Andrew Deadman
ANDREW DEADMAN | SANTA MONICA AIRPORT 1987 | MINTY FRESH records | OUT NOW
Bio:
“I grew up dreaming of making albums not streams,” says Los Angeles-based songwriter Andrew Deadman. “I miss songs and I tried to write an album’s worth of em.”
Deadman’s debut solo album Santa Monica Airport 1987 is the eclectic and electric album he set out to make. The songs brim with an inescapable energy and crunch that is often absent in today’s barrage of cut and run singles that sometimes come up short in the passion department.
“I wrote and produced the songs on this record hoping they don’t belong in any time or era,” Deadman claims, and the album plays that way. The instinct to plop the needle down on any of these cuts doesn’t invoke the fashion of the day, it calls back to more authentic days gone by. Days that saw Deadman dropping out of school at 17-years-old to realize dreams, not streams.
Traveling the world, sleeping on benches and busking for change, by 20-years-old, Deadman drifted to Los Angeles, taking up odd jobs to support himself while writing and recording in a home studio that he assembled piece by piece over time.
Eventually, Deadman would release several self-produced records under the name The Temporary Thing, and like his own years of drifting, would eventually find their way overseas to the playlists of John Peel. Opportunities presented themselves, and soon Deadman’s bedroom creations were being heard on television shows such as “The New Girl,” “Love,” “Gossip Girl,” “Togetherness,” “Community,” and many others.
The fame comes before the fortune, and although Deadman was moving his music now, he was also continuing to move pianos – a different kind of music business – and a trade he was taught by his father.
Deadman developed a reputation in Los Angeles for not only his piano moving, but his ability to move giant vintage recording consoles and priceless gear. Through these jobs, he worked with Keifer Sutherland and Mike Campbell of Tom Petty’s band The Heartbreakers, among others.
Dreams are often subject to reality, and after breaking his hand on a job, the sidelined Deadman was relegated to driving. Through it all, he never gave up on his own musical road, and when he found himself giving guitarist Davey Catching (Eagles of Death Metal, Queens of The Stone Age) a ride from Los Angeles to his studio in Joshua Tree, a new lane emerged.
A gracious discount from Catching allowed Deadman to record Santa Monica Airport 1987, and for you to hear it. On the record, Deadman is joined by his longtime drummer and collaborator, Kevin Day, along with Ben Stone on bass.
Santa Monica Airport 1987, featuring the singles “A Day Without The Storm,” “Sometimes The Dogs Don’t Find You,” and “Silent Scream,” is out now via Chicago’s Minty Fresh Records.
Deadman realized the dream, so compromised on the stream: hear it here.
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PRESS QUOTES:
“Immediately stirring and cool like someone flicking a spent cigarette after revealing their own truth to someone even though it costs them something big.”
“Although reminiscent of giants such as Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen, Deadman proves himself very much his own man... finding the fine line between desperation and hope with conviction and deep pathos.”
Tour Dates:
11/29/2019: Los Angeles, CA @ Hotel Cafe
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Andrew Deadman as photographed by Henry Chinaski. Click for hi-res.
Andrew Deadman w/ (L) Kevin Marcus Day, (R) Ben Stone. Photo credit: Jake Barnes. Click for hi-res.
Andrew Deadman as photographed by Jake Barnes. Click for hi-res.
Andrew Deadman as photographed by Henry Chinaski. Click for hi-res.
Santa Monica Airport 1987 cover art. Click for hi-res.