Joe Jackson

Name: Joe Jackson
Start: 2026-10-05
End: 2026-10-05
Location: Liverpool Philharmonic Hall

Joe Jackson and his band will perform work from throughout Joe Jackson’s remarkable career, and also celebrate the release of his new album Hope and Fury. “Hello cruel world / I’m not going away / So I might as well have my say”, sings Joe Jackson on his new album, and there's no doubt that at a point when many of his contemporaries have lost their passion, their talent, their voices or even their lives, Jackson goes from strength to strength. Hope and Fury might, in fact, just be his best album yet.

Though often depicted as a chameleonic artist who constantly “changes his style,” Jackson insists that most of his albums are in “his own mainstream” - collections of sophisticated pop songs, using different kinds of rhythms and combinations of instruments. At the same time, Jackson reserves the right to step away from that mainstream. As he said in a rare recent interview for the UK’s Chap magazine, “I always knew I was in this music thing for life. So every now and again I’m going to do something different, to keep it interesting.”