johnny lunchbreak

Johnny Lunchbreak’s Appetizer/Soup’s On is yet another awesome reissue from the fantastic people at Numero Group. Like we’ve said here before, these guys are totally on it. It was released a while back, the first of the Asterisk series (catalogue number NUM-AST-1 for the geeks out there). Above is the only known picture of the band.

Johnny Lunchbreak are a vivid amalgamation of all the prevalent musical influences of their era, tuneful, a little bit raw, with all those bits and pieces of great rock ‘n’ roll acts, garage bands and sketchy pop of the 60s. They lasted for a few years in the early 70s. The band aimed at the BeeGees apparently, but were shooting squiffy, which resulted in a glorious fuzzy mixture of popular influences.

Johnny Lunchbreak – Amazing Pain

Tinsel days gets played out some evenings at Play It As It Lays. It’s got lovely rolling brash harmonies, and a gutter sweet melody.

Johnny Lunchbreak – Tinsel Days

You can, and should go spend some pennies over at Numero Group, you can’t go wrong, so splash out. (If you happen to reside in the US its free postage too.) Their blog is also rather entertaining, and holds not much relevance to the label. See recent post “Reasons I Like Working At Numero”.