Martin Johnson – lead vocals, guitar, keyboards, programming.The second single, "One Phone Call", was issued on July 10, 2020. The first, "Magic Trick", was released May 29, 2020, and its music video debuted on YouTube on June 23, 2020. On May 18, 2020, The Night Game announced a new record called Dog Years that would be released in eleven installments. In addition to the single release, they also announced their self-titled debut album, released on September 7, 2018. The band released their fifth single, "American Nights", on May 25, 2018. On February 23, 2018, The Night Game released their fourth studio single, "Bad Girls Don't Cry". The sixteen-date tour spanned across the United States, with debut appearances at Innings Music Festival, Shaky Knees Music Festival, BottleRock Napa Valley, and Firefly Music Festival. Within the first month of 2018, Johnson announced via social media that the band would embark on the American Nights Tour in the Spring of that year, with the support of musical guest The Band Camino. The video was directed by the band's photographer/videographer Michael Hili. The video and single were released on November 16, 2017. Towards the end of 2017, Johnson followed up the success of "The Outfield" with a brand new song and video for "Once in a Lifetime". An original band version of the track was released on Februas well. Johnson then collaborated with Norwegian DJ Kygo on the song " Kids in Love", which released on Octoon the album Kids in Love. This caused many new listeners to pay more attention to the band, asking and demanding more music, as the group gained a mass following via social media.įollowing "The First Tour" accompanying Mayer, Johnson started to bring other works to the surface, starting with the music video release for "The Outfield" on August 22, 2017, directed by British musician Dev Hynes.
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During the tour, they performed a full set of songs each night, though only having one single out for public consumption. The band accepted the offer and marketed the opportunity as "The First Tour", performing thirty shows as the opening act on Mayer's The Search for Everything World Tour, followed by independent dates during July and August 2017. This is that stuff we listen to new music for." Then I asked them to open up for half the upcoming summer shows. Then I listened to it again to make sure I heard what I thought I had.
Mayer took a liking to the song, exclaiming: "I heard this song. It was only two weeks following their release of "The Outfield" that the single was recognized by Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter John Mayer via Spotify. "For once in my life, I had the luxury of time, so I just went into the studio and took the time it takes."Īustralian music producer Francois Tetaz helped write, record, and produce "The Outfield" and introduced the band to Belgian-Australian recording artist Gotye, who provided backing vocals in the song. "This song felt like the best introduction to what I'm trying to do and a really good way to segue into the project, it felt anthemic, without being a throat jammer." He also stated, "I didn't want to force something out into the universe without feeling like it was a genuine extension of my personality," he explained. The song premiered on Billboard, and in an interview with the company, Johnson spoke about the single and the beginnings of the group. The group released their debut single, "The Outfield", on April 12, 2017. For the first half of the production the music sounded very different being more in the singer-songwriter genre, most of these songs were eventually cut with only one song, "Once in a Lifetime" making it onto the actual album. During the production of the band's first album Johnson recalls "being angry at music", noting that it became "an office job" and thought about quitting. Johnson performed with a full band, including Australian artist Kirin J. Eventually Johnson changed the project's name to "The Night Game" based on a Paul Simon song. Started by Johnson in 2016, The Night Game began writing music and playing small shows under the moniker "Impossible Color". 1.1 2016–2019: Beginnings and The Night GameĬareer 2016–2019: Beginnings and The Night Game.
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