JOSHUA BURNSIDE is not an artist easy to pin down. Hotpress called his music “an essential entry into the catalogue of Irish rock”, while the BBC called him “the best thing about modern folk music”.
Perhaps The Irish Times said it best, omitting genres altogether, and just describing the Antrim man’s music as having “so many delicious twists and turns the listener truly gets lost”.
Burnside, an experimental folk songwriter and producer, whose music draws from Irish folk, rock, Americana, world music, and electronica, will play the Róisín Dubh on Thursday November 18 at 8pm.
This eclectic, eccentric approach, which also incorporates synthetic and found-sounds, synths loops, and crunching beats, has won many admirers, including Elbow’s Guy Garvey, and broadcasters Tom Robinson and Lauren Laverne, and it saw Burnside take a NI Music Prize 2017. His music has also racked up 10 million streams on Spotify.
As Clash Music said, Burnside’s music is “ambitious, idiosyncratic work from a unique artist that should be treasured”.
Tickets are available via www.roisindubh.net
