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Andy White - Ghost of Electricity

Contains 1 performance.

Belfast singer songwriter and poet Andy White gives an early career interview on the Peeved Records website.

Living in Melbourne as of 2017, his full career is detailed on his wikipedia page.  From that:

'He released his first EP Religious Persuasion in 1985 on Stiff Records, and his first album Rave on Andy White in 1986. Since then he has released eleven solo albums plus numerous compilations and live albums, and has collaborated with many other artists including Peter Gabriel, Sinéad O'Connor and English producer John Leckie. White won Ireland's Hot Press Songwriter of the Year Award in 1993.[1]

In 1995 he released an album (Altitude) with Tim Finn (of Split Enz) and Liam Ó Maonlaí (of Hothouse Flowers); the trio recorded as ALT.[1]

His most recent studio albums are How Things Are (2014) and a double CD collection 21st Century Troubadour (2012), based around the book of the same name.

A book of his lyrics and poems, The Music Of What Happens, was published in 1999 by Belfast-based Lagan Press. In 2009, his first work of prose (21st Century Troubadour) was published, also by Lagan, with a second volume of poetry (Stolen Moments) (Another Lost Shark Press, Brisbane) following in 2011.

On the 30th anniversary of debut Rave on Andy White, a career retrospective Studio Albums 1986–2016 was released on Floating World Records, comprising all twelve studio albums including the new and previously-unreleased Imaginary Lovers.

  • Benjamin Zephaniah, Martin Glynn, Francesca Kay, Andy White

    Performance: Benjamin Zephaniah, Martin Glynn, Francesca Kay, Andy White

    08 December 1984 at 
    Captain’s Cabin (27)
    Roebuck (49)
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