'Beautiful stuff... warm folk music' - BBC Introducing

ROSH is a songwriter and musician who takes influence from folk and jazz. ROSH released his debut album, 'Ask the Minute Hand', in 2022. 

He will be releasing his new album, 'those unknown we resemble', in 2025. It's about how we can only survive, and thrive, by seeing ourselves in each other. Started during the pandemic, the songs on the album reflect the losses experienced in that time as well as the politics of solidarity. 

The new record expands on ROSH's commitment to exploring ecological conciousness, as well as the complexities of human desire, fallibility and mortality in rich, orchestral, song.

I am a singer and acoustic musician. I started out on the guitar but in the last 15 years have mostly played 5 string banjo, ukulele and appalachian dulcimer. I  performed with "The Backyard Buskers" between 2009 up to 2016, a Sheffield based Americana trio. Currently I perform solo and also teaching singing.  It’s also a great joy for me to sing with the Outlaw Sisters, a close harmony group with a repertoire of old time, early country, roots and blues.

Dave Banks is a middle-class, middle-aged, terminally dissatisfied moaning minnie who identifies strongly with Uncle Vanya.

Unlike Uncle Vanya, however, he does enjoy writing songs. 

He has in the past formed slightly less than 50% of the remarkable lo-fi, shock-folk duo 'The Sedatives' (https://the-sedatives.bandcamp.com). In prehistory, he has also been a member of 'The Groundwater Boys' and 'Jefferson Volkswagen'.

He now writes and performs with a variety of collaborators, especially the excellent Mr Rob Dean, Mr David Ian Jonesm Nr John Belli and Ms Louise Sweeney as "Me and Mr Jones" (https://meandmrj.wixsite.com/meandmrjones). 

He also plays and sings with Kev McInally as 'Poke O'Swedgers' (https://soundcloud.com/user-413397786)

Inspirations? He gets a kick out of confrontational music - Bertolt Brecht/Kurt Weill, Eels, Pulp - leavened with a helping of comedy - Jake Thackeray, Graham Fellows or John Otway. In his mellower moments he has been found secretively listening to his collection of Joni Mitchell, Martin Simpson, Kathryn Williams and Chris Wood cds.

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