This podcast is only temporary
Irish songwriter and producer Andy White’s fourth series of This podcast is only temporary tells the story of the writing and recording of his live album 'The night is approaching through some would say it was morning', recorded at Abbey Road with producer John Leckie.
Progressing through the day from morning to night, Andy tells the stories of the songs along the way - as in previous Series 3 in which he looked at his spoken word album 'Good Luck I Hope You Make It', and the first two series which go track by track through solo album ‘This garden is only temporary’ and the 'AT' album co-written with Tim Finn.
This podcast is only temporary
Poetry moments
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In Episode 7 Andy starts off by talking about connections between his poems and songs and how (and why) the lyrics of some songs start off as poems, or lines or sections from poems. His first book of poetry The Music of What Happens was published in 1999, and in it you can find poems directly linked to songs on Destination Beautiful. Looking for Friends is one, and he goes on to talk about Ciao Baby, which is another.
The poems he reads sections from are: 'Home', 'I'm in love with this city', 'The street symphony of Napoli', and 'Christmas in Italy'. The album with readings and live band performances recorded at Real World (and released at the same time as The Music of What Happens) is Speechless.
Andy touches on many subjects including metaphor and simile (is this what one of his classes is like?) and rock'n'roll stories of the Italian tour on which he wrote Ciao Baby. It's a fun episode, and he plays tracks from the recently released first LP edition of Destination Beautiful. The version of Ciao Baby you hear in the intro and outro of this series is from the 5-track EP of unreleased and hard-to-find mixes available through Glasgow company LNFG.
Finally, he reveals why poetry is on his mind – his latest book will be published at the start of June – and promises to update us with details before the end of the series.
If you've listened to Series 1–4, welcome back. If you are a newcomer to the podcast, do check out previous episodes in which Andy goes track by track through his most recently released albums, telling stories about the songs and playing unreleased studio mixes that you will only find here.
Happy listening and see you next week for what may be the final episode. We can never tell how many songs AW is going to get through until he sends us the recording!
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Andy's albums are available on Bandcamp or www.andywhite.com
Podcast artwork: Sebi White