BARRY ANDREWS ~ THE BARE BONES

• 1956:  Born Lambeth, South London
• 1961:  Educated Swindon, Wiltshire
• 1977:  Join XTC as keyboard player.  Record first two albums and tour extensively in Europe and US.
• 1978:  Leave XTC.  Move back to London.
  'Town and Country' solo ep (Virgin)
• 1979:  Record 'Soldier' with Iggy Pop.
  'Rossmore Road' solo single (Virgin)
  More info on this period can be found on the Track-by-Track page.
• 1980:  Record and tour with Robert Fripp's 'League of Gentlemen.'
  form Restaurant for Dogs.  Tour and record.
• 1981:  Form 'SHRIEKBACK' with Dave Allen (Gang of Four) and Carl Marsh - as singer, keyboard player, writer and producer.
• 1981-88:  Recrod 7 original albums (for Y Records, Warners, Arista, and Island)
  Tour US, Canada, Europe and Australasia
  For more information on these years, please visit Cleartrails and the Shriekback Digital Conspiracy.
• 1988:  Film music 'Moving Image Madness' (BFI)
  'Unnatural Disasters' (Channel 4)
  Write and perform performance piece: 'Requiem at Low Tide' at Battersea Arts Centre (with Ian Halcrow).
• 1989:  Form 'ILLUMINATI'
• 1992:  Record another Shriekback album ('Sacred City') and tour US.  Write and direct a 30-minute promotional film for the album.
• 1994-95:  Form 'acoustic' version of Shriekback.  Record and tour Berlin, Istanbul, Helsinki, London.  'Naked Apes and Pond Life'
• 1996-99:  Study 3D Design at Camberwell and Middlesex.  Degree show is a mixture of physical and computer designed work:  'PARC STIC - a metaphysical theme park in virtual space.'
• 1999-2000:  Lecture in Language in Art and Garden History at Lewisham College.
• 2000-2001:  Return to Muz-Biz.   Release 'Aberrations 81-4,' a retrospective Shriekback album.  Build studio.
• 2003:  Release 'Haunted Box of Switches,' a solo piano album
  'Stic Basin,' an album of groove/beat-based electronica, and
  'Having a Moment,' another Shriekback album.
  Tour the US coast to coast with one-man piano and Stic Basin show.
• 2004:  Keyboards on Brian Eno's 'Another Day on Earth' album.
• 2004-2005:  Record the 10th Shriekback album 'Cormorant' for Malicious Damage Records (available now)