‘Sillion’ will be released on 24^th March. It is Flynn’s first studio album since 2013’s ‘Country Mile’, although he did also release a live album from a gig in Washington DC in 2014, and has also appeared on the soundtrack album for the BBC Four TV series Detectorists. Flynn has enlisted the help of friends for the album, including Cosmo Sheldrake on electronics, and Dave Tattersall on electric guitar. Talking to the London Evening Standard in late 2015, Flynn gave an insight into how he makes his music and the kind of music he wants to make. Flynn admitted, ‘I’m not a fan of taking too long in the studio, I always do one vocal take and jump out of the control room, and people push me back in… It’s a real turn-off to hear things that are too polished. I feel like I’ve almost fought for the right to be that kind of musician — we used to be on a major label and now we’re on an indie.’ On his influences, Flynn revealed that he wasn’t a folk traditionalist at all, instead claiming, ‘I really love a lot of early Sixties R&B, rock’n’roll, and I love performing songs that have that power and soulfulness. We’ve been enjoying that groove a lot more.’

‘Raising the Dead’ is an intensely personal release for Flynn; explaining his inspiration for the track he says, ‘My Dad died when I was 18, and that was quite a galvanising experience. There’s often an element of that in anything I’m writing; every big loss that you suffer in life, I think everything comes through the conduit of that. I had a really strong sense of my daughter having elements of my Dad when she came along, and it made me kind of laugh – that cyclical sense, of thinking of my daughter as my Dad.’

Flynn’s Tour will kick off on 24^th March, the same day as ‘Sillion’ will be released, and will take in seven dates in seven UK cities during that last week of March. If you can’t wait that long to see Mr. Flynn up close and personal, he stars in the TV show ‘Lovesick’ (formerly ‘Scrotal Recall’) is available to stream on Netflix now, and is also set to appear alongside Geoffrey Rush in new Albert Einstein TV drama, ‘Genius’. The full tour schedule is shown below:

24/3 – St. George’s Church – Brighton

25/3 – Church – Leeds

26/3 – Gorilla – Manchester

27/3 – Caves – Edinburgh

28/3 – O2 Academy 2 – Birmingham

29/3 – Trinity – Bristol

31/3 – St. John’s Hackney – London

Ahead of his appearance at the Green Man Festival in Wales this coming weekend, Johnny Flynn and The Sussex Wit has given festival goers an idea of what to expect from his performance on the Mountain Stage. After Eliot takes its inspiration from the legendary writer T.S Eliot and tells a tale of a misencounter and the follow up, where two people are unaware of the same thing happening even though they both saw it occurring at the same time. It is a slow moving folk-ballad that encompasses everything that Johnny Flynn and The Sussex Wit do well, with Flynn’s country-esque vocals serenading all who listen.

Country Mile is an album which tells the story of journeying, with each song describing a different element of the journey. Following the first taste of the record it seems like one not to miss out on when it is released in late September. It will be Johnny Flynn and The Sussex Wit’s third record, after 2008’s A Larum and Been Listening, which surfaced in 2010. After a two year hiatus from the stage, the group will be itching to get back on stage and showcase their new material, and with a gargantuan tour of the US as support to Mumford and Sons in September, it is sure to be a action packed couple of months for the talented ensemble. They will then return to Blighty in October as part of their European tour in support of Country Mile, and the dates can be found below.

Saturday 5th – Edinburgh Pleasance Theatre

Sunday 6th – Glasgow Oran Mor

Monday 7th – Manchester Club Academy

Tuesday 8th – Birmingham Institute Library

Thursday 10th – London Hackney Empire

Friday 11th – Oxford Academy 2

Saturday 12th – Brighton St George’s Church

Monday 14th – Bristol Anson Rooms

Tuesday 15h – Leeds The Wardrobe

Wednesday 16th – Dublin Whelans

Thursday 17th – Belfast Limelight

You can listen to After Eliot below. Country Mile comes out on September 30th. Buy it, download it, stream it, just listen to it.

https://soundcloud.com/transgressive-records/johnny-flynn-after-eliot-1