"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring." - Marilyn Monroe
Tori Amos, Duke Special, Camille O'Sullivan, Tom Waits, Bob Fosse, Nick Cave, Kurt Weill, The Tiger Lillies, Antony And The Johnsons, Rufus Wainwright, Scarling, Tom Lehrer.
come, view and purchase my gypsy goods...
'Showtunes For The Recently Deceased' can be purchased from the following digital download stores (click on the pictures, to be linked to the page)
"Dedicated, sweet-natured and uniquely gifted, Black is the new black" - Bizarre Magazine
"A persona that is at once winning and edgy" - The Skinny
"Suitably wicked and woeful" - The Londonist
"Brilliant! Loved it mate! RHHHHHEEEYYYYY!" - Amy Winehouse
"Neo-Cabaret sensation" - Dusty Limits, KUNST
"Defies description but ticks every box" - Kittie Klaw, Founder Of The Ministry Of Burlesque
"Like a dark musical. Rah rah!" - Paloma Faith
"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
"Simply amazing" - Fade In Festival, Portugal
"I like him" - Martyn Jacques, The Tiger Lillies
"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
"Shockingly beautiful" - Music Video Sunday
"An accordion-playing lovechild of Danny Elfman and a gin-addled courtesan" - Beatrix Von Bourbon
"Cultured, clever, unusual" - Marcella Puppini, The Puppini Sisters
"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?'
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 theatrical assault,
sweeping the audiences through an array of show tunes, ballads, and a rather varied but fine selection of morally questionable entertainment.
Though seemingly unable to fit into any particular category, Joe Black has none the less defied description and taken to the worlds stages -
A glass of wine in one hand, and an utterly ridiculous and inappropriate prop in the other.
Joe Black, or Mister Black, if you'd prefer?
Is no stranger to the ridiculous, the sometimes disturbing, or the downright shocking world of entertainment.
As well as regularly treading the boards of the sell out sensation that is the worlds biggest fetish club Torture Garden (London) and international tours with the critically acclaimed Ministry of Burlesque, he also hosts his own sell out residency in the lavish Edwardian Kings Theatre, in Hampshire.
An entertaining and inspiring cabaret artist, he has been voted a favourite of public and industry alike according to various internet campaigns.
With a constant stream of theatrical endeavors up and down the UK, Europe and internationally.
Joe Black is a well seasoned, and well endowed performer (or so we hear).
From the smokey underground clubs of Paris, to the dimly lit cabarets of Berlin, even to the gloriously esteemed historical treasure that is the British library...
One of the pioneering personalities in new Variety, he is the unmistakable Vaudevillian Villain.
Joe Black is ready to give you a show, that years of therapy couldn't even help you forget.
We're very concerned...
Dear Reader,
I'm one of those ever so elusive, and somewhat reclusive cabaret types....
Which means i remain elusive, about being reclusive....
It doesn't help in social situations, though it does mean i have lots of time on my hands.
Which i mainly use to attempt to learn invisibility,
or sometimes to draw charming pictures of nuns riding bicycles, to send to my auntie who works in the circus.
She doesn't get to leave the circus grounds much, and she appreciates the finer things in life. Much like those nuns.
It reminds her of times when she could ride a bicycle.... Back when she had legs.
I often like to imagine what life would be like as a musical,
but then i think...
"would i really want to have someone singing about shopping, while i'm trying to buy my favourite soy based products?"
no. no i would not.
Because frankly. That would just be distracting.
I do hope you agree.
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.
Bad Romance (Lady Gaga)- Live - The Voodoo Lounge, Manchester
Hit Me Baby One More Time (Britney Spears) & Money Makes The World Go Round (Cabaret) Live - Wave Gothik Treffen Festival 2010 @ Moritzbastei, Leipzig, Germany.
Supercalifragilisticexbealidocious Live - Le Fete Fatale @ The Bang Bang Club, Berlin, Germany.
Reviewing The Situation (Oliver) - Le Fete Fatale @ The Bang Bang Club, Berlin, Germany.
Joe Black & Marcella Puppini - Monster Mae (Piano)
Britney Spears Parody (Striptease/Cabaret act) - Ministry Of Burlesque 'High Tease' @ The Komedia Theatre, Bath, UK.
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, Germany.
Just like me, either depresion or emptiness, the 'best' thing is a mix of both :P And I don't think that it is 'okay' when you wake up every morning with these feelings, oh, I just realized you're not up-to-date :D, I think I'm gonna make a mental therapy but first of all I have to find a near psychiatry which could take care for me... PS: I was a bit confused as you wrote "Alka Seltzer" because when I've googled it there were two matches, a drug (Aspirin-like) or a washing powder. Here's a kiss :-* maybe it'll save your day :D
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Hmh, I'm so glad about everything I could share with you and Birdeatsbaby, every single word and emotion I was able to give and receive because your music and their music is one of the best influences I may enjoy, it gives me anyhow the feeling to stand my problems by laughing it away and I'm always happy to hear that we both are happy about each other's contact, I'm really happy to have you, even if you're not near enough but I always want to feel and have this relation to you and Birdeatsbaby, it makes me feel so quite fine :) And I have to stop writing such emotional things because the chocolated nuts I've eaten are gonna show their faces, that became ugly after some time in my tummy, again *don't want to puke* <3 I'm totally maxed out... :D
Wuha my dear what's up? I saw you have a new song and I had to take a listen, you know that I always loved you really from the bottom of my heart^^ so that's why I have to say you the bitter truth that you... are an amazing guy who always makes me smile and happy and just amaze me(, I think that's why you are an amazing guy, you have to amaze me^^) and, if we don't face that I'm hungry and should really pissed off the germany's national 11 haven't goaled 'til now :D, you are so wonderful, I'd like to squeeze, o hug, to love, caress and pet you (don't think oo far... but..., I'm always in the mood to do such things?!^^). Yes, you may see, that I'm actually, currently mani(a)c. <3 Greeting, hugs nad love :D
Joe, delete the comments below, these are Trojans which are spreading automatically, don't click the listed links and don't accept other signauture on these sides if you followed these links! Greeting.
AN ALLE: KLICKT N-I-C-H-T AUF DIE SEITEN, DIE IN DEN KOMMENTAREN ERWÄHNT WERDEN, SIE ENTHALTEN TROJANER UND WENN DU DRAUF KLICKST, VERBREITEN SIE SICH AUTOMATISCH ALS KOMMENTAR VON DIR AUF DEN SEITEN ALLER DEINER FREUDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DON'T FOLLOW THE LINKS OF THE SIDES WRITTEN AS COMMENTS BELOW, THEY INCLUDE TROJANS AND THEY WILL SPREAD AUTOMATICALLY ON THE SIDE OF EVERYONE OF YOUR FRIENDS!!!!