[Cover photo credit to Tom Johnson]

Belfast Folk singer/songwriter Joshua Burnside has shared new single “Nicer Part of Town.” The track coincides with a time when Burnside is making his way to the States for a run of East Coast tour dates, which starts November 5 in Exeter, NH and includes sold-out stops in Boston and New York City before wrapping in Pittsburgh, PA on November 11.

As Burnside explains:

‘Nicer Part of Town’ is a daydream song, following thoughts and memories around, some nice, some not so nice. Many sparks of inspiration for a song occur to me first thing in the morning when I’m sitting on my back step trying to hijack myself awake with caffeine and nicotine. So that’s where this song begins, before we head back in time to my childhood kitchen, and then up into the heavens on an old spaceship.

We then sleep rough under a bridge, get blown up by a car bomb and end up in the garden of Eden. It would be nice to say that this one is about this thing or that, but some songs just aren’t so easily pinned down. I guess one theme is the unfairness of life, and in the chaos of it all you may wind up living in the nicer part of town, or sleeping rough.

Joshua’s album Teeth of Time was released earlier this year, and was nominated for RTE 1 Folk Awards. He now marks a new era and prepares for both his East Coast US Tour and performance at Dingle’s Other Voices later this year.

Joshua Burnside USA tour dates:

Nov 5 – Exeter, NH – The Word Barn

Nov 6 – Northampton, MA – The Parlor Room (low tickets)

Nov 7 – Boston, MA – City Winery (sold out)

Nov 8 – Vienna, VA – Jammin’ Java

Nov 9 – Philadelphia, PA – Silk City

Nov 10 – New York, NY – Irish Arts Center (sold out)

Nov 11 – Pittsburgh, PA – City Winery