Touring
Joseph tours extensively as a solo artist in the UK, and in the early 2000s he began touring regularly in Canada and the United States. One of his songs, "All This Time" was borne of a trip through the Canadian wilderness. Of the track's inspiration, Joseph explains, "It humbles you visiting a place like that. Anyone who has an ego problem needs to backpack through Canada for a while." He is also a regular performer at major Canadian folk festivals, including the Vancouver and Edmonton Folk Music Festivals, and at the annual Greenbelt Festival in the UK.
Joseph has performed as a support act for a wide variety of artists, such as Marc Cohn, Joan Armatrading, Art Garfunkel, and Suzanne Vega. In June 2000, he left a tour with Shirley Bassey after only eight shows because of what he described as "rather obvious artistic differences". Prior to the tour, he admitted in an interview with Cross Rhythms, "I've heard that she can be difficult...I figure that paint a slightly different picture to the one she will probably paint so I guess it's a sense of balance, it's a challenge." Having unexpected time on his hands, he recorded an EP entitled The Shirley Sessions, which consisted of several songs written during the tour.
In his early career, he experimented with an accompanied arrangement in his live shows, having been assigned drummer Pete Thomas from the Attractions by his Sony label.
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