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“Limitations are key for us,” says John Newton, drummer and vocalist in JOHN. “I never view being a two-piece as a minus - it’s a key idiosyncratic element of what the project is.” For the last decade, the duo of Newton and Johnny Healey have constantly redefined and expanded the role, function and parameters of what a guitar and drum two-piece can be, with a sense of balance, contrast and duality fundamentally at the heart of JOHN. They are an outfit who on the surface are stripped back to a bare bones essence, a format perhaps lazily synonymous with just primitive rock, yet their work is richly layered and multifaceted - resulting in something that eschews and evades easy genre categorisation. This is crystalised in the band’s name too. It may appear to be a simple play on the pair’s name but, as ever with the band, search harder for deeper meaning and you’ll be rewarded with something that contains not only artistic thought but also a mission statement that has been integral to the band’s creative process over the last decade. “It’s a statement against colouring the music with superfluous attachments,” explains Newton. “It says: ‘we're not going to be sensational’. It doesn't mean to say it's not intensely theatrical but I think there's enough theatre in the actual energy that's on the stage.”

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Presented by The Crocodile

The Crocodile Presents: JOHN, w/ Tunic, Diminished Men

Diminished Men

The Crocodile Presents: JOHN, w/ Tunic, Diminished Men

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The Sunset Tavern

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