Johnny Modern

Johnny is a London based singer/songwriter whose material references key themes and events in politics and pop culture from the 1970s to the modern day.  Delivered with a melodic mix of seriousness and satire, Johnny's musical universe is inhabited by a range of often picaresque fictional characters including the scandalously debauched, shamelessly affluent TV personality, Good Time Jeremy; the kindly but frazzled ageing rock star, Acid Head; the sad, lonely but subversive suburban widow, Mrs Smith.  These are joined by some often stranger than fiction real life characters such as various politicians cast as The Criminals, the renowned spoon-bender Uri Geller and the infamous science fiction writer, Kilgore Trout.  Inspired in particular by The Beatles, Neil Young and The Smiths, Johnny's vintage style rock incorporates thought provoking but playful lyricism.

Johnny's rough and ready demo album, Modern Times, was recorded in a week at Bona Fide Studios, Shoreditch in 2000.  This was followed up by the more polished The Time Has Come in 2008, also recorded at Bona Fide.

Following a long hiatus, Johnny started work on the double concept album ‘From A Quiet Place’, a distillation of material written over the last two decades.  Recorded at Press Play Studios in Bermondsey and produced by Stereolab drummer Andy Ramsay, the album explores the descent of  the world from the relative hope and equality of the Seventies  to the societal and personal angst and chaos of today. The first two sides of the album have been released as EPs ‘I Remember Then’ and ‘All the People’.  Recording and mastering of the full album is now completed and plans for release being finalised.