Joshua Burnside

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Please Please You & Brudenell Presents... With support from - Lemoncello Joshua Burnside is an experimental folk songwriter, singer and producer. He takes influence from alternative electronica trad, and Irish folk, chopping and blending them with a mixture of found sounds, world music and unorthodox production methods Joshua’s critically acclaimed “Teeth of Time” released earlier this year, was nominated for RTE 1 Folk Awards, and received glowing support from the likes of MOJO, Uncut, Songlines, Irish Times, KLOF Mag and, The Thin Air, Nialler 9, Hot Press and BBC Alba and solid BBC Radio 2 & BBC 6Music support. His new album, It’s Not Going to Be Okay, is released in March 2026 via Nettwerk. Album bio: There’s an immediate devastating beauty to It’s Not Going to Be Okay, the new album from Belfast-based experimental folk artist Joshua Burnside. It’s a record born out of loss and the fragile act of continuing. Written and recorded in the wake of the death of his closest friend, musician Dean Jendoubi, the album is Burnside’s most stripped-back and unguarded work to date. Burnside is routinely lauded for his intricate production and layered storytelling, here, he pares everything down here to its rawest form. Recorded and mixed in his small room at Vault Artist Studios in Belfast, It’s Not Going to Be Okay is tender and unflinching, highlighting the beautiful simplicity of Burnside’s acoustic balladry and his poetic lyrics. “I didn’t want to rely on weird sounds or quirky production,” he says. “I wanted the songs to stand on their own two feet.” Where previous Burnside albums explored folklore, politics, and myth through surreal, tense textures and offbeat folk supplemented by electronica, It’s Not Going to Be Okay distils his brilliance down with immaculate precision where each track serves like an entry into a grief journal. Across the album, Burnside meditates on grief, love, and the stubborn persistence of hope. On “With You,” he confronts the unbeara