Johnny Action Figure

Reading, Pennsylvania’s Johnny Actions Figure was created when two guitar-playing performers, Chris Sheehan (given birth to Apr 8, 1985) and Brendan Fullam (given birth to Dec 4, 1984), produced the music group in 1999, the summertime before their freshman yr of senior high school. The duo started writing original tunes together, influenced from your outset from the music of Elliott Smith Elvis Costello, the Beatles, Tom Petty while others, the songwriters both favoring the lighter pop noises of Paul McCartney on the experimentation and darker noises of the John Lennon. Brendan’s sibling, (Christopher Fullam, blessed August 24, 1987) — also called CF — performs bass for JAF while drummer Brad Rittle (blessed July 3, 1987) completes the quartet. Johnny Actions Figure started playing local displays immediately after their introduction — throughout their junior/senior many years of senior high school — documented their initial full-length record. (Music journalist Alex Henderson observed in an assessment of their self-titled debut from 2004 that another music group from Canada passed the same name in the ’90s before Canadian ensemble transformed their moniker to Ghost of Research.) Straight after senior high school, they began landing opening slot machine games for nationwide touring rings like Something Commercial, the GET RIGHT UP Children, Midtown, Allister, Wilco among others in their house state of Pa. They truly became full-time university students while carrying on to play every week shows and documenting new material showing up on 2004’s Warped Tour. Their second Compact disc, Asks the area to Please Quit Spinning, premiered world-wide on DRP Information in July of 2006 with a complete tour to aid it from June 2007. With musical affects which range from the Seaside Kids and Steely Dan to My Morning hours Jacket and also other performers who are “pressing the envelope of pop music,” Johnny Actions Figure has attempt to “concern” themselves while developing the noises they decide to generate. Their significant group of fans is growing beyond Pa into NJ, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and wherever the web provides them that touring will not. Using the songs “Shed Our Encounter” and “Lot of money” entrenched on YouTube; the music group was the presented musical visitor on CN8’s Backstage with Barry Nolan and offers made an appearance on Havoc (on demand) and on ManiaTV! Network’s RnR Television.