Music Capital Presents Andy White
Sun 11th May 2025 - Sandino's Water St, Derry BT48 6BQ
Doors - 7.15pm / Starts 8pm
Advance Tickets £17.50 + bf - Pay At The Door £19
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ANDY WHITE: ‘The night is approaching though some would say it was morning’ Recorded live at Abbey Road
Album release 25 April 2025
UK/Ireland Tour 8 May–5 June 2025
Glastonbury Festival 27–29 June 2025
“One of the finest songwriters of his generation” RNR Magazine, UK
40 years after the release of debut EPReligious Persuasion, Irish songwriter Andy White is back home living in Belfast and tours the UK and Ireland May–June 2025 in support of new live albumThe night is approaching though some would say it was morning(Floating World Records). The tour starts at the Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival in his hometown and finishes at Glastonbury, where old chum Billy Bragg has invited Andy to appear on the Left Field stage.
The story of the live album begins with the friendship between Andy and producer John Leckie (The Bends, Muse, Roy Harper, Baba Maal). The two met during one of Peter Gabriel’s recording weeks at Real World Studios and immediately hit it off, with John mixing and producing many of Andy’s recordings (including the recentATalbum with Tim Finn). After one of Andy’s concerts, John told him he wanted to buy an album of what he had just heard. A solo album recorded live. No band. No overdubs. “Where are we going to record it?” “The best-sounding room in the world – Studio Two at Abbey Road.”
On July 14, 2023, Andy and John met at Abbey Road. John got his first job there in 1970. His interview was the day the Beatles crossed the road for a photo. Andy had listened to albums recorded there and looked at photos taken there sinceRevolverplayed at primary school parties. Giles Martin was driving out as they drove in. Andy brought three guitars and an amp. John organised everything and when he took Andy down the stairs into Studio Two, told him to stop and smell the room. Nothing had changed since those great records had been recorded. You could feel it in the equipment, the fabric, the floorboards.
John had asked Andy to write his best set list. In the afternoon they recorded the first half, in the evening a small group of friends and family arrived, and they recorded the second. You can see what it looked like on the album sleeve, you can hear the room on the record. Everyone went to the café afterwards and sat drinking and talking under the photos of Peter Sellers and Sophia Loren, Cilla and the Beatles. Andy said goodbye and walked across the crossing on the way to the hire car. It was done.
The double-CD set has both evening and afternoon sessions, one on each disc. The vinyl LP has the evening session and a download code for both sessions. The live show will feature songs from throughout Andy’s songwriting career from ‘Religious Persuasion’ and ‘James Joyce’s Grave’ to ‘Italian Girls on Mopeds’ and ‘Good Luck I Hope You Make It’. The Belfast troubadour has come home.
For this event, all the tickets will be sold as general admission (a mixture of standing and seating). There will be a limited amount of seating available, these will be allocated on a first come first serve basis, it is advisable to arrive early if you require a seat.
