Joseph Arthur announces 3 UK dates

 Grammy-nominated Joseph Arthur, someone who was wooed critics and musicians such as Lou Reed and Peter Gabriel alike over the years, announces 3 UK dates as part of a current European tour.

You can see Joseph live at:

The Musician - Leicester - 9th October

Grain Barge - Bristol - 10th October

Heath Street Baptist Church - London - 11th October

“Joe is one of those rare writer-performers where you get the sense, whatever your belief, that something greater is being channeled through his music and voice. Like Patti Smith, Grant Lee Phillips, Thom Yorke, he trances, and the voice, the meaning, becomes bigger than him, bigger than a few pop chords or words strung together. It touches something very deep and universal.”

Michael Stipe from REM (for the LA Times)

“‘The Ballad of Boogie Christ’ is unlike anything I’ve ever done before. It’s a concept album with a story arc about a man falling apart and coming back together in insanity and enlightenment. It’s a psychedelic soul record about redemption and what happens when you find it and lose it.

“It all came from words and poems like seeds that bloomed into songs which themselves fathered some of the richest music I’ve made in 17 years of putting together records. I can’t wait for you to hear it. This is the one I’ve been waiting for years to put out.”

Joseph Arthur

For every song Joseph Arthur has released, he's probably kept three others in the vault for safekeeping. Indeed, Arthur has been known to start working on a new album -- or two -- while simultaneously trying to finish another.

It was amid this abundance of riches that the Brooklyn-by way of Ohio-native began molding a collection of music under a single narrative thread: The Ballad of Boogie Christ, described by Arthur as "a fictionalized character loosely based on my own journey."

The Ballad of Boogie Christ has defied the odds to become another essential cornerstone of Arthur's robust discography. Encompassing sessions put to tape in upstate New York, Los Angeles, Minneapolis and Arthur's own Brooklyn studio, the double album showcases the artist's signature rich storytelling set to a diverse range of rock'n'roll.