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barry adamson

  • keith claringbold 2025

    GIGS 

    The Schizophonics at the Factory Floor in Sydney
    And no, Craig, I can’t name three songs and it doesn’t matter one iota.

    The Fadeaways at Marrickville Bowlo, Sydney
    Great fun.

    Barry Adamson-Factory Theatre, Sydney.
    It was a looooooong time since I last saw Barry, playing bass for Magazinein 1980. He was great then and is great now.

  • up above the city down beneath the starsUp Above the City, Down Beneath the Stars
    By Barry Adamson (Omnibus Press)

    This autobiography is so sumptuous and clean that I don't want it to end, so I'm taking it in glorious nibbles. I haven't finished it yet, but sod that. You need to know how damned good it is, so I'm filing the review now. Just order it, buy it, demand it from your music emporium. 

    Barry Adamson is perhaps best known to the Australian rock 'n' roll world as a founder  member of Magazine, covering for Tracy Pewwhile the latter was in jail, and the first four Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds LPs (and re-joining in 2013). He is also an accomplished producer of film scores.

    His own band came to Australia in September 2012 on the back of his LP “I Will Set You Free”. I have very fond memories of that magnificent night in Adelaide, not least because I only recall three other friends there: one of whom we all miss terribly.