News:
23-01-2008:
This is Electric Jazz musicians, Curfew performing the Weather Report classic, Birdland. There is some borrowing from the Maynard Ferguson arrangement. Big thanks to Phil Forster for doing all the videoing etc.
Martin Lawrie - keyboards
Nick Andrew - guitar
Steve Marshall - bass/flute
David Bouet -- drums
Birdland (tribute to Joe Zawinul)
An old Curfew favorite from their 1st album, 'Somewhere in the City' played at the Electric Theatre in Guildford.
Sinful
The full band live version of 3 Funk, from the CD Hold the Front Page , performed at the Watermill jazz club in Dorking.
3 Funk
07-01-2007:
Scotlands finest 'High Energy Fusion' band, Mains Jam live at the Bonnar Hall in Dundee around 1993. The band featured Jono Heale-Bass, Stu Milne-drums, Graham "Lord Mungus" Watt-Keys and Nick Andrew.
Mad studio Twister!
Mr Pink/School Days
ECG
12-11-2007:
Nick Andrew and Curfew again. Nick says:
Chick Coreas Spain played by Curfew live at the Electric Theatre in Guildford. It was one of the worst onstage sounds ever as I remember. The drums sound very loud out front, but you couldn't hear them onstage which was wierd!
Spain by Curfew
10-11-2007:
Nick Andrew and the Curfew band. This is the live version of Dance... from the album Hold The Front Page, and it was performed in July 2007 at the Electric Theatre in Guildford in front of literally tens (LOL) of people. Curfew are Martin Lawrie on keys, Steve Marshall on Bass/flute, David Bouet on Drums and Nick Andrew on Guitar.
Dance of the 3 famous Belgians
25-09-2007:
Nick Andrew writing for guitar9 says:
You want to be able to turn heads, bend ears and have your playing on everybody's play lists, not just fill time within your solos or compositions! So here is the idea...here's some tips, mp3 and some tab: Cliche Busting Moves, Part 1
11-09-2007:
Nick Andrew will begin private lessons next week at Hooters in Watford. UK. Lessons will be on Wednesday evening from 6pm. The cost is £15 per half hour and an all you can eat style buffet of guitar knowledge and technique at your command (but strictly no Oasis or Nirvana). Contact Nick on his MySpace for more details: http://www.myspace.com/nickandrewsolo
22-06-2007:
Nick Andrew and Curfew, Guilford Jazz, Saturday Jul 07, 2007 at 7:30 PM
Electric Theatre
Onslow st
Guilford, LO GU14SZ
United Kingdom
They, of course, will be performing a Selection of their most popular sonic fusion adventures, in their unique "Tribal tech meets Weather Report and goes drinking" style. Check out the Curfew websites www.curfew.co.uk and www.myspace.com/curfewjazz for audio samples and to purchase all of their albums! £10.00 (£8.00 concessions) in advance / £11.00 (£9 concessions on the day To book tickets call The Electric Theatre Box Office on 01483 444 789
13-06-2007:
Nick Andrew start his tour today:
Some great fusion lessons posted on alloutguitar.com, with tab and mp3.
fusion 1
fusion 2
fusion 3
03-06-2007:
Some live dates with Nick Andrew. If you get a chance, I would recommend trying to get to see him play.
Jun 13 2007 11:15A Watford College, Masterclass Watford, London and South East
Jun 16 2007 8:00P Party in the Park w/Lee Arron Band Binfield, London and South East
Jun 29 2007 9:00P TheFlower Pot w/Lee Arron Band Walthamstow, London and South East
Jun 30 2007 8:00P Live and Let Live Pub w/Lee Arron Band Guildford
Jul 7 2007 9:00P Electric theatre Guilford w/Curfew Guilford
Jul 14 2007 3:00P The Rose and Crown w/Guilty Party Sandhurst, London and South East
Jul 27 2007 8:00P The Green Man w/Lee Arron Band Chingford
Sep 16 2007 3:00P Kymfest III at the Roadmender (w/Curfew) Northhampton
02-05-2007:
The 22:41 update! Nick Andrew says:
"Flight of the Bumble Blues, Live at the London Guitar show. This is a cut down version of the first track on my solo album, Solo? with a wee bit of Victor Wooten slap half way through for experimentation...The performance is interesting from my point of view as at the time I couldn't hear much because of the noise from other stands. It's strange to actually hear what you played 2 days ago for the first time. Talk about latency! You can also see the fantastic Christoph Godin coming over to the stand to see what all the fuss was about (about 2:50 mins into it). Thanks to the lovely Jendra for giving me the video....ahh I remember it well...thanks to Jendra to!
Flight of the Bumble Blues Live
The 17:50 update! Here is a wee excerpt of Curfew live from the Marlbourough Jazz festival in 2003. The line up is Martin Lawrie (keys), Russ Wilson (drums), Nick Andrew (guitar) and Paul Francis (bass) who was deputising for the regular low end guy, Steve Marshall.
This is just a small snippet of the tune, but you can here the whole thing if you go and buy the latest Curfew album, "Hold the Front Page"
02-05-2007:
You know when you should have bought the CD's...still kicking myself fo not getting them when I had the chance. Nick Andrew says:
This is me playing 3 funk which appears on the 'Hold the Front Page' album by my fusion band Curfew. I had to edit the backing track down to under 5mins to play at the London Guitar show. The song was written at a rehersal when Martin, the keyboard player brought in an old Casio keyboard that he he'd programmed some demos onto (he used to work for Casio). He put one of the demo grooves on and we ended up jamming to it and composed the song almost there and then. It's fun to play because it's in 3/4 and the melody is quite slippery! Anyway, Enjoy!!!!
3 Funk by Curfew
29-04-2007:
I did manage to remember to buy Nick Andrews CD, solo? ! He put on a great show, with his reworking of one of his favourite composers Rimsky-Korsakov's, flight of the bumble bee...Flight Of The Bumble Blues. I really liked his set which had a more fusion feel. note to self...I must buy myself a video camera for people would see what I mean! Highly recommend! Again thanks to alloutguitar.com for assembling so a great line up!(plus they were nice and friendly too!)
26-04-2007:
Nick Andrew will be playing at the
London Guitar Show on the www.alloutguitar.com stand on the 27th , 28th and 29th of April. (this will be the most amazing stand there, with the number of truthinshredding featured players hanging around!)
He will perform a mixture of material from Solo?, Hold the Front Page (Curfew) and maybe a few others at 11:45 on Friday, 1:45 on Saturday and 2:45 on Sunday. Make sure your there to show your support and see if Nick can control his horns!!
Also playing on the stand are Ed Box, Mario Parga, Chris Francis, Ben Mcdonell, Mark Robinson and many more. Oh, there might be some guitars and stuff there as well.
This video features the reknowned Scottish guitar virtuoso, Nick Andrew, demoing what he can do with his Midi guitar setup. Nick plays all instruments live! The tune itself is based on Tower of inspiration by Dave Weckl and is layered using a looper pedal (RC-20) and is played live, but had to be cut because Nick actually played for 28mins and 4 secs. It was actually filmed for alloutguitar.com, an online guitar magazine in the uk. Nick writes the fusion and midi guitar columns.
Background:nick Andrew was born in Scotland. He decided to play the drums, but a After one year of stick banging he decided to devote himself to the guitar. Afer a year of self tuition, he started lessons on classical composition and guitar techniques and later music theory and improvisation.
He attended Perth College gaining experience in recording and sessions. He was involved in the jazz-fusion trio Mains Jam, touring the east coast of Scotland and releasing 2 CDs. As well as teaching full time privately and an active member of the Dundee Guitar Festival Society.
Musical influences inlude: Paganini, Charles Mingus, Jimi Hendrix, Chick Corea, Vivaldi, Rimsky-Korsakov, Martin Taylor, John Goldie, Philip Thorn, Allan Neve, Tom Kirstens and Tony Mcmanus and the Russian composer Nikita Koshkin.
Until 2004 he lectured for Watford college in Guitar and music history and being a senior course tutor.
He also plays with jazz fusioneers Curfew, with a new CD out called "Hold the front Page" which will be available from the Curfew website.
Check out his music and CD
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