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* Two years after "Tattoo", Jay Jay Johanson is coming back with the album "Poison", release in France on April 19th, 2000. The single "Keep it a secret", with more electric guitar, will be released in the end of February.

* ARTE (french television) will brodcast a one hour long documentary about Jay Jay Johanson on January 16. They filmed it in Jay Jay's hometown at the west coast of Sweden, in his parents house, in Stockholm and in the festival 'La Route du Rock' in Saint-Malo.

In this film, you can hear extracts of She's mine but I'm not hers, Sudden death, Even in the darkest hour, Milan Madrid Chicago Paris, It hurts me so, So tell the girls that I am back in town, an extract of The Jungle Book, Mana Mana Mana Mana, I'm older now, I guess I'm just a fool, Almost blue (cover of Elvis Costello, with his pianist), Two finger (song of Bang Bang on which Jay Jay sings), Lychee and Visa från Utanmyra. You can see as well extracts of video-clips of Milan Madrid Chicago Paris and So tell the girls that I am back in town.

* Jay Jay and his musicians plan to start recording the third album in april or may.

* Jay Jay will play a small gig with his pianoplayer at the museum of modern art in Strasbourg on January 7. It's possible they play new songs. Other plans is to start next tour in Italy and Canada in March.

* Jay Jay Johanson (and The Little Rabbits, Polar and Purple Penguin) will sing in the Shamrock festival on december 1st at the Elysée Montmartre (72 bld Rochechouard 75018 Paris - France). Informations on Shamrock.

* Next concerts of Jay Jay Johanson :

In Greece : October 18th in Athens and 20th in Sallonica
In Germany : October 22nd in Hamburg (Kantine/Schauspielhaus), 23rd in Köln (Tingel Tangel), 24th in Baden-Baden (New Pop-Festival) and 25th in München (Ultraschall/Gr.Raum)
In France : October 28th at the "Rockomotives" festival in Vendome (Loir et Cher)

* Jay Jay Johanson will play in a few festivals this summer :

on July 17 at Rock au Max in Clermont-Ferrand, information : office du tourisme de Clermont-Ferrand, phone : (00 33 4) 73.98.65.00
on July 22 at Paléo festival in Nyon (Swiss), information : www.paleo.ch, phone : (00.41) 22.361.01.01
on August 14 at la Route du Rock in St Malo, information : www.laroutedurock.com, phone : (00 33 2) 99.53.50.30

* For the release of his new album, Wednesday, April 15, 1998 Jay Jay gave a concert at the Studio Bastille, by invitation only (it could also be seen by closed circuit television at most FNAC stores in France), during which he played the following songs:

Even in the darkest hour
So tell the girls that I am back in town
Quel dommage
The girl I love is gone
The sly seducer
Sudden Death
She´s mine but I´m not hers
Lychee
Milan, Madrid, Chicago, Paris
A letter to Lulu-Mae
Skeletal/I'm older now/Extended Beats
Friday at Rex
It hurts me so (version noisy)

And for the encore :

Trust in me (from the film "The book of the jungle", the snake's song !)

* Jay Jay will play 21 concerts in France this spring (1998):

April 15 by invitation at the Studio Bastille, Paris
April 16 at the Bourges Festival
April 17 at the St. Quentin Theatre
April 18 at the Hénin Beaumont Theatre
April 29 at the Salle Paul Fort, Nantes
April, 30 at L'Aire Libre in Rennes
May 1 at the St Lô Festival
May 6 at the Zig Zag, Orléans
May 7 at the Volcan, Le Havre
May 8 at the Boulogne Festival
May 9 at La Lune des Pirates, Amiens
May 13 at the Chabada, Angers
May 14 at the Barbey Theatre, Bordeaux
May 15 at La Passerelle, Sète
May 16 at the Rio, Montauban
May 18 at La Cigale, Paris
May 19 in Ajaccio
May 21 at L'Espace Julien, Marseille
May 22 at L'Entre-Pôt, Grenoble
May 23 at La Vapeur, Dijon
May 31 at the Festival Art Rock, St-Brieuc

He will also play at the Paleo festival in Nyom (Switzerland) on July 22, and possibly at the festival La Route du Rock around August, 15.

* Jay Jay Johanson's new album "Tattoo" is being distributes more widely thanks to the help of two ambassadors: the English Geoff Barrow (Portishead) and the Scottish Robin Guthrie (Cocteau Twins). The first sinle, "Lychees", is available on the compilation "Un printemps 98", sent to the subscribers of the French magazine "Les Inrockuptibles."

* Jay Jay Johanson also wrote the music for French designer José Levy's summer collection fashion show (January 23, 1998).

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