
Johnny Sharp
Johnny is a regular contributor to Prog and Classic Rock magazines, both online and in print. Johnny is a highly experienced and versatile music writer whose tastes range from prog and hard rock to R’n’B, funk, folk and blues. He has written about music professionally for 30 years, surviving the Britpop wars at the NME in the 90s (under the hard-to-shake teenage nickname Johnny Cigarettes) before branching out to newspapers such as The Guardian and The Independent and magazines such as Uncut, Record Collector and, of course, Prog and Classic Rock.
Latest articles by Johnny Sharp

Godsticks - Faced With Rage album review
By Johnny Sharp published
Not yet ratedWelsh quartet Godsticks get creative with their anger

Acqua Fragile - A New Chant album review
By Johnny Sharp published
Not yet ratedVeteran Italian trio end 42‑year hiatus

The Pineapple Thief - Where We Stood DVD review
By Johnny Sharp published
Not yet ratedWest Country proggers’ London show caught on camera

The Necromancers - Servants Of The Salem Girl album review
By Johnny Sharp published
French occultist quartet’s splendidly diabolical debut

The Mystery Fax Machine Orchestra - The Hero’s Journey album review
By Johnny Sharp published
Not yet ratedLewis Carroll meets The Mighty Boosh on a wildly ambitious second album

John Hackett Band - We Are Not Alone album review
By Johnny Sharp published
Not yet ratedFlautist John Hackett’s second full-band outing, plus live extras

Lunatic Soul - Fractured album review
By Johnny Sharp published
Not yet ratedMariusz Duda from Riverside’s solo project peers into a very personal abyss

Theatre Of Hate - Who Dares Wins album review
By Johnny Sharp published
Thirty-six years’ worth of the post-punk noirists’ live sets

Jonny Lang - Signs album review
By Johnny Sharp published
Blues guitar wunderkind continues to age gracefully

The Tangent's Andy Tillison on life and death, punk and prog
By Johnny Sharp published
After a break from music following a heart attack, Andy Tillison found his prog muse again thanks to the politics and polemics of Brexit. The Tangent man tells us all

Tim Burness talks Marillion, reading the stars and recording with Daleks
By Johnny Sharp published
The multi-talented Tim Burness is back with a brand new album. We catch up with him to find out all about his new project

Barclay James Harvest - Octoberon – Deluxe, Expanded Remaster album review
By Johnny Sharp published
Not yet ratedBarclay James Harvest's soft-centred 1976 set gets a new sonic makeover.

Weirds - Swarmculture album review
By Johnny Sharp published
Not yet ratedGrungy, trippy Leeds quartet Weirds’ pleasingly off-kilter debut.

Portico Quartet - Art In The Age Of Automation album review
By Johnny Sharp published
Not yet ratedSymphonic electronica instrumentalists Portico Quartet fire on all four cylinders again

Paul Draper - Spooky Action album review
By Johnny Sharp published
Not yet ratedFormer Mansun frontman’s (very) long-awaited solo debut

Chris Brockbank’s Phantom Mk V - Phantom album review
By Johnny Sharp published
Veteran Aussie rocker gets his (fifth) act together

Temple Of Lies - The Serial Killer Suite album review
By Johnny Sharp published
Doom metallers’ hook-laden, death-fixated third album

IQ - The Seventh House album review
By Johnny Sharp published
Not yet ratedHampshire neo-prog stalwarts IQ and their 2000 album on gatefold vinyl

Los Straitjackets - What’s So Funny About Peace, Love And…album review
By Johnny Sharp published
US instrumentalists aim Lowe

Goldray - Rising album review
By Johnny Sharp published
Not yet ratedEx-Reef man’s starry-eyed trio Goldray make impressive debut

Brother Ape - Karma album review
By Johnny Sharp published
Not yet ratedStockholm trio Brother Ape’s highly accessible seventh.

RPWL - A New Dawn album review
By Johnny Sharp published
Live recording of German proggers’ multimedia show
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