Johnny Flynn & The Sussex Wit Announce Headline December UK Tour & Tickets
Monday, 12 July 2010
Written by Nigel Sachdev
Johnny Flynn and his band will headline a tour across the UK this winter.
Flynn and The Sussex Wit (David Beauchamp, Adam Beach, Lillie Flynn, Joe Zeitlin, James Mathe) will hit the road in December for a series of shows which include a gig at London's Shepherd's Bush Empire on Friday 10th December.
Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, Flynn grew up in Hampshire and South Wales. A classical music scholarship for his prodigious musicianship saw him through school after which he headed for drama school in London, where he moonlighted as a fiddle player for his friend, the singer Emmy The Great, before striking off on his own.
Alongside scoring A Bag Of Hammers, a forthcoming movie starring Rebecca Hall, and taking on the odd acting role, Johnny Flynn has funnelled everything from boyhood memories to feelings of loneliness into his new album 'Been Listening', to make a collection of songs that ring out with a wisdom beyond his years. When he sings Just a lonely radio/Just a makeshift show and tell/Playing out the lives of the lost and found on 'Lost and Found', Johnny Flynn sounds the very essence of the modern chronicler, capturing a particular life's experience in songs with a universal resonance.
'Barnacled Warship', the second single from the album 'Been Listening', will be released on 16th August 2010 on Transgressive Records.
Following a sold out headline tour in May and June, Johnny Flynn and The Sussex Wit have also just been confirmed as main support to Mumford & Sons on the folk-rock quartet's forthcoming sold out UK jaunt. The dates are as follows:
Johnny Flynn and Mumford & Sons
October 2010
1st - GLASGOW Academy
2nd - MANCHESTER Apollo
4th - BRIGHTON Dome
5th - NOTTINGHAM Rock City
6th - BRISTOL Academy
8th - LONDON Hammersmith Apollo
9th - LONDON Hammersmith Apollo
Johnny Flynn and The Sussex Wit headlining UK tour dates:
December 2010
4th - BIRMINGHAM Academy 2
5th - MANCHESTER Club Academy
7th - EDINBURGH Liquid Rooms
9th - BRISTOL Trinity Center
10th - LONDON Shepherd's Bush Empire
11th - BRIGHTON St George's Church
12th - EXETER The Phoenix
Support acts and special guests for the December tour will be announced closer to the time.
Tickets for the Johnny Flynn & The Sussex Wit December 2010 tour are on pre-sale now exclusively through his official site www.johnny-flynn.com. Tickets will go on general sale this Friday, 16th July at 9am.
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