Josie Field @ Steak 'n ale

Time

Wednesday, July 27 · 8:30pm - 11:30pm

Location

Steak 'n Ale

Created By

Charlene Mckenzie

For Steak 'n Ale

More Info

“Joshua is the most electrifying live performer in Cape Town, possibly South Africa. Do your self a favor and get into this guys music!” - February 10, 2010

Matthew Gair, Singer-Songwriter & Composer

 

"Passion, humour, possession, artistry, (mad) dance, rhythm, holding a crowd in his hand, incredible guitarist, pipes like a cathedral organ. That's Joshua Grierson and more." - Matthew Roux (Singer-Songwriter)

 

“South African born singer songwriter possesses more heart and depth than most sharing his craft. Grierson’s music is pure, honest, catchy and more real than people can handle sometimes. If you're ready to face your demons and open your hearts, than this is the guy to pay attention to.” – Mike Borgia (Professional musician and music media consultant)

 

Joshua Grierson is a South African singer and songwriter; a storyteller.

 

“Joshua Grierson’s one-man folk/blues/alt-country/rock incarnation is quickly emerging as the performance to match this year. He takes a modest array of acoustified influences (think Dylan, Springsteen, Ryan Adams...), adds a truckload of emotion, and then silently ferrets whole audiences away before they realise where they’ve got to. Hypnosis... maybe that’s what it is. You realise all too late that your requisite pause to critically assess whether this is any good has been bypassed completely, and you find yourself gaping, wide-eyed and transported, and as unreflective as a child. Sincerity does no justice to Joshua Grierson. Calling his music ‘sincere’ is like calling Stephen Hawking clever or the Hulk angry: it’s such an understatement that it pretty much misses the point completely. Grierson careens toward the mic, body hunched and quivering, entirely lost in song, and delivers a direct and immediate vision to every soul in the room, and instantly we know it’s come from the core of his being, raw and living. And with the most beautiful shock I realise that this is how it’s supposed to be. This is not truthfulness, it’s reality. This is not performance, it’s modern-day shamanism.” – Arlyn Culwick, 30 October 2009.

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