A gig on Saturday 14th April. The event starts at 18:30pm.
Josh T. Pearson will be live in-store at Rough Trade Bristol to perform tracks from new album 'The Straight Hits!', released 13th April on Mute.
6.30pm Doors // 7.30pm On-stage // 8.15pm Signing // 11.00pm close.
His show in Rise back in 2011 still tops my favourite in-stores ever, this is one to get excited about!
JOSH T. PEARSON will release a new album, The Straight Hits!, on 13 April 2018 and announces a UK tour starting in Leeds on 15 May, continuing on to London’s Shepherd’s Bush Empire on 22 May before travelling through Europe.
Though he’s been a recording artist for over two decades now, and has been writing songs for thirty years, The Straight Hits! is only Josh T. Pearson’s second solo album, and follows his acclaimed debut, 2011’s Last Of The Country Gentlemen and 2001’s The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads by his group Lift To Experience. Lately, the dapper Texan gentleman has been motivated by a desire to share more Josh T. Pearson music with the world, before it’s too late. “In the last years I learned to dance, take drugs, make love… choose life. I got rid of the beard, cut my hair and started wearing colour. I burned down all my idols and realized in the process that I needed to burn down my reputation as fast as I could too. I felt constricted by the old stuff and I didn’t like being in a cage. It wasn’t letting me move on.”
“I was at the US Embassy in London when the shit went down with the presidential election in 2016,” he remembers. “It was unsettling; I’ve never seen the country so divided. A responsibility seemed to shift within me – like, where are the people really stepping up to spread joy?” It is in this spirit that Mr. Josh T. Pearson presents The Straight Hits!, an album which began as a mere creative exercise - each song had to follow certain parameters, listed below as The Five Pillars - and one that has given Pearson the freedom to write a lighter, more “straight” album.
In three days, Pearson had penned nine whole songs (the album also includes a cover of Austin Americana singer/songwriter Jonathan Terrell’s wonderful country tribute song ‘Damn Straight’) - “The album is a departure from years of long form songwriting with tunes meant to hit straight and to the point. They all had to be direct hits although I don't know if I got the 'hits' part right, but I did think it was funny calling it a 'hits' record after releasing only one solo album after a lifetime of playing music.”
Entry requirements:
6.30pm Doors // 7.30pm On-stage // 8.15pm Signing // 11.00pm close.
His show in Rise back in 2011 still tops my favourite in-stores ever, this is one to get excited about!
JOSH T. PEARSON will release a new album, The Straight Hits!, on 13 April 2018 and announces a UK tour starting in Leeds on 15 May, continuing on to London’s Shepherd’s Bush Empire on 22 May before travelling through Europe.
Though he’s been a recording artist for over two decades now, and has been writing songs for thirty years, The Straight Hits! is only Josh T. Pearson’s second solo album, and follows his acclaimed debut, 2011’s Last Of The Country Gentlemen and 2001’s The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads by his group Lift To Experience. Lately, the dapper Texan gentleman has been motivated by a desire to share more Josh T. Pearson music with the world, before it’s too late. “In the last years I learned to dance, take drugs, make love… choose life. I got rid of the beard, cut my hair and started wearing colour. I burned down all my idols and realized in the process that I needed to burn down my reputation as fast as I could too. I felt constricted by the old stuff and I didn’t like being in a cage. It wasn’t letting me move on.”
“I was at the US Embassy in London when the shit went down with the presidential election in 2016,” he remembers. “It was unsettling; I’ve never seen the country so divided. A responsibility seemed to shift within me – like, where are the people really stepping up to spread joy?” It is in this spirit that Mr. Josh T. Pearson presents The Straight Hits!, an album which began as a mere creative exercise - each song had to follow certain parameters, listed below as The Five Pillars - and one that has given Pearson the freedom to write a lighter, more “straight” album.
In three days, Pearson had penned nine whole songs (the album also includes a cover of Austin Americana singer/songwriter Jonathan Terrell’s wonderful country tribute song ‘Damn Straight’) - “The album is a departure from years of long form songwriting with tunes meant to hit straight and to the point. They all had to be direct hits although I don't know if I got the 'hits' part right, but I did think it was funny calling it a 'hits' record after releasing only one solo album after a lifetime of playing music.”
Entry requirements: