About: Andy White
Irish
singer-songwriter and author Andy White carries a 12-string guitar under
his arm and wears his particular brand of charm on his sleeve, with the
political edge of Billy Bragg, the romance of David Gray and the Celtic
lyricism of the Waterboys.
Andy is
a fully paid up 21st Century Troubadour (and that’s the title of his
journal-memoir published by Lagan Press in Ireland and last year’s ‘album of
the book’ compilation on his UK label, Floating World).
Belfast born and raised, now
living in Melbourne, White has earned a global following for blending folk and
pop stylings with a poet’s sensibility. Working with the great names of Irish
music - Sinead O’Connor, Donal Lunny, Van Morrison - and writing with the likes
of Peter Gabriel and Neil and Tim Finn, Andy has won Ireland’s top songwriting
awards and toured the world many times over.
Since his first album Rave On Andy White, recorded in a field
in Northern Ireland, Andy has been produced by top producers John Leckie and
Kim Fowley, recorded in studios from Real World in the UK to Australia and
Canada, along the way writing many songs engrained in his homeland’s psyche –
including ‘Religious Persuasion’, ‘James Joyce’s Grave’ and ‘Street Scenes From
My Heart’.
Andy’s
latest release is his eleventh studio album How Things Are, on release in Europe this February 3. Recorded in
The Growlery, Melbourne, with son Sebastian on drums, it’s an intensely
personal collection of songs both celebrating and commemorating the end of a
beautiful relationship which started around the time his fourth album.
Andy’s
work and life have always been interconnected - his autobiography is in his
discography, and the latest one is an apotheosis of sorts. He says he wrote the
songs in an intense period of reflection, to answer the oft-posed question “How
are things?”
Andy’s
work as a writer and poet is closely linked to his songwriting output. He’s
been described as writing in the tradition of the Spanish troubadour poets and
the Beats, yet he retains a strong classical sensibility. Stolen Moments is his most recent volume, published by Brisbane
publisher Another Lost Shark Press in 2011.
As a
performer, as well as playing solo, Andy has collaborated with like-minded
friends, musicians and writers both in the past – ALT with Liam O Maonlai (Hothouse Flowers) and Tim Finn (Crowded
House, Split Enz) – and the present – Fearing
& White with Canadian singer-songwriter Stephen Fearing.
Andy is a singer-songwriter of
and for our times, documenting the world and its current chaos and beauty with
remarkable insight. As he says in ‘I Decided To Fly’, wherever he is, with an
acoustic guitar in his hand, he’s still “blowing bubbles on the Lisburn Road.”
Keep up with Andy’s world via his website, blog, and
Facebook fansite:
ANDY WHITE DISCOGRAPHY
1985 – Religious Persuasion EP
(Stiff)
1986 – Rave On Andy White
(London)
1988 – Kiss The Big Stone
(London)
1990 – Himself (Cooking Vinyl)
1992 – Out There (Warners)
1994 – Destination Beautiful
(Warners/Cooking Vinyl)
1995 – Altitude (Parlophone) – as
ALT
1996 – Teenage (Cooking Vinyl)
1998 – Compilation (Cooking
Vinyl)
1999 – Speechless (WOMAD/Real
World)
2000 – Andy White (Floating
World)
2001 – Rare (ALT
Recordings/Hypertension)
2003 – Boy 40 (Floating World)
2006 – Garageband (Floating
World/Wildflower)
2009 – Songwriter (Floating
World)
2011 – Fearing & White
(LowdenProud) – as Fearing & White
2012 – 21st Century Troubadour
(Floating World)
2014 – How Things Are (Floating
World)
2014
– Tea and Confidences (With Stephen Fearing)
2016
– Imaginary Lovers
2017 – The Guilty and the Innocent (Nov. 24, 2017)
CONTACT: Andy White
Andy White Music Playlist
(Click or Tap to Stream Music)
Shakespeare Take My Hand - (Live @ The Toff in Town,
Melbourne Nov 24th, 2014)
Andy White Live in the Lounge Room (Nov 08th,
2014)
Message to You (Live in Belfast – 2009)
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