BARRY ADAMSON has announced details of
Memento Mori (Anthology 1978-2018), a 40th anniversary release charting the artist’s writing and recording career that will be released
October 26on
Mute. Also announced are two very special live shows in October at Manchester's RNCM Theatre and London's Union Chapel.
Says Adamson,
“I’m immensely looking forward to bringing my anthology, Memento Mori
, to the stage - complete with strings and brass, flutes and whistles - along with my band, seething with excellence, chomping at the bit, to bring you the full on Barry Adamson experience. A special album release, worthy of everything I can bring to the table. From Moss Side Story
to Memento Mori
(before and beyond). Not to be missed.”
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. Preorder
Memento Mori here. Watch the recently re-discovered high-resolution video for 1988’s “
The Man With The Golden Arm” – starring Minnie Driver –
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, 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.
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.
BARRY ADAMSON 2018 TOUR
August 16 – London, England – Film4 Summer Screen w/
Blue Velvet (Lynch, 1986) **
October 29 – Manchester, England –
RNCM Theatre
October 30 – London –
Union Chapel
January 12 – Bognor Regis, England –
Rockaway Beach festival
** DJ set
MEMENTO MORI (ANTHOLOGY 1978-2018) TRACKLIST
1. The Man With The Golden Arm (Moss Side Story, 1988)
2. Jazz Devil (As Above, So Below, 1998)
3. Civilization (Back To The Cat, 2008)
4. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Pelvis (Oedipus Schmoedipus, 1996)*
5. The Snowball Effect (The Negro Inside Me, 1993)
6. The Sun And The Sea (I Will Set You Free, 2012)
7. The Big Bamboozle (Oedipus Schmoedipus, 1996)
8. I Got Clothes – ACR:MCR Rework (Love Sick Dick Remix EP, 2017)
9. Come Hell Or High Water (As Above, So Below, 1998)
10. Something Wicked This Way Comes (Oedipus Schmoedipus, 1996)
11. The Long Way Back Again (Single Version, 2006)
12. Up In The Air (Single Version, 2016)
13. 007, A Fantasy Bond Theme (Soul Murder, 1992)
14. Sweet Misery (Love Sick Dick, 2017)
15. The Hummingbird (Memento Mori, 2018)
16. Parade – Magazine (Real Life, 1978)
17. From Her To Eternity – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (From Her To Eternity, 1984)
*with Jarvis Cocker
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