“We’ve always sung together,” the siblings shared in a joint statement. “And we want to celebrate that in a simple way -celebrating songs we love and the way our voices come from the same place and the same memories. We’ve been talking about doing this for a long time.”

The forthcoming project will include both original songs and covers, inspired by the folk, acoustic, and traditional music they grew up with. The project is described as deeply personal – an exploration of sibling harmony and the storytelling that binds them as artists and family.

Johnny Flynn is well-known for his dual career as a musician and actor. He is the frontman of Johnny Flynn & The Sussex Wit, a band that has released six studio albums blending folk, indie, and poetic lyricism. He has also collaborated on the 2021 album ‘Lost in the Cedar Wood’ with author Robert Macfarlane, and composed the theme for the beloved BBC series Detectorists.

On stage and screen, Flynn’s performances have earned wide acclaim. He portrayed David Bowie in Stardust (2020), Mr. Knightley in Emma (2020), and most recently took on the role of Richard Burton in Sam Mendes’ The Motive and the Cue, which premiered at the National Theatre before moving to the West End.

Though less widely known, Lillie Flynn is a seasoned performer with a strong background in theatre and music. She has worked with innovative theatre companies including Kneehigh, Punchdrunk, and Shakespeare’s Globe. Her vocals have occasionally featured with her brother’s band, where audiences have praised their uncanny harmony and emotional synchronicity. The upcoming project promises to put that front and centre for the first time in a studio setting.

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This upcoming music project is the culmination of years of behind-the-scenes collaboration. Their musical bond was forged through singing traditional songs around the family home, and later, through collaborations on stage. The siblings recently discussed this musical upbringing and shared love for performance on the Relatively podcast.

Set for release later this year, the project is expected to be accompanied by a short run of live shows including two performances at London’s Open Air Theatre in September . With a stripped-back, acoustic focus and a reverence for shared memory, this project will offer listeners a rare and intimate glimpse into a musical relationship that has been decades in the making.

The link to buy tickets for Johnny and Lillie Flynn’s performance in September can be accessed here.

‘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