Josh Weller - Push

If Josh Weller's life were a musical - and he gives every indication of believing that it is - it'd be one hell of a topsy-turvy show. The script would be by Woody Allen, with direction from Tim Burton. It would have Chet Baker singing duets with Tom Waits under a wonky spotlight and Fred Astaire skipping around on the walls and ceiling. And at the centre of this upside-down cabaret? The young gentleman with the bow tie and the precipitous hair giving no quarter with his guitar? Yes, that's Mr Weller, and tonight he'll be performing something rather special from his own songbook…

This new four-track EP, Push, is a succinct introduction to Josh Weller's utterly unique musical habitat. It abounds with exuberant narratives, witty one-liners and the gay stomp of old show tunes, all fed through a modern pop sensibility.

Josh, whose fortunes have taken him from the island of Borneo to the wilds of east London, is as adept at locating the outlandish in the everyday as he is at coaxing humour out of heartbreak. He can't abide "songs written so that they relate to everyone, like horoscopes" - instead, he delights in the particular, the idiosyncratic. His wryly observational song writing casts an eye on the behaviour of strangers, acquaintances, and ex-girlfriends, without overlooking his own finely tuned neuroses.
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