About this Event

Barbeau lives in Berlin, but rocks all over the place. He tours Spain twice a year, playing solo shows or fronting Extintor. His albums are released there on the You Are The Cosmos label. In the UK, where he lived for five years, his band with ex-Robyn Hitchcock cronies Andy Metcalfe and Morris Windsor, Three Minute Tease, is no more, but this doesn't stop Ant from scrambling various musicians together for loose gigs. His latest release for Fruits de Mer, "the most collectable label in the world," is Heaven Is In Your Mind and consists of covers of songs by Traffic, Big Star and Bowie, as well as the curious original, Secretion of the Wafer, which Barbeau claims is "one of the greatest songs about crowd funding, possibly ever." When he's back in California, our Ant plays with his band Kenny. That's when he's not writing and producing albums for Allyson Seconds, whose second record, Little World, got massive attention thanks to a feature on NPR's Fresh Air. Besides Barbeau's various own projects, he also is vocalist/lyricist for French band Salt. Their forthcoming album was recorded at legendary studios Abbey Road in London and Ferber in Paris (and was produced by Ken Stringfellow of Posies/REM/Big Star fame). Our Ant is a busy kid! His next releases include Antronica 2, a second collection of synthpop tunes, a best of coming out in Spain called A Nice Slice and a "normal" next album called Natural Causes.