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TANDY HARD

Tandy Hard’s year

December 22, 2009
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Do you know, I was rather impressed by the riffs in the Manic’s album. Shame about all the shouting.

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greenman 2009

June 7, 2009
Greenman 2009

We’re very pleased to announce that our good friend Mary Hampton will be playing for the second straight year at the Greenman Festival in the Glanusk Park Estate. We all went along to play as the Drift Collective band last year and had a hell of a lot of fun in the Welsh countryside… lets [...]

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Tandy Hard - RSD 09

April 8, 2009
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1. Which Indie Record Shop did you grow up with?
MAGPIE records in Worcester. Sadly closed many years ago. I continued to buy all my (new) records there even after I moved to Devon, It was pretty dirty but they had interesting arrays of exotic coloured vinyls of many and varied shape. I must have [...]

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Dead Ringer for Love

November 6, 2008
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Although apparently Meat Loaf will personally ‘rough up’ anyone who covers one of his songs (not that he wrote it necessarily) Drift’s Tandy Hard had the audacity to do so with a belting cover of “Dead Ringer for Love”. (That is on his myspace page)
Featuring the lovely Jane Bartholomew the track was featured on this [...]

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Hurricane EP and live dates

October 19, 2008
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Tandy Hard, whose eponymous debut LP was released in September to critical acclaim – pitched somewhere between Richard Hawley, Jarvis Cocker, Edwyn Collins (with whispers of songwriter’s holy trinity of Cohen, Dylan and Cave), this wry little gem of pop can still be bought through our online shop… but HOLD ON!!!!
It doesn’t end there as [...]

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Interview : The Forgotten Art of Songwriting

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Few records last month made such a spectacular impression on the Fresh Deer Meat editorial team as Tandy Hard’s delightfully bittersweet self-titled debut. Sounding in parts like the missing link between Scott Walker and Edwyn Collins, Tandy Hard’s (aka Andrew Willis’s) passion seemed fuelled by the classic songwriters of our age. FDM opted to sit [...]

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