Richard Barbieri joins Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt on Rockonteurs
Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt
Rhino UK
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
This week on the Rockonteurs podcast, we are joined by Japan and Porcupine Tree’s Richard Barbieri. Richard has one of music’s most distinctive voices and was a key architect of the late 80s/80s synthesiser revolution.
Richard talks to Guy and Gary about his eclectic and wide ranging influences and his new record ‘Hauntings’ which is his first album since 2021 - out on April 10th.
Find out more about the album and order it here:https://richardbarbieri.lnk.to/Hauntings
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| 0:00.0 | If you like listening to Rockonteurs, then we would love you to subscribe to us permanently. |
| 0:05.7 | So hit subscribe, wherever you get your podcasts from. |
| 0:09.2 | Hello, Gary. |
| 0:09.8 | Hello, Guy. |
| 0:11.1 | So you had a bumper night last night, didn't you? |
| 0:13.7 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:15.0 | Well, it went on a bit. |
| 0:16.7 | It was very late. |
| 0:18.1 | Basically, it was the Roundhouse Gala, the Roundhouse at a fantastic venue in Camden. It has this amazing facility for young people, studios and rehearsal studios and everything from, you know, being a performer in the arts, in everything from poetry to music to DJing, it facilitates young people. |
| 0:39.6 | And it has to raise money every two years. |
| 0:41.6 | And it raised 1.4 million last night. |
| 0:44.2 | And we had quite a few artists on, big auction. |
| 0:47.3 | You were there with me. |
| 0:48.6 | I was there. |
| 0:49.6 | And who was there? |
| 0:50.9 | Ronnie Wood was there. |
| 0:52.3 | And on stage we had |
| 0:54.3 | various some artists that were |
| 0:56.1 | from the Roundhouse, some brilliant young |
| 0:57.6 | people and |
| 0:59.5 | Charlene Sparerre performed |
| 1:01.8 | Kim Wilde got up and did |
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