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Andrea at the Musical Museum

17 Jan 2009

Andrea Black will be performing tracks from her "Strange Girl" and "Stray Bird" albums at the MUSICAL MUSEUM at 399 High Street, Brentford, TW8 0DU, on the 17th January, 2009.What a great way to start your New Year, don't miss this event.

Phone venue for more details: Tel: 0208 560 8108

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LIZARD TALK now on iTunes

07 Oct 2008

We are proud to announce that Andrea Black's collaboration with keyboard 'wunderkind' Robert Logan, "Lizard Talk" is now available for download from iTunes world-wide.

Visit your local iTunes today and indulge yourself in an absolutely great album!

Happy Downloading!

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LIZARD TALK and PERFUME GIRL are now on Amazon

07 Oct 2008

ICU Recordings Ltd can announce that Andrea Blacks collaboration with the incredible Robert Logan for ICU Recordings Ltd: BLACK and LOGAN "Lizard Talk" is now available for download from www.amazon.com.  Good things come in twos and to prove a point, Andrea Black's collaboration with keyboard virtuoso  Mike Bell: "Perfume Girl" is now also available to download View More

Andrea Black now available on eMusic

06 Oct 2008

ICU Recordings Ltd are proud to announce that the "Clean Out Your Ears" compilation album is now available for download for members of   www.emusic.com.  Included on this compilation are two tracks from Andrea Black: The excellent "Be Brave Together" with Robert Logan and the gorgeous "Rainbow Child" with Mike Bell.  Download these tracks seperately View More

Andrea Black on Napster

06 Oct 2008

ICU Recordings Ltd are proud to announce that the "Clean Out Your Ears" compilation album is now available for download for members of   www.napster.com.  Included on this compilation are two tracks from Andrea Black: The excellent "Be Brave Together" with Robert Logan and the gorgeous "Rainbow Child" with Mike Bell.  Download these tracks seperately View More

Andrea Black now out on Rhapsody

06 Oct 2008

ICU Recordings Ltd are proud to announce that the "Clean Out Your Ears" compilation album is now available for download for members of   www.rhapsody.com.  Included on this compilation are two tracks from Andrea Black: The excellent "Be Brave Together" with Robert Logan and the gorgeous "Rainbow Child" with Mike Bell.  Download these tracks seperately View More

Andrea Black available from Amazon

06 Oct 2008

ICU Recordings Ltd are proud to announce that the "Clean Out Your Ears" compilation album is now available for download from www.amazon.com.  Included on this compilation are two tracks from Andrea Black: The excellent "Be Brave Together" with Robert Logan and the gorgeous "Rainbow Child" with Mike Bell.  Download these tracks seperately or buy the entire

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Andrea Black now available on iTunes

06 Oct 2008

ICU Recordings Ltd are proud to announce that the "Clean Out Your Ears" compilation album is now available for download from    www.itunes.com.  Included on this compilation are two tracks from Andrea Black: The excellent "Be Brave Together" with Robert Logan and the gorgeous "Rainbow Child" with Mike Bell.  Download these tracks seperately or buy View More

"Perfume Girl" in Rhapsody!

01 Oct 2008

"Perfume Girl", Andrea Black's amazing collaboration with keyboardist Mike Bell can now be downloaded from www.rhapsody.com.  Download your copy now! View More

Andrea Black out soon on ICU Compilation.

25 Sep 2008

ICU Recordings Ltd are proud to announce that the "Clean Out Your Ears" compilation album will soon be available for download from various sites.  Included on this compilation are two tracks from Andrea Black: The excellent "Be Brave Together" with Robert Logan and the gorgeous "Rainbow Child" with Mike Bell.  Get ready to download these tracks seperately View More

Look out for Andrea Black on Amazon and iTUNES.

22 Sep 2008

ICU Recordings Ltd announce that both of Andrea Blacks front-line recordings for ICU Recordings Ltd, Black and Logan "Lizard Talk" and Black and Bell "Perfume Girl" will soon be made available through iTUNES worldwide and Amazon.com.  Watch this space for updates on availability! View More

Andrea Black and Robert Logan at Chinawhite

15 Jul 2008

CANCELLED***CANCELLED

Andrea Black and Robert Logan play Chinawhite alongside Mark de Clive Lowe tonight as part of the ICU LIVE sessions. Andrea Black and Robert Logan will premiere tracks from their album LIZARD TALK. The show will start at 22.00

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Andrea Black and Robert Logan CANCEL

06 Jul 2008

CANCELLED***CANCELLED***CANCELLED

Andrea Black and Robert Logan are unable to perform at next weeks ICU Live 6 event at the Chinawhite Nightclub in support of Mark de Clive-Lowe.  Their replacement will be Judith Haustein.

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Andrea Black returns to 'ViVa ViVa'.

03 Apr 2008

Andrea Black returns for a second gig at 'ViVa ViVa' in Hornsey. Andrea Black returns to this renown 'World Music Bar' on Thursday, 3rd April. This will be another acoustic evening with Andrea Black on stage at approx. 21:15. Come and enjoy!

ViVa ViVa is at:18 High Street, Hornsey, London, N8 7PB

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Andrea Black at 'ViVa ViVa'

25 Feb 2008

Andrea Black plays the first of two bookings at the 'World Music' venue; the 'ViVa ViVa' Bar in Hornsey. Andrea Black plays the 'Viva Diva' night on Monday the 25th February, alongside seven other top female artists! This should be a thoroughly engrossing evening!

ViVa ViVa is at 18 High Street, Hornsey, London, N8 7PB

Andrea Black should be on stage at 20.00

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Andrea Black at the 'Grounds'.

23 Feb 2008

Andrea Black plays at the 'Grounds' Wine Bar on Saturday 23 February, Brentford Lock, High Street, Brentford, Middx TW8 8JZ. This is the 'Paul Hirsh Night'

Details to follow.

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Andrea Black plays the Dublin Castle.

10 Feb 2008

Andrea Black plays the Dublin Castle in Camden on Sunday February 10, supporting Imelda May, Melissa Maylin and Yam Boy.

Doors: 8:00 PM Cost £5:00

This should be a great evening!

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Andrea at 'The Waiting'

26 Jan 2008

Andrea Black plays 'The Waiting' at Maswell Park Church, Hounslow on 26th January. She is supporting the Chad Marriott Band.

Doors: 7:30 PM Cost: £3.50

See you there!

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Andrea's fourth album is here

16 Dec 2007

Andrea is very excited about the prospect of all her new releases. Four albums makes her the most prolific artist at ICU Recordings and if the truth be told, we just can’t slow her down! She’s still writing away!

In the meantime, look forward with Andrea to the following great albums: ‘Perfume Girl’ with Mike Bell, where she explores the seductive vibes and flows of

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Andrea plays the Rising Sun, Twickenham.

07 Nov 2007

Andrea Black plays 'Club Acoustica' at the Rising Sun in Twickenham on 7 Nov. Rising Sun, 277 Richmond Road, Twickenham TW1 2NP.

Doors: 8:30 PM

Cost: £ 3.00

 

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Lizard Talk

16 Oct 2007

Andrea Blacks brand new albums: "Lizard Talk" and "Perfume Girl" will be availiable from mid-October 2007!

Availiable in Limited Edition Digipack CD and Digital Download from this site!

 

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Acoustic Gig at The Bedford

26 Sep 2007

Andrea Black will be performing live in an acoustic gig at this prestigious venue on Wednesday 26th September at 9 pm.

The event will take place in The Tavistock - It is the beautiful and very intimate acoustic room at the top of the building. Entrance is across the main bar and up the stairs to the right, and just keep going!

Nearest tube - The nearest tube is Balham on the Northern Line.

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Black and Logan at Chinawhite!

16 Oct 2006

Black and Logan
play Chinawhite on October 16, 2006
as part of the ICU Live event together with
Pirate Casino
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Black and Logan cook it up at the Grill Room!

11 Oct 2006

Andrea Black and Robert Logan
play the Grill Room, London W1.
 
Support comes from The Seed and
Alison Grant.
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'Laid Back in London' is released!

22 Jun 2006

My latest album 'Laid Back in London'
for AKR Records is in the shops!
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Andrea Black joins ICE-PR

14 Sep 2005

Established singer / songwriter Andrea Black joins ICE-PR roster.

Already a self made success story (after ditching her first record company Andrea Black went on and became her own marketing & distribution company - taking her unreleased albums to record stores and went on to sell thousands of records worldwide!), Andrea's musical journey recently led her to a park where she met the

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Andrea Black meets half a Guru.

15 Nov 2004

'When Hot Dogs Fly'
Slipper Featuring Andrea Black.
Andrea Black collaborates with one half of Loop Guru, Sam Dodson on
this inventive project.
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Jumping from the Wall re-released!

03 Aug 2004

Andrea Black's highly acclaimed
1995 debut album "Jumping from the Wall" is
re-released by AKR Records.
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Slipper Photoshoot, 2004

07 Mar 2004

Slipper photoshoot
on a very cold spring morning!
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Slippers!

10 Nov 2003

Slipper has a new album out!
I feature on three of the tracks
on the album!
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Me in a very large studio!

15 Jul 2002

I really love big studios!
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John Lee Hooker

10 Jun 2001

Having just arrived back in London recently after spending nearly six months in San Francisco, staying with my very good friend, the late John Lee Hooker, I was extremely upset by a call informing me of his passing away in his sleep. Sadly, John didn't manage to "Hang On The Vine" as he put it long enough to record the album that we'd planned together.
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John Lee Hooker and me.

12 Jul 2000

Me with my mentor:
The late, great John Lee Hooker.
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Opposites attract

01 Jan 1998

Opposites attract

ROCK: Traci Lords and Andrea Black are both from Jewish backgrounds, and both have come up with appealing records. But that's where the similarities end, says Don Carnell.

Two lives so different they boggle the mind.

Traci Lords was born to Ukrainian/Jewish parents in Ohio in 1970. She was raped at the age of 10. Four years later, she appeared hi the first of over 100

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New Moon (May 1997)

01 May 1997

Singer- songwriter Andrea Black is following in the footsteps of an eclectic bunch of people. With the stage persona and musical style of classic singer-songwriters like Carole King and Sheryl Crow, she says her full album, Jumping From the Wall, was inspired by the spirit of Freddie Mercury.

‘The piano pictured on the front of the album is Freddie Mercury's one at Metropolis

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Jumping From the Wall

01 May 1997

Andrea Black, jumping from the wall (AKR Records)

Black's soft pop tunes come off as trite and very ‘80s on a first listen, but as the album is replayed it develops a complexity and depth all its own. Her voice is thin but elegant and her song-writing takes interesting original turns. She deals with the usual love found and lust but with a maturity that comes from being around the

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Big hit in Japan...

09 Aug 1995

Nottingham singer/songwriter Andrea Black came back to her roots over the weekend after making it bin in Japan. The former Hollygirt School pupil was singing copies of her new album Jumping From The Wall at the Virgin Megastore in the city.

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Daring to be different

09 Aug 1995

Those who compare Andrea Black to Kate Bush and Annie Lennox are right in spirit, if not in sound. The Nottingham-born singer/songwriter has a strong identity all her own.

A former Hollygirt and Clarendon College pupil, Andrea grew up in Sherwood, where music played a central role in her young life. She learned flamenco guitar "because it's played by gut reaction and emotion, which is

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The Mojo entertainment guide

09 Aug 1995

Andrea Black: Jumping From The Wall

The second album by Andrea Black, the Nottingham-born songwriter whose greatest supporter currently is John Lee Hooker-though she's further from the blues and closer to her own assessment of her music as "a female Peter Gabriel". Jumping From The Wall is solid, mainstream dance- rock full of sensuous confidence and swaggering melodic style, best

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Derby Evening Telegraph

29 Jun 1990

Andrea in market to chart success

The daughter of a former Derby market stallholder is on course for fame after netting a big deal with the music business.

Andrea Black (27) whose father ran Simon Black's lace and net curtain stall at the Eagle Centre has just released her first LP.

In shops chain

And Benny Gallagher, of Gallagher and Lyle fame, has become her producer after she says her LP

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Andrea Black's album is "too good for words"

10 May 1990

BRENTFORD singer and songwriter, Andrea Black's career was given a boost last week when the Richmond branch of Our Price not only decided to feature her first album in the window but played it every lunchtime, between 1.30 and 2.30.

In the genre of Sinead O'Connor, Sade and Julia Fordham, Andrea Black's album, entitled Andrea Black sold over- 7,000 copies in Japan and was described

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Black to front

09 May 1990

"I'VE DONE it all the wrong way round!" laughs Andrea Block, a singer songwriter of considerable resourcefulness. After falling out with GWR, Black requisitioned the initial pressings of her debut album and set out to single-handedly tackle all its sales, distribution, pro motion and PR.

The crusade started, in Our Price's Richmond branch where staff, won over by her enthusiasm

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The Gazette

16 Mar 1990

Revenge as singer becomes own boss

WHEN Andrea Black fell out with her record company it could have been the end of a glittering career.

But Andrea, who lives in Brook Road South, Brentford, took up the challenge and became her own marketing and distribution company.

She took a pile of her’ unreleased albums into the local record shop and persuaded the manager to listen.

“He was so

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Andrea’s disc outsells the stars (Hounslow District Recorder)

16 Mar 1989

Andrea's top of the pops

BRENFORD belle Andrea Black is a very special lady. She outsold Phil Collins and Lisa Stansfield - but she didn’t have a record deal. She has more than 250 self-penned songs under her belt - but has so far released only one swift-selling album.

Andrea taught herself flamenco guitar and piano, then added vibrant vocals to craft a distinctive sound that

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