THE LONG JOHNS, Slips & The F.W.s and DJ Jimi Beavis

The Long Johns
Slips & The F.W.'s
DJ Jimi Beavis
@ It's Still A Secret Sat July 8
Doors 7:00pm
Presale: $20+BF
Door: $25

The Long Johns Launch New Ep, Single and Film Clip “Bones” + Announce Bones Tour

The Long Johns have just announced brand new Single, Ep and film clip, all called Bones and are ready to ride shotgun and bang out the shows! The Long Johns have been serving a heady brew in recent years quickly becoming a must see around the country while scorching stages at Woodford, Fairbridge and Caloundra festivals and pulling everyone up by their bootstraps.

New Single 'Bones' has the signature sound that is the Long Johns; somewhere between the honky tonk amblings of a jungle giant, puffing steam trains through yesteryears with a blending of crusty
mandolin, janky banjo, bric-a-brac percussion and the bear choir of burly skelly-men. Topped with the ratbag rasp of shrill banshee, Sian Evans, all with a vintage slap black twist, Bones is a
rollicking journey tune woven of a black heart; Skeletons un-requiring of life or essential resources to continue forward motion. Inherently hidden within the lyrics, a tale of successors, inevitably
making it home despite all odds of the disbelief from nay-sayers who should wind up eating their words with no welcome into the "slice of eden”. It's black sunshine, dark but not without a happy ending, equivalent of restful slumber should the dead come to need a nap.

The Ep of the same name was produced by Brisbane indie darling, Jamie Trevakis direct to tape in his studio in the hills. Warm and real was the vibe of the sessions and captured the essence of a band dangerously burning in a bushfire rich environment. Too hot to put out yet too hard to look away.

The clip for single Bones was expertly animated in by Interceptor Design’s Luke Brook and shows the band in a rambling Steamboat Willie wasteland with the bones of vocalist Sian Evan toiling
through hardship with the heart of a valkyrie not to be defeated. Bones features The Long Johns at their threatening best, live, real and exhilarating!

The Long Johns ‘Bones’ Tour Dates:-
May 18-21 @ Blues On Broadbeach, Gold Coast
Sat July 1 @ Outback QLD Masters, Quilpie
Sat July 8 @ It's Still A Secret, Brisbane
July 13-15 @ Huon Valley Mid Winter Festival, Hobart
Sat July 22 @ Samford Live at Little Tree, Samford Valley QLD
Sat Aug 12 @ Eudlo Hall, QLD
Aug 24 - 27 @ Gympie Country Music Muster