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ANDY HARVEY

DRUMMER

About Me

Hello. I'm Andy, but people tend to call me Harvey. I'm 22, and I play drums at any given opportunity. I do sessions, I play in bands, I'm available to tour, and I love working with clicks. I can currently be found working with Grandadbob, Sear, Cloud 9 Productions, Micky P Kerr, Scarlet Blonde, Loqui, and too many other people to list....
My main interest lies in playing live electronic/dance/rock music with a combination of live drums and triggers/sampler. For example: The Prodigy, Massive Attack, Grandadbob, Sunna, The Cinematic Orchestra, Faithless (Live), UNKLE, Roisin Murphy, Royksopp, Bjork, Groove Armada (Live), Ladytron, Nine Inch Nails, Basement Jaxx (Live), Portishead, Gnarls Barkley (Live), Gorillaz, Moloko, Ian Brown, Etc.
I try to combine the solidarity and musical functionality of Rock drumming with the flare, finnesse and sublety of Jazz drumming. Then throw in a load of electronics and a click. I also enjoy laying down big massive hip hop beats. Yes.
I grew up in Weston super Mare in North Somerset, which was ace. But then aged 18 I realised there was not alot there for me as a young creative musician. So as if by magic I morphed into Leeds where I spent 3 years at Leeds College of music generally working/playing as hard as possible both within college and the local scene. So now I'm currently based in Leeds for the time being (London calling?.....)and I'm now Andrew John Harvey BA (hons) Jazz Studies. Ace.
Some of the festivals I have performed at include Glastonbury, V, O2 Wireless (London and Leeds), Bloom, Lattitude, Secret Garden Party, Electric gardens, Belladrum Tartan Heart (I love you Scotland!), Leeds/Reading, and more. I've also extensively toured the UK including a support tour with Badly Drawn Boy.
Some of the albums I've performed on include - Grandadbob's "Garden Of Happiness", Johnny Poindexter's "Place Your Trust in Empty Spaces", Ben Davies' "Looking in Your Direction", plus other random bits and pieces.
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Member Since: 3/14/2006
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Influences: In no particular order...

UNKLE

Queens Of The Stone Age

Sunna

The Cinematic Orchestra

Miles Davis

Prodigy

Royksopp

Stevie Wonder

The Specials/Anything two tone

John Coltrane

Bat For Lashes

Ladytron

Steely Dan

Black Sabbath

Nine Inch Nails

Bjork

Bob Marley

Radiohead

GusGus

Portishead

Massive Attack

Daft Punk

Grandadbob

...and ALOT of other people....

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