Josh hits local 
music scene

Brightening up the main street with a diverse set-list ranging from Lady Gaga to Mumford and Sons, the Crumlin busker is certainly one to watch on the growing local music scene.

With a daily afternoon music slot already secured in local tattoo parlour Brazink and a Friday lunch-time session at Bad Ass Burrito, there is no denying that Josh is working hard to achieve his ultimate goal, “To play music for a living, no matter what scale it’s on, from 10,000 to 10 people.”

Josh’s musical roots are pretty typical. At ten he began taking guitar lessons but soon gave up admitting he was, “Too impatient,” to truly commit. He then started a band with some friends at age fourteen, but like most would-be teenage rock groups, it was ill-fated and quickly disbanded.

Josh’s path into busking, however, is not one that many would expect, one might describe him as an accidental busker. Alongside best friend and fellow performer Connaire Dickson, the pair were forced to take to the streets with their guitars when money Connaire’s class had raised for charity was stolen from a cash machine. From then on the pair began to busk and enter local music competitions with the duo recently taking home a £1000 prize from the CU Factor, a competition organised by the Credit Union of Ireland.

Talking to Josh, his enthusiasm for music is infectious with his most memorable performance to date still his first one at McDermot’s in Belfast, “It was the first time people stopped and listened, and enjoyed what I was giving them.”

So what could we expect from a Josh Cormican album? “Story telling like Damien Rice, he does what I wish I could do: tell stories. My album would have truthful stripped back vocals with an older influence like Fleetwood Mac and, of course, a single like, ‘I’m Yours’, by Jason Mraz – great track!”