S.A - Demo

Certain Way

Clown In The Room  Mix 6 Copy

Red Carpet Day Mix 7 Mastered

Get Away Mix 6

Misunderstood  Mix6

Sally Anne Mix 6

Fly like a dove tail
No one can see when you sail

Look at all the people who entered into your life
Many of the people you lost into the night 

Daydreams taking flight


Take time to ponder
The skyline can be of wonder
Fake smiles to take in
Back handed words sailing in 

Look at all the people who entered into your life
Many of the people you lost into the night 

Its time to move ahead
Try not be mislead yeah

Look at all the people who entered into your life
Many of the people you lost into the night 
Make a choice you can break through
Block it out of sight
Moving forward is the way 
Shivers late at night 

daydreams taking flight

It’s time to move ahead 
Daydreams taking flight
It’s time to move ahead 
Daydreams taking flight

Skyline

Evergreen Girl

Sanity Commission

Don't You Want A Good Vibe (with Shotty 4HF)

Written by Andrew Van Garratt 
Remixed by Shotty 4HF

Time Out (With Shotty 4HF)

I Feel Good Now (But Tommorrow Will Get Me) - Demo

The NME was placed here to test you
To grind you down
To give you unlimited anxiety
To surprise you and provide you with dread

The universe has a way of pushing negative energy in your direction
Thats why some don’t stay still
If you stay in one place it will find you like a magnet
You can’t predict it’s moves as then it won’t be a test

Will Never Go

IN THESE OLD SHOES

THE IMPORTANCE OF IDEAS

ITS EASY TO CHOOSE

Average Connor

ENDLESS TIMES

I never knew what could be said
So many words that where mislead

The gossip’s in your mind

Whoever said that you could be the judge
So many times misunderstood

The gossip’s in you mind

Look at all the hurt you gave me
Still you can not see

I really hope to break the spell
And never feel like this unwell. 

The gossip’s in your mind

Look at all the hurt you gave me
Spreading all those words to strike me
Still You can not see

Look at all the hurt you gave me
Spreading all those words to strike me
Still you can not see

Won’t see
Can’t see

WHOS THE JUDGE

There’s a window in your conscious
It will escape only once

Your on a mission

Do you think you have a lifeline
From your business theres the sign

Your on a mission

Don’t you ever think that things might just improve
Do you approve

In the eighties on a platform
Waiting so long was the norm

Your on a mission

Don’t you ever think that things might just improve
If there is a chance I have the chance to prove
Do you approve

Don’t you ever think that things might just improve
If there is a chance I have the chance to prove
Do you approve
Do you approve
Do you approve

STRAIGHT BACK DIGNITY

Your isolated here
The answer isn’t clear

Yourself 
No help

I tried to find a way
But all you do is stay

Yourself 
No help

Now your suck inside 
You can’t escape
At any rate

The reason you hold too
The truth you wish you knew

Yourself 
No help

Now your suck inside 
You can’t escape
There’s no place to hide
Embrace your fate 

At any rate

YOURSELF

Pictures prove to the world everything is well
Smiling at the angle that you like too sell

It’s easy to chose
It’s easy to lose

Crack the lense your using, but you gave your all
Try your best because you now have found you’re call

It’s easy to chose
It’s easy to lose

The paradigm of the world wont change
So strange

All you want in your life is some peace and quiet
Everywhere that you look seems to be a riot

It’s easy to chose
It’s easy to lose

The paradigm of the world wont change
Your lost in the world so rearrange
So strange

It’s easy to chose
It’s easy to lose

The paradigm of the world wont change
Your lost in the world so rearrange
So Strange

So Strange

EASY TO CHOOSE

BANE PROJECT

I see, you are pushing me
You know, how to act so low

Take you time your
Out of line


So meet, hope the world retreats 
To you, and the names you slew

Take you time your
Out of line

Give it up the other way
Theres nobody else to blame
So don’t say


Take you time your
Out of line

One step, and you fall over
Don’t fret, roll in the clover

SO DON'T SAY

LOST OUR WAY

OI GUITAR

IT TAKES A WHILE TO REALISE

CAN'T DECIDE (MURPHYS LAW)

Weary

Sell AV

Suez Canal Side

“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


ONE FINE DAY

#getmoreplays

Fall Apart

“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

#getmoreplays

One Fine Day

“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

On the rooftop watch the sky
See the day drop from up high
See the day glow up ahead
Watch it wither when unfed

So we need to find a better frame of mind
Caught up in this race you’ll fall behind

Life’s a river, watch the flow
Never fight it, you should know
Catch the whirlwind if you can
Never lose it in your plan

So we need to find a better frame of mind
Caught up in this race you’ll fall behind
Open up, you might find

So we need to find a better frame of mind
Somewhere calm that can treat you kind
Need to find a better frame of mind
Caught up in this race you’ll fall behind, fall behind

At The End

Andy was signed to Atlantic Records and had significant airplay on MTV and Radio 1 with his old band, No Hope In New Jersey. This culminated in a main-stage performance at the V Festival. When the band split, Andy was at a loss, but one day he received a parcel from his uncle: the biography of Jimi Hendrix. The days Hendrix spent as a sideman fascinated Andy, and inspired him to learn more about his craft as a musician. This was the start of eight years’ apprenticeship playing various styles of music in bands all over the world.

In 2015,  his apprenticeship over, he decided to stay, and work on his own material.

This resulted in 7 albums. Work Of Fiction and Dedicated to Nobody.

Work Of Fiction contains 9 songs which were featured on BBC Introducing and one song featured on a playstation advert. 

Dedicated To Nobody contains 4 BBC Introducing tracks of the week. The songs “Fall Apart”, “One Fine Day” and “Get Up” where picked by BBC Radio Leicester and subsequently featured on the Ben Jackson Morning Show. Each track getting a play everyday for a week.

The songs “Steal” and “Hey Into The Void” also made it onto the Fresh On The Net LP. Over 200 songs were submitted by other artists. “Steal” and “Hey Into The Void” made the top 25 on different weeks.

“Hey Into Void” subsequently featured on the Tom Robinson BBC 6 Introducing Mixtape where Tom himself picks his favourite tracks and it also became a Northampton BBC Introducing track of the week.

In addition to the above the songs “Approval Removal”, “1985” and “Standard Affair” also got played on the regular BBC Introducing show.

In April 2020  “I Don’t Know” became BBC Introducing track of the week. This version wasn’t included on “Dedicated to Nobody”, so we decided to create an EP with 3 more new songs to compliment it. These songs were recorded straight after the Work of Fiction sessions in 2018 and they found a home on the V Sides EP. 2020 has been a busy year for releases. August 1st 2020 saw the release of another EP called Silencer. It brings together 5 alt rock recordings focusing on the heavier side of things.

To date, songs from Andrew Van Garratt have been played on BBC Introducing 18 times, “Capital D” has been featured in the TV show Doctors, and “Invaders” from his previous band No Hope In New Jersey has been featured in Top Gear, and Blue Peter. Recently his new songs have featured on an advert for Nissan and a trailer for PlayStation.

Andrew Van Garratt

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