JOHNNY THROTTLE - JOHNNY THROTTLE (LP)

Johnny Throttle Johnny Throttle on LP

Formed by ex-Parkinsons frontman Afonso and including former members of Menace, The Shakin’ Nasties, the Jackoffs, the Chinese Lungs, the Stains and Urban Shocks, Johnny Throttle have been playing drunken, beer-soaked gigs since the tail end of 2008. They play snotty, moronic and straight-to-the-point gonzo-garage punk rock, banging out furious 20-minute sets of short and catchy songs that bring to mind something like Slaughter and the Dogs meets the Electric Eels. This is probably London’s best punk rock band, and definitely the snottiest.

Their debut release, Stukas Über Shoreditch, which came out on Wrench Records, was a two-fingered salute and a spit in the eye. After a second 45 on the legendary Crypt Records, it’s now time for their first full length offering which is a similarly abrasive kick to the head, a blistering, full-on, spiked slab of rampant frenzy, replete with 100mph serrating riffs, like a seriously wired Dead Boys having a party with The Stooges whilst the pub rock honk of Eddie & the Hot Rods unsuccessfully tries to calm things down.

Like the best bands of the '70s punk era, Johnny Throttle are hugely influenced by the '60s garage bands, and were regulars in the audience, and on the stage, at the old Dirty Water Club during the last decade. But the main thing to them is that the music has to be sharp as a dagger, threatening but also beautiful. The 12 tracks on their self-titled debut are inspired mini-operas, played with the kind of near incompetent teenage enthusiasm which only borderline middle-aged, lowlifes, has-beens and never-weres can truly muster.

Johnny Throttle Johnny Throttle Track Listing:

1.  Lost Sputnik 
2.  Alone
3.  Ann
4.  See You Again 
5.  Waking Up Alone
6.  Love Me Til I Come 
7.  I Wanna Be Your Ex
8.  Heart Of Stone
9.  Spazztastic
10. Falling Off The Edge
11. Time You Learnt
12. Johnny Go Mental