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David Andrews

About Me

History: David Andrews grew up in the north of England as the son of a miner and of a Scottish 'immigrant' mother. Music has been a part of his life for as long as he has been alive, and his past includes a stint or two in some very odd groupings of people making music together. Now, as a 46 year old folk-singer living and working in the wild South-East of Finland, he is mainly employed in the field of his Master of Education degree: educational psychology.
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Instruments played: On his most recent recordings, he plays guitar, bass, drums, and mandolin.
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Previous bands: Network/Fully Comprehensive (guitar, vocal); Josiah Steel (guitar, vocal); The Purple Aeroplanes (guitar, vocal); Full Circle (bass, vocal); Borman-Andrews (guitar, vocal; with Tuomo Borman, one of Finland's top session guitarists, who played acoustic guitar on some of the songs on his work-in-progress CD); The Blue Monsters (drums, vocal); He bezzed about with a few other bands too, and 'was' a few bands himself (couldn't be arsed to find others to play in them) like The Mass Bangies, Sparepart Invention (sorry Fairports!), The Northern Rhythm Section to name but a few.
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Produced demo/final recordings for: Jeffrizovottly (Barnsley punk band); Domestica (Kotka punk band); Guava (Kotka pop band), Toukola People's College Youth Theatre (theatre arts training school).
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Guestings: Buffalo Brothers 'Lifeblood'; Various artists 'A Season Of Changes' (The Autism Awareness Album); Domestica demo version of a song with a very naughty one-word name.
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Video:
This is the video that David's friend Paul Bourgeois made for his song, 'I Go Down'. The video artwork is Paul's copyright, and the song copyright is David's.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 14/02/2007
Band Website: this is it!!!
Band Members: solo stuff: David Andrews - vocal, guitars, bass, drums, mandolin.The Northern Rhythm Section:David Andrews - guitar, mandolin, vocal Nick Andrews - bass, vocal Nick Farrell - drums, vocal
Influences: See Sounds Like....
Sounds Like: Somewhere between the likes of Martin Carthy, Richard Thompson and Dick Gaughan through Gordon Lightfoot towards ... myself, really!
Record Label: Throatbastard Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Díthiss version of I Am Stretched Out On Your Grave...

... is evolving nicely!The version posted is the exploratory demo we did before I went to Jyväskylä polytechnic for my first seminar.Personnel:David Andrews - guitarSonja Hämäläinen - vocalNick Andrew...
Posted by on Wed, 27 Aug 2008 06:44:00 GMT

Have Psychology degree, will do tests.... :/

I can't bloody resist these sort of shit...TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The SurveyName:Birthday:22/July/1962Birthplace:Barnsley, UKCurrent Location:Kotka, FinlandEye Color:BrownHair Color:Dark BrownHeight...
Posted by on Sun, 04 Mar 2007 22:35:00 GMT

Sad subject...

In the early hours of this morning, my sister rang me form the UK to tell me that my dad was no longer with us.  He'd been very ill with cancer-related things and eventually this is what happened...
Posted by on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 01:36:00 GMT

My Video!

Details for the above video:Producer/Director/Animator: Paul BourgeoisDetails for the above song recording:Produced/Engineered by Nick Andrews at the Sound Lounge 4-track studio, Kotka, FinlandMusicia...
Posted by on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:36:00 GMT