About Last Night: Episode 7 featuring Andy Wright

About Last Night hosted by Parry Ray

Today’s guest is music producer Andy Wright.
The list of people Andy has worked with is truly illustrious, artists like Simply Red, Luciano Pavarotti, Eurythmics, Jeff Beck, Dave Stewart, Simple Minds, and Annie Lennox, to name a few…and me of course!
Andy’s career started in the mid 80s when he chased up a job ad in The Melody Maker and started working for a keyboard hire company in London, delivering and setting up studio equipment for recording sessions. In the 1990s he set up his own recording studio and his career unfolded.
We chat about his career journey - how he went from the keyboard hire company to where he is today – what he feels you need to succeed in the music industry and how it has changed over the last 30 years and how he has had to adapt.
He shared some of his favourite memories with me along with the some of the challenges he has had to face.
Andy, as you can imagine, is very much in demand so sadly we didn’t have a lot of time to catch up. We met At Le Pain Quotidian in Parsons Green, which is just around the corner from Andy’s current studio.
Here’s our conversation…