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.
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Not yet ratedKraut-y Sussex groove merchants’ finest hour

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A post-prog soft-rock classic expanded to the nth degree

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Prolific indie-rock vets keep the oddball bangers coming

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Fuzzy, bluesy Bournemouth trio’s stout second.

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Not yet ratedWelsh quartet Godsticks get creative with their anger

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Not yet ratedVeteran Italian trio end 42‑year hiatus

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Not yet ratedWest Country proggers’ London show caught on camera

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French occultist quartet’s splendidly diabolical debut

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Not yet ratedLewis Carroll meets The Mighty Boosh on a wildly ambitious second album

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Not yet ratedFlautist John Hackett’s second full-band outing, plus live extras

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Not yet ratedMariusz Duda from Riverside’s solo project peers into a very personal abyss

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Thirty-six years’ worth of the post-punk noirists’ live sets

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Blues guitar wunderkind continues to age gracefully

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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

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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

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Not yet ratedBarclay James Harvest's soft-centred 1976 set gets a new sonic makeover.

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Not yet ratedGrungy, trippy Leeds quartet Weirds’ pleasingly off-kilter debut.

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Not yet ratedSymphonic electronica instrumentalists Portico Quartet fire on all four cylinders again

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Not yet ratedFormer Mansun frontman’s (very) long-awaited solo debut

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Veteran Aussie rocker gets his (fifth) act together

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Doom metallers’ hook-laden, death-fixated third album
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