The story of the live album begins with the friendship between Andy and legendary UK producer John Leckie (‘The Bends’, Muse, Roy Harper, Baba Maal). The two met at one of Peter Gabriel’s recording weeks at Real World Studios in Bath after a WOMAD festival. The two hit it off personally and professionally, with John mixing and producing many of Andy’s recordings (including the recent ‘AT’ album with Tim Finn). and spending many hours together, talking and telling stories in studios and at shows. After one of Andy’s concerts John told him he wanted to buy an album of what he had just heard. A solo album recorded live. No band. No overdubs. “Where are we going to record it?” “The best-sounding room in the world.” “Err … where’s that?” “Abbey Road Studio 2.” On July 14, 2023, Andy and John met at Abbey Road. John got his first job there in 1970. Andy had listened to records recorded there and looked at pictures taken there since he was a kid. Giles Martin was driving out as they drove in. Andy brought three guitars and an amp. John organised everything and when he took Andy down the stairs into Studio 2, told him to stop and smell the room. Nothing had changed since those great records had been recorded, and that is exactly what it smelled like. John had asked Andy to write his best set list. In the afternoon they recorded the first half, in the evening a small group of friends and family arrived, and they recorded the second. You can see the pictures on the sleeve, you can hear the room on the record. They went to the café afterwards and sat talking under the photos of Peter Sellers and Sophia Loren, Cilla and the Beatles. Andy said goodbye and walked across the crossing on the way to the hire car. It was done. The double-CD set has both evening and afternoon sessions. The vinyl LP has the evening session and a download code for both sessions. The live show will feature songs from throughout Andy’s songwriting career from ‘Religious Persuasion’ and ‘James Joyce’s Grave’ to ‘Italian Girls on Mopeds’ and ‘Good Luck I Hope You Make It’. The Irish troubadour is on

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Edinburgh-born, half-American, hyphen-loving Daisy Chute is a folk songstress and multi-instrumentalist with a particular penchant for the banjo. Formerly of Decca’s platinum-selling classical group All Angels, she is excited to be working on her début album of original songs with producer and songwriter Tim Baxter (Andy Burrows, Editors, Nick Mulvey, Jasmine Thompson). A regular in the London music scene and an award-winning singer and songwriter having just been awarded first place in the Coffee Music Project singer-songwriter competition, Daisy has been taught and mentored by rock royalty Sir Ray Davies, featured as a vocalist on Radiohead's latest album A Moon Shaped Pool, and even got the thumbs up from Sir Paul McCartney after a performance at the Royal Albert Hall. One of Paul Sexton's 'top music tips' for 2018, Daisy's music has been compared to Simon and Garfunkel and Joni Mitchell (BBC Radio Kent) and her voice has been described as “Exquisitely delicious. Delicate, like a gossamer-winged creature made out of spun gold." Tony Moore (Soho Radio, The Bedford)