A SONGMAKER'S TALE - Andy Whittle

Folkwit Records (f0019)

CD Album - £7.99(GBP) + P&P

Track list:

Safety Shots
Ten Thousand Miles
Kerb Stones Blue
Paper Cups
Come The Morning
Broken Glass
The Last One
November
Friendly Fire
Spider’s Web
Russian Song
Angels Dressed In Black

"A Songmaker's Tale shows it's predecessor was no fluke. Andy's skills in both emotional and political songwriting have been honed to the point that their sharpness cuts bone. "Friendly Fire" is as good an anti-war song as you'll find anywhere and "Spider's Web" is simply thought provoking. ." 

- Cambridge & Beyond

Live Review - Phoenix Arts Centre - May 2008
"Nottingham singer-songwriter Andy Whittle is something of an undiscovered gem, with two excellent albums to his credit and a third on the way, which judging by the songs previewed in this set will easily match them. Whereas on album he is happy to use big productions and sounds, live he stripped it right back to just him and his guitar, with some occasional bass and delicate backing vocals from Rebecca Dawson. This brings the words to the fore and, delivered in his tender and expressive voice the overall effect is amazingly moving. Self-effacing to a fault he frequently loses himself completely in the songs, as indeed do the audience.

Highlights amongst a set full of them include “Friendly Fire”, a fine addition to the ranks of anti-war songs, given slightly spooky resonance by the fact that his cousin was killed in Afghanistan a short while after he wrote the song. An insistent, urgent beat drives a song of real passion and anger. The anthemic “Come the Morning” provokes a bit of a singalong, no mean achievement for 12.30 in the afternoon, and the poignant “Ten Thousand Miles”, about a girlfriend moving to Australia and the consequences thereof, stands tall despite Whittles dry observation at the start that now she’s moved back again so the song doesn’t quite work now. It does for the audience though, as indeed does everything else from a performer who is undoubtedly a major name in the making."

- Jeremy Searle

OLD FASHIONED DREAM - Andy Whittle

Folkwit Records (f0008)

CD Album - £7.99(GBP) + P&P

Track list:

Apple Tree
Dragon Fly
Flash In The Pan
Old Fashioned Dream
Heads Or Tails
Take Your Time
Tell Me Everything You know
Break The Line
Myself & Myself
Lucky Stars
Suddenly
Pass Me By
What's Left Of The Day

“Simply mesmerising” – Nottingham Evening Post

"Old Fashioned Dream is a great album, not just for a debut, but by anyone's standards." - Cambridge & Beyond

“ Andy Whittle is an optimistic Nick Drake, a young Neil Young” – Folkroddels ( Belgium )