HIGHLY RATED BRIT ALT CREW HEATLTHY JUNKIES ANNOUNCE BRAND NEW ALBUM & NEW SINGLE!

5th August 2024 0 By Jon Deaux

Popular UK alternative combo, HEALTHY JUNKIES, are ready to release their much-anticipated new album, Listen

To The Mad, out everywhere on Friday 22^nd November, via Banana Castle Records. The alt-punks have also just revealed their killer new single and video, Favourite Place.

If you’re new to the HEALTHY JUNKIES, you’ve been missing out. Cleverly binding together the key fundamentals of Punk Rock, Grunge, Psychedelic Rock, New Wave, Garage Rock, and Goth (with an added theatrical layer), HEALTHY JUNKIES have an expansive and stirring sound that has earned them global recognition.

The early seeds of the HEALTHY JUNKIES were sown in 2010 when glamorous yet rebellious lead punkster, Nina Courson, moved from Paris to London and found guitarist Phil-Honey-Jones. The pair sought out new pathways together, seeking solace in the world of music, and named the band “HEALTHY JUNKIES” to reflect the mental health epidemic that was then, and still now, spreading like wildfire through the core of Western society.

The dynamic duo added Dave Whitmore on bass, and Tony Alda on drums, and soon began to extensively tour throughout the whole of the UK and Europe. They’ve shared stages with The Rezillos, The Skeletal Family, Walter Lure, The Professionals, GBH, Vice Squad, Theatre Of Hate, The Sex Gang Children, 999, The Vibrators, Spizz Energi and The Buzzcocks, as well as making regular festival appearances at The Whitby Goth Festival (where they have supported ‘Toyah’) and Corrosion Festival. These performances, as well as yearly appearances at the mighty Rebellion Punk Festival (which the band has played every year since 2012) have resulted in amassing the HEALTHY JUNKIES a substantial following. The industrious alt-punks also caught the ear of renowned American DJ, Rodney Bingenheimer, who widely backed and supported the band. The unstoppable quartet successfully toured the West Coast of the US in the Autumn of 2018, and in doing so, has acquired a cult fanbase in the States.

As well as a potent live reputation, the HEALTHY JUNKIES have picked up widespread media acclaim with their music enjoying airtime on BBC Radio, Fresh On The Net, Amazing Radio, Planet Rock, Total Rock, and Blank TV. The band have been featured and reviewed by Alt Press, Louder Than War, Big Cheese Magazine, Vive Le Rock, Artrocker, Devolution Magazine, and many others. The quartet also appeared in the music documentary, The United Kingdom of Pop, alongside The Specials; the episode was aired to millions of viewers throughout France and Germany, via ARTE TV, as well as being shown on Sky Arts.

In 2020, the HEALTHY JUNKIES had a change of personnel with David Gaut joining the ranks on drums. Gaut’s introduction has added renewed vigour and energy to the band. The punk rockers now surge ahead with their stunning sixth album, Listen To The Mad, which arrives this year. The band remark about the record: “We recorded all of the songs with Jonathon Jacobs at Audiohaus studios in London. As always with Healthy Junkies we were compelled to make music for the sake of our own sanity. We have been inspired by what we see and hear around us. We never aim to preach but do touch on issues that are affecting many of us.”

With another recent successful jaunt around the UK and France under their belts, and with forthcoming festival appearances in the pipeline, the HEALTHY JUNKIES have an action-packed end to the year; just watch this space.

+ HEALTHY JUNKIES – Album launch party and live set at The Dublin Castle, Camden, London, on Wednesday 20th November +

Album track listing:
0. Listen To The Mad;