Tag: Johnny Flynn

#654 Johnny Flynn – Detectorists

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 | Shopping Guide A-L

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…

Live | Johnny Flynn @ The Cluny, Newcastle

For Folk's Sake | Johnny Flynn | 2014

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…

News | Johnny Flynn to Star in Queen Biopic

Photo by Luke Montgomery

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…

#212 Johnny Flynn – The Lady Is Risen

Johnny Flynn Country Mile Album Cover September 2013

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,…

Listen | Stream Johnny Flynn’s new album Country Mile

Johnny Flynn Country Mile Album Cover September 2013

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…

Live | Greenman Review 2013

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.