Barry Adamson Livestream Event: Up Above The City, Down Beneath The Stars
Thursday 16 December 2021
BARRY ADAMSON Livestream in conversation: Up Above the City, Down Beneath the Stars…
Join BARRY ADAMSON for this livestream in conversation, including opportunities for real time questions from the audience
In Up Above the City, Down Beneath the Stars, the enigmatic Barry Adamson shines a probing light into his own heart of darkness.
Born in the black and white world of post-industrial Manchester, Adamson saw music as a chance to turn his world technicolour. Propelled into punk via Magazine, he was the founding bass player in Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, before stumbling too far down a dark, drug-induced path.
Adamson steers the reader through a mix of harrowing, tragic, funny and often life-affirming straights. Throughout it all, music – be it bass lines, melodies or film soundtracks – is the glue that binds a myriad of memories.