“One of the true craftsmen of song, Harvey has created some pieces which are elegant magic and which last a lifetime. There are very few performers who are as committed as him and who can work an audience with such consummate skill. It is a genuine privilege to have met him and seen him at [...]

“With some trepidation, as a fan with no musical background, this is my attempt to explore twelve songs selected as representative of the artist and the man and that I still enjoy listening to in 2007.”

“Wow! ‘Margarita Collection’, what an album. Fantastic, inspirational, don’t even come close. It is so diverse, imaginative, informative and wonderfully mellow, like sitting in on a personal show. I particularly liked ‘Learning the Game’, ‘Please Don’t Get On the Plane’ and ‘She Saw Him Smile’. And I thought ‘Writer of Songs’ was my all time [...]

“I would like to thank you for your concert at Stony Stratford. It was the first time I had seen you in concert, despite having owned your ‘Writer of Songs’ LP since 1973. I enjoyed it greatly. You have written a large and varied body of work, and I was pleased to hear songs from [...]

During the 1970s, I bought three albums by the relatively little known folk singer, Harvey Andrews. I found Andrew’s astringent comments on contemporary life in Britain, especially Thatcherite Britain, stimulating. Some years later, I enquired in a record shop if Andrews was still recording. The shop assistant said he was but only for a small [...]

Nine great writers and singers of their own songs… Harvey Andrews’ “Manet and Monet” is a remarkable standard to try to keep up with. It is made from the whole cloth of the minutes of the Yardley Art’s club’s annual outing, distinguished by warmth, affection, pleasure and a celebration of a rapidly disappearing culture. It’s [...]

It’s hard to believe that it’s already been 12 years since Birmingham born former teacher turned singer-songwriter Harv played his 25th anniversary tour, but here he is 37 years after his first public appearance at Ian Campbell’s Jug O’Punch and a career that’s taken him to virtually every folk club that is or ever was [...]

Harvey began his career in the early 1960s as a resident singer at the famous Jug of Punch folk Club in Birmingham. He has been a part of the folk scene ever since and his latest CD, The Gift, consists of a series of reflections and observations on the middle-earth to which so many of [...]