Andrew Wiltshire - ProfilesArchive

About Me

It's just me....I've been writing songs for a good few years now, and over the years got ever grander in the way I record them. Those who've stuck with me from the beginning will remember the Tascam four track versions....Now it's all spruced up, studio on a laptop sort of thing, which just makes me laugh.I'm beginning to add new songs, got enough to make another CD now so thought I'd better get my butt in gear. I've tidied my office too, a small incentive but it meant I could actually stand in there and hold my guitar without bumping into book shelves, disused kids computer games and broken printers. There are several songs from what is the last CD, all now finished and tidied and mastered for free by a good friend of mine who owed me! The CD was tentatively called 'centred,' until I realised that sounded like one of those self help relaxation CDs garden centres sell, especially when my artwork idea was a pebble causing ripples as it dropped in a pool. It astonishes me how sometimes your mind has the complete inability to filter out cliches... It's now called 'carry me home,' and is available to anyone who wants one for the exchange of the smallest amount of money... Once I've figured out how to post links I'll make that a whole lot easier, tried once and then found the link didn't work, technology baffles me. There are some songs from the previous CD too, just to remind you what else I've done... I'm adding people I find and like to my 'friends' list, it'd be wonderful if once you've listened to me, you go and give them a try too. Music needs to be heard, no matter how you find it.... Try Simone White, Stephen Fretwell, or any of the great UK unsigned people I've come across in the last months. They all deserve a listen, all doing this for the right reasons.Take care one and all...Andrew

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 07/03/2007
Band Members: Andrew Wiltshire,Wilfred the Cat, (He sits on the soundcard cos it's warm, so I think he counts)
Influences: Classic singer/songwriter stuff like Nick Drake, Tom McRae, Damien Jurado, Ed Harcourt, with the occasional moment when I remember my heavy metal/prog rock teenage years.
Sounds Like: Hmmmm... I don't know really. I'm influenced by a heap of people, as diverse as Tom Mcrae to Peter Gabriel. Doubt I sound like any of them though.
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Carry Me Home Lyrics

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Posted by on Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:05:00 GMT

The Virgin Test

I like the title of this one...I was on Oxford St a few weeks back, and popped into the Virgin Megastore, ( I refuse to call it Zavvi, that's akin to the distraught I felt when Opal Fruits became star...
Posted by on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 12:22:00 GMT

CD and stuff

It's been a long few months, but I'm inching ever closer to having the new CD ready. Musically it was finished before xmas, then my friend did a wonderful job mastering it, and then an even more wonde...
Posted by on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 12:02:00 GMT

Sonnet

The years can take us places we can shareFears and hopes and wishes and show we care.The past builds bridges we know we can cross,Lasting foundations, never at a lossTo describe or decide the paths to...
Posted by on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:38:00 GMT

Mornings, and when they go wrong...

Cheating slightly, wrote this to a friend this morning, but I'm still recovering, so thought I'd post it as a blog....What a morning, got woken about 4.30 by what can only be described as the sound of...
Posted by on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:46:00 GMT

On doing nothing

I'm a restless soul, I've spent a life as a perpetual fidget, unable to sit and watch the world go by when I know there are things I could be doing, book to read, guitar to play, coffee to make. It co...
Posted by on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 06:37:00 GMT

I’ll name that tune in....

Everyonce in a while, I'll write something, and then a few months later hear it back, and it'll remind you of something. Not in a direct 'my sweet lord/ she's so fine' plagiaristic sort of way, but in...
Posted by on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 16:29:00 GMT

So, what does this button do...

First time I've written something here, but I just had such a good day recently, so thought this could be a good place to share it. To cut a long story short, I managed to somehow sneak a day's master...
Posted by on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:49:00 GMT