Joe is an artist, journalist and broadcaster.
His art and portraiture are over-saturated, under-complicated, and dreamlike. You can read his artist statement here.
Joe’s also editor of the music industry news, research, and analysis platform Music Ally, and hosts the Music Ally Focus podcast. He works with emerging artists in their development, marketing, and strategy.
In the past, he ran the influential-ish and maybe-too-self-explanatory music blog ‘A New Band A Day’ from 2008-2018, and also worked in UK radio, music PR, and radio plugging.
Joe has helped organise and operate events at SXSW, The Great Escape, Most Wanted: Music, and Tech Open Air, and lectures at BIMM University in Berlin, where he lives.
Go on, contact Joe – life’s short, and you only get to do it once:
Art
Artist statement | Art | Portraits
I make digital collages that mix images pulled from the doomscroll, snatched screengrabs, spam email text, societal anxiety, serene fields, ragebait, the climate emergency, the urge for peer-approval, photos of flowers, and nuclear explosions – with over-saturated colours, 90s club visuals and greasy newsprint.
The idea is to create something sort-of dreamlike, sort-of psychedelic, sort-of sloshing with serotonin and anaesthetic and colour.
Contact me for a chat about exhibiting work, buying stuff, or commissioning a portrait.
Some other projects
Here’s a few other things I’ve got going on at the moment.
Editor
Podcast producer and host
Strategy and Communication
Conference moderation
As seen at Reeperbahn, Music Ally NEXT, MW:M Berlin, BIMM Berlin, etc.
JOEFAQs
Wait, what about that A New Band A Day blog you did for about 10 years?
Soooo… I hit update on the ancient WordPress installation and there was a loud bang and a puff of smoke and it all collapsed and fell offline. I’m trying to rescue it ‘cos there’s hundreds and hundreds of posts about utterly forgotten indie bands in there, and keeping them online seems important to me.
Hold on, are you the Joe Sparrow who’s an illustrator / animator?
No, that’s the other Joe Sparrow. There’s loads of us.
JOEFAQs just means “FAQs about Joe”, right?
According to this backronym generator, it means “Jabbers Outtowering Espanol Futtocks Artfully Quarterns”, so let’s just say you can believe what you prefer.
Get in touch with Joe…
- Go on, there’s a medium-to-high chance that it’ll be fun
- He likes talking about cool ideas, especially if they’re creative, new, and if you’re interesting
- If it’s to do with music, art, writing, broadcasting and/or podcasting, it’ll probably be worth both our whiles (whileses?)
- If not, you can just listen to him talk about 90s drum ‘n’ bass until the call – or what by then is probably an awkward coffee meeting – ends
📩 So send me an email:
It’s joe at terelinck dot com.
Don’t tell the spam bots, please.