Barrie Cadogan Interview
The past few years have been particularly eventful for Barrie Cadogan. When we spoke to him, he had just finished a tour with Matt Johnson and The The, which included gigs in the UK and across Europe, America and Australia. Johnson hadn’t toured since 2002, after deciding to take time out of the music industry’s glaring limelight. But once lured back, he decided to put a band together and, thanks to a certain Mr Johnny Marr, Barrie got the job playing guitar.
“Johnny had worked with Matt before,” Barrie tells us, “and recommended me to him. Matt recognised my name because he had Shazam’d the Better Call Saul theme, so he heard the name before.”
The aforementioned TV show theme music was another event in Barrie’s calendar, and we’ll be hearing how that came about later. Next was a gig in London to honour the memory of Fleetwood Mac’s ‘third guitarist’ the relatively unsung Danny Kirwan, who died last June. Kirwan had a been a longstanding influence on the guitarist (Barrie will be sharing some of the techniques he learned from Danny in a later
