Johnny Get The Gun is a pop punk/rock band from Grays in Essex fully focussed on putting together some fun and uplifting musical gems. The refreshing thing about this band is that despite being influenced by the likes of Blink 182, Fall Out Boy, and All Time Low, Johnny Get The Gun is not a band that tries to imitate those that inspire them. Even in opening track ‘You Will Be Mine’ where the band breaks down into a ‘Da da da’ vocal not too dissimilar to that found in Fall Out Boy’s ‘7 Minutes in Heaven (Atavan Halen)’, Johnny Get The Gun is able to make this vocal sufficiently different so as not to sound like a Fall Out Boy tribute act.
Each of the six tracks on this mini-album have something different to offer, and after a few listens you find yourself singing along as the band hooks you in with its music. Johnny Get The Gun is a band that has obviously spent its three years since forming well as it’s demonstrated on this mini-album that they’re more than capable of penning some absolutely fantastic pop punk/rock tunes. Lead singer Wayne has an incredible vocal tone, the guitar work is strong here, and some pretty impressive drumbeats have also here been put down on record. These four guys from Essex really do seem to be able to play together well, something that is evidenced strongly on this debut mini-album. My only criticism of this mini-album would be that final track ‘This Night To End’ doesn’t seem to truly come alive until two minutes and forty seconds into the track; it’s by no means bad, it definitely seems to get a lot more exciting once the ‘She doesn’t love you, she doesn’t love you, love me’ vocal begins however, and whilst the other five tracks on the release are high in energy throughout, with this track you have to wait quite a while before its best moment arrives.
With this six track mini-album Johnny Get The Gun really shows that it’s a band to watch out for in the future; there are a lot of seriously strong signs here, and the band most definitely has the potential to become a big name in UK music. On the live circuit Johnny Get The Gun would no doubt go down well supporting the likes of You Me At Six and Kids In Glass Houses, and if the band continues to push on and improve then there’s really no reason why they can’t be as big as those bands in the future.
Johnny Get The Gun’s debut mini-album is not perfect, it’s certainly a release which hints at what the band is capable of however, and I for one will most definitely have an eye on what this band is getting up to in the future. Check out this mini-album if you’d like to hear an upcoming UK pop punk/rock band, and be sure to head along to one of the band’s live shows if the opportunity arises.
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UK based film graduate with a huge passion for music, sports and video games.
