It’s The End of the World As Josh Knows It

Josh McKelvie nighs the end at The Jungle on Saturday, 7 June 2025.

Fish Mac Stew and Your Friends In Hell close out the triplestack bill.

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Josh McKelvie

Josh McKelvie

Josh McKelvie took the stage with his acoustic guitar, opening a triplestack bill on a rainy day in Union Square. It was raining cats and dogs. Gerbils were floating belly up in the storm gutters.

Is Josh McKelvie related to Jake McKelvie? Can’t say, I’m not a good judge of family resemblance. Let me know.

I have to admit that I hardly listen to the words that singers sing anymore. Most of the time the music is amplified to a degree of distortion that makes close listening to lyrics in the live show an unlikely proposition. Obviously a quiet folk show with a storyteller-type atmosphere is a very different case. But most of the time, when you’re listening to new artists the never-before-heard lyrics come too fast, and strange, and distorted to bother.

Josh McKelvie’s delivery, on the other hand, was clean as a whistle, clear as a Scientologist. I’ll be damned if he wasn’t singing a doom-laden apocalyptic narrative about how we all destroyed the world and it’s too late to change for the better. I mean, I’m reading the same news reports he is, so I know he’s got a point. But it’s still a kick in the pants to hear it sung back to you!

By the way, Your Friends In Hell have a new EP coming out June 13th, titled Abandoned.

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