Joel Wilson

Irishman Joel Wilson spent his teenage years in Germany before moving to England in 1991. After completing his Media Degree, he spent two years performing with an Indianapolis-based rap group called DPS. In '98 he returned to Birmingham to do youth work and kick-start a 'worship-art' movement with alt-folk musician and artist Ross Spencer. The next 4 years were his most prolific as a rap lyricist. His group Michaelis Constant was labeled 'the most unusual of all Britain's hip-hop teams' by Big Issue writer Peter Bate.

As the group went into hibernation, Joel co-founded local hip-hop social network 'Phantom Limb', helped co-ordinate The Wrong Exhibition, an international collection of art-work which addressed the question 'What's wrong with the world?' and started writing and making short films.

He's currently signed to indy-label Zang, practicing the art of rap story-telling, spearheading a photography project called 'What is the Soul?' and shooting '14 Masks' a mystery-music documentary.