Barry Adamson, who was an original member Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and Magazine, has cinema in his blood. His first solo single was a cover of Elmer Bernstein’s theme from The Man with the Golden Arm ...

Up Above the City, Down Beneath the Stars is Adamson’s autobiography of growing up in a mixed-race family in Manchester’s Moss Side and Hulme, of joining Howard Devoto’s band Magazine, seemingly weeks ...

Over seven previous solo records, musical polymath Barry Adamson carved out an original niche as a purveyor of ultra-cool “cinematic soul,” producing worldly, genre-hopping records stuffed full of ...

When Barry Adamson stalked on stage, posing at the top of a short staircase on a white Austin Powers shagpile, it would have been easy to mistake him for another comic invention. Sporting a feathery ...

A light January week in Indie Basement, but there are more than enough new releases to keep you entertained: Sleaford Mods‘ new album that features Aldous Harding, Gwendoline Christie and Life Without ...