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)