Hello all!

You can catch me at various other weblinks, to chat bass, listen to bass lines and say hello!

Catch me at myspace to chat bass and music, or say hello!

www.myspace.com/andytillsessionbassplayer

Visit me at Youtube

http://www.youtube.com/andytillbassguitar

Other Bass related weblinks of interest

www.paulmccartney.com

www.pinopalladino.co.uk

It would be great to see other bass players websites, if you want to post any bass websites it would be great to learn about new and other bass players!

Thanks again for reading,

Andy

Andy Till is a Manchester based professional bass guitarist. Andy is experienced in touring, travel, live performance, studio, recording and music media.

Andy has spent the last ten years playing bass guitar, an instrument he started to play at fourteen, but took up and had a serious interest from the age of nineteen.
Before Andy’s bass career Andy was a drummer for Nine years working on a drumming career, but after taking up the bass guitar made the switch and has been playing bass and enjoying the life of been a bass player.

Starting out at nineteen on bass Andy joined various Northwest cover bands before moving on to working with an origional band gigging and writing material, looking for a record deal. After this period of time Andy joined a few bands working semi – pro and moved to playing various venues and clubs.

After a period of time working with the semi – pro bands Andy joined full time established touring bands and acts working through out the UK playing the professional venues, events, festivals and Live music venues.

From the full time touring bands Andy has carved a career working as a freelance session bass player.
Andy has toured with various live bands hired in to cover for bass players working on the road, playing recored bass lines and also performing origional music and doing promotional tours for a chart single, origional band promotions and working with the working bands.

Andy is also exeperienced in working in the studio and doing various recording sessions, recording bass on various origional CD albums and promotional CD’s.
Andy has also worked on recording bass lines already written, but also worked on sessions writing with bands and writing bass parts and arrangements.

Along with Andy’s bass playing, Andy has spent a number of years working as a Televison Background artiste and working in media.
Andy has took his media experienced and started to take his Bass playing into featuring on music videos, music photo assignments and music televison, Andy is experienced as a bass player in front of the camera for various promotional work and music features and video’s.
Andy has also been succesfull doing interviews and various music articles about his bass playing and advice for bass players starting out as a professional musician.

Andy Bass influences come from a hand full of players from Paul Mccartney of the Beatles, Bruce Foxton from The Jam, Phil H Mitchell from Dr Feelgood, James Jamers from Motown, Herbie Flowers session player and session bass player Pino Palladino.

Andy loves all music and will give various styles of music a listen, His personal taste in music comes from Motown, Paul Mccartney, The Jam, Stax, The Who, The Hollies, Oasis, The Love Affaite, The Selecter and Dr Feelgood to mention a few.

Andy’s bass playing is influenced mainley by Pop, Rock, Reggae, Ska, Swing and has a love for the famous bass lines that have been created over the years that people know and love.
The main thing is the music and making people dance!

With a great groove and feel, Andy plays for your music live and in the studio, Playing recorded bass lines live with bands of all kinds on the road, Andy has 10 years experience in bass playing and working in music.

Work credits include:

JC & THE GROOVE Touring band,

PP & the Floorshakers,
Touring Band.

Alternative Influence,
Touring, Recording, Writing, Television & Film.

George Agan,
Singer songwriter, Studio work, recording
debut CD, filming music video’s, Photo shoots.

The Deadbeats,
Touring Band.

MamaRoux,
Touring Band.

Definitely Mightbe,
Touring Oasis Tribute.

Adorded,
Stone Roses Tribute

The Replicators,
Function Band.

The Jamm,
The Jam Tribute Touring.

The Kommitments,
Touring Commitments Tribute, Soul Band.

Groove Nation,
Touring band.

Seven Days,
Professional band.

Elbowroom,
Professional Band.

Jimmy Cricket,
Comic.

Mr Methane,
Comic.

Ronan Keating, support

The Animals, support

The Love Affaire, support

The Selecter, support

The Weather girls, support

Heatwave, support

Andy has performed at many venues from small venues and functions to festivals,
live music events and live music venues.

Andy has worked on events The Pop Party Tour’s, Festival’s of the 60’s, 70’s, Soul & Motown festivals, Live unsigned festivals, Dawen Music festival, Manchester United Football Stadium, Leister Walker stadium, Events and performances at Oxford, Manchester, Sheffield, London, Cambridge universitys, Bistro Live chain, Butlins, Warners, Chicago Rock, Jumpin Jaks, Old Trafford Cricket Club, Dublin Castle Camden, London, Lincoln Drill Hall, Manchester Hilton, Royal Victoria Sheffield, Buxton Opera House, various UK Theatres and Blues festivals, Tour of the Netherlands and Germany and many more.

Music Media credits. (As bass Guitarist)

George Agan music video’s for www.georgeagan.com
and studio tracks:

George Agan It’s my way music video 2007

George Again Running for your time video 2007

George Agan Get off your feet video 2007

Alternative Influence Live at Satans Hollow Manchester
Live DVD 2006.

Alternative Influence Take a look inside music video
2006.

PP & The Floorshakers Live at Showcall Showcase, Barry Stardust
Theatre. Live DVD 2003.

PP & The Floorshakers Blackpool 2005, Live DVD.

Alternative Influence Live at Satans Hollow Manchester
Live DVD 2006.

Alternative Influence Take a look inside music video
2006.

PP & The Floorshakers Live at Showcall Showcase, Barry Stardust
Theatre. Live DVD 2003.

PP & The Floorshakers Blackpool 2005, Live DVD.

Bubble Hits TV 2006.

Hello Magazine, Media work

George Agan photo shoot for debut CD – Album

Music photo Shoot for David Lloyd

BBC 1

ITV

Channel Four

Andy Till 2008.

Andy has been working with singer George Agan on his second studio CD with the guys down at L.P Studios Stockport.

Andy has recorded bass on all the EP’s four tracks:

1. In this Town

2. PC

3. Younger Then

4. Don’t Look Back

The tracks have a differn’t sound to Georges previous work, listen to the tracks on-line by visiting the link below or contact PlayloudPR@googlemail.com for all info on the EP and Georges live dates.

Listen online to the e.p @ www.myspace.com/georgeagan

Andy has been playing bass for Manchester Singer George Agan, Performing on Georges two studio recordings, Georges first CD and his second Coming home e.p. All news and relases can be found at www.georgeagan.com or you can listen online at www.myspace.com/georgeagan
George has been making a name as a performer and a songwriter around the Northwest and getting great reviews, radio plays and now George and his band are hitting the live venues.
 

Andy has featured on George’s Music Video’s.

See Georges website for more and all info!

George Agan music Video’s recorded @ Big Fish Manchester 2007.

For more Info on George and to get a copy of Georges CD’s Contact Play Loud Publishing @ Georges Website www.georgeagan.com

The Life of a Session Musician – By Claire Robinson

Most bands at some time or another need a session musician for a range of reasons, it could be a member of the band is sick and can’t perform, that they need a fuller sound in the studio, or that they want a bigger instrumental section on tour. Whatever the reason when they call in a session musician they want someone who can hit the ground running and do a good job at the same time. Session Musicians in effect are the contract staff of the music world. We decided to find out what makes a session musician tick so I’ve had a chat with Andy Till session musician.

Claire: How did you get into session work?
Andy: I started out as the bassist in a soul & Motown / party band called PP & The Floorshakers touring professionally around the U.K. After three or so years I made te move to do more freelance work, doing live sessions with various professional touring bands. I made quite a few contacts meeting other musicians/bands and I’ve been contacted when they need a session bass player and approached for a lot of the work live touring, studio and writing work.
Before becoming professional I was semi-pro doing pubs and clubs, I knew I wanted to become a session player and freelance playing with various different bands and playing lot’s of different styles of music when I was starting out as a bass player.

Claire: Would you say it is lucrative work?

Andy: Yes, it is lucrative work, depending on who you play with, at what level and if you’re a session musician who writes and gets royalties. I make enough at the level I session at within the professional bands, tribute bands, function and working bands.
Sometimes it varies from session to session and what bands can afford to pay. I’m happy making enough and feel very fortunate and lucky to make music my full time living. Although I’m always working on getting the more lucrative work all the time, that kind of work is normally with the big name players.

Claire: You must have made some famous contacts, can you tell us about one or two of them?

Andy: I’ve made contacts and worked with great musicians who have session-ed with some great names from popular music John Lennon, Brian Ferry, The Nolan’s, Freddie and the dreamers, The Love Affaire, Jimmy James and others.

Claire: Do you find yourself working with the same musicians time and again?

Andy: I do work with a lot of the same musicians, I have also made some great friends along the way! There is a pool of session musicians I tend to work with a lot, although there are a lot of different musicians turning up and playing all the time. It changes though, I can work with the same musicians a lot and others I’ll work with on a one off session then not work with them again.

Claire: How about funny/memorable moments? Any you would like to share?

Andy: The most funny and memorable… doing session work in a live backing band doing a UK tour in an old Ford transit van one winter. It was freezing sleeping in this transit van going around the country with a backing band. I find it funny as people think being a musician and working in show business is glamorous, if only they experienced those four weeks in a transit! I will always find that a memorable time!
Another funny moment walking on stage and falling in the pit, it hurt, but was a funny one for the other musicians!
Looking back there is always something to make you smile in this job.

Claire: There must be bad things about it though?

Andy: Breaking down on the motorway at six in the morning on the way to a session/gig, although I got to the gig on time in the end!
The worst things are mainly things like late nights followed by early mornings and when things go wrong on the road!

Claire: One for the budding session players out there…what sort of person suits your line of work?

Andy: A people person is good at this type of work who gets on well with everyone as you meet a lot of different people, someone who turns up on time, plays well and plays what is asked; basically an all round great player. If it’s doing live session work and touring someone who can travel long hours, handle late nights and early mornings. Someone with a good professional attitude and manner and doesn’t mind staying away from home from time to time.

So there we have it, a bit of insight into the world of being a session musician! Thanks to Andy for taking time out to speak with me. If you want to know more about the life of a session player Andy’s website is a good place to start www.andytill.com.