Eleven Eight: the team
I would like to thank the following individuals for sharing their talents with me and for their invaluable support. Across a range of disciplines, they are some of the most creative and positive souls I have ever met. I’d also like to thank everyone else (musicians, promoters, sound engineers, DJ’s) who has helped me along the way.
I hope you enjoyed it all as much as I did.
I must also thank everyone who has listened to, or bought, a release of mine or come to see me at a live show. My numbers may be small on the grand music industry scale of things, but whatever the stats, every encouraging word, every smile, every into it expression, every whoop and stomp of the foot is what keeps performers going; every positive comment, and every thoughtful question keeps songwriters and recording artists doing what we do.
Band of Pedants
This is a a small but select group of advisors whom I ask to provide opinions and feedback on early mixes of my music. They help me enormously by picking apart the work-in-progress mixes, pointing out any areas that may need attention and sometimes suggesting possible solutions. While unofficial membership of this elite group changes continuously, it generally includes Roshan, Ruth, Gary, Claire, Roger, Duncan, Andy and my brother John.
Roshan Battiwalla
Roshan Battiwalla
A speech and language therapist/manager by profession, Roshan studied singing at university and has worked as a production assistant for BBC3.
Roshan is Musical Director and conductor of the chamber choir The Part Singers.
Roshan sings backing vocals on “Last Word”.
Ruth Bostock
Ruth Bostock
Partner, muse and inspiration, Ruth is a constant source of ideas and counsel.
Ruth sings in the alto section of the prestigious Huddersfield Choral Society. She has performed with the choir around the UK, including at the Royal Albert Hall (BBC Proms), London’s Barbican Centre and on tours in Spain and Canada.
Ruth founded The Part Singers in 2017 and she continues to sing with and help to run the chamber choir, which performs concerts in West Yorkshire.
Ruth joins me on lead vocals for the final track of the Eleven Eight album – “Last Word”. She also sang a duet with me on “Running Man” for the Blink album.
Corey Clough Howard | Photo by Mike Hood
Corey Clough-Howard
Corey is a session bassist, best known for his musical role within Terra Fin, and for accompanying post-punk folk creator Robert Sharp in the studio and on the stage.
Corey plays bass on “Bobby”, “Meet Me in… (v23)”, and “Say Something”.
Steve Dutton | Photo by Jason Batley
Steve Dutton
Throughout his adult life, Steve has worked as a professional photographer and musician. He plays drums in The Killermeters. He also records music projects at his own studio, serving as producer, musician and engineer.
Steve played drums for my first gig as a band front-man. He shot and made the music video for “Bobby”.
Gary Fenton
Gary Fenton
Gary and I had already been getting on famously for about five or six years before one of us mentioned the magic word “guitar”. We met and chatted enthusiastically on a range of subjects at the (at least) biannual parties of a mutual friend Rob Oakes. I don’t remember who came out with it first but I do remember that our random arty boho chatter suddenly switched to talk of things six-stringed. For the next few years, we talked of little else but the necessity of getting together at the earliest opportunity for a jam until, about another five or six years (ten or twelve parties) later, we finally congregated at Gary’s place, guitars in hand.
And jam we did, he sporting a posh Lowden and me my unlacquered poor-man’s Martin. Gary had set everything up perfectly – he doesn’t do things by halves – so we had mics and a PA with effects, and even guitar stands and bits of kit to hang our iPads from. They were our only source of music, so we scoured the apps for any songs we both might know, alighting happily on some big indie folkie tunes of the day, some rousing Scandie-indie tunes and the odd Tom Waits number. We started crooning along and it was decided that I’d take the lead vocal, partly because I didn’t sound too bad and partly because I really wanted to. This arrangement also gave Gary the opportunity to play all the tricky fiddly bits on the guitar and sing all the big Scandie “hey”s and “ho”s with a relish that rather took me aback at the time.
So began a Sunday night ritual, attended also from adjoining rooms by Gary’s wife Siân and daughter Issey. They encouraged, cajoled and inspired us and they became the first two people in modern times to compliment me on my singing. I still love them for this, though, to be fair, I’m not short on reasons.
When I started writing my own songs and playing them live, Gary was one of the first people to encourage me and he regularly turned up at gigs, as he still does.
Gary runs his own business providing 3D product design. When I was producing my debut album, he volunteered to design the packaging for it. He did such a good job on Blink, he’s been roped into designing all my products since, including the You’re The same As Me EP and the album Eleven Eight.
Claire Helm | Photo by Victor Harris
Claire Helm
Claire worked extensively as a professional actress and singer from the age of about 16, appearing in TV dramas as well as theatre tours, musicals, session singing and live gigs.
After a 15-year break to have a family and an alternative career in marketing, Claire began to explore a return to singing, her first love. We first met at a concert given by the pupils of the singing teacher we shared at the time. As just about the only two performers over the age of 13, we hit it off straight away and I asked her to do some singing with me. We recorded a few demos and played a couple of fun live shows as a duo (and with Roger and/or Jason) before Claire joined me in The Boo Sutcliffe Band – singing backing and some lead vocals. She continued to perform with me occasionally right up to my latest live shows in 2022.
Claire currently sings with Highway 62, The Killermeters, Loro Park and Sanctum Sanctorium.
Claire shares lead vocals with me on “You’re The Same As Me” and sings lead vocals on “A Thousand Things”. In addition, she sings backing vocals on “Bobby”, “Afterglow (v23)”, “The Last Train”, “The Time, the Time” “You’re the Same as Me” and “A Thousand Things”.
Jacquie Hughes
Jacquie Hughes
I have known the artist Jacquie Hughes for more than a decade. She is the best friend of one of my favourite people, Joey Higman, who is married to another of my favourite people – my old university chum Jules.
Jacquie is a freelance illustrator. She worked as an in-house greetings card illustrator for Watermark Publishing for several years. Since becoming a freelancer, she has illustrated three award-winning children’s picture books for Thea Chops Books. She also continues to produce artwork for greetings cards, and make and sell lino prints, as well as devising and delivering creative workshops to the general public.
When I first saw Jacquie’s work, I was enchanted. I was also amazed at how much she is able to achieve with so few lines and often such simple compositions. Whether she’s representing people sitting quietly or chatting at a bus stop, musicians plying their trade, anthropomorphized animals, or a street scene caught in the moment , she always seems to capture something full of character. Her pictures generally suggest an unspoken narrative, like we the viewers are witnesses to something that is about to happen.
When I had a good look at Jacquie’s Instagram page in early 2023, I was so impressed I asked her if she would create a portrait of me for the cover for Eleven Eight. Luckily, she agreed and came back with two options – both of which I love – which made it mighty difficult to choose just one for the album. Here is a link to Jacquie’s Instagram feed which I highly recommend.
Duncan Jackman | Photo courtesy of Welwyn Garden Festival
Duncan Jackman
I met Duncan at university where we played in a few bands together – he as bass player and me as drummer. Most notably, tenor sax player Bill Crowther asked me to play drums in the jazz band So What? that he had going on with Dunc, pianist Pete Greenwood and (at the time) alto sax player Robin Nagy.
This band, which still convenes for jazz weekends from time to time, has probably taught me more about music and working with other musicians than anything else ever has.
Duncan plays double bass on “Last Word”
Jason Kerry | Photo by Victor Harris
Jason Kerry
The first time Jay and I had a jam was in front of an audience. We had been introduced by mutual friend Dave Wall a couple of weeks earlier and I asked him if he fancied joining me for an informal gig in a friend’s antique shop during Holmfirth Festival of Folk. Given that he didn’t know any of my songs and that there was no opportunity to rehearse or prepare anything beforehand, most people would have said “no” but Jay was adventurous enough to give it a go and we had a ball. Sounded pretty cool too.
Jason will play just about any instrument you put before him. He is a founder member of blues, jazz and skiffle group Hokum in which he plays guitar and harmonica, as well as singing a bit (often all at the same time). He is a member of the peripatetic Ugly Mug Jug Band. Jay played harmonica in the Boo Sutcliffe Band, and has also played and guested at a number of solo and smaller line-up gigs with me.
Jay plays harmonica on “Bobby” and “Last Word” and jaw harp on “Last Word”.
Roger Kinder | Photo by Baz Groom
Roger Kinder
An old friend and band-mate from way back, Rog has been a huge help and support to me since I started out as a singer/songwriter in the early 2010s. As well as encouraging me to crack on and finishing writing some songs, he mentored me through learning to use Logic and a Mac. He also played on, and helped me record, early demos of many of my tracks.
He is a founder and ever-present member of the band Razorbach (established in 1986). Roger helped me out by playing live with me at some intimate two-man (and small band) shows and by standing-in for 18 months on electric guitar with The Boo Sutcliffe Band. Our early small scale gigs were formative experiences for me and still stand as key highlights of my live performances.
Rog plays electric lead guitar on “Bobby”, “Margaritas on the Lawn” and “Last Word”.
Roger is also a keen film-maker, operating for commercial and creative work as Fat Mustard Films. He has made some wonderful music videos for me, including one for the track “Eleven Eight”.
Steve Robinson | Photo by Victor Harris
Steve Robinson
Steve plays bass and accordion in the band Good Earth Collective.
He plays bass on “Afterglow (v23)” and “Almost Done (v23)”, and accordion on “Last Word”.
Carl Rosamond | Photo by Ruth Bostock
Carl Rosamond
Carl Rosamond, or ‘Rozza’ to his friends, runs the Billiard Room Studio in Leeds UK, which is part of the production company RRS Music & Media.
Many people still refer to his early work with Leeds based bands The Wedding Present and CUD, but over the years Carl has worked for many varied artists and for labels such as Universal, Island, Edel, Wall of Sound and Damaged Goods.
Although he started out small in his own Leeds-based studio he has worked in several studios, including the world renowned Rockfield Studio in Monmouth. He spent time working alongside Tom Lord-Alge in the USA and has produced tracks mixed by Mark ‘Spike’ Stent & Dave Bascombe.
Working with his good friends Zoot Woman opened up the world of live sound. In 2010, Carl embarked on a five-year period of touring the world with Ali Cambell’s UB40, working as both sound engineer and production manager.
Carl’s main love, though, is the studio where work is currently a blend of mixing and mastering. In the last few years he has worked on a number of album projects for Justin Sullivan and New Model Army, and on tracks from artist such as Nile Rodgers and Chic, The Charlatans, British Sea Power, DMA’s, The Vaccines and Rag’n’Bone Man.
As a musician, Carl is a satellite member of the band Fever Hut – a group of close friends from the bands The Hollow Men and The Passmore Sisters, based around the talents of Brian Roberts, Martin Sadofski and Howi Taylor.
Puy Soden | Photo by Nic Shuttleworth
Puy Soden
For artist and educator Dr Puy Soden, creativity is all about the process, rather than just the finished product. Her approach is process-focused because it’s all about the activity and how she experiments with materials and methods. This was the central theme of her PhD, completed in 2019. Painting is her field, and she often works on large-scale, expanded-format tests on specific sites in the landscape. These outdoor installations are about the activity, experience and objecthood of painting as physical, universal and time-bound. There is never a set outcome, just an urge to do, to make, to test, to see, to feel and to try it out.
Puy runs a range of workshops for process-focused art-making, designed to help people discover the creative freedom and potential that comes from developing an experimental, open-ended approach. This approach can help with a growth in people’s confidence and can benefit general wellbeing. 2023 workshops include family drop-ins for The Hepworth Wakefield; process-focused CPD sessions for the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, and Puy’s independently-organised workshops at The Tech Holmfirth.
Puy created the painting featured on the front of the You’re the Same as Me EP. It was a very collaborative and creative process for me and I still find the cover image instantly arresting every time I look at it. Puy also filmed herself working on the painting and the video for the title track features time-lapse footage of Puy painting the work in her studio.
David Wall | Photo by Rob Oakes
David Wall
A former design tech & fashion marketing tutor, Dave built boosutcliffe.com in 2021 and has hosted and maintained my website ever since.
He was interested in circuit bending and built various analogue systems interfaced with max/msp.
He now helps fashion companies make things look nice, understand their e-commerce data, make informed decisions and sell more stuff online.
Dave loves noodles and is the self-proclaimed Noodle King of Huddersfield.
Andy Wright | Photo by Victor Harris
Andy Wright
Andy Wright is a multi-instrumentalist who studied music (violin) at university.
He joined me for my live shows in 2020, just as live shows were being cancelled everywhere. By 2021, we started playing a few gigs and the ones we put on in 2022 (often with Claire performing as well) were, for me, some of the best gigs I’ve ever done.
Andy plays violin, flute and anything else the’ve got kicking around in the band Good Earth Collective.
Andy plays viola on “Afterglow (v23)”, he plays violin and arranged the strings on “Meet Me in…(v23)”, and he plays violin on “The Last Train” and “Last Word”.
Eleven Eight: the team
I would like to thank the following individuals for sharing their talents with me and for their invaluable support. Across a range of disciplines, they are some of the most creative and positive souls I have ever met. I’d also like to thank everyone else (musicians, promoters, sound engineers, DJ’s) who has helped me along the way.
I hope you enjoyed it all as much as I did.
I must also thank everyone who has listened to, or bought, a release of mine or come to see me at a live show. My numbers may be small on the grand music industry scale of things, but whatever the stats, every encouraging word, every smile, every into it expression, every whoop and stomp of the foot is what keeps performers going; every positive comment, and every thoughtful question keeps songwriters and recording artists doing what we do.
Band of Pedants
This is a a small but select group of advisors whom I ask to provide opinions and feedback on early mixes of my music. They help me enormously by picking apart the work-in-progress mixes, pointing out any areas that may need attention and sometimes suggesting possible solutions. While unofficial membership of this elite group changes continuously, it generally includes Roshan, Ruth, Gary, Claire, Roger, Duncan, Andy and my brother John.
Roshan Battiwalla
Roshan Battiwalla
A speech and language therapist/manager by profession, Roshan studied singing at university and has worked as a production assistant for BBC3.
Roshan is Musical Director and conductor of the chamber choir The Part Singers.
Roshan sings backing vocals on “Last Word”.
Ruth Bostock
Ruth Bostock
Partner, muse and inspiration, Ruth is a constant source of ideas and counsel.
Ruth sings in the alto section of the prestigious Huddersfield Choral Society. She has performed with the choir around the UK, including at the Royal Albert Hall (BBC Proms), London’s Barbican Centre and on tours in Spain and Canada.
Ruth founded The Part Singers in 2017 and she continues to sing with and help to run the chamber choir, which performs concerts in West Yorkshire.
Ruth joins me on lead vocals for the final track of the Eleven Eight album – “Last Word”. She also sang a duet with me on “Running Man” for the Blink album.
Corey Clough Howard | Photo by Mike Hood
Corey Clough-Howard
Corey is a session bassist, best known for his musical role within Terra Fin, and for accompanying post-punk folk creator Robert Sharp in the studio and on the stage.
Corey plays bass on “Bobby”, “Meet Me in… (v23)”, and “Say Something”.
Steve Dutton | Photo by Jason Batley
Steve Dutton
Throughout his adult life, Steve has worked as a professional photographer and musician. He plays drums in The Killermeters. He also records music projects at his own studio, serving as producer, musician and engineer.
Steve played drums for my first gig as a band front-man. He shot and made the music video for “Bobby”.
Gary Fenton
Gary Fenton
Gary and I had already been getting on famously for about five or six years before one of us mentioned the magic word “guitar”. We met and chatted enthusiastically on a range of subjects at the (at least) biannual parties of a mutual friend Rob Oakes. I don’t remember who came out with it first but I do remember that our random arty boho chatter suddenly switched to talk of things six-stringed. For the next few years, we talked of little else but the necessity of getting together at the earliest opportunity for a jam until, about another five or six years (ten or twelve parties) later, we finally congregated at Gary’s place, guitars in hand.
And jam we did, he sporting a posh Lowden and me my unlacquered poor-man’s Martin. Gary had set everything up perfectly – he doesn’t do things by halves – so we had mics and a PA with effects, and even guitar stands and bits of kit to hang our iPads from. They were our only source of music, so we scoured the apps for any songs we both might know, alighting happily on some big indie folkie tunes of the day, some rousing Scandie-indie tunes and the odd Tom Waits number. We started crooning along and it was decided that I’d take the lead vocal, partly because I didn’t sound too bad and partly because I really wanted to. This arrangement also gave Gary the opportunity to play all the tricky fiddly bits on the guitar and sing all the big Scandie “hey”s and “ho”s with a relish that rather took me aback at the time.
So began a Sunday night ritual, attended also from adjoining rooms by Gary’s wife Siân and daughter Issey. They encouraged, cajoled and inspired us and they became the first two people in modern times to compliment me on my singing. I still love them for this, though, to be fair, I’m not short on reasons.
When I started writing my own songs and playing them live, Gary was one of the first people to encourage me and he regularly turned up at gigs, as he still does.
Gary runs his own business providing 3D product design. When I was producing my debut album, he volunteered to design the packaging for it. He did such a good job on Blink, he’s been roped into designing all my products since, including the You’re The same As Me EP and the album Eleven Eight.
Claire Helm | Photo by Victor Harris
Claire Helm
Claire worked extensively as a professional actress and singer from the age of about 16, appearing in TV dramas as well as theatre tours, musicals, session singing and live gigs.
After a 15-year break to have a family and an alternative career in marketing, Claire began to explore a return to singing, her first love. We first met at a concert given by the pupils of the singing teacher we shared at the time. As just about the only two performers over the age of 13, we hit it off straight away and I asked her to do some singing with me. We recorded a few demos and played a couple of fun live shows as a duo (and with Roger and/or Jason) before Claire joined me in The Boo Sutcliffe Band – singing backing and some lead vocals. She continued to perform with me occasionally right up to my latest live shows in 2022.
Claire currently sings with Highway 62, The Killermeters, Loro Park and Sanctum Sanctorium.
Claire shares lead vocals with me on “You’re The Same As Me” and sings lead vocals on “A Thousand Things”. In addition, she sings backing vocals on “Bobby”, “Afterglow (v23)”, “The Last Train”, “The Time, the Time” “You’re the Same as Me” and “A Thousand Things”.
Jacquie Hughes
Jacquie Hughes
I have known the artist Jacquie Hughes for more than a decade. She is the best friend of one of my favourite people, Joey Higman, who is married to another of my favourite people – my old university chum Jules.
Jacquie is a freelance illustrator. She worked as an in-house greetings card illustrator for Watermark Publishing for several years. Since becoming a freelancer, she has illustrated three award-winning children’s picture books for Thea Chops Books. She also continues to produce artwork for greetings cards, and make and sell lino prints, as well as devising and delivering creative workshops to the general public.
When I first saw Jacquie’s work, I was enchanted. I was also amazed at how much she is able to achieve with so few lines and often such simple compositions. Whether she’s representing people sitting quietly or chatting at a bus stop, musicians plying their trade, anthropomorphized animals, or a street scene caught in the moment , she always seems to capture something full of character. Her pictures generally suggest an unspoken narrative, like we the viewers are witnesses to something that is about to happen.
When I had a good look at Jacquie’s Instagram page in early 2023, I was so impressed I asked her if she would create a portrait of me for the cover for Eleven Eight. Luckily, she agreed and came back with two options – both of which I love – which made it mighty difficult to choose just one for the album. Here is a link to Jacquie’s Instagram feed which I highly recommend.
Duncan Jackman | Photo courtesy of Welwyn Garden Festival
Duncan Jackman
I met Duncan at university where we played in a few bands together – he as bass player and me as drummer. Most notably, tenor sax player Bill Crowther asked me to play drums in the jazz band So What? that he had going on with Dunc, pianist Pete Greenwood and (at the time) alto sax player Robin Nagy.
This band, which still convenes for jazz weekends from time to time, has probably taught me more about music and working with other musicians than anything else ever has.
Duncan plays double bass on “Last Word”
Jason Kerry | Photo by Victor Harris
Jason Kerry
The first time Jay and I had a jam was in front of an audience. We had been introduced by mutual friend Dave Wall a couple of weeks earlier and I asked him if he fancied joining me for an informal gig in a friend’s antique shop during Holmfirth Festival of Folk. Given that he didn’t know any of my songs and that there was no opportunity to rehearse or prepare anything beforehand, most people would have said “no” but Jay was adventurous enough to give it a go and we had a ball. Sounded pretty cool too.
Jason will play just about any instrument you put before him. He is a founder member of blues, jazz and skiffle group Hokum in which he plays guitar and harmonica, as well as singing a bit (often all at the same time). He is a member of the peripatetic Ugly Mug Jug Band. Jay played harmonica in the Boo Sutcliffe Band, and has also played and guested at a number of solo and smaller line-up gigs with me.
Jay plays harmonica on “Bobby” and “Last Word” and jaw harp on “Last Word”.
Roger Kinder | Photo by Baz Groom
Roger Kinder
An old friend and band-mate from way back, Rog has been a huge help and support to me since I started out as a singer/songwriter in the early 2010s. As well as encouraging me to crack on and finishing writing some songs, he mentored me through learning to use Logic and a Mac. He also played on, and helped me record, early demos of many of my tracks.
He is a founder and ever-present member of the band Razorbach (established in 1986). Roger helped me out by playing live with me at some intimate two-man (and small band) shows and by standing-in for 18 months on electric guitar with The Boo Sutcliffe Band. Our early small scale gigs were formative experiences for me and still stand as key highlights of my live performances.
Rog plays electric lead guitar on “Bobby”, “Margaritas on the Lawn” and “Last Word”.
Roger is also a keen film-maker, operating for commercial and creative work as Fat Mustard Films. He has made some wonderful music videos for me, including one for the track “Eleven Eight”.
Steve Robinson | Photo by Victor Harris
Steve Robinson
Steve plays bass and accordion in the band Good Earth Collective.
He plays bass on “Afterglow (v23)” and “Almost Done (v23)”, and accordion on “Last Word”.
Carl Rosamond | Photo by Ruth Bostock
Carl Rosamond
Carl Rosamond, or ‘Rozza’ to his friends, runs the Billiard Room Studio in Leeds UK, which is part of the production company RRS Music & Media.
Many people still refer to his early work with Leeds based bands The Wedding Present and CUD, but over the years Carl has worked for many varied artists and for labels such as Universal, Island, Edel, Wall of Sound and Damaged Goods.
Although he started out small in his own Leeds-based studio he has worked in several studios, including the world renowned Rockfield Studio in Monmouth. He spent time working alongside Tom Lord-Alge in the USA and has produced tracks mixed by Mark ‘Spike’ Stent & Dave Bascombe.
Working with his good friends Zoot Woman opened up the world of live sound. In 2010, Carl embarked on a five-year period of touring the world with Ali Cambell’s UB40, working as both sound engineer and production manager.
Carl’s main love, though, is the studio where work is currently a blend of mixing and mastering. In the last few years he has worked on a number of album projects for Justin Sullivan and New Model Army, and on tracks from artist such as Nile Rodgers and Chic, The Charlatans, British Sea Power, DMA’s, The Vaccines and Rag’n’Bone Man.
As a musician, Carl is a satellite member of the band Fever Hut – a group of close friends from the bands The Hollow Men and The Passmore Sisters, based around the talents of Brian Roberts, Martin Sadofski and Howi Taylor.
Puy Soden | Photo by Nic Shuttleworth
Puy Soden
For artist and educator Dr Puy Soden, creativity is all about the process, rather than just the finished product. Her approach is process-focused because it’s all about the activity and how she experiments with materials and methods. This was the central theme of her PhD, completed in 2019. Painting is her field, and she often works on large-scale, expanded-format tests on specific sites in the landscape. These outdoor installations are about the activity, experience and objecthood of painting as physical, universal and time-bound. There is never a set outcome, just an urge to do, to make, to test, to see, to feel and to try it out.
Puy runs a range of workshops for process-focused art-making, designed to help people discover the creative freedom and potential that comes from developing an experimental, open-ended approach. This approach can help with a growth in people’s confidence and can benefit general wellbeing. 2023 workshops include family drop-ins for The Hepworth Wakefield; process-focused CPD sessions for the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, and Puy’s independently-organised workshops at The Tech Holmfirth.
Puy created the painting featured on the front of the You’re the Same as Me EP. It was a very collaborative and creative process for me and I still find the cover image instantly arresting every time I look at it. Puy also filmed herself working on the painting and the video for the title track features time-lapse footage of Puy painting the work in her studio.
David Wall | Photo by Rob Oakes
David Wall
A former design tech & fashion marketing tutor, Dave built boosutcliffe.com in 2021 and has hosted and maintained my website ever since.
He was interested in circuit bending and built various analogue systems interfaced with max/msp.
He now helps fashion companies make things look nice, understand their e-commerce data, make informed decisions and sell more stuff online.
Dave loves noodles and is the self-proclaimed Noodle King of Huddersfield.
Andy Wright | Photo by Victor Harris
Andy Wright
Andy Wright is a multi-instrumentalist who studied music (violin) at university.
He joined me for my live shows in 2020, just as live shows were being cancelled everywhere. By 2021, we started playing a few gigs and the ones we put on in 2022 (often with Claire performing as well) were, for me, some of the best gigs I’ve ever done.
Andy plays violin, flute and anything else the’ve got kicking around in the band Good Earth Collective.
Andy plays viola on “Afterglow (v23)”, he plays violin and arranged the strings on “Meet Me in…(v23)”, and he plays violin on “The Last Train” and “Last Word”.