I Am Kloot @ Sheffield Leadmill 06/10/2010
Many years ago when I was but an impressionable teenager, during my “skinny indie kid” days I once went to the then Mecca of record shops “Eastern Bloc” in Afflecks Palace Manchester.
With my fopp of hair shaved at the sides on back sporting a Smiths T-shirt a grandad style cardigan ad a pair of Dr Marten boots I furiously searched through the racks of vynil and with the pittance I earned from my Saturday job in Debenhams purchased 2 of the best bits of vinyl bought.
Not surprisingly I played these to death and one of the tracks that stuck in my mind was “Subway Life” by “Johnny Dangerously”, I have to admit it was a bit of a protest song and it’d anti Smiths fan lyrics did slightly rub me up the wrong way.
It was several years later (in the mid 2000s) when I heard the same voice again as part of “I am Kloot” brought to my attention by the sunday night “Razor Cuts” show on Virgin Radio (thanks Pete Mitchell). It was only later after listening to a few albums and hearing an interview that I realised that “Johnny Dangerously” and the singer of I am Kloot “Johhny Bramwell” were in fact one in the same.
Anyway due to poor planing and gig clashes I’ve always missed them, I finally got to see Johnny and the band:
A great performance and a ripple of applause to the mixing desk I could hear every lyric, look forward to seeing them again.