Nothing In The World

Nobody Is Free

No Simpatico

The Answer

In Your Bubble

Make Things Right

Big Lips

Words

Agree No More

At One

Steal

“All you have to do is learn a good dance”

This song was born from a riff i had in the No Hope In New Jersey days. It reemerged when me and Dave went into the studio many years later and made a recording of it at Wong Studios. It got played on BBC Introducing, but i always thought it could be improved upon, so years later i brought it into the studio at Far Heath and me, Dave and Karl recorded it again. I wanted to make it more concise and punchy. I showed the song to my uncle and he said “Andy where’s the guitar solo”, so i went back in the studio and did a solo. 

The song eventually made it onto the Fresh On The Net LP.
Credits

Song by Andrew Van Garratt

Vocals, guitars and added dropped D bass in chorus  by Andrew Van Garratt

Bass by David Dhonue

Drums by Karl Thompson

Produced and Mastered by Angus Wallace at Far Heath

Steal

1985

“If you could take me back to 1985”

I wrote this song on a cruise ship. I did a short fill in contract. Luckily i had my own cabin and started writing this song. It was inspired by watching the season 1 of Cobra Kai and it’s soundtrack of 80s rock music. I wanted to do a guitar solo like Steve Lukather and a song with a similar vibe to Beat It. 

I originally went to Karl’s house and we recorded the drums at his, but in his mind it was only a demo. I did everything else at mine. 

I thought the song had potential so i sent my stems over to my mate Ziggy Sullivan, a very talented musician and producer. I thought nothing of it, then a few months he sent me a rough mix with a couple of neat edits. I thought it was great. He then suggested changing my original chorus lyrics to revolve around the word 1985, as this would suit the 80s feel of the track. I rerecorded the chorus vocal and altered the melody abit. Ziggy really knows how to catch and plant a hook. 

The song got played on BBC Introducing with Dean Jackson.

Credits

Song by Andrew Van Garratt and Ziggy Sullivan

Vocals, backing vocals, bass and guitar by  Andrew Van Garratt

Drums by Karl Thompson

Keyboards, Backing Vocals, Effects and Production by Ziggy Sullivin

1985

Standard Affair

“Internal Validation”

The seeds of the chorus came from an idea i had in No Hope In New Jersey. But the song got completely changed around. I see the song as a mix of Fire by Kasabian and Lithium by Nirvana. 

The song was featured on Northampton BBC Introducing.

Credits

Song by Andrew Van Garratt

Vocals, guitars and by Andrew Van Garratt

Bass by David Dhonue

Drums by Karl Thompson

Produced and mastered by Angus Wallace

Standard Affair

Fall Apart

“But those days we gave”

This song was a look back at when i was in No Hope In New Jersey. We were signed and on the brink of making it. Essentially we didn’t and got dropped. The song was musically inspired by The Smiths , Neil Young and The Super Furry Animals. The song became a Leicester BBC Music Introducing track of the week and was played each morning for one week on the Ben Jackson Morning Show back in May 2018. 

Credits

Song by Andrew Van Garratt

Vocals, guitars and piano by Andrew Van Garratt

Bass by David Dhonue

Drums by Karl Thompson

Produced and mastered by Angus Wallace
Andrew Van Garratt was formerly signed to Atlantic Records with the band No Hope In New Jersey as singer, guitar player and main songwriter.

He has now released 2 solo albums called Work Of Fiction and Dedicated To Nobody. He has had 18 songs played on BBC Introducing including 5 tracks of the week and a play on Tom Robinsons BBC 6 Mixbag program. He has had his music featured on Top Gear and adverts for Nintendo and Nissan.

For more info please visit andrewvangarratt.com

Fall Apart

One Fine Day

“One fine day, I am told it wasn’t mean’t to be”

The “One Fine Day” is the day we got dropped by Atlantic. At the time i didn’t realise the impact it would have. I thought, i will get signed again no problem. But it all unravelled and my life in Manchester came to an end. 

The song was inspired by mid 60s jangly pop. The Beatles, The Byrds and The Who. This song also became a Leicester BBC Music Introducing track of the week and was played each morning for one week on the Ben Jackson Morning Show back in Oct 2018. 

Credits

Song by Andrew Van Garratt

Vocals, guitars and piano by Andrew Van Garratt

Bass by David Dhonue

Drums by Karl Thompson

Produced and mastered by Angus Wallace

One Fine Day

Hey Into The Void

I heard John Lennon was inspired by The Tibetan Book Of The Dead while he was writing Tomorrow Never Knows. So i started to delve into the book and started writing songs. I was also listening to The Prodigy at the time. I wrote about 10 songs and this one originally was called Hey, Between The Living, but layer i changed it “Hey, Into The Void’. Originally Tomorrow Never Knows was called “The Void”. 

The song was featured on The Fresh On The Net LP, Tom Robinson’s BBC Introducing Mixtape and became a Northampton BBC Introducing track of the week on Jan 13th 2020

Credits

Song by Andrew Van Garratt

Vocals, guitars, bass and original drum programming by Andrew Van Garratt

Guitars, drum programming and production by Stumagru

Mastered by Angus Wallace
Andrew Van Garratt was formerly signed to Atlantic Records with the band No Hope In New Jersey as singer, guitar player and main songwriter.

He has now released 2 solo albums called Work Of Fiction and Dedicated To Nobody. He has had 18 songs played on BBC Introducing including 5 tracks of the week and a play on Tom Robinsons BBC 6 Mixbag program. He has had his music featured on Top Gear and adverts for Nintendo and Nissan.

For more info please visit andrewvangarratt.com

#AndrewVanGarratt #DedicatedToNobody #offical #heyintothevoid

Hey, Into The Void

Approval Removal

“Learn to form defence”

At the time of writing this song i was teaching Blackbird by The Beatles and started to experiment with those sort of chord voicing. The song eventually became very much like The Left Bank and The Kinks. Lyrically i was introduced to the concept of self actualisation. For too many years i find we seek constant approval of what we are doing by other people. With this song i was trying to remove that. 

The song got played by Dean Jackson on Leicester’s BBC Introducing. He also mentioned the song when he introduced the song 1985 a few months later. I think he liked it

Credits

Song by Andrew Van Garratt

Vocals, guitars, acoustic guitars and keyboards by Andrew Van Garratt

Bass by David Dhonue

Drums by Karl Thompson

Produced and mastered by Angus Wallace

Approval Removal

Get Up

“Look at life from another lense”

I had just bought Addictive Drums to write demos with. The default beat was a funk beat. So i started with that. I was also inspired by the song Colours by Beck. The song came in one evening after teaching guitar on a Monday evening. The song is about looking at life through another lense. I eventually went to Stumagro’s studio up in Castleford and we recorded the song there. We did it all in a day. The song became BBC Radio Leicester track of the week on Jan 20th 2020. I was invited into the studio and had an interview with Ben Jackson on his morning show. Subsequently the song got played each morning of that week.  

Credits

Song by Andrew Van Garratt

Vocals, guitars and bass by Andrew Van Garratt

Production and extra ideas by Stu Magru

Mastered by Angus Wallace

Get Up

Headswell

“Hey Yeah”

A last minute addition to the album. This song is recalling memories of times in the university cafeteria. I have memories of the drama students using the cafeteria as a platform to perform also. Everybody got to know there business even if we didn’t want to know. 

I was asked by BBC Radio Leicester to record a cover version of SkyFall by Adele for a Xmas show they had planned. So we went back in the studio and recorded my arrangement of the song. I upped the tempo and added a few choice guitar solos, Karl said seeing that we are here lets record another song. Musically the song was influenced by The Vines. 

The song featured on Stu Reeves HFM Rock Show, Stu’s been a great supporter of ours. 

Credits

Song by Andrew Van Garratt

Vocals, guitar and bass by Andrew Van Garratt

Drums by Karl Thompson

Produced and mastered by Angus Wallace

Headswell

Solstice Day

“Keep the darkness at bay”

I am heavily effected by the changes of the season, so i take note of the change. The genesis of this song came to me on the morning of the photo shoot i did for the album cover of Work Of Fiction. I was staying in a Air BnB in Manchester. 

Musically i wanted to combine the doom and gloom of Winter in the verse’s with abit more optimism in the choruses. A mix of Black Sabbath, The Beatles and Nirvana. 

Credits

Song by Andrew Van Garratt

Vocals and guitars by Andrew Van Garratt

Bass by Dave Dhonue

Drums by Karl Thompson

Engineered by Angus Wallace

Production, edit, extra instruments, effects, backing vocals and final mix by Ziggy Sullivin

Solstice Day

I Don’t Know

“One day i hope to know” 

I was listening to some of John Lennon’s solo material and was interested in a rising chord pattern he used which had an augmented chord as a passing chord. While i was writing the song i had a photo of the grandfather i never knew looking at me. I wondered if he approved of the way i had lived my life so far. 

I sent over the original stem’s to Ziggy and we shortened the song and this gave it more compact. He likened the song to some Jeff Lynn’s solo material and ELO. Jeff Lynn also helped produce Free A Bird and Real Love, some old John Lennon demos. So musically Ziggy spotted where i was coming from. He added some great string parts, backing vocals and played piano on the song. 

Credits

Song by Andrew Van Garratt

Vocals and guitars by Andrew Van Garratt

Bass by Dave Dhonue

Drums by Karl Thompson

Engineered by Angus Wallace

Production, edit, extra instruments, effects, backing vocals and final mix by Ziggy Sullivin

I Don't Know

Romance, Opus 1

I wanted to write a piece of music like Beethoven’s 2nd movement in his 7th Symphony. I have always admired Beethoven but always felt intimidated to write music inspired by him. I sat down and finished this piece of music one Friday evening with my synth keyboard. I sent over the stem track to StuMagro and he added some great production to the track

Originally i titled the piece Wisdom Both Ways but thought it needed a more poignant title. I thought the piece sounded romantic so thought Romance should be in the title as I had heard the song “Goodbye To Romance” by Ozzy Osbourne earlier in the day. The piece was my first attempt at an orchestrated filmic piece so deserved the title of Opus 1. 

Song by Andrew Van Garratt

Keyboards and Synths by Andrew Van Garratt

Production by Stumagru

Mastered by Angus Wallace

Regards

Andy

Romance, Opus 1

Road Rage

“Do you have a problem?”

The seeds of this song grew from a conversation i heard between 2 motorist’s. They were at a gridlock. I heard the phrase’s “Do you have a problem?” and “I am serious”. I thought i would write a song using those lines. Tom Robinson from BBC6 music had written a nice quote about “ Hey, Into The Void”, so i thought i would attempt another drums and bass tune. 

Credits

Song by Andrew Van Garratt

Vocals, guitars and bass by Andrew Van Garratt

Production and extra ideas by Stu Magru

Mastered by Angus Wallace

Road Rage

Get Up Get Up Get Up Get Down
I don’t want to feel this way again
Get Up Get Up Get Up Get Down
I don’t want to feel this way again

Look at life from another lense
Take a step with another sense
You can look here within you
Look in within you now

I just want to be with the sound
You just want to move forward from the ground
Theres a movement for a moment for now

Get Up Get Up Get Up Get Down
I don’t want to feel this way again
Get Up Get Up Get Up Get Down
I don’t want to feel this way again

I don’t want to feel this way again

Look at life from the other side
Take a step back and take the ride
You can feel here within you
Feel it within you now

I just want to be with the sound
You just want to move forward from the ground
Theres a movement for a moment for now

Get Up Get Up Get Up Get Down
I don’t want to feel this way again
Get Up Get Up Get Up Get Down
I don’t want to feel this way again

Take a look around
What was it you found
What was better really was not sound

Theres a movement for a moment for now

Get Up Get Up Get Up Get Down
I don’t want to feel this way again
Get Up Get Up Get Up Get Down
I don’t want to feel this way again


Get Up Get Up Get Up Get Down
I don’t want to feel this way again
Get Up Get Up Get Up Get Down
I don’t want to feel this way again
I don’t want to feel this way again
Andrew Van Garratt was formerly signed to Atlantic Records with the band No Hope In New Jersey as singer, guitar player and main songwriter.

He has now released 2 solo albums called Work Of Fiction and Dedicated To Nobody. He has had 18 songs played on BBC Introducing including 5 tracks of the week and a play on Tom Robinsons BBC 6 Mixbag program. He has had his music featured on Top Gear and adverts for Nintendo and Nissan.

For more info please visit andrewvangarratt.com

Heres the single 1985 with artwork and lyrics

As featured on BBC Radio Leicester Introducing

1985

If we could take art back to 1985

Don’t look at me
Don’t talk to me
We should be fine
Avoid my sign 

Everywhere i want to take a walk 
Every time your there

If we could take it back to 1985
If we could take it back to when i felt alive
If we could take it back when time was on our side

So take me back to life in 1985

That was fun, was that fun

Don’t flick my face
My mind displaced
Agressive stance
With just one dance

Everywhere i want to take a walk 
Every time your there

If we could take it back to 1985
If we could take it back to when i felt alive
If we could take it back when time was on our side

So take me back to life in 1985

Deny its wrong
You can see
it won’t be long
Till you leave

Everywhere i want to take a walk 
Every time your there

If we could take it back to 1985
If we could take it back to when i felt alive
If we could take it back when time was on our side

So take me back to life in 1985

That was fun
That was fun
Was that fun

A BBC Introducing Track Of The Week

When you feel you can't go on
When you feel you times gone wrong
Even when you tried so hard
Even when you know its gone

Days when life can bring you down
Now you let it come around
Now you say you can't be sure
You say you can't take much more

One fine day 
I am told it wasn’t meant to be 
One fine day 
I found I am not like them but like me 

Now I know I am rest assured
Now i know your getting bored
When theres nothing left to say
Why don’t you say it anyway

One fine day

One fine day 
I am told it wasn’t meant to be 
One fine day 
I found I am not like them but like me 

There will always be a little hole in my heart it shows
There will always be regret inside me will it go

When you feel cant go on
When you feel life's gone wrong
When you feel cant go on
When you feel times gone wrong

Gone wrong, 
Gone Wrong, 
Ohh ohh
Andrew Van Garratt was formerly signed to Atlantic Records with the band No Hope In New Jersey as singer, guitar player and main songwriter.

He has now released 2 solo albums called Work Of Fiction and Dedicated To Nobody. He has had 18 songs played on BBC Introducing including 5 tracks of the week and a play on Tom Robinsons BBC 6 Mixbag program. He has had his music featured on Top Gear and adverts for Nintendo and Nissan.

For more info please visit andrewvangarratt.com

#Andrewvangarratt #workoffiction #official

Heres the Stumagru mix and master of Roadrage

"Do you have a problem?"

Road Rage (Stumagru Mix and Master)

Andrew Van Garratt was formerly signed to Atlantic Records with the band No Hope In New Jersey as singer, guitar player and main songwriter.

He has released two solo albums which have had 18 songs played on BBC Introducing including 5 tracks of the week and a play on Tom Robinsons BBC 6 Mixbag program. He has also had his music featured on Top Gear and adverts for Nintendo and Nissan.

Andrew Van Garratt

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