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If you’re reading this email this Friday morning; please take a moment to listen to Andy White performing a couple of songs from his new album while talking to Pat Kenny on RTE Radio 1 today (88-90fm) sometime between 10am and 12pm.
he' s also playing with Ursula Burns at CrawDaddy tonight Friday 29th Oct.
CrawDaddy presents
ANDY WHITE&
URSULA BURNS
+ support
CrawDaddy, Old Harcourt St. Train Station. Tel. 01 4780225
Friday 29th October. Doors 8 pm.
Standing €16, seated €20. Tickets available from Soundcellar, Road Records, City Discs, Freebird Records, and Ticketmaster (www.ticketmaster.ie )
Belfast-born singer songwriter Andy White returns from his new home in Australia for his first Dublin gig in over a year. Winner of the Hot Press Songwriter of the Year, and Irish Times Album of the Year 1992, White is a ‘powerbook-toting troubadour’ who pioneered the trend of lo-fi home recordings with Liam Ó Maonlaí (Hothouse Flowers) and Tim Finn (Split Enz, Crowded House) in their band, ALT.
He has gone on to establish himself as a highly respected solo artist, working with Peter Gabriel among others. His is first album was called “the best moment of bedroom listening since ‘Pale Blue Eyes’” by ID Magazine. The BBC Radio’s Janice Long named Rave On as her album of the year and ‘The Big Rain’ as one of her Top Ten songs of all time.
Joined by Kieran Kennedy on guitar, Andy White will be marking his return to these shores with this special set in CrawDaddy on Friday the 29th. He will be supported on the night by harpist and pianist Ursula Burns, who on the night will be simultaneously launching her two latest albums, Spell and Rollercoaster Castaway.
Burns has invented her own wild style of harp playing, and has played support slots with Jackson Browne, Beth Orton, Billy Bragg, and the Blue Nile. The Irish Times called Spell a “mini masterpiece, pitch perfect,” while Hot Press has said “Spell deserves our fullest attention, a very fine record indeed.” Doors to the venue open at 8pm.
Andy White biog
Singer-songwriter Andy White was born and raised in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Andy grew up with the ‘Troubles’ outside his window, surrounded by books of French poetry and his parent’s 1960s record collection. He wrote his first poem ‘Riots’ at nine and picked up a guitar aged 13 after hearing John Lennon singing ‘Give Peace A Chance’. He played in a punk group and an orchestra, wrote poems and read the contents of his bookshelf. And then read some more …
Andy’s songs document his generation’s struggle with their time and place through the eyes and sensibility of an Irish writer and travelling performer. Not only in terms of politics but also in describing the emotional movement from innocence into experience. Trying to gain the latter without losing the former. His work is laced with the dry humour of the North – honed by years of having to laugh to stop yourself from crying.
Religious Persuasion, Andy’s first single, was released on Stiff Records in 1985 and entered the indie charts immediately. Dave Robinson, Stiff supremo, had heard the demo, signed Andy on the spot and released the recording as a 12” EP, along with the Pogues’ ‘Rainy Night In Soho’.
Andy’s first solo album Rave on Andy White, which he decribes as “a collection of surreal stories about growing up, recorded in a field in County Antrim”, was released worldwide on London Records in 1986. BBC Radio One, Alan Freeman, The Tube and Whistle Test all championed the record. ‘Vision Of You’ was called “The best moment of bedroom listening since ‘Pale Blue Eyes’” by ID Magazine. Janice Long named Rave On as her album of the year and ‘The Big Rain’ as one of her Top Ten songs of all time.
Andy followed this success with Kiss The Big Stone in 1988, in which the Belfast boy went out into the world. The signature song ‘You And Your Blue Skies’ was, however, still based back home and the single ‘Here Come The Girls’ showed Andy’s growing pop sensibility. Back from the second album tour, Andy changed record company again from London to UK roots label Cooking Vinyl, where he found a sympathetic home for all of the 1990s. He also moved back from London to the countryside of Northern Ireland.
Partly as a result of breaking free from the expectations and restrictions of a major record label, the songs flowed, and were recorded in a way that cannot be planned by company executives. With his acoustic guitar on the back seat of the car, driving the country roads, Andy regained his independence. Relaxed and inspired, himself is still one of Andy’s freshest sounding albums and ‘Six String Street’, ‘A Million Miles’ and ‘Groovy Kind Of Way’ are live favourites to this day.
In spring 1990 Andy played in East Berlin just after the fall of the Berlin wall, the following autumn he spent searching for James Joyce’s Grave. He met his future wife beside a lake in the summer of 1991. He toured Czechoslovakia in a Skoda and wrote poetry in Swedish trains and Spanish cafés. Returning to Ireland from this new revolutionary Europe with an acoustic guitar case full of poetry, Andy wrote and recorded the epic narratives of Out There in early 1991. The centrepiece of the album was the song ‘Speechless’ describing Andy’s reactions to his first coast to coast tour of North America and the subsequent build up to the first Gulf War. The end narrative was specifically inspired by the Channel 4 screening of ‘Apocalypse Now’ as the Allies prepared to bomb Baghdad.
Out There won Irish Times Album Of The Year for 1992 and Andy Songwriter Of The Year in the national Hot Press Awards. It was his biggest critical success to date and the single ‘Palaceful Of Noise’ – based on a sample taken from a drumkit playing in the former DDR parliament building (now demolished due to the amount of asbestos in the walls) – was released in Ireland with a video shot in Prague by Ritchie Smyth, fresh from filming ‘The Fly’ for U2.
As with Andy’s next two albums, Destination Beautiful and Teenage, the cover shot was by Anton Corbijn. Destination Beautiful in early 1994 featured Andy’s most successful Irish single to date, ‘Street Scenes From My Heart’, and also a collaboration with Split Enz and Crowded House member Tim Finn and Hothouse Flowers singer Liam Ó Maonlaí. The song ‘Many’s The Time’, originally written for Tim’s ‘Before And After’ solo album, was to lead the three friends into an intense period of songwriting, recording and touring which would end up with a collection of 16 precious songs, two weddings, and Tim and Neil’s brotherly reunion album.
altitude was released by Parlophone in 1995 and the three toured the world as ALT, starting in Australia and New Zealand, following the sun to Europe and finishing off the year in North America. The shows were amazing performances with all three swapping instruments, positions on stage, lead vocals. A live album bootleg appeared on the fledgling ALT Recordings label and a whole ethos was born. Independent, home-made, spontaneous, low-fi. Tim called it “exquisite imperfection”. The world caught up a couple of years later, and wondered whether ALT would ever return. The question still hangs in the air.
Meanwhile, Andy took the collaborative experience of ALT and developed it further on his 1996 solo album Teenage. Recorded in Dublin, Melbourne and London and featuring three co-writes with Tim and one with Liam, it was Andy’s most polished pop album to date. Two tracks were produced by rock legend Kim Fowley – sometime producer of The Byrds and Kiss – who was living in Dublin at the time. Another was recorded by John Leckie at Real World Studios, a connection which was to develop over the next couple of years. It featured Karl Wallinger on guitar, and the album inhabits a similar Beatles-Dylan inspired acoustic-electric pop world as World Party, one of Andy’s favourite groups.
The single ‘Get Back Home’ charted in Ireland and was followed by his biggest ‘turntable hit’, ‘Between A Man And A Woman’. The album’s standout track was ‘Don’t Be Afraid’, a theme song for the movement towards peace in Northern Ireland which had been gathering momentum since the early 90s. The song grew out of a poem written on the night of the initial IRA ceasefire in August 1994. Andy has played it on stages in situations of conflict all over the world from North Belfast to South Africa and it remains one of the key songs of his career.
IF YOU'RE STILL READING THIS FAIR PLAY - BUT I'VE EXCEEDED THE NUMBERS OF WORDS FOR A POSTING. MORE ON ANDYWHITE.COM
he' s also playing with Ursula Burns at CrawDaddy tonight Friday 29th Oct.
CrawDaddy presents
ANDY WHITE&
URSULA BURNS
+ support
CrawDaddy, Old Harcourt St. Train Station. Tel. 01 4780225
Friday 29th October. Doors 8 pm.
Standing €16, seated €20. Tickets available from Soundcellar, Road Records, City Discs, Freebird Records, and Ticketmaster (www.ticketmaster.ie )
Belfast-born singer songwriter Andy White returns from his new home in Australia for his first Dublin gig in over a year. Winner of the Hot Press Songwriter of the Year, and Irish Times Album of the Year 1992, White is a ‘powerbook-toting troubadour’ who pioneered the trend of lo-fi home recordings with Liam Ó Maonlaí (Hothouse Flowers) and Tim Finn (Split Enz, Crowded House) in their band, ALT.
He has gone on to establish himself as a highly respected solo artist, working with Peter Gabriel among others. His is first album was called “the best moment of bedroom listening since ‘Pale Blue Eyes’” by ID Magazine. The BBC Radio’s Janice Long named Rave On as her album of the year and ‘The Big Rain’ as one of her Top Ten songs of all time.
Joined by Kieran Kennedy on guitar, Andy White will be marking his return to these shores with this special set in CrawDaddy on Friday the 29th. He will be supported on the night by harpist and pianist Ursula Burns, who on the night will be simultaneously launching her two latest albums, Spell and Rollercoaster Castaway.
Burns has invented her own wild style of harp playing, and has played support slots with Jackson Browne, Beth Orton, Billy Bragg, and the Blue Nile. The Irish Times called Spell a “mini masterpiece, pitch perfect,” while Hot Press has said “Spell deserves our fullest attention, a very fine record indeed.” Doors to the venue open at 8pm.
Andy White biog
Singer-songwriter Andy White was born and raised in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Andy grew up with the ‘Troubles’ outside his window, surrounded by books of French poetry and his parent’s 1960s record collection. He wrote his first poem ‘Riots’ at nine and picked up a guitar aged 13 after hearing John Lennon singing ‘Give Peace A Chance’. He played in a punk group and an orchestra, wrote poems and read the contents of his bookshelf. And then read some more …
Andy’s songs document his generation’s struggle with their time and place through the eyes and sensibility of an Irish writer and travelling performer. Not only in terms of politics but also in describing the emotional movement from innocence into experience. Trying to gain the latter without losing the former. His work is laced with the dry humour of the North – honed by years of having to laugh to stop yourself from crying.
Religious Persuasion, Andy’s first single, was released on Stiff Records in 1985 and entered the indie charts immediately. Dave Robinson, Stiff supremo, had heard the demo, signed Andy on the spot and released the recording as a 12” EP, along with the Pogues’ ‘Rainy Night In Soho’.
Andy’s first solo album Rave on Andy White, which he decribes as “a collection of surreal stories about growing up, recorded in a field in County Antrim”, was released worldwide on London Records in 1986. BBC Radio One, Alan Freeman, The Tube and Whistle Test all championed the record. ‘Vision Of You’ was called “The best moment of bedroom listening since ‘Pale Blue Eyes’” by ID Magazine. Janice Long named Rave On as her album of the year and ‘The Big Rain’ as one of her Top Ten songs of all time.
Andy followed this success with Kiss The Big Stone in 1988, in which the Belfast boy went out into the world. The signature song ‘You And Your Blue Skies’ was, however, still based back home and the single ‘Here Come The Girls’ showed Andy’s growing pop sensibility. Back from the second album tour, Andy changed record company again from London to UK roots label Cooking Vinyl, where he found a sympathetic home for all of the 1990s. He also moved back from London to the countryside of Northern Ireland.
Partly as a result of breaking free from the expectations and restrictions of a major record label, the songs flowed, and were recorded in a way that cannot be planned by company executives. With his acoustic guitar on the back seat of the car, driving the country roads, Andy regained his independence. Relaxed and inspired, himself is still one of Andy’s freshest sounding albums and ‘Six String Street’, ‘A Million Miles’ and ‘Groovy Kind Of Way’ are live favourites to this day.
In spring 1990 Andy played in East Berlin just after the fall of the Berlin wall, the following autumn he spent searching for James Joyce’s Grave. He met his future wife beside a lake in the summer of 1991. He toured Czechoslovakia in a Skoda and wrote poetry in Swedish trains and Spanish cafés. Returning to Ireland from this new revolutionary Europe with an acoustic guitar case full of poetry, Andy wrote and recorded the epic narratives of Out There in early 1991. The centrepiece of the album was the song ‘Speechless’ describing Andy’s reactions to his first coast to coast tour of North America and the subsequent build up to the first Gulf War. The end narrative was specifically inspired by the Channel 4 screening of ‘Apocalypse Now’ as the Allies prepared to bomb Baghdad.
Out There won Irish Times Album Of The Year for 1992 and Andy Songwriter Of The Year in the national Hot Press Awards. It was his biggest critical success to date and the single ‘Palaceful Of Noise’ – based on a sample taken from a drumkit playing in the former DDR parliament building (now demolished due to the amount of asbestos in the walls) – was released in Ireland with a video shot in Prague by Ritchie Smyth, fresh from filming ‘The Fly’ for U2.
As with Andy’s next two albums, Destination Beautiful and Teenage, the cover shot was by Anton Corbijn. Destination Beautiful in early 1994 featured Andy’s most successful Irish single to date, ‘Street Scenes From My Heart’, and also a collaboration with Split Enz and Crowded House member Tim Finn and Hothouse Flowers singer Liam Ó Maonlaí. The song ‘Many’s The Time’, originally written for Tim’s ‘Before And After’ solo album, was to lead the three friends into an intense period of songwriting, recording and touring which would end up with a collection of 16 precious songs, two weddings, and Tim and Neil’s brotherly reunion album.
altitude was released by Parlophone in 1995 and the three toured the world as ALT, starting in Australia and New Zealand, following the sun to Europe and finishing off the year in North America. The shows were amazing performances with all three swapping instruments, positions on stage, lead vocals. A live album bootleg appeared on the fledgling ALT Recordings label and a whole ethos was born. Independent, home-made, spontaneous, low-fi. Tim called it “exquisite imperfection”. The world caught up a couple of years later, and wondered whether ALT would ever return. The question still hangs in the air.
Meanwhile, Andy took the collaborative experience of ALT and developed it further on his 1996 solo album Teenage. Recorded in Dublin, Melbourne and London and featuring three co-writes with Tim and one with Liam, it was Andy’s most polished pop album to date. Two tracks were produced by rock legend Kim Fowley – sometime producer of The Byrds and Kiss – who was living in Dublin at the time. Another was recorded by John Leckie at Real World Studios, a connection which was to develop over the next couple of years. It featured Karl Wallinger on guitar, and the album inhabits a similar Beatles-Dylan inspired acoustic-electric pop world as World Party, one of Andy’s favourite groups.
The single ‘Get Back Home’ charted in Ireland and was followed by his biggest ‘turntable hit’, ‘Between A Man And A Woman’. The album’s standout track was ‘Don’t Be Afraid’, a theme song for the movement towards peace in Northern Ireland which had been gathering momentum since the early 90s. The song grew out of a poem written on the night of the initial IRA ceasefire in August 1994. Andy has played it on stages in situations of conflict all over the world from North Belfast to South Africa and it remains one of the key songs of his career.
IF YOU'RE STILL READING THIS FAIR PLAY - BUT I'VE EXCEEDED THE NUMBERS OF WORDS FOR A POSTING. MORE ON ANDYWHITE.COM
