Following the success of his previous visits to Ireland & indeed Cork.  Jose Gonzalez returns to Cork this Autumn on Bank Holiday Monday the 4th August. Tickets priced €27 not incl. of booking fee are on sale at all our usual outlets, Plugd records, Tickets.ie & all Ticketmaster outlets from Tuesday 6 May.

The Swedish indie folk singer-songwriter released his second LP, In Our Nature, last September. The album is sonically similar to José's debut, Veneer, though it's more open and more focused on melodies. Everything is recorded on tape in Gothenburg, but not before José had practiced everything very thoroughly. When the songs sounded good on the voice recorder he dared to record them for real. After that it happened quickly: it didn't take more than two weeks to record the ten songs. It is an album that on the one hand is very accessible and speaks easily, and on the other has a darkness and a seriousness that more than often borders on what should be considered healthy.

Having started out in the indie circuit in Sweden, José Gonzalez burst into the mainstream when the song Heartbeats was featured on the Sony Bravia TV commercial. Heartbeats got an almost exaggerated amount of attention, especially in England, Ireland and Australia. From the outside it looked as if José González became famous overnight and that it was a song (and what's more is that it was a cover song) that was his main asset. Fortunately that's not the way it was.

Rather, José's music rests on a foundation that has been built from long-term work, starting many years ago. As far back as six months before the commercial Veneer was being praised by a unanimous European press.