Recent and
upcoming releases:
- (2009)
Glenn Tilbrook & The Fluffers:
Pandemonium Ensues (CD). Johnny
contributes spoken voice to the song Too Close To The Sun.
- (2009) Vanessa Paradis:
Il y a (video). Johnny directed this
video, which was released on Vanessa's web site on October 15.
- (2009) Vanessa Paradis: Best Of
(CD). Johnny co-wrote the music to St. Germain,
and has 2 photographer/artist credits.
- (2009/2010) When You're
Strange: A Film About The Doors.
The film premiered with Johnny's narration on June 21, 2009
at
the LA Film Festival. Theatrical releases in the UK, France,
Germany, Japan, Australia, Canada and hopefully the US are
expected in 2010, as are a DVD release and a television debut on PBS.
See the JD Rocks! Documentaries
page for more.
- (2010) Babybird: Unloveable
(video):
Johnny directed this video, which was reportedly filmed on
September 21-22, 2009, and
will be related to the release of the Ex-Maniac CD (see below).
See the JD Rocks! Videography
page for more.
- (2010) Babybird:
Ex-Maniac (CD). The album is due out on March 1, 2010; Johnny will play
guitar on the CD's lead single, Unloveable, which is
set for release on February 15 (or February 21). See Play.com
or Amazon UK for the track listing and UK pre-order information.
Possible
future releases:
- Shane MacGowan and guests: I Put A Spell On You (single to benefit the Haiti relief effort). Stay tuned for confirmation and details of this recording!
- Rogue's Gallery (Volume 2
CD).
The Sydney Sunday Telegraph reportedly claims that a
followup to
the 2006 Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys
CD
is set for release this year, with Johnny as a participant.
This supports a BBC
report from July of 2008 (listen at ~4:20). Stay
tuned for more information.
The 2006 release was co-produced by Johnny and Gore Verbinski.
- Patti Smith (upcoming CD).
In
a BBC1 radio interview on
June 30 with Edith
Bowman, Johnny divulged, "I
think I might play on Patti Smith's next record... just a bit, a song
or something." Johnny and Patti have a
longstanding friendship; they were spotted together last spring on the Rum
Diary
set in Puerto Rico, and arriving in Nice, France, in August. Some believe she
makes a cameo in Vanessa Paradis' new video, Il y a, which Johnny
directed. In a January 2010 interview with OregonLive, Patti mentions that she's been recording in NYC and Italy, so time will tell if Johnny will indeed participate.
- Rock And A
Hard Place: Another Night At The Agora (documentary).
This documentary about the South Florida music scene, which
features Johnny in archive footage, recent concert footage, and
interviews, screened at a few Florida film festivals in 2008, but still
has yet to see a theatrical or DVD release, or even screenings in other
locations. Here is hoping that the film will move forward in
2010.
- Do It For
Johnny
(documentary).
This film about the quest of filmmakers to bring a script and
guitar to Johnny did the film festival circuit in 2007, and by 2008 had
secured some foreign distribution deals. The filmmakers had
spoken of the film becoming available in the US in early 2009, but so
far, to my knowledge, that has not happened. Perhaps we will
hear
more this year.
- Happy (Keith Richards
documentary).
Johnny announced plans to direct such a documentary in a Serbian interview while
attending the Kustendorf Film Festival on January 14, 2010.
Johnny, Keith, Patti Smith and others were on set in LA on January 30. Stay
tuned for more information!
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