Johnny Marr and The Healers play Thursday

This upcoming Thursday night, Johnny Marr and The Healers will be onstage at Night & Day Cafe playing the first of three shows that are taking place over the next week. Rumour has it that Johnny will be on Radcliffe and Maconie at 6 Music tomorrow, Wednesday, to talk about the upcoming shows and the new Healers.

In 2006, Johnny Marr and The Healers were getting ready to record their second album. But Johnny had an offer from Isaac Brock that he couldn’t refuse, went on to make We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank with Modest Mouse and toured practically non-stop for over a year and a half. During part of the tour in summer 2008, Johnny played onstage with Peter Buck and REM, something unbelievable and amazing. And then The Cribs grabbed him, recorded Ignore The Ignorant and toured all over the world. Now, finally it’s time for The Healers.

The question of who the new Healers are will be answered come Thursday, if not before, but until then we know that the bass player is named Max and his birthday is 8 September, the drummer wears moccasins, and someone is from Hull. Oh, and they all got new haircuts last Sunday.

Bruce has always loved the underground, edgy cuts worn by the key faces of rock ‘n’ roll – the likes of The Rolling Stones circa 1967, Nico of the Velvet Undergroung, Patti Smith and Debbie Harry of Blondie. As he says,”edgy looks that are lived in, connected with the person, hip but not contrived. I don’t like lloks that are like hats on tops of heads.” His eye for effortless cool has been noted by others and caused him to be responsible for some of the key looks of the Manchester music scene.
Bruce Masefield, UK Creative Director for Sassoon