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Liam's Influences

Liam likes to stay ahead of trend. For many years he helped move rock music towards a funk-punk-electronica-metal direction, then helped draw electronic dance music towards a heavier metal guitar riff direction, helping to invent intelligent drum n bass along the way, lost himself in his first love, jazz,when hard rock was in the doldrums and dance had turned nasty in the mid-90s, only to draw it all together in an improvised tropical take on Congolese Soukous-inspired electric funk in the noughties.

Liam Barnard

About Liam

He holds a scholarship currently and is a member of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology’scommittee this year in his function as Conference Convenor for the forthcoming BFE Conference 2016

which is to be held here at the Chatham Historic Dockyard. Liam’s research interests are in issues surrounding Music and Diaspora and infusing ethnomusicological research with applied theatre and action research techniques. He has completed fieldwork in Punjab this year and later on he hopes to visit Kinshasa and Nigeria.

a Force for music & culture in the South East

Liam co-organises events and live artsnights with the most serene of atmospheres and in terms of sound engineering style, likes to keep his audience on the edges of their seats. Interspersing these efforts, Liam studied Ethnomusicology at theSchool of Oriental and African Studies, University of London graduating in 2006, where he co-founded the pan-African electric orchestra, Monkfish,returning to SOAS to gain a Master of Music in Ethnomusicology in 2012, developing his research interests in Balkan Folklorism in the UK and further afield.

Liam is currently researching a PhD in Ethnomusicology at the SMFA and is working closely with many groups in North Kent, including the new Gurdwara in Gravesend, the Czech and Slovak Roma Community and in association with the British Library Sound Archive.