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Josef Trethowen

The Ballad Of Lisa the Wiseheart.

About Me

Josef Trethowen is an acoustic singer/songwriter from Auckland, New Zealand. After being in a few bands and having toured with Excel Performing Arts as a guitar player. Josef is now concentrating on gaining musical maturity and expanding on his depth and range of song writing abilities. This will hopefully lead to making a break within the New Zealand music industry.

Josef's songs are inspired from his interpretations of life around him. Be it personal, emotional, moral, political or religious his songs aim to react upon the listener. His warm catchy heart felt music is inspired by many different easy listening sounds including acoustic rock/pop, country, classical, new age, and is accompanied by powerful vocals and deep lyrics.

If you would like to know more about Josef and his music all questions are welcome. Please keep checking this site for new songs, photos and upcoming shows.

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Member Since: 2/25/2006
Band Members: Josef Trethowen
Influences: Damien Rice, John Mayer, KT Tunstall, Patrick Wolf, Johnny Cash, Switchfoot, Sigur Ros, Radiohead.
Sounds Like: Damien Rice, John Mayor and Stephen Fretwell
Record Label: Controlled Substance Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

GOLD COAST GIGS...hopefully!

Hey my lovelies, I am heading to the gold coast for 7 days on the 22nd of June and I would love to do some gigs whilst over there. I am looking for open mikes, gigs, anything really, so as long as the...
Posted by Josef Trethowen on Sat, 24 May 2008 02:09:00 PST

BAND MEMBERS WANTED!!!

Im really wanting to take my music to bigger and better places, but its so much easier with a full band.Im looking for easy going, life loving musicians to join me for live performances and adding a b...
Posted by Josef Trethowen on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 02:15:00 PST