Martyn Barker is a musician who played drums in the Poets of Justice, performing at gigs between July 1992 to December 1992. He was the drummer on the Abbey Road Sessions Recorded Live 7.9.1992 album released in 1995
Prior to the debut of The Poets Of Justice at Moles, Bath, England on 11th July 1992, Mike Peters had joined the Ethan Johns Band who contained Martyn and performed a few songs at Hammersmith Odeon, London on 20th March 1992
Martyn is a drummer, percussionist, multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer, best known as the drummer for Shriekback. He has also been a member of King Swamp, and worked with Robert Plant, Marianne Faithfull, Sarah Jane Morris, Billy Bragg, Beth Gibbons, Rustin Man, Alain Bashung and Juldeh Camara and Justin Adams. He has co-written and co-produced two records with songwriter, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Talitha Rise, as well as producing and drumming for acts worldwide
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Abbey Road Sessions Recorded Live 7.9.1992
Released in March 1997 on CD by the Twenty First Century Recording Company, catalogue number 21C003
Lead guitar on all tracks recorded in the closed afternoon and evening audience sessions
Afternoon session (closed): Poetic Justice, Unstoppable, Train A Comin’ What The World Can’t Give Me, Beautiful Thing
Evening session (with audience): This Is War, One World Exodus, All I Wanted, 21st Century, No Better Than This, Spiritual, Refugees in The Westworld, Can’t Get Through, A New Chapter
