Up Above the City, Down Beneath the Stars

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Hardback:

By Barry Adamson

Please note that there are no signed copies available. 

In Up Above the City, Down Beneath the Stars, the enigmatic Barry Adamson shines a probing light into his own heart of darkness.

Born in the black and white world of post-industrial Manchester, Adamson saw music as a chance to turn his world technicolour. Propelled into punk via Magazine, he was the founding bass player in Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, before stumbling too far down a dark, drug-induced path.

Adamson steers the reader through a mix of harrowing, tragic, funny and often life-affirming straights. Throughout it all, music – be it bass lines, melodies or film soundtracks – is the glue that binds a myriad of memories.

Written in Adamson’s distinctive and cinematic noir style, and including personal photographs throughout, Up Above the City, Down Beneath the Stars is an original and powerful memoir, full of suspense, humour and candour.

Publication Date: 30.09.21
ISBN: 9781913172251
Extent: 352 pages
Format: Hardback

 

DELUXE BOX SET EDITION:

By Barry Adamson

SIGNED EDITION

In Up Above the City, Down Beneath the Stars, the enigmatic Barry Adamson shines a probing light into his own heart of darkness.

Summary of Main Contents:

  • A personally SIGNED edition of Up Above the City, Down Beneath the Stars.
  • Limited to 500 boxsets.
  • A specially commissioned full sized film poster for Moss Side Story (sent separately in a tube to avoid folding).
  • A 7" single of two new and rare covers, ‘The Folk Singer’ and ‘The Sweeney (In Dub)’.
  • An art print of an original photo taken by Barry.
  • A bespoke bookmark.

Plus one box-set contains a Golden Ticket, entitling the lucky winner to the Squier bass given to Barry by producer Atticus Ross and used on the recording of As Above So Below.

£10.00 GBP £20.00 GBP
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