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NEW ALBUM- ‘Punk Rock Prepared Us For This’

The new Joe Solo album ‘PUNK ROCK PREPARED US FOR THIS’ will be available to pre-order on Vinyl, CD, and download from Friday 6th February.

I am so excited about getting new songs out to you and hearing the words hollered back to me at gigs.

Here’s how it looks.

SIDE ONE
1. Punk Rock Prepared Us For This
2. I Wrote This Song To Be Sung (ft. Steve White & The Protest Family)
3. Searching For Shane (ft. Mark Whyatt & Rebekah Findlay)
4. Not Alright (ft. Jess Silk & Rebekah Findlay)
5. Songs Of My Youth
6. Rise Up! Rise Up! (ft. Commoners Choir)

SIDE TWO
1. Saturday Night (ft. The Station Chorus)
2. Whatever You Do, Don’t Miss (ft. Rebekah Findlay)
3. Stay Positive (ft. Jess Silk & Rebekah Findlay)
4. Tomorrow’s Memories
5. Different Like That (ft. Jess Silk, Matt Johnson, Carol Hodge, Matt Hill & Rebekah Findlay)

The CD version will contain 6 bonus tracks which are the ‘Songs For Our Times EP’ material released last Autumn but previously only available to stream/download.

The album was produced, mixed and mastered by Lee Huck and my comrade-in-crayons Kevin Pearson of Vagrant Art is responsible for this incredible artwork.

Four video singles will be launched before full release day on Friday March 6th, the first of these is pre-empting the lot, going live on ‘Rise Up! Rise Up!’ going live on Monday 2nd February.

As with ‘Sledgehammer Songs’ I’m busy putting a ‘Solidarity Tag-Team’ together on Facebook, so if you’re willing to be tagged in album-related posts on there, please hook up with me and let me know.

Tour dates will be added to the gigs section of this website as they land.

‘PUNK ROCK PREPARED US FOR THIS’ will be available on all the usual streaming sites from Monday March 9th, but I would love it if you can help me cover pressing costs by bagging a hard copy from Bandcamp on pre-order day. I guarantee they will land with you long before that.

So hold on tight. This is going to be emotional.

Thanks everyone x

‘SONGS & VERSES’- Two Launch Gigs

I’ll be officially launching ‘SONGS & VERSES’, the 300-page collection of my lyrics and poems, at two very special shows ahead of the album tour.

The book was the brainchild of Chip Hamer of Poetry On The Picket Line, and the first to be published by Picket Line Press. If you haven’t already bagged a copy, you can remedy that here:

https://joesolomusic.bandcamp.com/merch/songs-verses-selected-lyrics-poetry

It was quite an emotional journey listening back to my earlier albums. I hardly ever write lyrics down, so I had to listen back and scribble line by line. If you want to hear all about the why’s, how’s, and when’s then I’ll be sat on a chair holding court, talking shop, and playing a handful of deep cuts from the back catalogue here:

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 22nd
Ashton-Under-Lyne- The Station

SUNDAY MARCH 15th
London- Betsey Trotwood

Both are AFTERNOON shows and I really hope you’ll join me for what will be brutally honest stuff about songwriting, inspirations, and…..well……life itself.

Ashton-Under-Lyne is FREE but we would love it if you could drop a voluntary donation in the WSO bucket on the bar to help keep the 120+ daily food parcels flowing.

London is a tenner, but beyond my travel dosh that will be donated to strike funds in the capital for workers in struggle. Tickets for that are here:

https://wegottickets.com/event/688529

I’m not so great at getting reviews for anything I release if I’m honest, too many years of brick walls and buy-ins have left me scarred by the entire industry around all forms of what passes for culture, but Attila The Stockbroker kindly left me with one soundbite for you.

“An absolute tour de force“- The Morning Star.

I’ll take that.

It would be really lovely to see you at these shows. They’re a little bit different, but I’m hoping you’ll take something profound away with you at the end.

After all, isn’t that what culture is supposed to be for?