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Joe Allen
12+ albums
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Joe Allen is a 21 year old Singer songwriter from the UK. Originally from Worcestershire, Joe is currently based in Oxford where he is half way through a music degree course at Oxford Brookes University. Joe's song writing has a maturity that belies his age, his thoughtful songs, stunning voice and vocal range have been receiving much critical acclaim. An accomplished pianist, Joe only took up the acoustic guitar 2 years ago and that now forms the backbone of his live sets. It is those live sets where Joe's reputation is really being forged. What the people say.......... 'Tonight’s set opener, ‘Are You Awake?’, bleeds into the epic ‘Please Don’t Just Stare At Me’ and immediately I’m having to rein in the over-excited adjectives appearing on my note pad. Maybe its the way Joe batters his acoustic as he sings, as if Mike Scott and Damien Rice are both wrestling inside him, his tennis shoes pawing at the boards trying to lift him off the ground. Maybe it’s the way Angharad’s violin swoops and glides like seagulls round a Hibernian cliff face, effortlessly catching the thermals of his wonderful voice. ‘Gunpoint’ ratchets this up further as a loop-station turns it into Ed Alleyne Johnson dancing with Thom Yorke. To paraphrase the master; this is so fucking special. Paul Carrera, Nightshift magazine Support came from singer/songwriter Joe Allen. Originating from Worcestershire, troubadour Allen treated the crowd to a selection of Tom Mcrae-like acoustic-based ballads, acco