South African - Musician | March 14, 1983 -
The Band mean a lot to me in terms of what I aspire to achieve with my group, as the music they made went against the fashion of the time.
Johnny Flynn
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I first came across Langhorne Slim when I saw him play live, and he's an incredibly infectious performer. The way he works the crowd is mind-blowing. You can listen to his music without really listening to his lyrics, but it pays off if you do.
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I played trumpet for Noah and the Whale a couple of times.
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I'm married to the girl that I first went out with when I was 16. We were on and off for years; now we're married with a kid, so I don't have that many exes.
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I just said, casually, 'You know, I passed up on auditioning for Einstein.' And my friend was like, 'You idiot, you have to do it!' She made me do it. I sent the tapes off assuming that somebody would say, 'Ha ha, very funny.'
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I did a lot of theater as a young actor in my early twenties, and my first few records really came from writing songs through the rehearsal processes.
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I find it hugely exciting to be dealing with another writer's language.
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I think the two are kind of synonymous for me; songwriting is like my form of diary making. It's how I process the world. Without doing that, I feel kind of lost. The characters that I play often come out in the songs and the challenges that they face, albeit in an abstract way.
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If you're trying to do something wholly new, it's hard to fully trust it. But if you use forms that have come before, it lends your music weight and authority. It's also a way to acknowledge that it's not just you who's feeling these things. The emotions are coming through you from a whole history.
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What's quite nice about this whole folk movement is that it's born out of genuine friendship. And nobody's infringing on anybody's space.
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If you're in a garage band, it's about being better than the band in the next-door garage. But in the folk tradition, it's more a vibe of sharing.
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You might as well acknowledge what came before, because you can never do something wholly new. It's not unoriginal to make your references clear.
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