LD Systems Live Sessions: Josh Barry & Jessica Wilde perform ‘Love Like This’

In this twelfth LD Systems Live Sessions, powered by Headliner, Josh Barry (MOBO UnSung Class of 2023) and Jessica Wilde perform original song Love Like This live at Signal House Studios.

Both vocal powerhouses, Josh and Jess together create an exceptional tone; here they perform through an LD Systems MAUI G3 rig and MON 15 A G3 Stage Monitor, and Earthworks SR117 microphones. Headliner caught up with the pair after their performance…

How did the collaboration between the two of you come about?

Josh: We’ve been working together for quite a while because we both worked with Piers from rudimental on a track, and hopefully that’s gonna be coming out soon. We just had to do something together.

Jess: Do you know where we met? I was thinking about this the other day; Josh was doing one of his totally crazy, immersive shows called The Josh Barry Experience and he had people dancing in the middle and was getting people up to sing with him. One of our mutual friends pushed me in and was like ‘sing!’, so I sang and then me and Josh started going off together, and we were like, ‘oh, yeah!’ From that moment, every single show that Josh has done or I’ve done, we’ve had each other come down to perform. Whenever I get on stage with Josh it’s good vibes. And then we wrote a song together, well a couple of songs actually, but this is the first one that's come out.

My album came out on the 13th of June, which Love Like This is a part of. And then I'm doing an album launch show at The Lower Third on the 17th of July.

Tell us about the inspiration behind your track, Love Like This.

Josh: Love Like This is just about being in life and then kind of stumbling into what you didn’t realise you were looking for. When we were writing it we were just like, ‘this is about the best love.’

Jess: My last project was really about wading through the toxic relationships and all of that, and with this project it’s a lot more about love generally. I really felt compelled, and wanted to write a song that was actually about ‘good’ love, and I felt like Josh was the perfect person. I've never written like an actual proper love song before and it just flowed very naturally.

Josh: It can sometimes be hard to write something like that without being really cheesy, but it was really good. I think we did it in about half a day.

How did you find performing through the LD Systems MAUI rig?

Jess: I found using the LD Systems rig really, really great. When I heard it back as well it sounded beautiful and crystal clear.

Josh: As soon as we came in, the sound just felt really nice and really clean. It sounds absolutely crisp. I’d definitely recommend the system to anyone.