
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

Darryl Way - Underworld album review
By Mike Barnes published
Not yet ratedFormer Curved Air man Darryl Way’s Orpheus myth opera. Contains sex drugs and rock’n’roll

Prog pioneers: Meet five women pushing the boundaries of modern prog
By Mike Barnes published
The Anchoress, Jane Weaver, Cate Le Bon, Susanna and Anna von Hausswolff are all fiercely independent, bold and idiosyncratic, and real pioneers in today's progressive music world

Kraftwerk - 3-D The Catalogue album review
By Mike Barnes published
Not yet ratedThe Men Machines live sets collected over myriad formats

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.
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