3 Mar 2012 – 7:30 PM

Thwaites Empire Theatre – Blackburn

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He’s A Rebel

Andy Kershaw truly has no off switch. Already he’s lived ten lives to everyone else’s one. As a teenager, he was promoting major rock gigs. He was Billy Bragg’s driver and roadie one day and presenting Whistle Testand Live Aid the next.

John Peel

Andy is among the UK’s most-decorated broadcasters, working for Radio 4 and, for fifteen years, as a Radio 1 DJ, where he shared an office with John Peel and legendary producer John Walters. It was Andy’s enthusiasms that made him the central figure in the popularisation of world music. More recently a presenter on Radio 3, he has also worked for the Rolling Stones and Bruce Springsteen.

 

Andy Kershaw was born in Rochdale in 1959 and was liberated by Bob Dylan. Barely out of his teens, and looking about eleven, he presented Whistle Test and Live Aid for the BBC. For most of the past twenty-five years he has had a weekly radio show pioneering extraordinary music from all over the world.

Whether it applies to foreign adventures, romances, motorcycles, nervous breakdowns or relationships with a piece of music, Andy has always lived by his most reliable maxim:

“If you’re going to have one, have a big one.”