Andy Fairweather Low

Press Release

JOAN ARMATRADING CBE

NATURAL RHYTHM – Released via BMG on July 23^rd 2021

Speaking about the new single, Joan said: “Natural Rhythm’s got right inside my soul, the pulse is slow but my heart beats fast.”

Natural Rhythm is the second single from Consequences, Joan Armatrading’s recently released Top 10 album which shot straight into the UK Top10 in its first week of release.

On July 23^rd BMG release Natural Rhythm, from Consequences, following up on the highly successful first single, Already There .

Natural Rhythm is the first track on Consequences (Radio 2’s Album Of The Week week) and, as with the other nine songs, is completely written, performed and produced by Joan herself.

The new single is a jaunty upbeat song in complete contrast to the first single which described a different aspect of love, the moment when one person had already fallen in love and was waiting for their partner to catch up.

Herewith links to the Packshot and Label copy.

Packshot: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ynimnxhntaemle6/NATURAL%20RHYTHM.tif?dl=0

Label copy:https://www.dropbox.com/s/q1aeuaafljepiek/labelCopy_Joan_Armatrading_Natural_Rhythm_%28Single_Mix%29_Digital_One_Track_Audio_538707745_14-Jul-2021_19hr19min16sec.pdf?dl=0

Natural Rhythm, as with all Joan’s songs has a beautifully crafted lyric which denies being Star Crossed but admits to being lovers and reading each other like an open book.

Joan will be performing tracks from Consequences as well as some of her biggest hits on the live stream concert she is airing on July 31st. Tickets for access to the concert are available now from https://joan.lnk.to/Livestream and are priced at £ 24.00.

ANDY FAIRWEATHER LOW and THE LOW RIDERS

AUTUMN 2014 UK TOUR and CD

How Andy Fairweather Low has stayed under the mainstream radar for so long is a mystery.

One of the most respected guitarists in the business, he’s had group hits as the front man of Amen Corner and solo hits – If Paradise Is) Half As Nice, Wide Eyed And Legless, Bend Me Shape Me, Hello Susie, Reggae Tune, Natural Sinner, Gin House Blues to name but a few.

He’s toured with Eric Clapton for 19 years and Roger Waters and Bill Wyman for even more, he’s in demand with the very best.

His CV speaks for itself…

Bob Dylan, Roger Waters, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Elton John, Jimi Hendrix, David Crosby, The Band, The Faces, Kate Bush, Tom Jones, Richard and Linda Thompson, Dave Gilmour, The Who, BB King, Joe Cocker, Steve Winwood, Donald ‘Duck’ Dunn, Jimmy Page, Ronnie Lane, Linda Ronstadt, Roddy Frame, Emmylou Harris, Joe Satriani, the Bee Gees, Jeff Beck, The Impressions, Lonnie Donegan, Ringo Starr, Steve Gadd, David Sanborn, Benmont Tench, Warren Zevon, Charlie Watts, Mary J. Blige, Dave Edmunds, Georgie Fame, Bonnie Raitt, Otis Rush, Phil Collins, Van Morrison, Gerry Rafferty, Chris Rea, Buddy Guy, Chris Barber, Jackson Browne, Bill Wyman, , The Rhythm Kings, Willi & The Poor Boys, Sheryl Crow, Clarence ‘Gatemouth’ Brown, Stevie Nix, Pete Townshend…

He’s played with them all, and hundreds more (to say he’s good is an understatement). And if that company wasn’t enough, Andy now tours with his own stellar band, The Low Riders.

Following gigs in Germany and Japan, this Autumn Andy’s out on the road again with The Low Riders on a major UK tour. His latest album ‘Zone-O-Tone’ is being relaunched alongside it (out on Proper Records, PRPCD1101).

For a cracking night out and musicianship that truly delivers look no further – this is as good as it gets.

ANDY FAIRWEATHER LOW and THE LOW RIDERS

AUTUMN 2014 UK TOUR and CD

Date	Town	Venue		Box Office
September
Thursday	18th	Ilminster	Square & Compass	01823 480467
Friday	19th	St Ives	St Ives Festival	0845 094 0428
Saturday	27th	Southend	The Riga	01702 348020
October
Thursday	2nd	Leeds	The Brudenell	0113 275 2411
Friday	3rd	Derbyshire	Hayfield Festival	01663 742721
Saturday	4th	Wavendon	The Stables	01908 280800
Sunday	5th	Bilston	The Robin	01902 405511
Thursday	9th	Edmonton	Millfield Theatre	0208 807 6680
Friday	10th	Selby	The Town Hall	01757 708449
Tuesday	14th	Runcorn	The Brindley	0151 907 8360
Wednesday	15th	Durham	The Gala Theatre	0191 332 4041
Friday	17th	Kinross	Backstage at the Green Hotel	01577 863467
Saturday	18th	Biggar	Biggar Festival	07837 026007
Sunday	19th	Glasgow	The Ferry	01698 360085
Tuesday	21st	Gateshead	The Sage	0191 443 4666
Sunday	26th	Budleigh Salterton	Public Halls	01395 443419
Tuesday	28th	London	Bluesfest Royal Albert Hall	0844 844 0444
Wednesday	29th	London	Bluesfest Royal Albert Hall	0844 844 0444
Thursday	30th	Cardiff	The New Theatre	0292 087 8889
Friday	31st	Carmarthen	The Lyric Theatre	0845 226 3510
November
Thursday	6th	Bromsgrove	The Artrix	01527 572739
Saturday	7th	Wimborne	The Tivoli Theatre	01202 885556
Sunday	8th	Eastney	The Cellars	02392 826249
Sunday	15th	Tenby	Tenby Blues Festival	07074 102121
Thursday	20th	Harlow	The Playhouse Theatre	01279 431945
Friday	21st	New Brighton	Gt British Guitar Festival	0151 666 0000
Saturday	22nd	Darwen	The Library Theatre	01254 706006
Sunday	23rd	Buxton	Buxton Pavilion Arts Centre	01298 23114
Thursday	27th	Stamford	Corn Exchange	01780 766455
Friday	28th	Abergavenny	Borough Theatre	01873 850805
Sunday	29th	Haverhill	Arts Centre	01440 714140
Monday	30th	Haywards Heath	Clair Hall	01444 455440

All tickets priced £18–£22

SPECIAL GUEST TO DENNIS LOCORRIERE THIS SPRING

Andy Fairweather Low goes out this Spring on a very special tour.

As Special Guest to Dennis Locorriere he plays 36 dates across the UK together with his band The Low Riders. The two artists make an inspired pairing and these are going to be shows that really must not be missed.

See Dennis Locorriere’s section in Current promotions for further information.

Date	Town	Venue	Box Office
February
16th	High Wycombe	Swan Theatre	01494 512 000
18th	Northampton	Royal and Derngate	01604 624 811
19th	Bradford	St Georges Hall	01274 432 000
20th	Liverpool	Philharmonic Hall	0151 709 3789
22nd	Aberdeen	Music Hall	01224 641 122
23rd	Edinburgh	Playhouse Theatre	0844 847 1660
24th	Glasgow	Royal Concert Hall	0141 353 8000
25th	Dundee	Caird Hall	01382 434 940
28th	York	Grand Opera House	0844 847 2322
March
2nd	Grimsby	Grimsby Auditorium	0844 8472380
4th	Barnstaple	Queen’s Theatre	01271 324 242
6th	St Albans	Alban Arena	01727 844 488
7th	Skegness	The Embassy	0845 674 0505
9th	Southend	Cliffs Pavilion	01702 351 135
10th	Bournmouth	Pavilion Theatre	0844 576 3000
13th	Eastbourne	Congress Theatre	01323 412 000
14th	Southsea	Kings Theatre	02392 828282
15th	Folkestone	Leas Cliff Hall	0844 847 1776
17th	Tunbridge Wells	Assembly Hall Theatre	01892 530 613
19th	Gateshead	The Sage	0191 443 4661
20th	Croydon	Fairfield Halls	020 8688 9291
22nd	Salford	The Lowry	0843 208 6010
24th	Basingstoke	The Anvil	01256 844244
25th	Salisbury	City Hall	01722 434 434
26th	Nottingham	Royal Concert Hall	0115 989 5555
27th	Oxford	New Theatre	0844 847 1585
28th	Weston Super Mare	Playhouse Theatre	01934 645 544
30th	Buxton	Opera House	08451 272 190
31st	Dartford	The Orchard	01322 220 000
April
2nd	Norwich	Theatre Royal	01603 630 000
3rd	Worthing	Pavilion Theatre	01903 206 206
4th	London	Cadogan Hall	020 7730 4500
6th	Torquay	Princess Theatre	0844 847 2315
7th	Truro	Hall for Cornwall	01872 262 466
8th	Cardiff	St David’s Hall	02920 878 444
9th	Birmingham	Symphony Hall	0121 780 3333

THE VERY BEST OF ANDY FAIRWEATHER LOW

THE LOW RIDER

Released: June 2nd 2008, Proper Records (PRPTV01)

Andy Fairweather Low has been something of a quiet man of rock. Chances are you’ll know his hits – Wide Eyed And Legless, Reggae Tune, Bend Me Shape Me, Hello Susie, (If Paradise Is) Half As Nice, Gin House Blues, Natural Sinner…. if not his name, but all that’s about to change.

From the early days in Amen Corner, his solo career and then years spent with Eric Clapton, Roger Waters and Bill Wyman, not to mention playing with Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix , The Who, George Harrison and BB King, Andy has not just been a stalwart but a shining light.

“The Very Best Of Andy Fairweather Low – The Low Rider” quite rightly celebrates that fact. Released on Proper Records on June 2nd, it features 14 of his best known tracks and will be TV advertised.

The CD effortlessly mixes re-recorded versions of his biggest hits with some of the most in-demand live numbers that he plays on tour. And in Spring this year Andy takes to the road with his band The Low Riders on a major UK outing.

Kicking off on May 23rd and covering 35 dates including Glastonbury, Trowbridge, Cambridge Rock and Colne Blues Festivals, the Low Rider tour comes in direct support of the album.

Born in Cardiff, Andy originally came to fame as vocalist and leader of pop group Amen Corner which claimed an international No 1 with (If Paradise Is) Half As Nice. He then formed the band Fairweather and subsequently began his illustrious solo career. Hand in glove with his music came his tennis – Andy is also an International tennis pro.

Some of the musical highlights over the years have included:

Backing vocals on the Who’s 1978 “Who Are You” and subsequent playing on their ’82 “It’s Hard” album and with Pete Townshend on his Psychoderelict tour.
Touring since the early 90s as a mainstay of Eric Clapton’s band and playing on eight albums with Eric.
Performing with George Harrison and at the Tribute For George concert.
Working with Roger Waters since 1985, a long and rewarding relationship which recently saw Andy rejoining him for the Dark Side Of the Moon tour.
Playing in Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings, a relationship that dates back to 1983 when they worked together on Ronnie Lane’s ARMS benefit concert at the Royal Albert Hall.

ANDY FAIRWEATHER LOW & THE LOW RIDERS

Spring/Summer Tour 2008

Date	Venue and Location	Box Office
MAY
Fri 23rd	The Riga Music Bar, Southend	07961 442331
Sat 24th	The Hazlitt Theatre, Maidstone	01622 758611
Thu 29th	The Palace Theatre, Redditch	01527 65203
Fri 30th	Tivoli Theatre, Wimborne	01202 855566
Sat 31st	Barrelhouse Blues Club, Sturminster Newton	01258 475137
JUNE
Thu 5th	High Barn, Gt Bardfield	01371 811291
Fri 6th	Millfield Theatre, Edmonton	020 8807 6680
Sat 7th	Stamford Guitar Festival	01870 763203
Thu 12th	Martletts Hall, Burgess Hill	01444 242888
Fri 13th	Huntingdon Hall, Worcester	01905 611714
Thu 19th	Library Theatre, Darwen	01254 706006
Fri 20th	The Ferry, Glasgow	0141 248 5376
Sun 22nd	Inn At Lathones,St Andrews	01334 840494
Mon 23rd	Inn At Lathones,St Andrews	01334 840494
Wed 25th	Darlington Arts Centre	01325 486555
Fri 27th	Haverhill Arts Centre	01440 714140
Sat 28th	Glastonbury Festival
JULY
Fri 4th	Theatr Brecheiniog, Brecon	01874 611622
Sat 5th	Pontardawe Arts Centre, Swansea	01639 763329
Sun 6th	Frome Festival , The C & G.	01373 445420
Fri 11th	Botley Hill Farmhouse	01959 577154
Sat 12th	The Marina Theatre, Lowestoft	01502 523444
Sun 13th	Bush Hall, London ticketweb.co.uk	08700 600100
Fri 18th	Southport Arts Centre	01704 540011
Sat 19th	Newbury Corn Exchange	01635 522733
Sun 20th	Cambridge Rock Festival	0845 299 0845
Fri 25th	The Stables Theatre, Wavendon	01908 280800
Sat 26th	Assembly Rooms,Tamworth	01827 709618
Sun 27th	Trowbridge Festival	01255 769132
AUGUST
Fri 1st	Walsall F.C.	0870 442 0111
Sun 24th	The Customs House, South Shields	0191 454 1234
Mon 25th	Colne Blues Festival	01282 661234
Wed 27th	The Limelight, Crewe	01270 251929
Thu 28th	The Robin 2, Bilston	01902 405511
Fri 29th	The Point, Cardiff	02920 230130

ANDY FAIRWEATHER LOW – THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW …

1) Andy has the unique distinction of being “The Face of 1969”.
2) His first tour was with Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, The Move, Nice, Eire Apparent & The Outer Limits.
3) Jimi Hendrix played twice with Andy’s band Amen Corner at the Speakeasy Club in London.
4) Played guitar on George Harrison’s tour of Japan – the first Solo tour there of any of the former Beatles and a massive event. (Later played as part of the band for the Concert For George at the Royal Albert Hall in 2002.
5) Was part of the ARMS tour in 1984 with Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman and, when he was well enough, Ronnie Lane.
6) Spent 24 years playing with both Roger Waters & Bill Wyman’s bands.
7) Spent 13 years as a member of Eric Clapton’s band.
8) Andy took up tennis after seeing Jimmy Connors on TV in 1974, then went on to represent Wales in the over 45’s National tennis team
9) Has won two consecutive Pro Celeb Tennis tournaments at the Royal Albert Hall and was set for a third until the sponsors asked that he withdraw so that someone else could win it.
10) He once did a TV interview and talked about his car (a Shelby Cobra GT 500 thought at that time to be the only one in the UK) and the next day the Customs & Excise came round and impounded it as no import duty had been paid.
11) Andy sang on Hendrix’s recut of Stone Free at Electric Lady Studios in NY with Jimi at the controls as engineer & producer. (Andy was in NY to buy a new petrol cap for his Shelby Cobra GT 500 as you could not get them in Britain and the model in the US was about to be scrapped).
12) Harry Nilsson, Dr John & Allen Toussaint were once scheduled to produce an Andy Fairweather Low album but it never happened due to a variety of intervening problems they all had at the time – they were of course all very very drunk too…
13) Andy played in the George Best XI football team.
14) Also played in the Allan Lamb Cricket XI & Bunbury’s XI.
15) He once collected guns but gave it up when he discovered there was nowhere to fire them.
16) He sang on four tracks of the Who album Who Are You and played guitar on their Its Hard album.
17) Played guitar on albums by Stevie Nicks, Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris as well as the Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou collaboration album.
18) He is delighted to have played guitar on B.B.King’s album Riding With The King!

ANDY FAIRWEATHER LOW – AND HIS CARS… (He loves ’em!)

1) Andy’s first car was a Marcos which had a TV and a record player installed – The amazing thing was that the record player worked perfectly.
2) His second was an 8 Litre Shelby Cobra GT 500 that he bought from Mike Jeffries ( Hendrix’s co-manager ). Andy was as proud as you could be of that car (rumoured at the time to be the only one in Britain) and soon after he bought it (for cash) from Jeffries he was interviewed on TV and he showed them the car and talked effusively about it. The very next day the people from Customs & Excise arrived and impounded the car – no import duty had been paid on it! He did eventually get it back…. Andy sang on Jimi Hendrix’s recut of Stone Free at Electric Lady Studios in NY with Jimi at the controls as engineer & producer – Andy was in NY to buy a new petrol cap for his Shelby as you could not get them in Britain and the model in the US was about to be scrapped.
3) His third car was a Jensen Interceptor which he had until he went broke and it had to go.
4) After this he had a Ford Consul.
5) When he could no longer afford that he borrowed his mother’s Hillman Imp which he crashed sideways into a wall. As this tore away the passenger seat he continued to drive it as a 3-seater for a while. This car was so light that he could push-start it himself on cold mornings.
6) When things improved he had a green BMW 3 Series which he wrote off with 300 miles on the clock.
7) He has now owned a BMW 5 series since 1991.

Biography

‘Sweet Soulful Music’ (2006) was his first solo album in 26 years but it was no simple comeback story – the intervening years were packed with people and projects virtually amounting to a stellar A to Z of Popular Music.

Not surprising then that “The Very Best Of Andy Fairweather Low – The Low Rider” out on Proper Records in Spring 2008 should be such a catalogue of delight. It trawls right through his back catalogue from the hits of the late sixties right through to the present day resulting in a panoply of glorious sounds.

Andy has a magnificent CV. Throughout his momentous career, he has played with such artists as Bob Dylan, Roger Waters, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Elton John, Jimi Hendrix, David Crosby, The Band, Richard and Linda Thompson, Dave Gilmour, The Who, BB King, Joe Cocker, Steve Winwood, Donald ‘Duck’ Dunn, Jimmy Page, Ronnie Lane, Linda Ronstadt, Roddy Frame, Emmylou Harris, Joe Satriani, the Bee Gees, Jeff Beck, The Impressions, Lonnie Donegan, Ringo Starr, Steve Gadd, David Sanborn, Benmont Tench, Warren Zevon, Charlie Watts, Mary J. Blige, Dave Edmunds, Georgie Fame, Bonnie Raitt, Otis Rush, Phil Collins, Van Morrison, Gerry Rafferty, Chris Rea, Buddy Guy, Chris Barber, Jackson Browne, Bill Wyman, Sheryl Crow, Clarence ‘Gatemouth’ Brown, Pete Townshend and hundreds more.

Quite simply, Andy Fairweather Low has been – and continues to be – the guitarist and vocalist of choice for a phenomenal cast list of musical luminaries.

Cardiff-born Fairweather Low originally came to fame as vocalist and leader of the pop group Amen Corner. The band had four Top 30 hits – a sequence starting with ‘Gin House Blues’ in 1967 – on Decca’s subsidiary Deram label before leaving at the end of 1968 to join Andrew Loog Oldham’s pioneering indie, Immediate. Amen Corner were instantly rewarded with a UK number one, ‘(If Paradise Is) Half As Nice’ in early 1969 but, despite another Top Five hit with Roy Wood’s ‘Hello Suzie’, it seemed the band could not survive success.

By the following year Amen Corner had split, with Andy Fairweather Low escaping the teenybop grind by forming the simply named Fairweather, a band signed to RCA’s shiny new progressive label, Neon. Fairweather reached number six in the UK singles chart with ‘Natural Sinner’ during the summer of 1970.

It was to be, however, the band’s only hit. One album later and Fairweather came to an end. Andy Fairweather Low then became somewhat of a refugee from the music business, eventually emerging three years later as a solo artist with an album called ‘Spider Jiving’ on A&M.
The album was produced by Elliot Mazer – best known for his work with Neil Young – and featured some heavyweight backup support from the likes of the Memphis Horns and Nashville legend Charlie McCoy on harmonica. ‘Spider Jiving’ included the wah-wah driven ‘Reggae Tune’, a UK Top 10 hit in September 1974.

Andy Fairweather Low was on something of a roll. The following year, 1975, he released his second solo album, ‘La Booga Rooga’, which eventually emerged as his most successful record. Produced by the celebrated Glyn Johns – at that time fresh from working with The Eagles – ‘La Booga Rooga’ featured such stellar musicians as ex-Eagle Bernie Leadon (guitar), Dave Mattacks (drums), Eddie ‘Tan Tan’ Thornton (trumpet), Kenney Jones (drums), John ‘Rabbit’ Bundrick (keyboards), BJ Cole (steel guitar) and Georgie Fame (keyboards). Among the tracks was ‘Wide Eyed and Legless’, a Top 10 hit for Fairweather Low at the end of 1975.

Johns was also at the helm for ‘Be Bop ‘n’ Holla’, Fairweather Low’s 1976 album. It was followed, in 1980, by ‘Mega-Shebang’, recorded for Warner Brothers and destined to be Fairweather Low’s final solo album until 2006. In between ‘Be Bop ‘n’ Holla’ and ‘Mega-Shebang’, however, Fairweather Low sang backing vocals on The Who’s 1978 ‘Who Are You’ album – the start of a relationship which also saw him playing guitar on the band’s 1982 album, ‘It’s Hard’, and appearing with Pete Townshend on his 1993 ‘Psychoderelict’ tour.

That work with The Who set the direction for Fairweather Low’s next moves. He became the ultimate Guitarist to the Stars, building an extraordinary reputation that has endured to this day.

Most notably, Fairweather Low has been a stalwart of Eric Clapton’s band since the early-Nineties, touring in Clapton’s bands right up until 2003 and recording the ‘Unplugged’, ‘From the Cradle’, ‘Pilgrim’, ‘Riding with the King’, ‘Reptile’, ‘One More Car One More Rider’, ‘Me & Mr. Johnson’ and ‘Back Home’ albums with him.

Fairweather Low was also a regular player with George Harrison, appearing on his ‘Live in Japan’ album and, in 2002, playing several of the lead guitar parts for the Harrison tribute, ‘The Concert for George’.

One of Fairweather Low’s longest musical relationships, however, has been with Roger Waters. The two have worked together since Waters’ ‘Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking’ tour of America in 1985. Since that time Fairweather Low has contributed to two of Waters’ albums – ‘Radio K.A.O.S’ in 1987 and ‘Amused to Death’ in 1992 – and played guitar and bass on the 1999-2002 ‘In the Flesh’ world tour. Fairweather Low rejoined Waters for the ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ tour this year.

Fairweather Low is also a regular member of Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings, the consequence of another relationship that stretches back to the mid-Eighties. Fairweather Low and Wyman first worked together at the Small Faces’ legendary bass player Ronnie Lane’s A.R.M.S. – Action for Research into Multiple Sclerosis – benefit concert at London’s Royal Albert Hall in 1983. It was a charity cause that Wyman revisited in 1985 with Willie & The Poor Boys, a Fifties’ style rock ‘n’ roll concept band featuring Fairweather Low. Since that time Fairweather Low has been frequently involved in Wyman’s projects, most recently touring with the Rhythm Kings in 2005 and the summer of 2006.

But perhaps it was inevitable that one day Fairweather Low would be tempted to return to the studio in his own right.

‘Sweet Soulful Music’ reunited Fairweather Low with producer Glyn Johns and October ‘07 saw Andy touring solo again in the UK with his own all star band containing Chris Stainton – keyboards, Dave Bronze – bass and Paul Beavis – drums. One of the shows was filmed and the resulting DVD is released in June 2008 closely following the TV advertised release of his new album “The Very Best Of Andy Fairweather Low – The Low Rider”.

“The Very Best Of Andy Fairweather Low – The Low Rider” hits the shops on June 2nd and combines all the hits and more. An absolute gem, the title says it all. To coincide with its release Andy and his band, The Low Riders (featuring Dave Bronze ,Paul Beavis and keyboard player Richard Dunn), head out on a major UK tour which also encompasses Cambridge rock, Colne blues, Trowbridge and Glastonbury Festivals.