Music like John Coffey

John Coffey was a Dutch punk rock/post-hardcore band from Utrecht.

John Coffey is influenced by bands such as Refused, Every Time I Die and The Ghost of a Thousand. The band name is a reference to the character John Coffey from the movie The Green Mile (1999) by Frank Darabont, based on the six-book series by Stephen King.

The band gained a lot of interest when a video and gif went viral of the singer catching a beer while he was standing on the crowd.

In the autumn of 2008 the band recorded its debut album Vanity with Dutch producer Martijn Groeneveld (who recorded amongst others Face Tomorrow, The Spirit That Guides Us and Blaudzun ). Vanity was released in October 2009 by Sally Forth Records / Munich Records. The first thousand copies of the CD were pierced by a bullet. The album was well received by the Dutch press and received attention from OOR, Live XS, FRET, Rocktribune, and UP. The band toured in various countries including Germany, Great Britain and Sweden.