Show Notes
In the latest episode of Andy's journey through the 'AT' album he wrote with Tim Finn, he goes off to Canada to play the Edmonton Folk Music Festival. Where folk is not, perhaps, what it seems. He encounters the Warrior backstage and a new song is born. Mostly, Andy waxes lyrical on Canadian folk festivals, their vibe, food, and hotels (always with thick thick walls). However, it is also about co-writing songs with A and B sections—and writing things down immediately, when they happen. As al...
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The new series of This podcast is only temporary tells the story of the writing and recording of Rave on Andy White, released on 10 October 1986. Episode 4 is all about Reality Row. Andy is brainstorming how it came together and this involves more on the lost counties of Ulster, how to play country bass, the immanence of nuclear war in the mid-80s, Thatcher, Reagan, Spitting Image, Bob Dylan, T.S. Eliot and the Crown Bar. He tells the story of the Reality Row video directed by Charles M...
The new series of This podcast is only temporary tells the story of the writing and recording of Rave on Andy White, released on 10 October 1986. In the third episode Andy tells the story of what he calls "sort of love songs that might not be love songs and are pretending not to be love songs but really are", Vision of You, Tuesday Apocalypse #13, I Will Wait and Rembrandt Hat. Though mostly Vision of You. It's a freewheeling journey as we hear about an 80s remix, a river in summer, Ali...
The new series of This podcast is only temporary tells the story of the writing and recording of Rave on Andy White, released on 10 October 1986. "The stream of consciousness continues, starting off on Great Victoria Street again and this time talking about first albums and origin stories. A lot of bands meet at school or they live in the next street. Rod McVey and I met in the school band and yes he lived in the next street. I was on spoken word, bass and drum machine but soon an acous...
The new series of This podcast is only temporary tells the story of the writing and recording of Rave on Andy White, released on 10 October 1986. "Early this year I was asked to come in to the BBC in Belfast to record an interview about Rave on. I got off the train at Botanic, put on my headphones and found the album online. Turned the volume to maximum and pressed play. Wow. We made this? It was raining as I crossed Botanic Avenue with its same-as-it-ever-was tombstone charity-shop chic &...
Andy White is back to tell us the story of the writing and recording of his debut album Rave on. 40 years since its first release and the songs still smash their way out of the speakers in as unavoidable a manner as possible. This was the 1980s, the Troubles in Northern Ireland nearing the end of their second decade and Stock Aitken and Waterman and 'Rio' providing the soundtrack for Thatcher's Britain. Cue Rave on Andy White, recorded in a field in County Antrim. On the cover, the Belf...