Martyn Joseph

PLEASE NOTE THIS SHOW IS NOW SCHEDULED TO TAKE PLACE AT HEADINGLEY CARNEGIE STADIUM - LEWIS JONES SUITE, HEADINGLEY EXPERIENCE, St Michael's Lane - Headingley - Leeds - LS6 3BR, Phone: 0113 203 3222

The venue is less than half a mile from The Brudenell and offers some fantastic surroundings...Map and comprehensive directions can be found at the website: http://www.headingleyexperience.co.uk/directions/index.php

MARTYN JOSEPH is one of acoustic music's most arresting artists, the Welsh singer songwriter has been in demand on both sides of the Atlantic for over two decades. Martyns 25 year career has embraced some notable achievements including **5 Top 50 UK** chart positions, with such songs as Dolphins Make Me Cry, Working Mother and Lets Talk About it in the Morning.

http://www.martynjoseph.com/

Martyns particular strength is in the lyrical narrative of his songs, be they contemporary protests against injustice and inhumanity, a musical psalm to the fulfilment and fragilities of love, or a piercing prcis of social history, "Its the song that can soothe, explain or even in a small way save us". In this manner he carries on in the tradition of the six string balladeer as both catalyst and interpreter of our raddled and rewarding times, our personal and communal stories sung out loud in the spirit of Woody Guthrie, Ewan MacColl, Hank Williams and Bruce Springsteen.

Voted Best Male Artist at the* 2004 BBC Welsh Music Awards* and with a string of humanitarian plaudits and awards, he's a mean guitar player with one of the most powerful voices on the circuit crafting songs with, as the BBC`s Bob Harris put it, "outstanding lyrical intelligence".