Josh Rouse Announces Dublin Show For 2027
By JOSH ROUSE
Fri, 5 Feb 2027 || Whelan’s, Dublin
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Tickets on Sale Wednesday 23 September at 10am
From Ticketmaster.Ie & Singularartists.Ie
Josh Rouse for a headline show in Whelan’s Dublin on Friday, 5 February 2027, as part of his IE/UK Museum and Women Tour, to celebrate the release of his upcoming album Museums and Women.
Tickets on sale Wednesday, 23 September at 10AM from www.singularartists.ie.
Josh Rouse has signed to New West Records and will release his label debut Museums and Women on 23 October. The 10-song set was produced by Brad Jones, who also produced Rouse’s critically acclaimed 2003 album 1972.
Museums and Women showcases Rouse at his most hopeful and romantic, balancing casual poetry and wry humor in equal measure as he conjures up a cast full of drifters and dreamers moving through life with quiet satisfaction. The music is often bittersweet, with a gentle, seemingly placid surface that belies the deep well of emotion and memory and desire underneath. The result is a lush, cinematic exploration of the endless stream of passing strangers who slip in and out of our lives on a daily basis. He says, “I was drawn to these songs because they’re so observational. They’re full of characters and stories I dreamed up from little moments that sparked my imagination on the road. At the end of the day, though, it’s inevitable that I’m in there somewhere, too.”
The sessions for Museums and Women were quick and raw, with Rouse on guitar, Jones on bass, and Fred Eltringham (Sheryl Crow, The Chicks) on drums. The trio would record live in the morning, cutting multiple songs in a row before returning in the afternoon to complete overdubs while the music was still fresh and new. “At a certain point, Brad had this folder full of recordings on his desktop, and he asked me what to call it,” Rouse remembers. “I suggested Museums and Women because it was the name of a John Updike book I’d always loved, and it just felt right for the kind of stories I was telling.” Indeed, Museums and Women is a particularly fitting title for a collection that observes its subjects from a reverent distance, elevating ordinary moments of human connection (or lack thereof) into gallery-worthy masterpieces.
Hailed by NPR as “one of contemporary music’s most engaging singer-songwriters,” Rouse first emerged with his stunning 1998 debut, Dressed Up Like Nebraska, which Billboard proclaimed to be a “dark horse gem.”
In the years to come, he would go on to release thirteen more critically acclaimed albums, homing in on a warm, ruminative sound that fused elements of vintage folk, roots rock, and AM pop with a distinctly modern and emotionally insightful perspective. Q Magazine called his 2003 breakout release, 1972 “the most intimate record of the year,” while Rolling Stone dubbed his follow-up, Nashville, “a landmark album,” and Entertainment Weekly described 2013’s The Happiness Waltz as “a big contender for Rouse’s best work.”
After moving to Spain, where he lived for a little more than a decade, Rouse won a Goya (the Spanish equivalent of an Oscar) for his song “Do You Really Want To Be In Love,” and since returning to Nashville in 2018 with his wife and children, has continued to tour and record at a relentless clip, performing everywhere from Glastonbury to Massey Hall. Rouse will launch his tour in support of Museums and Women in Los Angeles on October 14th, supporting Peter Bjorn and John.
Museums and Women will be available across digital platforms, compact disc, and standard black vinyl. A limited Cream White colour vinyl edition and a limited compact disc edition both autographed by Josh Rouse will be available at Independent Retailers and are also available for pre-order NOW via NEW WEST RECORDS.
Museums and Women Track Listing
1. Spring
2. January Sky
3. Parnell Street
4. Short-Order Cook
5. Wanderlust
6. Things Are Looking Up
7. Museums & Women
8. Sunday in the Country
9. Other Side of the Tracks
10. Red Apple Road
Additional information and links
- Tickets on sale Wednesday, 23 September at 10AM from www.singularartists.ie.
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