Mike Barnes
Issue 502
December 2025
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Tracks
Invisible Jukebox mix: Test Dept
November 2025
Listen to the music we played to Test Dept during their Invisible Jukebox interview in The Wire 502
Issue 500
October 2025
Issue 498
August 2025
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“If you think about the end, then better not to start”: on Damo Suzuki’s never ending tour
February 2024
Mike Barnes recalls his encounters with the experimental vocalist and instant composer who died on 8 February
Issue 478
December 2023
Issue 463
September 2022
Issue 456
February 2022
Issue 450
August 2021
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Issue 448
June 2021
Essay
Harold Budd 1936–2020
December 2020
The Wire’s Mike Barnes remembers his 1996 encounter with the ambient composer
Essay
An encounter with Keith Tippett
June 2020
Mike Barnes remembers finally getting to meet the Bristol born piano virtuoso whose generosity of spirit set him apart from the rest
Issue 429
November 2019
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Issue 426
August 2019
+ The Wire Tapper 50
Issue 422
April 2019
+ The Wire Tapper 49
Essay
Scott Walker 1943–2019
March 2019
Mike Barnes recalls meeting the singer whose music made his listeners get a bit too carried away
Issue 416
October 2018
Issue 413
July 2018
Issue 395
January 2017
Issue 384
February 2016
Issue 378
August 2015
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Essay
Eye And I
July 2015
Mike Barnes joins Boredoms and 87 other cymbal players on stage at London’s Barbican – but not before experiencing a symbolic crisis of choice
Issue 370
December 2014
Issue 368
October 2014
