Steve Barnard

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Steve "Smiley" Barnard (born 10 January 1968, London) is an English drummer.

Having previously drummed for Robbie Williams on the Life Thru a Lens album and tours, Barnard joined Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros after Jed Lynch left. Barnard drummed on the "Forbidden City" track of the Rock Art and the X-Ray Style album.

Following the Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros debut gig at the Sheffield Leadmill on 5 June 1999 The Mescaleros toured extensively throughout the UK, Europe, Canada, US and Japan for the next six months. Further tours followed in early 2000 which included Japan, Australia, New Zealand and the UK. The final night of a ten date British tour supporting The Who, at Wembley Arena in November 2000, proved to be his last for The Mescaleros.

In 2001, along with Johnny Wilks, formed one*iota who later became King Louis. Barnard drummed for Mock Turtles on their return to the charts in 2003 and is currently drumming for Archive (band), who though relatively unknown in Britain are reaching massive proportions on mainland Europe.

In 2009 Smiley joined fellow Mescaleros Pablo Cook, who together with Mike Peters (The Alarm), Derek Forbes (Simple Minds) and Steve Harris (Archive/Gary Numan) formed Los Mondo Bongo, and have toured UK, Canada etc. celebrating the music of Joe Strummer.

In 2010 Smiley replaced Steve Grantley (Stiff Little Fingers) as the drummer in the The Alarm. He drummed on the latest Alarm alarm "The Sound and The Fury"

References

Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros. Vision of a Homeland. Anthony Davie: Effective Publishing, 2004.

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Name	Barnard, Steve
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Short description	British musician
Date of birth	10 January 1971
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