JOSH RADNOR

The moment it all started…

“I learnt a couple of chords in college like everyone else but I didn’t stick with it and I wasn’t really anything of a guitar player. Then Ben Lee and I started writing songs together about seven years ago [as indiefolk duo Radnor & Lee]. We did a whole album but he was the only one playing guitar. I had such a great time. It felt like this coalescing of all these disparate skills. Then about four. I played it for Ben and he loved it. I started playing it at our shows. Then I just threw myself into it. I got teachers in New York and LA so I could keep learning wherever I was working and I realised you can do so much with a little, y’know? Get a couple of chords under your belt and you can write thousands of songs. So that first year, I was writing many songs a week – they were just pouring out of me. It was an exciting time. It kinda felt like, y’know, when Spider-Man realises he can shoot webs out his hands! Like, wait a minute, I have this other skill!”