ANDREW WK. - 'SHE IS BEAUTIFUL'

Love him or loathe him, seems you can't get enough of the daft bugger. Crud has all the audio and video streams of Andrew W.K 's new single you could possibly need. And they're wet. Very wet.

31/01/2002

Love him or loathe him he is, for the moment at least, here to stay. Andrew W.K. is set to release his second single entitled 'She Is Beautiful' on February 11th. It follows the release of his debut single 'Party Hard' which entered the UK singles chart at Number 19. Both singles are from his debut album 'I Get Wet', which was released on Mercury Records last November.

Andrew W.K. launched himself hard on the British public late last year, playing his first ever live show at The Garage to a sideshow of indelicate hype, but more importantly, to a raging crowd. An eben more indelicate collision with a stage diver led to a nasty bump on the head and an overnight stay in hospital. He also graced the double cover of the NME, headbanged his way through several TV appearances (including Top Of The Pops) and is now set to return to the UK in Jan-Feb for a headline spot on the NME's Carling Awards tour.

Andrew W.K. has made an unstinting commitment to make the loudest, most exhilarating music possible. 'She Is Beautiful' provides fans with a pure adrenaline hit of pop/rock/metal, a hooky sing-a-long chorus, and fortnightfull of headsores. Andrew W.K.'s music, his P.R states, is a 'juggernaut explosion of sound, a non-stop pounding of radio pop, anthemic metal and the best of everything you have ever heard that is good, rolled into one'. And whether you agree with it or not, there's plenty of other dislocate, expletive-chuckling headcases out there who tend to agree.

Andrew cheerfully explains "Whatever you do in life, if you go full bore you're bound to get wet - whether it be with blood, sweat, urine, semen or girl's lubricant. This record is about cutting into the heart of existence and getting wet…..".

Does he have a point? Or is an arse with a meal-ticket anecdote for every occasion? You figure it out yourselves. Here's the tour-dates and the streams.

TOUR DATES
January
26th - Dublin, Ambassador
27th - Glasgow, QMU
28th - Newcastle, University
29TH - Wolverhamption Wulfrun Hall
31ST - Sheffield, University

February
01st - Liverpool, University
02nd - Manchester, Academy
04th - Leeds, Metropolitan University
05th - Leicester, De Montfort University
06th - Norwich, UEA
08th - Portsmouth, Pyramid
09th - Bristol, University
10th - London, Astoria

(Support - Lost Prophets, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and The Coral)

Andrew W.K. will be touring the US in March in support of 'I Get Wet', which will be released in America early Spring.

more info:
Andrew WK - Official Website
Andrew WK - Myspace

Pimply Skateboard Bob for Crud Magazine© 2002

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