Andy has sung Rock, Blues, Folk and Country and has even been known to appear in the occasional musical (Oh, What a Lovely War! – Guys and Dolls – Singing in the Rain). but he started at the tender age of 13 (the innocent little cherub bottom left).

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That happy bunch above was Group 4, Cornwall´s answer to the Seekers - the original ones, not the Coca Cola advert ones.  Group 4 had a short recording career - 1  record - before a security firm took their name, Andy´s voice broke and the girls went off to University.

 

Andy says he started writing his own songs in the early days of Folk Clubs when every performer had their set list taped to the top of their guitar and crossed off their potential numbers as the singers before them stole their thunder. One performer announcing his intention to sing “Streets of London” would see every singer in the room striking that number from their set-list. Andy figured that if he wrote his own songs he could relax, safe in the knowledge that, no matter how bad the song, no-one else would be singing it!

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Andy appeared on TV singing his song "Fields of Crosses" for Armistice Day on "Look North" - the evening news programme based in Newcastle. It was so long ago that he was introduced as "young singer/songwriter, Andy Harding"

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The song was picked up by a BBC producer and used in a documentary about WW1 which was, evidently, shown around the world. The royalties stopped coming in a long time ago.

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