Andrew Bond
Acoustic / Alternative / Folk / Indie / Rock

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Andrew Bond - guitar / vocals / everything else!

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Hi, welcome to my life story. Pull up a chair. Make yourself at home. Tea and coffee facilities are available if you wish to help yourself to a hot beverage.

If I was to sum it all up I would say that I have a unique approach to songwriting. All my life I have wanted to create and perform my own music. I'm a self-taught musician and I have worked with various Blackpool-based bands in my time.

I started recording home demos of my songs using a cheap microphone and a tape recorder way back in the faded memories of my teenage years, keenly aware that I was doing something different. Not even my friends knew I was writing back then. I stored up my songs like secrets, and yet I was convinced my music would catch on like wildfire one day. The songs you are hearing now are both the result of a long journey and an early point in an even longer one.

Beset by the nerves of a bedroom musician, I was something of a late starter in playing live (my first solo gig was in 2003) but I have now headlined countless acoustic nights in and around Blackpool, and I have gone on to win over many people and make many friends in the music scene.

Although I am essentially a solo acoustic performer, I regularly play live with harmonica wizard Paul Bamford, and I was delighted to team up with musicians Stephen Ladley, Chris Sebok and Kev Atherton to perform my songs at my album launch party on 27th October 2006 - a night which was heavily featured in the local press and signified my coming of age as a singer-songwriter.

The ensuing album 'Closer to the Lamplight' has gone on to sell lots of copies, and was voted one of the top albums of the year on a local music website. My songs also featured heavily in a 'name your favourite songs by Blackpool bands' poll in 2006. In the past year I have gigged in Manchester, Huddersfield, Accrington and Brighton, and my music has met with a brilliant response that shows it has appeal everywhere.

After an extensive period of songwriting in the winter of 2006/07, my comedy songs (such as 'Bondy's Sunday Morning Blues') have been featuring more and more in my live repertoire. Although I mainly set out to make 'serious' music, I have noticed what a big response comedy stuff tends to get. I try to make my gigs a meeting-point of these two styles - everyone loves a laugh and I'd be the first to admit the acoustic stuff can get a little melancholy at times.

There have been some interesting musical highlights in 2007 too, such as getting my music video screened at Blackpool Odeon (director: Hannah Dornford-May) and playing Tommyfest 2, but right now I'm passing the time gigging and trying to write as many new songs as I can. My travels in the summer fuelled my appetite for adventure, and early in 2008 I'm setting off on the open road with just a round-the-world air ticket and my guitar for company... who knows what it might bring?

That's all for now people. Keep listening, and keep on keepin' on.

With love, Bondy




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