Musician in the Aberdeen area
Andy Thomson is an experienced local musician in Aberdeen who has played in a number of bands and worked with many successful musicians. Contact Andy today or find out more about his music career below.
He has played for many cover bands, including Subtle Contrast (1st Band), Big Foot (1st working band), Never Amber (1st full-time band), Big Foot (2nd stint) Pie Shop (longest serving band), and current bands, Skin Deep and The Chandeliers, along with doing many stand-in gigs for bands needing a drummer at short notice. He has even dabbled in the ‘Original’ market with recording bands Tour de Force and Amoeba Red. Other ventures include performing in tribute bands to the rock outfits The Darkness, called ‘The Darkest’ and the Foo Fighters, called ‘In your Honour’. Also, recording under the name of ‘Lovefist’ for the computer game ‘Grand Theft Auto Vice City’ A computer game that went on to sell more than 60 million copies worldwide.
Bands
The Chandeliers
The North of Scotland's finest exponents of Rock n' Soul n' Ska who play at privately arranged gigs and Music Festivals. They play Soul classics from the likes of AL WILSON, GLORIA JONES, EDWIN STARR, LITTLE MILTON, and BOOKER T & the M. G’s... SKA/MOD classics from MADNESS, THE SPECIALS, and THE LAMBRETTAS, as well as Rock/Punk classics from THE CLASH, TEARDROP EXPLODES, PRIMAL SCREAM, THE INTERRUPTERS and THE OSMONDS.
Pie Shop
One of the top (and most popular) Rock acts to emerge from the Aberdeen live circuit in many years. A Band who loved to play fast paced, energetic music spanning over 5 decades. Formed in 2001, they enjoyed a very successful time, playing gigs on a regular basis, up until 2017.
Although the band stayed pretty much within the rock genre, Classic Rock anthems from the likes of AC/DC, IRON MAIDEN, THIN LIZZY, QUEEN, LED ZEPPLIN, JOURNEY, WHITESNAKE, and BLACK SABBATH, 80s rock from GUNS N ROSES, BON JOVI, DEF LEPPARD, MOTORHEAD, ZZ TOP, BILLY IDOL, and METALLICA through to more recent hits from THE FOO FIGHTERS, GREENDAY, STEREOPHONICS and QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE……. PIE SHOP also managed to recreate music from the broadest spectrum, with tracks from the likes of THE WHO, THE JAM, SEX PISTOLS, THE CLASH, THE UNDERTONES, THE CULT, THE POLICE, MUSE, ARCTIC MONKEYS, and the KAISER CHIEFS.
Love Fist
In 2002, PIE SHOP joined with another local musician to form, co-write and perform four tracks under the guise of fictitious rock legends ‘Lovefist’ a fictional cartoon band heavily featured on the game Grand Theft Auto – vice city.
A computer game that has sold in excess of 60 million copies worldwide, making it the biggest selling computer game in the world, at that time and also making the band one of the bestselling acts to come out of Scotland. This same line-up went on to form the tribute band ‘The Darkest.’ See Below!
The Darkest
The same members who recorded the tracks for ‘Lovefist’ went on to form ‘The Darkest,’ a tribute to rock outfit ‘The Darkness.’ They gathered bootleg videos and all the DVDs they could find and then took them apart and practised all the moves until they became ‘The Darkness.’
‘The Darkest’ decided from the start that they wanted to try to recreate the album sound. Even though ‘The Darkness’ have their roots firmly planted in rock, they are far from a three-chord rock band, so to recreate their studio sound from the three-part guitar harmonies to each drum fill took time and effort. As well as selling out the Lemon Tree in Aberdeen, The Darkest went on to play many sell-out gigs, touring around the UK from as far North as the Shetland Isles to London in the South and in November 2004, performed in front of 2 members of the Darkness at The Mean Fiddler in London. This gig earned them VIP passes to the Darkness’s gig in Glasgow.
In Your Honour
In 2005, Andy and the members of Pie-Shop (along with one other member from fellow local rockers ‘Double Jack’) formed and toured Scotland with their own tribute to one of his favourite bands, the Foo Fighters.
Working on the same principle and approach that they adopted with The Darkest, the band had many successful gigs across the country playing their favourite tunes from the Foo’s first half-a-dozen albums. They enjoyed a 5-year spell together until they went their separate ways in 2010
