Johnny Flynn is only 33 years old, but has the ability to channel and emulate roots folk music with his story telling lyrics, finger picking, and song composition. I had been introduced to Johnny Flynn before, but only recently starting…
Record Store Day is here again! After last year’s mammoth list of 643 exclusive releases, organisers have taken concerns on board and produced a much leaner list of, uhm, 592. Still need help picking through it? FFS picks out the…
Johnny Flynn certainly likes to keep himself busy. If he’s not treading the boards in a Shakespearean production in the West End, he’s sharing screen time with Hollywood A-listers in a cinema near you. But it’s his role as a…
Happy birthday to FFS favourite Johnny Flynn. To celebrate we bring you a live performance of Einstein’s Idea, a lullaby Johnny wrote for his son Gabriel.
FFS favourite folk-rocker Johnny Flynn has been cast as legendary Queen drummer Roger Taylor in an upcoming biopic about the band, according to a report by the Daily Mail. The film, called ‘Mercury’, is about the original line up of…
Following the release of his fourth album, ‘Country Mile’ and a string of sold out shows, folk rocker Johnny Flynn has announced he will be playing six UK dates in the Spring of 2014. Along with these six UK dates,…
The soft-spoken folk artist and his band, Johnny Flynn & The Sussex Wit, are touring the UK this October with new album Country Mile – the fruit of two years of work squeezed into free moments between Johnny’s burgeoning acting…
With Country Mile out this week, it seemed only right we bring you ‘The Lady Is Risen’, one of the album’s undoubted high points, as our Song of the Day. At first listen it seems like a meandering, shambling thing,…
You can now hear Johnny Flynn’s new record Country Mile, which is due for release on 30th September, below in its entirety. Johnny will be off on tour in support of the album next month, with a smattering of free…
Hidden in the depths of a valley in the Brecon Beacons lies one of the world’s best-kept secrets. Greenman Festival celebrated its tenth year anniversary, and served to be, yet again, one of the best festivals I have undoubtedly ever been to.