Andy developed an interest in music when he saw an early music group at an event in Edinburgh. This coupled with hearing the score to "Henry VIII" on TV written and arranged by David Munrow and the discovery of the 70's folk/rock/early group Gryphon cemented his interest in pre 16th century music and the wonderful range of wind, string and brass instruments of the period all of which he attempted to play…
Slowly but surely, Andy's musical interests drifted closer to the current century and now include blues, folk, world, jazz, rock in fact pretty much everything…
Andy spent a few years trying to find a suitable course and finally lighted upon a BA in performing arts at Nonington college in Kent. Successfully auditioning as a singer Andy spent most of his time learning how to play bassoon and sax, playing for local drama groups and morris dancing troupes, running an early music group and learning how to accompany his fellow students.
On finishing college, Andy spent a few years being a musical director with Century Theatre in Keswick and learning to program the nascent 8-bit computers to play music.
Slowly but surely, Andy drifted into teaching guitar before drifting further to join a function band as a keyboard player before drifting back to teaching and occasional gigs.
Andy also spent a bit of time as a cocktail pianist on the Pride Of Bilbao and in Finland where he played for Santa. (Or at least his holiday tours…)