Andy Hamill

Andy has played DOUBLE BASS and BASS GUITAR with many artists including:

Rumer, 4 Hero, Natacha Atlas, Lou Rhodes, Carleen Anderson, Ursula Rucker, Omar, Shea Seger, Mark Murphy, Larry John Wilson, George Soule, Bonnie Bramlet, Nitin Sawhney, Chris Bowden, Boris Grebenshikov, Cara Dillon, Beth Rowley, Tracey Thorn, Kylie Minogue, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, Tim Minchin, Tim Vine, Lee Mack, John Hegley and Harry Hill.

 

He has plucked, strummed and twanged his way through Australia, Austria, the Azores, Belgium,  Bosnia-Herzegovina, Canada, the Channel Islands, China, Crete, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt,  Estonnia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy,Ireland, Israel, Japan, Luxembourgh,  Monaco, Morrocco, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia,  Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, UK, and the USA.

Andy has produced 2 albums with his wife, singer songwriter REBECCA HOLLWEG, ‘June Babies’  and ‘Orange Roses’. Both have been championed by Janis Long on Radio 2.

In Spring 2003 he released his first solo album, ‘BEE FOR BASS’ featuring many of the great artitsts  he was working with at that time.

 

Last summer Andy joined some Vikings, English Monarchs, Cleopatra and a certain long tailed rodent, for the ‘HORRIBLE HISTORIES’ Albert Hall Prom gig. You may have caught him plundering the bass parts on the telly. There hopefully may be a DVD available of the concert at some point.

Andy is thrilled to be on violinist JULIAN FERRARETTO’S debut cd as a leader. Entitled ‘Near’, it features Julian’s wonderful playing and beautiful compositions along with pianist Robert Mitchell and drummer Justin Woodward.

In 2008 Andy produced a children’s music album for JANE RUBY entitled ‘The naughtiest kitten in the world’, and last year produced  an album for HESTER GOODMAN, (one seventh of the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain) entitled ‘You could at least Smile’.

The album which Andy produced for the fabulous singer songwriter JEB LOY NICHOLS, ‘Knock knock, trown and country music’, is being released track by track onRob Ryan’s Reach Around Records. The first track ‘Miss Moon‘ is now available as a 12″ vinyl with a short story by Jeb on the b-side.

 

Although often asked,  Andy doesn’t wish he played the flute. He does however play the equally portable CHROMATIC
HARMONICA! You can hear him huffing and puffing on ‘Mounqaliba’ by Natacha Atlas, ‘You could at least Smile’ by Hester
Goodman, ‘Orange Roses’ by Rebecca Hollweg, ’Days are Mighty’ by Jeb Loy Nichols, ‘My life in Pieces’ by ParryRay, ‘Windshadows’ by Tony Woods and on Orla Murphy’s Stevie Wonder tribute album, Wonderous Visions. He played bass harmonica on Nerina Pallot’s song ‘Grace’.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ali3121P-Rg    A link to a video of Andy and Rebecca playing ‘How Sweet it is’                                                                                                                           watch out for the particularly silly bass solo!

 

Visit www.myspace.com/andyhamill to see some more video clips and to hear some harmonica and bass tracks.

Contact: info@andyhamill.com