“Worth buying a turntable just to hear this.” - The Fly “Intriguing melodies… highly alluring.” - Q Magazine.com “Stream of conscious lyrics.. like a late night busker serenading the drunks… Get it for the indie kid in your life.” - Clash Music “A strange, yet fantastic collaboration.” - The 405 For a decade, multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, lyricist and turn-up-at-the-last-minutist Lonely Joe Parker has been spinning evocative late-night tales of brawlers and brokenhearts, travels and troubles drawn from his own itinerant life - as part photographer, part inventor, and part campaigner, mostly living out of a rusty van somewhere between the lay lines - and partly from the stories of midnight companions (both found, and fineagled). Growing up in the industrial port of Southampton, UK (contemporary with Band Of Skulls, Delays and Moulettes) absorbed in the art-pop of Blur and Pavement, the passion of The Clash bootlegs and the louche anti-polish of Evan Dando, Joe first self-released a CD of home demos, 'Exile's Sketches'. Reinforced live by members of The Beaux Hardts, Moneytree and Thomas Tantrum and re-recorded as the 'Bee Stings' EP, and released on the newly-formed Sotones collective, touring the UK, US and Germany. He returned to record What's Wrong with Broken Glass, next briefly fronting Ann The Arc, before recording silky indie debut LP 'The Tired And The Stunned' (produced by Lonesound/My Luminaries' James Ewers) in Bulgaria and Abbey Road. It's due out in 2024.