jonny taylor

Australian Idol Round-Up: Jonny Taylor, The Man So Memorable Everyone Forgot He’d Left

8:38AM Clem Bastow | Pity poor Jonny Taylor; first he eats bitumen in a motorcycle accident that causes him only to be able to communicate via the power of soulful™ atmospheric rock songs and paintings of post-apocalyptic landscapes featuring screaming, bald heads, then his hair is attacked by the last remaining bottle of Fudge Raspberry Beret Paintbox dye on the planet, then his mother solemnly informs him that the family will only be able to afford clothes from Off Ya Tree since the river took Emmy-Lou, and then, he ends up in the bottom two with Teale “The JPEG” Jakubenko – and it’s The JPEG that ends up getting to stay! Good thing Jonny’s feeling so chipper about the whole debacle, then: “I started losing faith in myself not as artist but as a performer,” Taylor said today. More »