
Mike Barnes
Mike Barnes is the author of Captain Beefheart - The Biography (Omnibus Press, 2011) and A New Day Yesterday: UK Progressive Rock & the 1970s (2020). He was a regular contributor to Select magazine and his work regularly appears in Prog, Mojo and Wire. He also plays the drums.
Latest articles by Mike Barnes

The Mothers Earth Experiment - The Mothers Earth Experiment album review
By Mike Barnes published
Not yet ratedWest Midlands six-piece The Mothers Earth Experiment invoke Island pink-label mischief

Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra - Vula album review
By Mike Barnes published
Not yet ratedFourth album in 10 years by the dazzling Berlin-based 18-piece Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra

The Can Project at The Barbican, London - live review
By Mike Barnes published
Not yet ratedIrmin Schmidt teams up with London Symphony Orchestra and some very special guests

Laetitia Sadier Source Ensemble - Find Me Finding You album review
By Mike Barnes published
Not yet ratedFourth solo album by the former Stereolab/Monade vocalist, inspired by geometric forms

Michael Bernier & Ritchie DeCarlo - Strangers album review
By Mike Barnes published
Not yet ratedFormer Stick Man and drummer’s inaugural collaboration with some special guests

Flying Saucer Attack - Flying Saucer Attack/New Lands/Mirror album review
By Mike Barnes published
Not yet ratedSelected releases from Dave Pearce and friends’ 1990s space odyssey.

Klaus Dinger and Pre-Japandorf - 2000! album review
By Mike Barnes published
Not yet ratedRecord Store Day archive release of Dinger’s attempts to “re-sound” the millennium.

Tim Blake - Crystal Machine/Blake’s New Jerusalem album reviews
By Mike Barnes published
Not yet ratedThe first two solo albums – with substantial extras – by Hi T Moonweed.

Ulan Bator - Stereolith album review
By Mike Barnes published
Not yet ratedBeguiling and minimal eleventh album by the long-serving Faust collaborators.

Steve Hauschildt - Strands album review
By Mike Barnes published
Not yet ratedSong cycle about creation and destruction myths from former Emeralds man

Flaming Lips - Oczy Mlody album review
By Mike Barnes published
Not yet ratedThe Oklahoman adventurers are back. And Miley Cyrus guests

Steeleye Span - Dodgy Bastards album review
By Mike Barnes published
Not yet ratedThe group’s first album with new guitarist Andrew ‘Spud’ Sinclair

Jean-Michel Jarre - Oxygène 3 album review
By Mike Barnes published
Not yet ratedThe third instalment of the electronic trilogy that dates back to 1977

King Crimson - Beat/Three Of A Perfect Pair album review
By Mike Barnes published
Not yet ratedWhen Kerouac and electronic art-funk-pop collide, remixed by King Crimson's Robert Fripp and Steven Wilson…

Syd Arthur - Apricity album review
By Mike Barnes published
Not yet ratedA surging fourth LP from Syd Arthur who step out from Canterbury to California.

Gryphon live review - Talking Heads, Southampton
By Mike Barnes published
Not yet ratedThe recently-reformed Gryphon head back on the road

Barclay James Harvest: the British pioneers who led prog to glory
By Mike Barnes published
Multimillion-selling albums, sold-out UK tours and legendary status in, er, Germany: John Lees reveals how Barclay James Harvest spearheaded the prog scene

North Sea Radio Orchestra - Dronne album review
By Mike Barnes published
Not yet ratedFourth album by the chamber ensemble, well worth the five-year wait

Jherek Bischoff - Cistern album review
By Mike Barnes published
Not yet ratedLos Angeles-based composer and multi-instrumentalist Jherek Bischoff plumbs Eno-like depths

Andrew Keeling - Spiritus album review
By Mike Barnes published
Not yet ratedA four-track classical round-up from Crimson composer Andrew Keeling.

Robert Reed - Sanctuary II album review
By Mike Barnes published
Not yet ratedSecond chapter in multi-instrumentalist Robert Reed’s Oldfield Variations.

Hypnopazuzu - Create Christ, Sailor Boy album review
By Mike Barnes published
Not yet ratedInaugural release by the duo of David Tibet and Youth.

David Cross Band - Sign Of The Crow album review
By Mike Barnes published
Not yet ratedThe ex-King Crimson violinist’s most powerful band album to date.
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