Johnny Flynn: Music You Need To Hear

It's a bit hard juggling social networking at the moment, have to admit I'm drowning a bit. I got an android phone and got eaten by Instagram (dickhead) and I've been using Tumblr a lot for my UAL contributions, and to upload Instagram stuff onto...

The UAL one is here - startingatual.tumblr.com
And my personal one with my Instagram bollocks and some occasional funny stuff is here - kittykittyking.tumblr.com

I guess I've been saving this bad boy for stuff I want to actually write.

Anyway I've got something I want to write but mainly I just want to share some awesome stuff you need to hear. I figure I'll post here and my Tumblr cos I don't know who looks at what but you all need a fair stab at hearing this.

Spent my weekend at Tramlines in Sheffield and got to hear some wicked music at a bit called Folk Forest, can definitely recommend a duo called Katriona Gilmore & Jamie Roberts. You need to watch out for those guys. I don't know much about music but I know that they sound good.



First up; if you've not been listening to Johnny Flynn for a few years then I apologize profusely for not doing more to help you. Really. He's a good buddy of Laura Marling's, but unlike how Marling's grown up and her music has got really serious and slightly depressing (lovable all the same, but you have to admit...) his last release in 2010 was still relatively upbeat.

Old Tricks

Can't honestly tell you when Flynn wrote or recorded this as there's not an awful lot of info about him hanging around on the web and I'm too lazy to search. This is an upbeat sing-along song with a female vocalist throughout. Happy music.

The Prizefighter and the Heiress

I can tell you that this was released on the second album Been Listening in 2010, and the whole thing's worth a listen. This one starts off a bit slow but you need to hang on in there because it becomes a pretty huge tune... well, as much as you can refer to folk as a 'huge tune'...

Ordinarily with songs I'd like to quote some lyrics along with it, but these aren't Dylan-esque works which can stand alone as poems - these words are accompanied by amazing sounds which you need to hear to really get anything off it. So just listen to the damn songs.