‘The Rebel! single is released on Repeat records on 19 May 2008

(7” Inch Limited Edition Individually Signed & Numbered Vinyl Picture Disc PLUS Download)

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Life threatening hospitalisations, band members and managers last to medical conditions and breakdowns! hellish record label machinations, prostit4te~, cage sighting,, straçige porporate Jifel~nes., lost weeke~ds in foreigçi coqntries and all underscored by friendship and an unshakeable ambition and belief in the music. The story of Johnny Panics far is enough for a 110 page screenplay let alone an 800 word press biography.

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We haven’t got time to get into all the gory details now, so let’s just get the salient details out of the way first. While still at school Rob Solly (vocals, guitar, songwriting) met Jonny Shock (drums, drinking, comedy) on a bus in south east London bonding over a shared love of music and they’ve been playing together ever since. A few guitarists late they struck gold with Matt James who they found right on their own doorstep and after the amicable departure of Ion1 time bassist and friend Nash Francis they drafted in Sean Mannion (Rob: “the most natural musician out of all of us”).

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Drawing inspiration from the glorious history of artists that have meant something in the last 50 years of rock and roll any triangulation of where they’re coming from would have to include The Clash, Guns n Roses and the early American punk scene (they’ve covered The Nerves/Blondic~ and The Ramones to spectacular effect).

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In October last year Johnny Panic released new album ‘The Good Fight’, to commercial and critical acclaim. It’s an album of stadium sized hooks and melodies wrapped around concerns of mental health, prostitution, drugs and prisoners of conscience. “There’s an ethic missing from a lot of bands” explains singer Rob, “we live in a society that refuses to question. That’s where rock n roll comes in. We’re not here to shove them down people’s throats, but every single one of our songs is trying to get something across.”

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Not that they stand on their soap-box, but if there’s a cause they feel needs some attention, they’re not scared of highlighting it; they’re not afraid of a fight. But then front man Rob Solly, knows a thing or too about fighting. From th~ age of 14 he’s been practising Tae Kwon-Do, reaching a level that found him competing in the US and Australia, he’ also done Thai Boxing in Thailand and trained in Brazilian Ju Jitsu and boxing as well. The last two years have foun Rob training and fighting in mixed martial arts - yes, that’s Ultimate Fighting Championship and Cage Rage stuff to tI uninitiated.

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They scored a British Arts Council grant to travel and play at last years infamous South By South West festival in Austin, Texas, they won a large sum of money from the Windows Live Spaces competition and covered The Turtles ‘Happy Together’ for NPower’s 2006 cricket sponsorship theme tune! All of this helped keep the band afloat and enabled them to self-finance the recording of their second album, inevitably and appropriately named ‘The Good Fight’. Rob even collared Biffy Clyro and Therapy? producer Chris Sheldon in the street and talked him into producir and mixing the record.

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‘The Rebel’ is the second single taken from album ‘The Good Fight’ and is unleashed on the public on May 19.

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VIDEO SINGLE ‘DISLOCATION’ THE FIRST SINGLE FROM THE BANDS 2007 ALBUM RELEASE ‘THE GOOD FIGHT’