Bio

Andy was signed to Atlantic Records with his old band, No Hope In New Jersey. Andy was the lead singer, a guitar player and principal songwriter.

No Hope In New Jersey released the album “Steady Diet Of Decline” on Atlantic Records which culminated in the band playing Download festival and on the main stage at V Festival.

It was exciting times touring with Million Dead (Frank Turner) and The Donnas (playing Manchester Academy and the legendary Astoria). Interviews with Zane Lowe and meeting Paul McCartney in the lift on the way to an XFM interview. The video for the first single Narcolepsy was played regularly on MTV2 and featured on the Mary Anne Hobbs Radio 1 show. The single got to no 7 on the Rock and Metal Charts

When the band split, Andy was at a loss, but one day he received a parcel from his uncle: the biography of Jimi Hendrix. The days Hendrix spent as a sideman fascinated Andy, and inspired him to learn more about his craft as a musician. This was the start of eight years’ apprenticeship playing various styles of music in bands all over the world. Including cruise ships, theatres and hotels. Taking in over 30 countries.

In 2015, Andy returned to England. His apprenticeship over, he decided to stay, and work on his own material.

This has resulted in 14 albums and 8 EPs.

Including 9 BBC Tracks Of The Week and other songs featured as either BBC Tracks of the Day or on the regular BBC Introducing show.

Plus the song Deny Reality being played on Planet Rock.

The album Work of Fiction contains 9 songs which were featured on BBC Introducing and one song featured on a Nintendo Playstation advert.

Dedicated To Nobody contained 5 BBC Introducing tracks of the week, culminating in one song featured on the Radio 1 Tom Robinson Mixtape Show. (Hey Into The Void).

Materialist Reductionist saw Andy team up with UK producer Matt Hyde. They first worked together many years ago on the song “Narcolepsy” for No Hope In New Jersey. The song was played on Radio 1 and had an accompanying video regularly featured on MTV 2. Materialist Reduction has been signed by Warner Chappell publishing for the Elbroar label.  The album featured No Simpatico played on BBC Introducing and At One a BBC Track Of The Day

Without Polarity saw Andy team up with Angus Wallace of Far Heath studios. The resulting album got signed by Warner Chappell with the song “They Take Away” featured on BBC Introducing.

For Andy’s 5th album he teamed up again with Matt Hyde for the album “Plausible Deniability”. It contains 3 BBC Tracks of the Day and 1 Track of the Week. “Certain Way” was also picked as a Fresh Favs which culminated on it being played on Tom Robinson 6 music show. “Deny Reality” was also played on “Planet Rock” and “Hard Rock Hell Radio”. 

2023 was finished off with the scheduled release of album no 6 “Golden Ratio” by Warner Chappell, with the song “Time Will Show” featured as a BBC track of the day on BBC Radio Nottingham. On top of that the stand alone single “Skyline” was also picked on Nov 4th as BBC Introducing Track Of the Week. A nice end to the year.

2024 kicked off the year with the song “In This Old Shoes” being played on BBC Introducing on January 25th. A song from the up and coming EP release “Unforeseen Circumstances”

Then Average Connor from Golden Ratio became his 8th BBC Introducing Track of the Week. The week commencing Feb 19th.

The 6 track EP Unforeseen Circumstances was released on March 15th. Track 4 from the EP “So Don’t Say” was chosen as a BBC Track Of The Day and got played twice on BBC Radio Leicester morning shows.

Then a month later the song “Can’t Decide” also became a BBC Introducing Track of the Day featuring on 2 morning shows on BBC Radio Leicester. The song was later released on the album “Hidden Clauses” released by Warner Chappell.

In August the song “So” also became a a BBC Introducing Track of the Day. The song was recorded around the same time as the sessions for the “Burn Out” album which was released by Beats Bakery around the same time.

Andy then teamed up with Matt Hyde again and in Jan 2025 BMG released the Alt Rock album which featured 3 Tracks of the Day (Rick Swagger, Breaking Up, Hollywood Star) and a BBC Track of the Week (Out Of Nowhere/Nowhere). Jai Patel from The Ravenage provided drums.

The on Feb 10th 2025 Andy released another solo record called “Prior Knowledge” with Warner Chappell distributing the album. Featuring the BBC Track Of The Day “Don’t You Know”.

Then on the 7th of May the album “Don’t Stay Still or The Devil Will Catch You” was released featuring 6 songs on the Final Cue website.

On the 28th August the stand alone single “Feels Unreal” was released. It was featured on BBC Introducing on July 31st.

This was followed by another stand alone single “Change Your Life” which was released on 8th of November . It was featured on BBC Introducing on Sept 4th. The single was backed up by the instrumental “Sinister Bavarian Castle” which made it onto the Fresh On The Net Playlist on in early Oct.

2025 was then ended on a high with the release of album no 14 TEST WORLD on November 15th by Warner Chappell PM. Three songs were featured on BBC Introducing “Just Two”, “Wheel Of Grief” and “Stuck Here To Fade”, culminating in an interview with Dean Jackson on BBC Nottingham.

In addition to his own songs Andy has also been hired as a session guitar player for Ziggy Sullivin resulting in releases on Warner Chappell, BMG, and Universal. They both decided to form a duo called Electrize and released 2 albums with Warner Chappell publishing. One an 80s inspired album and the other a 1930s inspired album. This resulted in another BBC track of the week with the song “Temperature Rising”.

His guitar playing has been used multiple times by legendary producer Mike Bennett on many sessions. Ones including for Neville Staples (The Specials) and Melanie Williams as well as other well known artists. He has also been hired by DJ Deekline (innovator of break step) to contribute guitar to a track and by Gilkicker Music for some of their up and coming artists.

His guitar playing has also featured on shows such as BBC Doctors and Shakespeare & Hathaway. The director of both shows asking him to improvise and what was played was used on both shows.

Over the years his songs and music have featured on TV shows such as Match Of The Day, Top Gear, Blue Peter, Shakespeare and Hathaway, Home and Away, BBC 2’s Inside The Factory, and Doctors. Also on adverts for Nintendo, Nissan, and EA Sports

** Special thanks to Karl Thompson and Angus Wallace for their support over the years and professionalism in their chosen fields. Both helped extensively with my solo career.