The American revolution

JJ72'S US stock continues to rise with the band heading out on a coast to coast tour this month with Stereophonics.

Kicking off on January 21st at the House Of Blues in Los Angeles, the co-headlining trek then takes in such major metropolises as San Francisco, Chicago, Washington, Philadelphia and New York where they play back-to-back Irving Plaza shows on February 6th and 7th.

In the meantime, Mark Greaney has been spilling the beans about their pre-Christmas visit to the States.

"We had the night of our lives for our headline show in L.A.," he enthuses to JJ72.org. "Fergal met Little Richard in the hotel lobby. Elijah Wood was at our show. I found myself in his car at 2am driving through Los Angeles looking for beer…a little strange. It's hard to believe we have film star fans already in America. We played in Virgin on Sunset and had a surprisingly large turnout."

One of the songs the JJ's will be treating American fans to is 'Brother Sleep', a suitably epic affair which is earmarked for their second album. Greaney displays his lyrical prowess again with such choice couplets as: "This room is as cold as its host/Is it the sleep that is the brother of the death?/The clock is as green as an orchard where the sun can cover the trees/This girl cries tears as a torture/Is this girl the queen on the scene?"

That and five other tracks have already been demoed with Flood – the band hoping to finish the opus off during the late spring/early summer.