Joynes

Based and Made in Liverpool- Joynes writes about people trying to get by — love, money, work, family, and the quiet pressures underneath it all. The humour stays dry, dark, and slightly sideways. Voices From The Box traced small decisions and long consequences. Chancers Paradise pushed into the cost of getting ahead. Another Heart and Other Pulses turned inward, into private impulses and doubts. The Hidden Curriculum looked at the unspoken rules people absorb without realising. This Long Victorian Night stepped into inherited shadows and old stories. Street Without Witness moved through late‑night corners where people act differently when no one is watching. We All Pass By widened the frame to movement, memory, and the quiet things people leave behind. Life's Favourite Martyr- the latest album- is a collection of sounds, moods, and moments that tell the story. Influences: The Smiths found poetry in ordinary lives. McCarthy brought politics into the personal. The Housemartins made social observation sing. The Fall brought friction and attitude. Echo & the Bunnymen brought atmosphere and darkness. Manic Street Preachers made ideas inseparable from emotion. The Libertines brought the mess and camaraderie. Suede found beauty in damaged lives. The Divine Comedy married wit to melancholy. Leonard Cohen gave intimacy enormous weight. Oasis made ambition communal. Joy Division turned alienation into something stark and beautiful. PJ Harvey brought the sirens call.