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Thursday 25 April 2024

Cut To Black: One-Time Bad Seed Barry Adamson Puts Aside Succesful Soundtrack Work for New Album & Live Date @ Komedia Brighton

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

Adamson's recent work includes an original soundtrack for Scala!!!, the acclaimed full length documentary on the legendary independent London cinema that inspired generations of artists, filmmakers and musicians, co-directed by Jane Giles and Ali Catterall. 

The Scala cinema in Kings Cross (1978-1993) was the world's most influential and notorious cinema, with over a million people passing through its doors for revolutionary double-bills and all-nighters of classics, cult movies, horror, kung fu, LGBT+ and live music.

Adamson was inspired by a Scala screening of The Man With the Golden Arm (dir Otto Preminger, 1955), with its mind-blowing Elmer Bernstein score to create his first solo single:

"I came to see it here three times, it was like a study group for me. I had to know every nuance of the film, and how the music worked. 

"It was also giving me a lesson in how I was going to go on and score films as well, I was very intrigued by the whole structure."


And now, he has announced a brand new album, alongside a live date at Komedia Brighton Studio,

The album, Cut To Black – due out in May 24 - features 10 brand new compositions and will be his first studio album since 2016's Know Where To Run.

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, an album celebrating his 40 years in music, Memento Mori (2018), and his most recent release, Know Where To Run, which was in part inspired by a recent US tour, back playing with Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds after 23 years. 

Adamson's talents are as much demand by new generations of artists as he was after his first solo release, with collaborations in recent years across a variety of art forms, including an Olivier Award winning ballet performance by Sylvie Guillem and the Ballet Boyz scored by Adamson.

Barry Adamson plays Komedia Brighton Studio on Thursday 23rd May 2024. CLICK HERE for tickets.
by: Mike Cobley




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