Johnny Flynn

Review: Johnny Flynn’s Sillion 

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Johnny Flynn’s Sillion is a strange, affecting and beautifully realised album, one with many hidden (and manifest) depths. Go and listen.

After four years, Johnny Flynn makes a very welcome return with his fourth album (give or take a live CD and soundtrack) with Sillion – an old English word which means the thick, voluminous, and shiny soil turned over by a plough.

And it’s a particularly apt title, as Johnny’s songs dig through the dirt and detritus of everyday life revealing a shiny life-giving loam under the surface (while still sounding like it refers to an ancient mythical beast, perhaps that figure depicted on the cover?).

But the time between releases does not represent a furrow period for Flynn. Indeed it’s been a time of immense creativity and acclaim, just not in recorded music. He’s acted and scored films, starred in a TV series, and performed in stage plays. In fact, the last time I saw Flynn was as a boy player at London’s Globe Theatre starring as Lady Anne opposite Mark Rylance in Richard III. And very good he was too. [ . . . ]

Read More at: Johnny Flynn: Sillion (Album Review) | Folk Radio UK

Johnny Flynn: the ‘Lovesick’ actor/ musician on yoga, nature and how becoming a father triggered panic attacks 

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It’s early on Monday morning and Johnny Flynn is sitting in a faded cafe in east London. He is wearing a grey Patagonia fleece, over a red-and-green check shirt as though he’s just been out hiking, but he’s actually just dropped his son off at school. He looks like he should smell of camp fires, but when we hug, I discover he smells of washing powder.He orders green tea and apologises for his “murkiness”; yesterday was his son Gabriel’s sixth birthday party, but Flynn has just turned 34 too, so they had a party in the park, where the kids played in the trees and the adults drank wine, looking on.“I’ve just woken up, not too hungover but just a bit groggy from the energy of that. I was wrangling 30 kids into playing bulldog and catch the tail on the… thing.” He apologises with a smile. [ … ] More at: Johnny Flynn: the ‘Lovesick’ actor/ musician on yoga, nature and how becoming a father triggered panic attacks – The i newspaper online iNews

Johnny Flynn Shares ‘Wandering Aengus’

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Johnny Flynn has shared new track ‘Wandering Aengus’ – tune in now.The multi-talented songwriter was moved by the W.B. Yeats poem of the same name, and used this as a starting point for his own lyricism.A patient, profound new track, the song is about “going out into nature and going into places of stillness where something’s just happened and there’s the residue of that still there.”

Read Full Story: Johnny Flynn Shares ‘Wandering Aengus’ | News | Clash Magazine

Netflix’s Lovesick and TNT’s Good Behavior have been the best possible postelection escapist TV.

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Along with half of the country, I took ill in early November with a particularly virulent case of despondence and malaise. For this ailment, well-tried cure-alls proved to be of little use. Sleeping—the deep, catatonic, blot-out-the-world kind—helped a little, if one could manage it. Chicken soup proved to be far less effective than pizza. Even the notorious sick-day treat of lying on the couch and watching television all day didn’t help.

We are still figuring out how best to live with this chronic illness, but in the meantime, I have discovered a temporary symptom alleviator that works for about an hour or two at a time: charming, nontragic romances. One such soother is Netflix’s Lovesick, formerly known as Scrotal Recall.  Despite its previous name’s suggestion that

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