S.A - Demo

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

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

You saw me.
Washing my fears away.
Blood and tears
Throughout the years
I keep washing them away.

Then I saw you.
Collecting all of my tears.
You hid them away 
In a silent way
And kept coming back for more.

Again and again.

In A Silent Way

Kila Keli - demo

Clown Around - Demo

Original by My Bloody Valentine on the album Loveless (1991)

When You Sleep

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.

Clown Around - Demo

Andrew Van Garratt

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