Barry Palmer (musician)

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Barry Palmer is an Australian musician, songwriter and record producer based in Melbourne. He began playing alongside his brother,Craig Palmer and blues giant Chris Wilson in popular R 'n B band The Sole Twisters.He came to prominence as guitarist and songwriter for indie darlings, Harem Scarem and Crown Of Thorns,later joining one of Australia's truly iconic bands,The Hunters and Collectors in 1989.

With The Hunters And Collectors he toured the globe and Australia for many years,the Hunters selling over one-million albums in their home territory and along the way writing and performing songs that have become forever a part of the Australian musical and cultural landscape . In recognition of their status within the Australian music community and their contribution to Australian music,2005 saw H+C inaugurated into The ARIA Hall of Fame. Whilst still in H+C, Barry formed Deadstar, with Caroline Kennedy - releasing three albums to great critical acclaim and radio success. From their first indie hits, such as Going Down and Don't It Get You Down to later pop beauties like Deeperwater (amongst the most played songs for the year of its release) and Run Baby Run, the band toured Australia and the UK until disbanding in 2001.

During this time Barry also wrote and sometimes produced songs with many other artists - Cry with The Mavis' (Gold status and APRA most performed song of the year), Rip It Up with 28 Days (Gold), Take Me Away with Lash (lead track for U.S movie Freaky Friday with the soundtrack selling in excess of 500,000), Love Comes Easy with Vika and Linda Bull (First single from Princess Tabu), Home Again and many others with old songwriting buddy, Mark Seymour (produced first solo album, King Without A Clue) and a swag of other songs with artists as diverse as Dan Brodie(Producer, Beautiful Crimes, EMI), Tim Henwood (producer/writer) Shihad, The Fauves, Amiel (Tonight, 2nd single from last album) Lisa Miller, The D4( writing and producing) and New Zealander,Carly Binding (Mushroom/Warner).

Barry continues to write and record, concentrating particularly on the artists signed to his production company, The Devil's Music.

2006 saw the release of Dirty Days for Jaed (The Devil's Music/Instant Karma, produced and arranged by Barry) garnering rave reviews from the UK press and a big future.Currently recording new album with Barry at the helm again.

Recent signings, Deepface, (FLY MUSIC)placed the highest Australian dance song on the ARIA dance charts for four months with Been Good (co-written by Barry, C. Kennedy and A. Klippel) and was nominated for an ARIA award for Best Dance Release. The recent release of their album,Feel The Love sees the trio debuting in the Billboard U.S Dance Charts top 50.

Another recent signing,The Missing Hours(Sony),was also produced and arranged by Barry and is scheduled for release in April 2007.

The Coalition,produced by Barry and signed to The Devils Music,release their debut EP through uber-cool indie label Chatterbox in May.

Also soon to be released EP from The Silverscene produced and arranged by Barry out through his own label,The Devils Music.

Barry is currently working with new artists,Dash And Will and Kelly Wolfgramm and monsters of rock,Shihad and a solo album for Jimmy Christmas of The D4.He is probably best known for his time as guitarist in the rock group Hunters and Collectors from 1988-1998.

In 2005 he was the subject of a documentary series "The Hit Game" on ABC television, which showed him producing demo recordings for four musical acts: Deepface; Belind-Lee Reid (ex-Lash); Vanessa; the Wolfgramm sisters.