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Basic Info. What do Konrad Keely, Josh Homme and Andrew Stockdale have in common? T hey all play(ed) in fantastic bands and fell in love with Navel while playing shows with them.

That's quite awesome, given the fact that Navel are not from the US, not from the UK, not even from Sweden but from a deep and dark waterhole in Switzerland. And given the fact that since the Middle Ages and the amazing Young Gods, Switzerland has produced nothing that rocks except some stinky cheese. They are young, they are wild, they are weird and "They know how to fuckin` rock (J. Homme)" -- that's why they unintentionally keep on providing us with the stuff that rock'n'roll dreams are made of. Jari Altermatt, the mastermind and Navels Wild Boy recently almost lost a kidney on stage while trying to do a handstand on his feedback guitar and fell on a broken beer bottle.- After that a blood-smeared fan laconically asked the girl at the merch if he can have the album of the guy who's bleeding to death in the toilet. J ohn Q Public, the first international release (of course a 7"), is a dirty little bastard - self produced and after 200 shows in Germany, countless interviews, charts and all that bullshit - recorded just for fun. And of course: awesome!I n John Q. Public Altermatt slips into the character of a swiss banker who's completely going mental in a Falling Down-Style. This tragical-cynical "psychogram" is carried by a blues-shoegazer bass line and voice and guitar are distorted beyond recognition by several pedals. It's so fucking overdriven, that Pussy Galore themselves (the band not the sexy James Bond opponent) would be pleasured by it.

The second a-side, simple as the title "Here's a Song", is a wonderful post-punk pop song a la Hüsker Dü, with a great harmonica solo and crazy sing along breaks. A t the end of August they will finally release their first Album "Frozen Souls" and then in September/October every club will be destroyed. W e rock, we don't roll. Cuz young people like us can't grow up thinking Franz Ferdinand is rock music.

John Q. Public
I got this house and I got that car. I am a swiss swiss motherfucking banking-star
I got a wife, got kids from the boulevard. I got a knife and tonight I’m gonna travel far.
I got a wife, got kids from the boulevard. I got a knife and tonight I’m gonna travel far.
I got a job and I got a lawyer. got a clock go to church and I pray for hours

got my left, got my right, I have left behind. I am the in-between – democrat – no-meaning – liar
I got sixty pairs of shoes and a library. I got my cell-phone on and when I get a call
it’s mr. president talking to me ‘cause he’s bored. we gotta fight for our right let’s start another war
swimming in my pool in Hollywood. I am thinking about how to change the world
I ask my daddy in the bar there down below. he says don’t worry use that gun and don’t come back no more

my name is mr. public; my name is mr. public, my name is mr. public, I have my ticket to go
I got this house and I got that car, I am a swiss swiss motherfucking banking-star
I got a wife, got kids from the boulevard, I got a knife and tonight I’m gonna--- fuck them aaaaaaaaaaaaaaall

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