A Barry Adamson Australian tour for 2012 has been announced that will see the legendary musician play his new album I Will Set You Free, thirty four years on from the first album he play on – Magazine’s post-punk classic Real Life.
The memories and experience from performing and taking his work across the world with Magazine, the Bad Seeds, Iggy Pop, The Gun Club, writing for David Lynch, Danny Boyle, being nominated for the Mercury Prize, scoring an Olivier award-winning ballet, scooping the Best Short Story gong at Italy’s Piemonte Noir festival for his debut work of fiction and writing, directing and editing a movie whilst simultaneously heading back to grace the stage with a reformed Magazine during their triumphant 2009 tour…
All of which has directly informed this album, colouring it with a steady, sure-handed experience that emanates from the swagger and fingertip fire of rock numbers Get Your Mind Right, Destination & The Sun and The Sea, to the emotive, yearning noir ballads of If You Love Her and Looking To Love Somebody and the new wave inflicted power pop of Turnaround and Stand In.
Barry has ultimately channelled himself to make an album that is unmistakably Barry Adamson, gravitating finally to the core of who he is and revealing his findings to startling results. Adamson as an artist and an auteur has firmly hit a new peak in his creative stride and, finally free of the shackles of mute obsequiousness, he has created both the album of his career and an album for the year.
LIVE IN AUSTRALIA, MAY 2012:
23 MAY, CORNER HOTEL
57 Swan St, Richmond, Melbourne VIC
Tix $45 +bf through The Corner Box Office Phone (03) 9427 9198
or online at www.cornerhotel.com
25 MAY, THE FACTORY THEATRE
105 Victoria Road, Marrickville, Sydney NSW Tix $45+ bf Phone (02) 9550 3666
or online at www.factorytheatre.com.au
27 MAY, THE BRISBANE HOTEL
3 Brisbane St, Hobart TAS Tix $35+bf in advance through oztix outlets
and Ruffcut Records Phone (03) 62348600 or $40 at the door if available
28 MAY, THE PROMETHEAN
116 Grote St, Adelaide SA Tix $35+bf (08) 8212 0266
www.theprom.com.au
