JOE DOLMAN – SINGLE REVIEW

Joe Dolman - Something Beautiful
Joe Dolman - Something Beautiful

Release Date: Out Now

There are, like all coins, two sides to this track from 20 year old singer songwriter Joe Dolman. On the one hand, ‘Something Beautiful’ fits all too firmly in to the Ed Sheeran, James Bay and Jamie Lawson category of tunes which is offensively inoffensive. This is so ready for heavy BBC Radio 2 rotation and maybe use on a montage in some popular TV show E4 that it feels a little contrived – it only avoids being ‘Galway Girl’ by a couple of chords. However, flip that coin over and what you’ve got is a young, independent songwriter with a strong, smooth voice and the ability to knock out a chorus that earworms in to your subconscious after one listen. Now, depending on your levels of cynicism and snobbishness I’ll leave it up to you as whether you want to hear this as a heads or tails track but I’m going to keep flipping the coin until the next track comes out and then I’ll make my call. 


Live Dates:

24th November - O2 ABC, Glasgow
25th November - O2 Ritz, Manchester
26th November - O2 Institute, Birmingham
1st December - O2 Shepherds Bush Empire, London
9th February - Globe at Hay, Hay-on-Wye
7th March - O2 Academy 3, Birmingham
8th March - Cafe Kino, Bristol
10th March - Glad Cafe, Glasgow
11th March - Fallow Cafe, Manchester
12th March - O2 Academy, Islington

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