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: Emergency-Ward 10, Dr. Kildare, The Young Doctors, ER, Casualty, Holby City, Nip/Tuck, Marcus Welby, M.D., Nurse Jackie, Quincy, M.E. to name but a few. It’s a droll fascination where the drama in the lives of doctors and nurses supersedes the drama in “the theatre,” which then exposes the “character” of the characters being played, and so it goes. Life and death represented as a side show to the real drama of what is going on in the life of the people who deal with life and death on a daily basis. File under winning combination. Every time.
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