Johny Brown is Unwell.
The lead singer with Band of Holy Pleasure, Johny Brown has been admitted to hospital for pressing surgical procedure so has been compelled to cancel his forthcoming solo exhibits.
Following the discharge of his fabulous solo album Intestine Feels he was resulting from play solo at The Vault, Hexham, Northumberland (Sat, 4 Might), 33 Oldham Road, Manchester (Solar 5 Might), Water Rats London (Sat 25 Might) and St Denys Church, Southampton (1 June 2024). He hopes to reschedule the dates later within the yr.
Johny performed with Band of Holy Pleasure on the 100 Membership on 18 April, supporting Docs of Insanity, and gave a wonderful efficiency regardless of his well being points. The band had just lately accomplished a brand new album which might be launched on Tiny World Productions sooner or later.
Regarded by many people at Louder Than Struggle as some of the inspirational songwriter, poets and artists of the post-punk era, we want him a speedy restoration and ship him our love.
The Medical Support for Palestine gig in Southampton was organised by Vic Ley, who interviewed Johny a month again as a deliberate ‘promotional’ piece for the gig. It’s such an amazing idiosyncratic Query and Reply session it’s simply too good to not publish.
(Vic) I apologise for the naivety of those Please re-frame if you want <3
(JB) Nothing naive about them in any respect Vic I really like them although some right here completely demand time and consideration so I’ll fireplace some off now and are available again to others…
What’s your favorite phrase/ sound?
On a sheer successfully visceral degree I’ve all the time cherished the phrase Fuck. On a extra sentient degree i stay for the phrase Lovely and if we’re going up one other extra ethereal degree Deliquiesce which i collect means the melting of the soul, and that i hope i spelt that proper, it sounds proper…
I presently love the sound of Cockney Insurgent and town birds in our again yard which can be breaking daybreak with such deliquesieent fucking sonic magnificence in the meanwhile
What’d one of the best lyric line you ever wrote and why?
‘Allow them to chase your shadow they’ll by no means catch your soul’
it’s one thing all the time to stay for and by
What’s one of the best suggestions you ever obtained in your writing/ music/ artwork and what was it that you simply cherished?
Peter Brooke turning to me as soon as in a theatre in Paris and telling me I had an amazing wild future in theatre if I utilized myself, i failed to use sadly
Have you ever discovered what’s written cross-wise in your coronary heart, but?
Love Hate Loss of life Magnificence, Darkish Mild Fuck Dream Endlessly… I
ts tattooed in neon on my coronary heart, in altering fluid order
Do you’ve a favorite fantasy/ story? Are you able to inform us about it?
William Burroughs Caught in Possession of the Rime of the Historical Mariner…. The time Burroughs stole Coleridge’s poem and pleasure rided it out of New York Metropolis taking Acker, Basquait and Thunders together with him for the journey
Or…simpler..do you get pleasure from myths and tales? Which of them maintain a strong fact for you?
I really like all of the Celtic myths and I completely love the worldwide collections of fantasy and witch tales that Angela Carter put collectively. Angela Carter come to consider it, is Pure Fable
What’s an important factor to have executed in your/ this life?
Come to London and kind a band, nothing else ever actually mattered
The place is your favorite place?
The Metropolis, The Coast, The Mountain, The Valley, and inside that A Far Flung Road, The Bar, An Previous Church, a Prepare Station at Midnight, a Stage simply earlier than an viewers enter the room, and rooms, resort rooms, dancing rooms, gallery rooms, mattress rooms, mattress…. the centre of the flame within the candle burning each ends
Do artistic concepts arrive in your head and then you definitely try to seize them, or do you sit right down to create and name them in?
Ariive, fly about madly, are captured…
What’s one of the best factor about changing into outdated?
Nice query, I’m actually unsure, however i’m completely having fun with discovering out and looking and discovering this age factor. I do know I adore it, i don’t know why but.
Do you assume there’s one thing we can not keep in mind? And does it drive you?
sure, a spirit of soul and freedom that my direct ancestors of say a 100 years in the past, within the North, North Shields particularly, had. One thing that has pale away from me, a means of being i might like to recall, and a dream i want i might keep in mind
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Thanks Johny. Wishing you a speedy restoration. x
Johny Brown web site
Band of Holy Pleasure Bandcamp
Phrases Ged Babey – Interview Vic Ley
Photograph from BOHJ web site. Photographer might be credited on request. x
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