Bio: 

Steve Andrews is a singer-songwriter from Cardiff, now based in Portugal.

Called a “Famous Cardiffian” by two websites and a “Welsh icon” in Wikipedia, he’s also known as the Bard of Ely, a title he was given by Big Issue Cymru magazine when he was a columnist for the publication. 

He’s performed at the Green Man and Glastonbury Festivals and was an MC at both events.

His song “You’re a Liar, Nicky Wire,” which fronted the “Taffia” EP on Crai Records in 2002, was rave reviewed in the NME Singles page, and it was produced by Phil Moxham of the legendary Young Marble Giants.

In 2017, Andrews was a finalist in the Best Solo Act category of the Cardiff Music Awards, and was featured on the “Britain’s Got Talent” TV show. 

The same year he began working with Jayce Lewis as his producer and recorded the album Songs of the Now and Then at Lewis’s Northstone Studios in Bridgend, south Wales.

“Where Does All The Plastic Go?” one of the songs on this album, has attracted international coverage in the media.

It has been written about in Filippo Solibello’s Italian book SPAM Stop Plastica A Mare, it has been twice featured in The Portugal News, broadcast on WBAI FM‘s “Eco-Logic Show” from NY, and included in The Wave magazine from the Rotary Club of Wyndham Harbour in Australia.

Back in the UK, this song was very favourably reviewed by Amelia Vandergast of A&R Factory, and was included in articles in SWND Magazine from Wales and in the GONZO Weekly from England. A video for “Where Does All The Plastic Go?” was filmed by Filipe Rafael in Portugal. 

Andrews recorded the songs “Time For Ocean Aid” and “Mother Nature Rap” with Ricardo Verdelho as his producer at Verdelho Studio in Quinta do Conde, Portugal, and both songs had synth overdubs contributed by Julian Crimmins aka Crum, formerly of Hawkwind and Moonloonies, and living in Cardiff, Wales. Pedro Augusto Almeida, a much acclaimed Portuguese filmmaker, created a music video for “Mother Nature Rap.”