21st century folk -inspired music from Joe Bayliss.

Influenced by John Martyn, Damien Rice and Nick Drake, Joe is really at home interacting with his audience.

By his own words…

“ the oldest – ‘new kid on the block’ in the folk world in the last 12 years”, he brings a life’s experience, portrayed in a contemporary way , weaving humorous back-stories with sensitive, thought provoking songs, soothing melodies and imaginative metaphors that intersperse, carefully crafted lyrical pictures.

He can have you laughing at the introduction and crying three minutes later from the beauty of an emotional experience.

A singer songwriter who absolutely, writes and performs from the soul.

"Telling a story that people can relate to, is so important to me with my songs, but what comes first, every time, is the sound - always searching for open chords, dissonance, resonance, tension... and from that comes an atmosphere, a direction of feeling that the song needs to take, that almost describes the lyrics that follow."