So today was cheap Tuesday. I'd forgotten that. I really had. So i had to wait in a line to get tickets. The people at the box office were great, they kept us moving and i got tickets for the show i wanted, and cheap, and to what became a sold out show.
Josh Earl is a 27 librarian from Tasmania, who now lives in Northcote, and doesn't drive.
He's not an adult.
Either, according to his list of things, am I.
Interspersing songs and slides, his on the pulse humour is wry and gentle, his manner disarming. He connects well with the crowd, even though there is little audience interaction and he spends most of his time standing behind his guitar.
Josh Earl is XXVII leads us through a musical explanation as why he's not an adult, a definition given to him by a child that he works with. Interspersing tales from his childhood and teenage years, anyone in their 20's will find something to identify with. From jinxed sexual exploration and the moment he was when he found out Kurt Cobain was dead, Josh is a likeable and accessable performer who should be on your list to see this year.
Go if you're a child of the nineties and laugh at references to Happy Pants and Brashes stores. His final song "kids have it easy these days" could have been lifted from a number of conversations i've had with my friends of late, lamenting the fact that although these kids are technically gen Y, they didn't have dial up, so they wouldn't know.
Oh, and be sure not to be drinking anything when he explains why he got engaged. It was perhaps the highlight of my festival to date.
Its still making me chuckle.
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