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Johnny Sharp

a lost soul living in a surreal world of madness!

About Me

Good afternoon dear boy! After being influenced heavily at an early age by my musical folks, I took up learning the guitar when I was about eight years old. My dad was a regular on the folk festival circuit in the early 70's and mother a keen pianist (annoyingly so). After many years of endless practicing and listening to my dad's old 45's and LP's I formed my first school band called 'The Deadbeats' and started to write and compose my own songs when I was 14 years old. After I left college in 1998 with a Diploma in Performing Arts, I went on to attended The London Music School in 1999 forming Indie rock power-trio 'Denim'. We gained national recongition and I played sessions with many bands as well as busking in and around London and making a name for myself as a solo artist regularly attending folk and blues clubs, stepping in on bands and playing where and when i could. After graduating from music school and still living in London, I decided to go solo after personal differences and clashes within the band forced us to split up and I released two self penned acoustic albums titled 'Beyond the valley of green' & 'Field & fireside'. Still active sessioning with different bands & still plugging away on the folk/blues circuit I started gaining a good reputation as a bit of a bluesman on my guitar. I moved to Bath in 2001 where I attended Bath Spa Uni and worked & recorded with Paul Corkett (Radiohead/Portishead/Turin brakes) on several occasions and still active being a session guy in various indie bands and guitar tech & roadie for rock band 'Countermine'. During my time with 'Countermine' we toured and did support slots for 'Simple minds' and 'Blondie' and played the Isle of Wight Festival in 2004 meeting acts such as David Bowie, The Charlatans, The Delays, The Libertines, Snow Patrol, The Who, Manic street preachers, British sea power, Stereophonics and Jet..which was a great memorable time. After graduating in 2005 I then moved back to my scenic coastal homeland of North Devon. I'm now regularly playing out as a solo performer, compulsively writing songs and also lead guitarist & founder member of blues-rock band 'The Spoonful' busy playing at venues and festivals up and down the UK. I am also available as a session player/songwriter so get in touch if you need me :)) ta ra for now!

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Member Since: 1/9/2007
Band Website: Thespoonful.co.uk
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Influences: Influences in no particular order are...Mr Eric Clapton, Dick Dale & Deltones, Shane Fenton, The Rapiers, Chantays, Hank Marvin, Zoot Money & his big roll band, Elvis, Carl Perkins, Little Richard, The Fats, The Killer, buddy holly, eddie cochran, gene vincent, link wray and his Wraymen, The Who, The Sect, Deep Purple, The Sweet, Arthur Brown, Manfred mann, Shadows, Unit four plus two, Animals, Russ conway, Mike Berry, The electric mayhem (The muppets band), Sabbath, chuck berry, the beatles, kinks, small faces, the stones, led zep, sabbath, deep purple, sweet, kenny, pilot, slade, rory gallagher, pete greens fleetwood mac, r.l. burnside, black keys, the sundays, the la's, richard thompson, steeleye span, fairport convention, sandy denny, paul simon, davey graham, bert jansch, john renbourn, the cream, john mayall, the doors, elmore james, smashing pumpkins, foo fighters, stevie ray vaughn, hendrix, marc bolan, JB Lenoir, Willie dixon, Robert johnson, BB king, nine black alps, the killers, coldplay, the datsuns, the fratellis, blind faith, Brewer & Shipley, Arlo Guthrie, Sky Sunlight Saxon, David Bromberg, America, Link Wray, Prehistoric Bus, 13th Floor Elevators, Stone Rainbow, The New Jesus Sunband, Willie Nelson, Relatively Clean Rivers, Television Personalities, Waylon Jennings, Buffalo Springfield, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Supreme Dicks, The Turtles, Jerry Jeff Walker & the Lost Gonzo Band, The Monkees, Mayo Thompson's Corky's Debt to His Father, The Mary & Joseph Revival, The Byrds, Sandy Denny, Kenneth Patchen, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Strapping Fieldhands, Holy Modal Rounders, Catfish Saddle, The Grateful Dead, Jerusalem Asteroid Band, Country Joe, CSN & Y, The Eternal Joyband, Incredible String Band, Flying Canyon, Bob Dylan, The Band, Beat Happening, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Jefferson Airplane, Gene Clark, Neil Young, Blueberry Wristwatch, Sir Douglas Quintet, Chagall, The Godz, Jesus, Tori Kudo, Reiko Kudo, Ronnie Lane, Mekons, Ed Askew, Carter Family, Gift of the Magi Band, Sunshine Canyon Bros., The Kinks, Country Weather, Hobo Splendor, Shadow Ring, Iron Butterfly, Nagisa Ni Te, Alice Coltrane, Michael Hurley, Witold Gombrowitz, Paul McCartney, Canned Heat, The Fall, Steppenwolf, The Eagles, William Everson, California to name just a few!! Get this FREE MySpace layout and more at MySpaceOrYours.net

Sounds Like: Raw Rock n Roll with a dash of Blues and some fine wine!!
Record Label: Mojotone Records
Type of Label: Indie