BARRY ADAMSON has released a brand new track,
“The Hummingbird,” which is taken from
Memento Mori (Anthology 1978-2018), a 40th anniversary release charting the artist’s writing and recording career. It is released
October 26 on Mute. Listen to “The Hummingbird”
here.
Adamson explains, “’The Hummingbird’ is a Redemption song that started in Rome with the opening line. Written mostly on my phone, and recorded on my laptop, I wrongly had the tempo set at double speed, so the bass notes played twice as fast but that gave it a cool character, so I went with it. I thought to try and have no chorus and make it mainly instrumental and as majestic as I could at the end.”Memento Mori charts Adamson’s career from 1978’s Magazine track, “Parade” (co-written by Adamson, from their debut album
Real Life); to his work as founding member, alongside Nick Cave, of the Bad Seeds (“From Her To Eternity,” co-written by Adamson); through his nine solo albums, from 1988’s
Moss Side Story to the latest
Love Sick Dick EP
s, bringing everything up to date with a brand new unreleased track, “The Hummingbird.”
Memento Mori (Anthology 1978-2018) will be released on limited edition double gold vinyl, CD and download. Pre-order
here.
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, one of Manchester’s most influential bands 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.
After a three-year stint with
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Adamson released 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 created 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).
Adamson has released nine studio albums, including the 1992 Mercury Music Prize-nominated
Soul Murder, 1996’s
Oedipus Schmoedipus – which includes collaborations with
Jarvis Cocker,
Nick Caveand
The Associates’
Billy McKenzie – and his most recent release,
Know Where To Run, which was in part inspired by his recent return after 23 years to Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’s touring lineup for a US run. In recent years, Adamson has contributed to collaborations across a variety of art forms including an Olivier Award-winning ballet performance by
Sylvie Guillem and the Ballet Boyz he scored.
It was always a logical progression for Adamson to move behind the camera and once again his brooding film noir style and dark comedy has seen him write, direct and score a number of short films including “The Swing The Hole and The Lie’’ (2014) as well as the recent video for
"They Walk Amongst Us" (2017).
Adamson’s most recent releases,
Love Sick Dick and
Love Sick Dick Remixed – the latter of which features a reworking by
A Certain Ratio (featured on the Anthology) as well as remixes from
Gazelle Twin and
ADULT. – have seen Adamson back on the road. Recent shows included a unique live performance cut straight to X-Ray film as part of an evening at the British Library examining the Soviet vinyl bootleggers.
Musician, composer, writer, photographer, filmmaker. Barry Adamson is not a man to take it easy.
BARRY ADAMSON 2018 TOUROctober 29 – Manchester, England –
RNCM TheatreOctober 30 – London –
Union ChapelJanuary 12 – Bognor Regis, England –
Rockaway Beach Festival
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