'A duo — Joe Allen, singer and Angharad Jenkins, violinist— were next to perform. A technical hitch stalled the pair’s entrance just long enough for them to break the silence with the opening bars of ‘Chase’ — a gut-wrenching tale of heartbreak so exquisite it will make your eyes widen and your heart race.

Perhaps it was Joe Allen’s tortured vocals or the ferocity with which Jenkins unbelievable strings pushed and pulled until the finish that led the audience to gasp audibly at Chase’s dramatic climax.

For many, it was nothing short of breathtaking'- Melanie Roberts, Evening News'

'The silence that settles over the room is deafening, until Allen's voice breaks the quiet. 

It's captivating. 

If the soul could speak its deepest desires, what Joe Allen sings would give it words. Alternately drawing his lyrics out and building to startling crescendos, Allen's lyrics convey raw emotion that carries a realness that speaks to anyone. It's as though Allen reads his audience's minds and plays not for them, but the very spirit of who they are. 

It's too much for some of us-leaning forward, covering our faces with our hands, some frozen like statues, all totally lost in their music.

Allen shifts back and forth, straining towards something we can't quite see, lifting his head to call out verses with agonizing clarity, while the striking cries of the violin bring us to the very edge of despair, hope, rage and back again.

It's an unbelievable blend of power and elegance, holding the audience in a spell so profound that words can't quite do it justice. Cara Leahy'

'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
 

Joe plays both the 'PURE' jumbo electro acoustic and the 'TREE OF LIFE' electro acoustic from Indie Guitars.

More details at:-

www.indieguitars.com
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