Dr Johny Lamb
Senior Lecturer, Music
Johny is a lecturer specialising in the study of popular music. He is a songwriter, composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist who, under the name Thirty Pounds of Bone has released five albums (one in collaboration with Dr Philip Reeder) and two EPs to consistent critical praise. He also fronts the small, who began releasing music in January 2018 to immediate BBC airplay. Johny has also appeared as a musician on a further 29 international releases since 2005. He has toured extensively throughout Europe as both solo artist and session musician.
Johny has worked on some more unusual projects including The Ships Log as part of Lone Twin’s Boat Project for the Cultural Olympiad, and the forthcoming Still Every Year They Went, a collection of maritime songs recorded at sea on a commercial fishing boat with composer/phonographer Dr Philip Reeder. A short film of this project was published by the Performance Research journal. He also collaborated with Jarman award winning artist/filmaker Seamus Harahan to develop a piece in response to Mercier and Camier for the first International Samuel Beckett Festival in Enniskillen and composed songs for the Cornish town of Hayle as part of the award winning Hayle Churks oral history app. His doctoral research was concerned with songwriting's relationship to place, and the making of alt-folksong. He has a particular interest in fidelity and multi-format recording.
He co-founded and led the Drift Collective for five years (a successful DIY artist led record label). Johny began teaching at Falmouth as a research student and started his current post in February 2013. Johny co-runs the POST- ensemble with Will Parker, which brings together analogue synthesis, prepared guitar and noise making devices in order to promote musical co-operation, close listening and a tactile and haptic engagement with electronic music.
Johny has worked on some more unusual projects including The Ships Log as part of Lone Twin’s Boat Project for the Cultural Olympiad, and the forthcoming Still Every Year They Went, a collection of maritime songs recorded at sea on a commercial fishing boat with composer/phonographer Dr Philip Reeder. A short film of this project was published by the Performance Research journal. He also collaborated with Jarman award winning artist/filmaker Seamus Harahan to develop a piece in response to Mercier and Camier for the first International Samuel Beckett Festival in Enniskillen and composed songs for the Cornish town of Hayle as part of the award winning Hayle Churks oral history app. His doctoral research was concerned with songwriting's relationship to place, and the making of alt-folksong. He has a particular interest in fidelity and multi-format recording.
He co-founded and led the Drift Collective for five years (a successful DIY artist led record label). Johny began teaching at Falmouth as a research student and started his current post in February 2013. Johny co-runs the POST- ensemble with Will Parker, which brings together analogue synthesis, prepared guitar and noise making devices in order to promote musical co-operation, close listening and a tactile and haptic engagement with electronic music.
Research Outputs
Publications and research outputs
Article
Lamb, Johny  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7654-1004 (2019) Dead Animals
Ontologies of recorded songs through the analogue of taxidermy. Performance Research, 24 (1). pp. 115-119. ISSN 1352-8165 Item availability may be restricted. | ![[img]](http://repository.falmouth.ac.uk/style/images/fileicons/text.png) |
| Lamb, Johny ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7654-1004 and Reeder, Philip (2016) 'Still Every Year They Went': Studio performance at sea. Performance Research, 21 (2). pp. 79-80. ISSN ISSN 1469-9990 Item availability may be restricted. | |
Conference or Workshop Item
| Reeder, Philip and Lamb, Johny ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7654-1004 (2015) Project Report: 'still every year they went'. In: Innovation In Music 2015, 8 June 2015, Anglia Ruskin University. (Unpublished) | |
| Lamb, Johny ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7654-1004 and Reeder, Philip (2015) Reeder, Philip and Lamb, Johny (2015) Project Report: 'still every year they went'. In: Innovation In Music 2015, 8 June 2015, Anglia Ruskin University. (Unpublished). In: Innovation In Music 2015, 8 June 2015, Anglia Ruskin University. (Unpublished) |
Composition
| Lamb, Johny ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7654-1004 and Reeder, Philip (2019) Still Every Year They Went. [Composition] Item availability may be restricted. | ![[img]](http://repository.falmouth.ac.uk/style/images/fileicons/slideshow.png) |
| Lamb, Johny ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7654-1004 (2019) J.Lynch - Skipholt 31. [Composition] Item availability may be restricted. | ![[img]](http://repository.falmouth.ac.uk/style/images/fileicons/archive.png) |
| Lamb, Johny ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7654-1004 (2018) J.Lynch - Extended Play. [Composition] |
| Hayman, Darren and Lamb, Johny ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7654-1004 (2016) Herodsfoot, Cornwall - Thankful Villages #16. [Composition] |
| Lamb, Johny ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7654-1004 (2015) The Taxidermist (Thirty Pounds of Bone). [Composition] Item availability may be restricted. | ![[img]](http://repository.falmouth.ac.uk/style/images/fileicons/audio.png) |
| Lamb, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7654-1004 (2013) I Cannot Sing You Here, But For Songs Of Where. [Composition] | ![[img]](http://repository.falmouth.ac.uk/344/1/RR_I%20cannot%20sing%20you%20here_190214.jpg) |
| Lamb, Johny ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7654-1004, Reeder, Philip and Frears, Lucy (2013) Churks, Clidgy & Doodle-Dashers songs. [Composition] Item not available from this repository. |
| Lamb, Johny ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7654-1004 (2012) Have Done with the Celtic Phantom. [Composition] Item not available from this repository. |
| Lamb, Johny ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7654-1004 (2012) The Ship's Log. [Composition] Item not available from this repository. |
| Lamb, Johny ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7654-1004 (2010) Method. [Composition] Item not available from this repository. |
| Lamb, Johny ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7654-1004 (2009) And They Go Down To It In Ships. [Composition] Item not available from this repository. |
| Lamb, Johny ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7654-1004 (2006) The Homesick Children of Migrant Mothers. [Composition] Item not available from this repository. |
Conference
| Ferrett, D and Lamb, Johny ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7654-1004 (2015) Dark Sound: Destructive Pop 2015. [Conference] | |
Other
| Reeder, Philip and Lamb, Johny ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7654-1004 (2016) BBC Radio 3 Late Junction Radio Playback of 'still every year they went' composition 'Farewell To Grog'. UNSPECIFIED. | |
| Lamb, Johny ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7654-1004 and Reeder, Philip (2016) Farewell to Grogg. UNSPECIFIED. |