Johnnie Fingers

Johnnie Fingers (born John Peter Moylett, 10 September 1956) is an Irish keyboardist and co founding member (along with Bob Geldof) of the new wave band, The Boomtown Rats. He was notable for his attire of striped pyjamas on stage as well as his melodic piano style.

Background

Fingers came from a large family of actors, artists and musicians. His cousin is his fellow Boomtown Rat Pete Briquette, as their mothers, Margaret "Peggy" (Bowles) Cusack and Cecilia "Sheila" (Bowles) Moylett, were sisters. They are nephews of Irish conductor and composer Michael Bowles. He learned the piano from a young age from "Miss Grist" who he claims "stole his youth".^[1] After the demise of The Rats, he founded Gung~Ho with Simon Crowe and Yoko Kurokawa in 1987. Fingers is married with two children.

Career

He currently lives in Tokyo, Japan where he continues to work in the music industry. Apart from producing and writing music for Japanese stars such as UA, and theme songs such as for the hit anime B't X, Fingers is the "point man"^[2] with the concert music production company Smash Japan, producers of Fuji Rock Festival, the largest music festival in Japan.

Discography

With The Boomtown Rats

With Gung Ho

• "Play To Win" (single, 1987)
• 10 (1988)

With Greengate

Greengate - Daydreaming Vinyl|Fuzzy Box|FUZ008 Greengate Daydreaming Fuzzy Box FUZ-008 Vinyl 7" US 1 1 Electronic Electro Japanese electropop

Greengate - Metaphysical Vibration CD|Fuzzy Box|FUZ006 Greengate Metaphysical Vibration Fuzzy Box FUZ-006 CD US 1 1 Electronic Leftfield pop-y Japanese

With RUFFY TUFFY

• "RUFFY TUFFY" (1999) album
• "RESPECT!" (2000) omnibus Live album
• "Natsu no Jujika" (2000) album
• "Aki no Jujika" (2000) album
• "Mizu no Awa" (2001) EP

References