the ARIA Awards. The year is 2001. Regurgitator are set to release a new album titled Eduardo & Rodriguez Wage War On T-Wrecks in July, from which the first single Fat Cop sees a release in early June. The Do Nuttin' Tour will accompany this, with a short list of dates over Australia, followed by the Fuji Rock Festival in Japan. Particular mentions for the latter part of the year included a short tour of Japan, the Big Day Out festival, as well as the release of the Super Straight single.






GEORGE SQ 4th Oct (time of gig yet to be announced)

Freshers Festival 08

(rain!?!) nah... big marques...

Set to take Glasgow's George Square by storm on October 3 and 4, The Scotcampus Freshers' Festival 08 is a free, two day party celebrating the very best of student life in Scotland.

Whether you're a fresher this year, you're already studying or are leaving school next year, join us and 10,000 young people from all over Scotland, the UK and around the globe to kickstart your student life in Scotland. On arrival you will be given a free goody bag jam packed with freebies!



Some of Scotland's best new music talent performing live in the 32Music Entertainment Tent.

Fantastic bands are playing over the two days Little John Rocket play the Saturday afternoon... loads of very cool bands, should be a crazy day!



FREE ENTRY! students!

LOCATION: George Square, Glasgow

DATES: Friday 3rd and Saturday 4th October

TIMES: 10am - 6pm both days

http://www.myspace.com/fresherfestival  






CLASSIC GRAND 10th Oct (main ballroom!)

LJR play the impressive main room of the Classic Grand.

Supporting 'Life Among People' who are rocking around the UK http://www.myspace.com/lap 

With 2 supports and a touring support... there is 4 bands for the price of 1...

should be one loud rock show!

Hope you can make it to our cherry popping Classic.

Prices, stage times and special ticket offers TBC



LIFE AMONG PEOPLE

KERRANG! placed somewhere between Deftones and Biffy Clyro, these impressively ambitious articulate underdogs certainly deserve to enjoy wider recognition



BIG CHEESE - LIVE! - 4/5 .....punchy and atmospheric punk rock crossed post-hardcore style reminiscent of early Thrice or Biffy Clyro. The effect is mind blowing with emotionally stirring 'in dog years you're dead' demonstrating their collective abilities. 4/5


Even more gigs in final stages of being announced..... really, don't miss that news!

Hope to see you at as many as you can make....
they are all for you! :-)
x

The Dead Kennedys & Little John Rocket news

Current mood: punky ! :-)

It is a rare moment in a groups history when a band does not just continue to ride the wave of their own music, gigs and publicity.

But actually feel the need to pause, stop and say something about what is going on.





Things like getting signed to a truly independent punk/rock record label 'Framingo Records', playing King Tuts and releasing singles are what is called, getting lucky!

We feel lucky to have done these things.



But what is really lucky is scoring a gig play with The Dead Kennedys!

LJR supporting The Dead Kennedys at their ONLY Scottish gig in The Liquid Room Edinburgh (23rd May) is quite simply a rock and roll honour!



We all have our favourite bands... but there are some bands, that even if you are are not in love with, you simply can not deny their rock, punk, crazy, seminal influence on modern music.



Little John Rocket are proud to be on the same stage as THE DEAD KENNEDYS.



All hail The (chief) Dead Kennedys.



(Thanks to the Dead Kennedys and The Liquid Room (Kath) for championing us, we appreciate it.)

People have been asking if there is a CD of our new single as well as the download on iTunes.
Well YES... there is.
A quick search at RoughTrade.com of 'Little John Rocket' will bring up our new single BASEMENT.
They will post it right out to ya!

The CD has BASEMENT the single, the B-side FORGET ABOUT US (also produced by Rico) and also a bonus of our last single AT AN END (first time on CD).
They are limited edition, with artwork and photography be the band, so when they are gone they are gone.
Pop over to RoughTrade.com :-)
(direct link, might have to copy and paste it)
http://www.roughtrade.com/site/shop_detail.lasso?search_type=sku&sku=300132

thanks :-)
SUPPORT INDEPENDENT MUSIC

Download at iTunes and Napster etc
thanks for your support.. please pass on this message in a bulletin too !!!

Little John Rocket
http://littlejohnrocket.com
http://MySpace.com/LittleJohnRocket

"This band is an excavation of genius."
London's Subba-Cultcha Magazine

"A great band and wonderful live!"
The Dead Kennedys

"A tight single from a powerful band that sound like they mean business -
and a singer who sounds like he'd give Eddie Vedder a run for his money."
Tom Robinson BBC6 Music

"BASEMENT is exactly the kind of track I love.
A great song and brilliant sound, a great dark ambience to it."
Alan Mair - The Only Ones

"Basement creeps in like a demented stalker,
perfect if you like your music tinged with black!
LJR burn brightly"
The Daily Record

"A serial killing love song!"
Noize Makes Enemies

"Their intensity LIVE is startling!"
The Skinny Live Review

"Basement‚ is a sensational creation!
It's another faultless performance from the band likely to never fail."
Baillie, subba-cultcha.

"Wonderfully Dark! FANTASTIC!"
Jim Gellatly Xfm Radio

It's all go!

New single BASEMENT out 12th May.

Like LJR's debut single "At An End", BASEMENT and it's killer B-side "Forget About Us" are also produced by RICO.
The new single will be download 'and' on physical format... CD single.
CD single also contains the bonus track At An End, bringing all of LJR's Rico produced tracks together on one format!
(rare At An End vinyl still available at Framingo Records http://www.framingorecords.com/shop.html)

Fri 9th May Nice N' Sleazy. Basement Launch Night.
Sat 17th May Crowbar Clydebank (free).

Nurnberg remixes are still available as free downloads form our official site, when they've gone, they've gone.
LittleJohnRocket.com

New image gallery here of King Tuts Gig with extra ones on our official site coming soon!

Single launch, no tickets, just £5 on the door.
Support by, Against One Of The State
Killers and The Regiment.
Will be a great night, hope to see you at the single launch.


LJR x
"We keep all our secrets in the basement."


LittleJohnRocket.com
FramingoRecords.com

Well, thanks to everyone who came down to King Tuts to see us!
You always hope for the best and fear the worst... but we did not expect it to be full when we went on.
What a crazy night... thanks.

A great night was had by all.
Twin Atlantic are a humble and great bunch of guys, pleasure to share a stage with them.
The Matches seemed to enjoy themselves too.

Much fun was had popping our King's cherry!
Look forward to playing there again... everything you have heard it true. Great vibe, great staff... etc etc


A snip of our new single BASEMENT is on our record labels myspace, pop over to sexy Framingo for a listen.
http://www.myspace.com/framingo  (or click on Framingo on our top friends)
There is also a review of the gig!!!
Photos coming soon.




We Keep All Our Secrets In The Basement.