Gay For Johnny Depp
When GAY FOR JOHNNY DEPP’s debut full length, The Politics of Cruelty was released in 2007, it was received to first-class acclaim. Instead of featuring the usual biographical material, advance copies of the album sent to the media contained a highly explicit fan letter to actor Johnny Depp, purported to be written by someone simply known as 'Brad'.
Now, with a U.S. label home in place (Shinebox), GFJD prepares its stateside crusade and is ready to rock its home country to its very foundations. The October release of Sex Vid Singles Club will see each song on the burly EP accompanied by its own sleek music video. The UK will not be neglected, with ‘Pink Flag’ available as a free download via the band’s website from 22nd November. These will be followed quickly by the band’s sophomore album, due for release on both sides of the Atlantic in February 2011.
GAY FOR JOHNNY DEPP is the perfect symbiotic melding of GG Allin, Marquis De Sade, Quentin Crisp, JeffStryker and The Germs, and their music clearly represents that point at which the nihilism and paranoia of the late 90s / early 00s consumer-driven milieu dissipates and gives way to post-recession, pan-international feelings of hope, change, and more sex for everyone.
Rare it is that the innovators and pioneers get recognized in their own time, yet GAY FOR JOHNNY DEPP is changing opinions concerning sexual politics, censorship, public indecency, international relations, gender and religious divisions and the capacity for the human ear to accept music at deafening volume levels one by one. At this rate the sky’s the limit. Maybe not even that.
See the band live in the UK on the following dates:
17th Nov Milton Keynes Craufurd Arms – Headline Show
18th Nov Newcastle Cluny with PABH
19th Nov Dundee Hustler’s with PABH
20th Nov Inverness Ironworks with PABH
21ST Nov Aberdeen Drummonds with PABH
23rd Nov Glasgow Oran Mor with PABH
24TH Nov Preston 53 Degrees with PABH
25TH Nov Wrexham Central Station with PABH
26TH Nov Stoke Sugarmill with PABH
27TH Nov Sheffield Leadmill Steel Stage with PABH
28TH Nov Liverpool Shipping Forecast – Headline show
29th Nov Leicester 02 Academy 3 with PABH
30TH Nov Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms with PABH
1st Dec Brighton Audio with PABH
2ND Dec London Garage with PABH