I'm Joe

I'm a musician and I love nature and animals.

I play the bass, double bass and keyboards. I can also play guitar and drums. I play with different groups and singers and I even have my own solo disco project call Pink Shabab with who I've released 2 albums writing and playing everything myself.

I love movies, travelling, meeting new people. I like drinking tea and coffee, eating pizza, having a beer or a glass of wine. I don't eat meat, but I open to all food from all over the world. Particularly asian food! But still there's nothing I love more than good old beans on toast.

I live in London but I'm from a small town in the middle of England. Been in London for 10 years now!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I'm on couchsurfing because it's a fantastic idea. To meet open minded people and stay with locals for free.

Interests

I love music, cinema the outdoors. Hiking, swimming, bird-watching, learning more about nature. Learning about history and geography.

• movies
• reading
• music
• cycling
• camping
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

Books that comes to mind - Catch 22, secret garden, one flew over the cuckoos nest, 100 years of solitude, 1984, anything by Kurt Vonnegut, the baron in the trees, on the road, shantaram, around the world in 80days, siddhartha

Films that comes to mind - It's a wonderful life, heavens gate, midnight cowboy, singing in the rain, woody allen's films, Kubrick's films, Fellini's films, Scorsese, comedy's and classics mainly

Music - soul and jazz, classic disco, folk, soundtracks, brazilian, african, traditional. Anything good!! Names like Alice Coltrane, marvin gaye, joni mitchell, the beach boys, ceatano veloso, gilberto gil, edu lobo, joyce, Dam Funk, Fabrizio D'Andrei, george harrison, the kinks, love, velvet underground, television, talking heads, david bowie, fela kuti, roxy music, scritti politti, prefab sprout, the smiths, john martyn, the moments, roy ayers, gilberto gil, michael jackson, frank sinatra, bob dylan, can , pharoah sanders, the delfonics, phillip glass, billie holiday,

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Worked in a school for 5 years. Been on tour in Japan. Had a cooking lesson in India.

Teach, Learn, Share

Music lesson? Guitar? Piano?

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Gambia, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Morocco, Norway, Philippines, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam