"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring." - Marilyn Monroe
Television, Film and Music Video Appearances Have Included:
BBC 2 - South Today
The Strange Death Of Liberal England - Angelou
Melodramas - Albert Road
MTV New York - Total Request Live (Jonas Brothers special - I'm not even joking!)
Karisma Productions - Showcase 10
Victorian Speed Dating - A Silent Film By Child Poison
'Inspired?' Live - w/The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
The Commuters Times (Cartoon) - Voice Of Harrington Monkpiece 'Alter Ego'
The Good Old Days - A Short Film By Matt Whittenham
The Art Of Living - Appearing As Satan - A Short Film By Child Poison
The Dresden Dolls - Live At The Roundhouse
ITV - Meridian News
Press/Publication Features And Appearances Have Included:
Bizarre Magazine
RANT Magazine (Cover Shoot)
Devolution Magazine
NME
Kerrang!
The Guardian
Time Out London
The News - Portsmouth
French Rock One
Guide 2
Noir Et Blanc
The Fly
Other music i enjoy includes,
duke special, arcade fire, birdeatsbaby, antony and the johnsons, the dresden dolls, amanda palmer, tom lehrer, danny elfman, patrick wolf, cotton candy cabaret, devotchka, fiona apple, regina spektor, horrorpops, killers, sigur ros, tori amos, nick cave and the bad seeds, marilyn manson, thomas truax, the strange death of liberal england, tiger lillies, gogol bordello, the cure, oingo boingo, jack off jill, scarling, alkaline trio, wednesday 13, murderdolls
however, enough of that!
come, view and purchase my gypsy goods...
£7 + p&p
PHYSICAL COPY BEING TAKEN OFFLINE WHILE TOURING - CAN STILL BE BOUGHT FROM THE VARIOUS DOWNLOAD STORES BELOW! AND CAN BE BOUGHT AT THE VARIOUS TOUR DATES!
'Showtunes For The Recently Deceased' can also be purchased from the following digital download stores (click on the pictures, to be linked to the page)
The Bible Of The Waltzing Cynic
'The musical equivalent of schizophrenia'
This can be downloaded for free, with an optional donate button
from:
www.misterjoeblack.com
"Here's ROAR talent that'll really GROW(L) on you" - Bizarre Magazine
"Defies description but ticks every box" - Kittie Klaw, Founder Of The Ministry Of Burlesque
"Theatrical, funny and never afraid to cross the boundaries of good taste" - Matt Merritt, callupontheauthor.com
"Expect to be immensely entertained!" - Devolution Magazine
"The darkest star in cabaret" - Bizarre Magazine
"I like him" - Martyn Jacques, The Tiger Lillies
"You scared the shit out of me" - Paul-Ronney Angel, Urban Voodoo Machine/Drunk
"Fantastic" - Duke Special
"Like making a conference call to Bedlam lunatic asylum; It's like you're conducting a pleasant-yet-bonkers chit chat with several people" - Bizarre Magazine
"Brilliant songwriter Mr Black has the kind of voice only decades of wickedness can produce. You have been warned!" - scene-out.com
"An accordion-playing lovechild of Danny Elfman and a gin-addled courtesan" - Beatrix Von Bourbon
"Cultured, clever, unusual" - Marcella Puppini, The Puppini Sisters & The Forget Me Nots
"Odd and disquieting" - The Double R Club
"Like a twisted dream or a frightening reality Joe Black is going to warp your minds and caress even the blackest heart" - Devolution Magazine
"Inimitable" - The Hong Kong Gardeners Club
"Both harrowing AND arousing!" - Will Preston, Pure FM
"Quite frankly, he's brilliant" - RANT Magazine
"Nasty delicious dark cabaret" - Sxip Shirey, Bindlestiff Family Cirkus
"Makes me want to burn down an orphanage, drink whiskey and stow away on a pirate ship, bravo." - Curtis RX, Creature Feature
''The darkly delicious side of the pink moon!" - Linda Robertson, Author of 'What Rhymes With Bastard?'
Mister Joe Black is.....
The neo-vaudevillian, the real life Disney villain,
the gin-addled courtesan, the anti-christ of cabaret and the one and only waltzing cynic...
Eccentric to international stages, Joe Black takes to shows in an almost cartoon-esque musical assault,
sweeping the audience through deathly showtunes, stomping polkas and heart wrenching ballads.
Though seemingly unable to fit into any particular category, Joe Black has shared a stage with many notable names from different stretches of performance,
notable musical acts such as Amy Winehouse, Gary Numan, My Bloody Valentine, St Vincent, Noah And The Whale, Hadouken, The Strange Death Of Liberal England, Abney Park and Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly
and notable performance art, cabaret and burlesque performers such as Empress Stah, Dusty Limits, Kitten DeVille, Vivid Angel, Ruby Blues, Ivy Paige, Beatrix Von Bourbon, Vicky Butterfly, Frank Sanazi, Scottee, Des O'Connor and many many many more.
With a huge array of events, such as Torture Garden, Bestival, The Edinburgh Fringe Festival and so many more under his belt,
Mister Joe Black... armed with an accordion, a piano, and a voice with force like no other.
Is ready to give you a show, that years of therapy couldn't even help you forget.
We're very concerned...
Dear Reader,
my voice was obtained by living on a diet of dust and tangerines.
the accordion, from a drunken polka player on a deserted island.
the piano, won from a game of black jack with the devil himself.
the stamping, comes from my knees mainly....
So ready your gramophones, adorn your best feathered hat and pin your scarf.
We are the waltzing cynics. And we do as we do.
It must be insisted, that you, do as you do as well.
Let no being, alive or dead tell you that you cannot live, love and learn,
or that you cannot be happy as you are, because that is a lie.
Whoever you are, whatever you are, wherever you are and however you are...
stay beautiful.
Yours sincerely
Mister Joe Black
PS - Sometimes people contact me. I always wonder why... but if you should feel a need to contact me, like some people do, sometimes, at various point of the day, and at various points in my life.
To perhaps question me on playing your event,
or maybe an interview,
or maybe to ask why i once straddled the queen on a carousel.
I don't mind what you ask.
as long as its not about bees... all non bee related questions can be put to....
joe_black_music@hotmail.co.uk
bee related questions, can go to hell.
Supercalifragilisticexbealidocious Live - Le Fete Fatale @ The Bang Bang Club, Berlin
Reviewing The Situation (Oliver) - Le Fete Fatale @ The Bang Bang Club, Berlin
Joe Black & Marcella Puppini - Monster Mae (Piano)
Child Catcher - Music Video.
The 'I Don't Like You Very Much' Song - Music Video
Icarus (Jason Webley) Live - Le Fete Fatale @ The Bang Bang Club, Berlin
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really what to perform or just been to worthing i guess i could come if i got the 10:29 back but i doubt i could find any1 to go with and i don't think i'd do well on my own so maybe i'll wait till you come nearer good luck xxx
wicked would love to come to that show but i live all the way over in worthing if you even know where that is and i dont really fancy getting stuck 4 the night in portsmouth by my self please tell me yr put the song back up maybe xxx
its my favourate musical though may be a bit camp 4 you but i thought might be fun to play with and darken down a bit maybe something from rocky horror the songs are so catchy but the lyric ouch what do you think im not sure
i rather like it i must say you capture the emotion pretty well, you even sound a lil like jack is the funny thing but with yr own personal twist i would have to say well done on a piece well recited i changed my dp to support you dunno why just felt like a change are you thinking of doing any other covers? i got one in mind if you don't mind am asking?
so when will you post yr version of nightmare before Christmas then? cant wait to hear it but will it be better than mansons but i will say even panic at the disco's version was pretty good and even a bit creepy
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