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A Day at the Beach
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Released: Jan 1, 2010
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  • Genre: Acoustic / Pop / Shoegaze

    Location London, Un

    Profile Views: 37591

    Last Login: 1/25/2012

    Member Since 8/10/2006

    Website www.heatherandrews.org

    Type of Label Unsigned

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    <a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=476138018"><img height="15" width="61" alt="Songs Of My Very Own" src="http://www.tunecore.com/images/buttons/badgeitunes61x15dark.gif" /></a> Hello! My name is Heather Andrews and I am a London based Singer-Songwriter. I have been singing all my life really but only started writing songs when I had trained as a Sound Engineer at the University of Surrey. I was working as an assistant sound engineer in London's Sphere Studios and writing and singing when I started recording my songs there to get to know how to use the studio but I soon started feeling more comfortable in front of the microphone than behind the desk. I was lucky enough to meet the Grammy winning Producer Narada Michael Walden (Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, Mariah Carey) when I was there. Amazingly he really liked my songs! After I left the studio and decided I should do something with these songs, I gave Narada a call and went over to San Francisco to record Too Weak to Speak at his Tarpan Studios. The album had started! I've been honing my vocal skills in a function band called OCD while gradually putting my album together. I think it's fair to say that stretching myself with all those different covers has influenced my wide ranging song writing style. Not to mention my stage silliness. People often say "How can such a big sound come out of such a small person?". It just does! So here I am some years later with a great band and an album I'm really pleased with. Huge thanks to the many talented and supportive people who have helped make this happen. I hope you like it too. It's time to Start Something!

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I love pop music, I love to sing and it turns out that I write good songs too. It's taken me a while to put those three things together. I've moved from studying Physics, Maths and Music at school to sound engineering in a London Studio to recording my own songs when the studios were free.

At this point I met Narada Michael Walden. I was an assistant on a recording session he was doing at Sphere Studios, London and I became his “Musie Muse”! I gave him a CD of some of my songs and he fell for 'Too Weak to Speak'. Two years later I started taking my music seriously and decided to make an album so I gave Narada a call.

When 'Too Weak to Speak' went so well we wanted to work together some more. I was over in California to record another song around the time of my birthday and Narada and I headed to the beach for my day. We were catching up, relaxing and feeling generally inspired so he starts tapping out a beat and a bit of a melody and gets me singing along. I recorded our jam on my camera and we decided to cut it the next day at Tarpan, Narada’s Marin County California studio. I finished the lyrics on the ferry over to the studio, Narada put together the chords and the arrangement and 'A Day at the Beach' was born. Simple. Beautiful.

For the past couple of years I've been using and abusing all my talented friends in the music industry begging free studio time and musicians. Now the album is nearly finished I am amazed at what I've achieved and how much I've learnt. I just loving making good music and singing it with all my heart. And now a little bit about Narada.

Narada Michael Walden is a Multi Grammy Winning Songwriter, Producer and Drummer.  His Credits include as drummer: (Mahavishnu Orchestra, Jeff Beck, and so many more!), Producer: (Aretha Franklin, Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Jefferson Starship...the list is infinite).  Narada Michael Walden has 56 charted number one hits to his name, more than any producer in history and is a prolific songwriter with 12 solo albums of his own.

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Member Since:

August 10, 2006

Members:

Heather Andrews: Vocals, songwriting
Keir Milligan: Drums, keys, and who knows what
Andy Finney & Will Bentley: Drums and attitude
Gabriele Nicotra & John Oag & Richard Andrews: Bass
Joni Lee: Lead guitar
Matthew Ross: Guitars & Graphic Design

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