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Barry Adamson

Multi-disciplined and self taught musician, Barry Adamson has announced a date at Cabaret Voltaire on Sunday 16th March!

Barry Adamson

About Barry Adamson

16th March 2025
7pm
Cabaret Voltaire
36 - 38 Blair Street, Edinburgh Old Town EH1 1QR
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Barry Adamson has been creating all of his life.

Brought up in Manchester’s Moss Side, Adamson learnt to play the bass overnight for Magazine, Manchester’s most influential band of that era.

When they disbanded, five albums later in 1981, his singular style was spotted by The Birthday Party, with whom he played several times.

His establishment as a solo artist came after a three-year stint with Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds with the release of his classic first solo album, Moss Side Story – the ultimate soundtrack to an “imaginary film” – which raised Adamson’s name as a composer of diverse complexity; able to tell a story with music, where the images were those supplanted in the minds of the listeners. Adamson has worked with some of the film industry’s most intriguing mavericks including Derek Jarman (The Last of England, 1987), David Lynch (The Lost Highway, 1997), Oliver Stone (Natural Born Killers, 1994) and Danny Boyle (The Beach, 2000).

Having released nine studio albums, including the 1992 Mercury Music Prize nominated Soul Murder, 1996’s Oedipus Schmoedipus, which includes collaborations with Jarvis Cocker, Nick Cave and The Associates’ Billy McKenzie, and his most recent release, Know Where To Run, which was in part inspired by a US tour, playing with Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds.

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