Hmm. Don't write here much now as I have a myspace and tend to do all my writing there - here I am

But for those of you who still read this we have finished recording the second album, it sounds really strong and we are playing our first UK show of 2006:

Hello all,

Hope everyone is ok.

I have the great pleasure in announcing our first UK apparence in 2006! We will be launching a new club night in Cheltenham called Pop Goes The Weasel, www.myspace.com/popgoestheweaselclub

The details for the gig are below
THE OTHERS
Billy England

THE HUB CHELTENHAM
FRIDAY 14TH JULY
TICKETS £8 adv
DOORS 9pm
ONSTAGE 10.30
TICKETS AVAILABLE FROM www.wegottickets.com

Hope to see some of you there.

Oh, btw we have a shiny new forum you might like to join. Find it here

Signing time etches ever closer and tomorrow we start rehearsals in readiness for south by south west. Here are the details of our gig first time in Texas:

The Others play the Flamingo Cantina stage at 10pm on Wednesday 15th March. Further details are available by following this link

Well, it went really well and the promoter asked if it might become a regular feature. Sorry to those of you who could not get in, I did warn you that they may be strict on ID and it looks like they were! Sorry once again. If it does become regular I have been assured that it will be mainly at all ages event so you shouldn't have that trouble next time.

Here's what I can remember of the set I played:

Eels - Last Stop This Town
Gang Of Four - ...Tourist (The Others' Additive Free mix)
The Faint - Glass Danse
Alabama 3 - Cocaine (Killed My Community)
Hamell On Trial - Uncle Morris
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The Hype - Iceberg
Mister Solo - Kiss It Better
Franz Ferdinand - You're The Reason I'm Leaving
Duran Duran - Astronaut
Public Image Limited - Warrior
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Mylo - Destroy Rock'n'Roll
Looper - None Of That
Fischerspooner - Just Let Go (Thin White Duke Mix)
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The Paddingtons - Sorry
The Others - It Doesn't Matter To Me (Demo)
Clearlake - I Hate It That I Got What I Wnated
Test Icicles - Boa vs Python
Radio 4 - Party Crashers (Radio Edit)
Nine Inch Nails - The Hand That Feeds
Death In Vegas - Hands Around My Throat
Pyschedelic Furs - Love My Way
Lcd Soundsystem - Tribulations
Dusty Springfield - Son Of A Preacher Man
Sugababes - Red Dress
Rachel Stevens - Some Girls
Shakesspears Sister - Opportunity Knockers
Bananarama - Move In My Direction
Bloc Party - Banquet (Glimmers Remix)
Judy Garland - Somewhere Over The Rainbow

I had a lot of fun

Cheers

Johnny
xx

Hello,

Details regarding the new deal and the second album should be revealed soon. In the meantime, I will be dj-ing this Thursday at The Pressure Point in Brighton. Unfortunately it's over 18s only and they might ask for ID

There is a story of rock'n'roll touring on a budget on my myspace profile here: http://www.myspace.com/johnnyothers if you'd like something to read.

Cheers

Johnny
xx

Zurich Live Date

Friday 13th January 2006
Mascott,
Theater Strauss,
Zurich,
Switzerland.

Happy New Year

cheers

Johnny
xx

UPDATE:

Hello,

The old forum is down. the new forum can be found here.

Emjoying the tour very much new songs seem to be going down well

Cheers

Johnny
xx

You can download some of our Amnesty set (including new song Probate) by following this link thanks to the technical ability of Joel Crisp.

Cheers

Johnny
xx

UPDATE:

EXTRA DATE ADDED

The tour will now finish on the 16th Dec at the Havana Bar in Jersey!!! We're looking forward to that.

Cheers

Johnny
xx

Very much looking forward to the tour. I'm rehearsing everyday this week and it looks like we're going to be playing about 9 new songs every single night which are all sounding very strong as well as some of the classics.

Enjoy

Cheers

Johnny
xx

The Others' Tour dates for December:

29-Nov-05 - glasgow abc
30-Nov-05 - manchester academy 3
1-Dec-05 - cardiff barfly
2-Dec-05 - leeds cockpit
3-Dec-05 - coventry colisseum, main room (pre-club)
4-Dec-05 - southend chinnerys
5-Dec-05 - wolverhampton little civic CARI'S WHITE NOISE club
6-Dec-05 - preston 53 degrees
7-Dec-05 - liverpool academy 2
8-Dec-05 - gloucester guildhall
9-Dec-05 - london camden koko, club NME
10-Dec-05 - tunbridge wells forum
11-Dec-05 - nottingham rock city
12-Dec-05 - stoke sugarmill
13-Dec-05 - brighton concorde 2

UPDATE:
Age restrictions as follows - order yr fake ids now:

29-Nov-05 glasgow abc 14+
30-Nov-05 manchester academy 3 14+
01-Dec-05 cardiff barfly 16+
02-Dec-05 leeds cockpit
03-Dec-05 coventry colisseum, main room 14+
04-Dec-05 southend chinnerys 16+
05-Dec-05 wolverhampton little civic 14+
06-Dec-05 preston 53 degrees 18+
07-Dec-05 liverpool academy 2 14+
08-Dec-05 gloucester guildhall 14+
09-Dec-05 london camden koko, club NME 18+
10-Dec-05 tunbridge wells forum 14+
11-Dec-05 nottingham rock city - under 18
12-Dec-05 stoke sugarmill
13-Dec-05 brighton concorde 2 - ALL AGES SHOW

see you there

Cheers

Johnny
xx

I had a nice time in Enfield last night. The music was good and the walls were chrome - I look forward to returning. Here's the set I played:

Alabama 3 - Cocaine Killed My Community
Bloc Party - Banquet (Glimmer Twins Remix)
Lcd Soundsystem - Tribulations
Kasabian - LSF (Jagz Kooner Remix)
Radio 4 - Partycrashers
The Paddingtons - Sorry
The Others - It Doesn't Matter To Me (demo)
Rachel Stevens - Some Girls (Rhythm Masters Vocal Mix)
Dusty Springfield - Son Of A Preacher Man
Sugababes - Red Dress

Cheers

Johnny
xx

Hello

I will be DJing at the Bubblegumstomp night in Enfield this Wednesday (2nd November). I shall be playing some brand new Others tracks and the usual and much more (bit electronic probably). Definitely NO Pavement.

Come along

Entry is freeeeeee!!!!

Cheers

Johnny
xx

Special London Show This Sunday!!!!

Win a FREE pair of tickets to see The Others play a secret outdoor East London gig for Amnesty International on Sunday 23rd October! There are more than 100 pairs of tickets available.

To win 2 tickets to the Amnesty International event, txt FAN plus your NAME to 64118. 50p will be charged to your mobile phone bill for each competition text entry.

Winners will be notified on Friday 21st October

Well, Italy was amazing! Even better than last time.

Ancona was wild, Rimini was, um, fraught (but I'm sure there was a tense nervous energy) and we got to see and meet The Hype; an amazing Italian band from the area who were so good we decided to invite them to play the next day too. Bologna was great and so nice to see the English/Norwegian Xcore division (21 hours of travelling demands respect), and we ended in a nice American style venue in Rome called jailbreak where we met up with many locals who had seen us earlier in the year when we played Zoo bar and drank with until we had to leave for our flight back at 5am.

As ever, huge thanks goes to Eric Bagnarelli the best promoter in Italy. We look forward to returning really soon, maybe even get around to doing that track in Italian...

And thank you also to our new Italian friends for making us feel so welcome.

Setlist towards the end off the tour:

Guard My Kind
Almanac
William
Truth That Hurts
Lackey
It Doesn't Matter To Me
Stan Bowles
Trouble Inside
Southern Glow
Psycho Vision
How I Nearly Lost You
Thick As Thieves
Probate
This Is For The Poor

Photos are from the first date at Ancona Barfly - thank you to Aurelio Laloni for these.

Italian Dates and Carl Barat's new band

The Others be joined by Dirty Pretty Things as special guests on the Ancona and Rimini tour dates. Bologna and Rome will not be with Dirty Pretty Things.

These are the first shows Carl wil be doing with his new band. Be interesting to hear.

Cheers

Johnny
xx

Manchester Setlist:

Thought I'd post the setlist (I'm glad people seem to like the new tracks - no cheesey wink this time but next time perhaps?) It made a nice change to be playing guitar on one of the tracks.

Lackey
Guard My Kind
Stan Bowles
Truth That Hurts
It Doesn't Matter To Me
William
Thick As Thieves
Probate
This Is For The Poor

I'm hoping we can add one or two more for Italy.

Cheers

Johnny

xx

MANCHESTER GIG THIS SUNDAY!!!!

The Others are ONSTAGE at 3pm, so get there early.
Venue : M-two - next to Midland Hotel on Peter Street, Manchester. Price : £5 Date : Sunday 2nd October

All ages show (14+)

There are loads of bands playing, but Stylish Riots were kind enough to find a space for us, hence the early time. It'll be a grand day out! check www.stylishriots.co.uk for more details.

Ticketweb link here:
http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=uk&query=detail&event=137323

This is the correct link, although the ticketweb site doesn't have the band's name up yet and it says it's an 18+ gig which is incorrect, so ignore it.

Lots of new songs

Cheers

xx

NEW ITALIAN TOUR DATES FOR OCTOBER!!!

After the success of our visit to Italy in July, we are pleased to announce we will be returning for more in October!!

Dates are:

13th Oct - Ancona - Barfly - Ugo Bassi

14th Oct - Rimini - IO Street Club

15th Oct - Bologna - Covo

16th Oct - Rome - Jailbreak

Should be good - see you there

Cheers

Johnny
xx

Hey,

Well there haven't been any updates because there isn't really any news... Our summer festival tour was incredibly busy but worth it for all the amazing experiences. We played our biggest gigs so far at Summer Sonic Festival in Japan, Osaka was a 35,000 capacity baseball stadium and Tokyo was about 40,000 and guess what? They were full! We met lots of lovely people and are looking forward to returning to Japan as soon as possible.

Three triumphant sets at the Reading, TDK. and Leeds festivals concluded our live commitments for the summer. And since then we've had a bit of time off to relax and regenerate.

I've been doing a bit of writing, a little songwriting and have had a few nice walks accross the South Downs and picked some blackberries (yum) and next week I am off to the short story festival at Charleston (the home and country meeting place for the writers, painters and intellectuals known as the Bloomsbury Group).

So basically we've just been having a mellow time before getting back to work again at the end of September when we shall be honing all the songs we've written for the second album (from the sounds of things so far, the best description is perhaps that the dark songs will be darker than before and the pop songs will be poppier).

At the moment no live dates are confirmed, but we should be doing some in this country (and maybe abroad...) before the end of the year and when we do the set will have changed radically.

So while we "wait for things to be confirmed" and enjoy the onset of Autumn here's some stuff to be getting on with:

At the last minute we were asked to DJ for a while in the guest area at the Reading Festival, here's what I played:

Gang Of Four - At Home He's A Tourist (Others Additive Free Mix)
Mansun - Take It Easy Chicken
Duran Duran - Electric Barbarella
Teardrop Explodes - Ha Ha I'm Drowning
Primal Scream - Swastika Eyes
Bloc Party - This Modern Love
David Devant And His Spirit Wife - Holiday On Ice

Gang Of Four's new album "Return The Gift" will feature the near 5 minute floorfiller remix of At Home He's A Tourist that I did with Martin and James. It is released on 19th Sept and can be pre-ordered from Amazon here

Some of our set from the Lowlands Festival in Belgium was recorded in glorious lo-fi and can be heard here - also features the first taster of our new material with a song called Probate/13 Years.

We have a meeting with our manager on Monday so keep checking back after that because I may be able to announce some new live dates.

Cheers

Johnny
xx

Current Research:

Ernest Hemingway - The First Forty-Nine Stories

Bloc Party - Silent Alarm (Remixed)