He recorded it all at Kingsley Ward's Rockfield studio in Wales, with drummer Paul Beavis providing the healthiest of heartbeats for this new body of Andy's work. Wobei es sich bei FLANG DANG, wie die Briten sagen, um einen "acquired taste" handelt - man muss sich dran gewöhnen. I was due to be at the studio with another band when Andy was actually recording this fabulous album.

If there is a certificate we’ve missed out on then it’s probably for a 50 metre swim badge at the local swimming baths. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Now with this new album other than Paul Beavis on drums its all AFL, and is one of those albums you'll never stop playing certtainly more great songs, all eleven of them here. Fairweather Low comes at you straight out of the gates with Waiting On The Up; a neat and tidy song about ‘still waiting for success’ which I presume to be ‘tongue in cheek’ and the poppy gait reminds me of any or all Nick Lowe songs; but with the addition of Andy’s distinctive vocals which haven’t changed a tiny bit since the mid 60’s.Never a huge singles collector I also bought Andy Fairweather Low’s 45, Wide Eyed and Legless; and that’s probably where our paths ceased to cross until now.

Dabei koppelt Fairweather sofort beim Rock'n'Roll "Waiting On The Top" seine Akustische derart pfiffig mit verzerrten Licks, dass man eine komplette Horn-Sektion zu hören glaubt! Genauer gesagt, man konnte sich jahrelang ans Verwöhnen gewöhnen, wenn AFL auf seinem letzten Studiowerk ZONE-O-TONE Nick Pentelows Sax und Klarinette, Paul Carracks Hammond, Dave Bronzes elastischen Contra-Bass und dazu einen Bläsersatz an den Start brachte, mit Sousaphone, Trompete, Euphonium und Posaune. I asked Paul (Beavis), The Low Riders’ drummer if he’d come and sort of duplicate the drum patterns that I had, and he said yes, and off we went.Auf seinem brandneuen Studioalbum FLANG DANG - in herrlicher Wortwitztradition von LA BOOGA ROOGA oder MEGA SHEBANG - zelebriert er diese und andere frische Kompositionen jedoch fast im Alleingang: zurückgekehrt in die Waliser Rockfield-Studios, in denen er bereits Ende der Sixties unter anderem mit Dave Edmunds zauberte. Flang Dang is Andy's first solo album since 2006 - After an interval of sixteen years, here he is again at his sweet and soulful musical best with the kind of record that will surely delight his fans.