Barry Adamson is in a weird position. After winning acclaim for the noir-cinematic atmospheres of solo projects such as Moss Side Story and the mash-up of Back To The Cat, writing songs for directors such as Danny Boyle, Oliver Stone and David Lynch, and composing film scores for Delusion and Out Of Depth, the 53-year-old writer/multi-instrumentalist found himself directing, writing and acting in his own movie with 2011’s The Therapist. “I’m a marketing man’s nightmare,” he jokes. To make things more intense, Adamson—post-punk’s most legendary bassist, with roles in Magazine and Nick Cave’s Bad Seeds—returned to the scene of the live-music crime by playing gigs with Howard Devoto’s re-united Magazine after decades of being a lone wolf. What was he thinking? And how did all of that recent interaction inspire his newest project, the aggressive Destination? Read our new Q&A with him below. Adamson will also be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week.
Adamson: PhoneShop is a comedy set in a mobile phone shop, filmed in Sutton, London, and it follows a graduate called Christopher (played by Tom Bennett) during a one-day trial and his subsequent employment. It’s the funniest ting on British TV at the moment. Has to be seen to be understood and even then some of the slang is not easy to get! The “patois” of Ashley and Jerwayne require a steady ear and it’s peppered with so many funnies, it’s unreal, bruv! Have rewind at the ready. Great, great jokes that play with status, sexual standing and relationship success and/or failures. The most insane character is Shelly, hapless boss, Lance’s drunken wife. Her entrance in the last episode of series 1 is hilarious, as is her performance for the rest of that episode. A show I watch again and again and never get bored by.
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