Quiet Lights Presents
Joshua burnside & memorial
Friday 22nd November
The Kino
Doors: 20:30
Price: €18
JOSHUA BURNSIDE
Joshua Burnside is an experimental folk songwriter, singer and producer. He takes influence from alternative electronica and Irish folk, chopping and blending them with a mixture of found sounds, world music and unorthodox production methods. Whilst his first album Ephrata took in lush landscapes, technological horrors, night terrors and wistful columbian vistas (set against a bed of Irish folk, cumbia rhythms, and electronica), his second Into The Depths Of Hell, took a far darker approach. Melding swirls of clanging metallic found sounds, alt-rock and Irish songwriting traditions, it was supported by UK and US national radio and international tastemakers NPR, Guitar Magazine, CLASH, The Guardian, The Times and more. His forthcoming third album (shortly to be announced), sits comfortably and confrontationally between the alt folk realms of Lankum and John Francis Flynn whilst retaining the indie singer-songwriter and traditional folk elements of Josh's signature songwriting.
MEMORIAL
Memorial is a project rooted in friendship, one fuelled by unflinching honesty. Ollie Spalding and Jack Watts were friends first, and songwriting partners second, and this quality sets them apart. They’re marked by that peculiar alchemy when two voices become one, a special sense of human connection wrought through harmony and emboldened with experience.