Joshua Idehen

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VIERNULVIER

Thu 12.03

19:45 - 22:30

BALZAAL

Tickets

19:45 - doors
20:15 - Joshua Idehen
22:30 - end

Tickets on sale as of Friday 10.10.2025 at 11:00

Joshua Idehen captures the spirit of the times like no other, with catchy beats and lyrics that hold up a mirror to us. His new album, “I Know You're Hurting, Everyone Is Hurting, Everyone Is Trying, You Have Got To Try”, which will be released on 6 March 2026, is no exception. It promises to be a compelling album on which the artist's spoken word poetry holds your hand through grief, euphoria and hope despite everything.

British-Nigerian Joshua Idehen is a spoken word artist and rising star. After contributing to The Comet Is Coming's Mercury Prize-nominated album Channel The Spirits, he formed Calabashed with Alabaster DePlume, a spiritual jazz band named by NME as one of the bands to watch in 2021, and collaborated with Daedelus, the Los Angeles-based maestro of electronic music, on the critically acclaimed mini-LP Holy Water Over Sons. In 2023, he released the solo mixtape “Learn To Swim” in collaboration with producer Ludvig Parment (better known as Saturday, Monday). In November 2024, the EP “Mum Does the Washing” was released. The video clip for the title track has already been viewed more than 390,000 times.

A well-kept secret on the international scene, ready for the international breakthrough – and one of the first shows in our renovated Ballroom.

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The remix EP of “Mum Does the Washing” demonstrates how beloved the artist is in the scene, with edits by Karen Nyame KG and Magnus Larsson, among others.

In July 2025, Idehen released “Illegal Hit (edit)”, a tasty preview of new material. Idehen will be one of the first artists to inaugurate our renovated Balzaal, a week after the release of his latest: “I Know You're Hurting, Everyone Is Hurting, Everyone Is Trying, You Have Got To Try”. So be sure to (try to) be there!