
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

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

Riverdogs - California album review
By Johnny Sharp published
LA quartet reunite with Vivian Campbell for fifth album

Tusmorke - Hinsides album review
By Johnny Sharp published
Not yet ratedFourth album from medievally-fixated Norwegian folk proggers

Emerson Lake & Palmer - Reissues album review
By Johnny Sharp published
Not yet ratedProg behemoth’s last hurrahs

Chelsea - In Session album review
By Johnny Sharp published
London punks’ radio recordings and live set

Radiophonic Workshop - Burials In Several Earths album review
By Johnny Sharp published
Not yet ratedSynth soundtrack pioneers return, tearing up the script

Steak - No God To Save album review
By Johnny Sharp published
London stoners’ unpretentious debut hits the spot

Barclay James Harvest - XII – Deluxe Reissue album review
By Johnny Sharp published
Prog-gone-soft quartet’s airbrushed 1978 set still has its charms

Introducing Low Cut Connie: "We play heavy rock’n’roll you can move your ass to"
By Johnny Sharp published
Filthy Philly rock’n’soul, anyone? “Yes please,” said US pres Barack Obama, for one

Low Cut Connie - Dirty Pictures (Part 1) album review
By Johnny Sharp published
Piano-bashing Philly rebels rally the troops

Pond - The Weather album review
By Johnny Sharp published
Australian psychedelicists return – in search of space

Rikard Sjoblom’s Gungfly - On Her Journey To The Sun album review
By Johnny Sharp published
Not yet ratedEx-Beardfish/Big Big Train man’s second solo set.

Physics House Band - Mercury Fountain album review
By Johnny Sharp published
Not yet ratedBrighton math proggers’ tightly packed debut, guided by Syd Arthur’s Joel and Raven

Big Hogg - Gargoyles album review
By Johnny Sharp published
Not yet ratedGlasgow sextet channel Canterbury, CA and Caledonia with unorthodox character

Leeds noisescapers Koyo on blending sax, drugs and angry cows
By Johnny Sharp published
Meet Leeds noiseniks Koyo, the mind-bending five-piece mixing shoegaze, prog and psychedelia

Wonk Unit - Mr Splashy album review
By Johnny Sharp published
Sardonic Londoners continue the UK punk renaissance

Cloud Catcher - Trails Of Kozmik Dust album review
By Johnny Sharp published
Denver trio’s reassuringly old-fashioned debut

Sleepmakeswaves - Made Of Breath Only album review
By Johnny Sharp published
Not yet ratedAussie post-rock instrumentalists’ art house cinematic third.

Soen - Lykaia album review
By Johnny Sharp published
Not yet ratedSwedes’ conceptually suspect, musically robust third album.

Satan Takes A Holiday - Aliens album review
By Johnny Sharp published
Swedish trio’s fourth album of groovy garage rock

Unicorn - Blue Pine Trees/Too Many Crooks/ One More Tomorrow album reviews
By Johnny Sharp published
Not yet ratedGilmour-produced mid-70s albums that influenced solo ‘Dave’.
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