Andy produced two songs for Sona Fariq.

Dom Bouffard, guitarist for Sona Fariq recalls:

“Back in about 1997 when my band Sona Fariq signed to Warners UK, we were looking for a producer for our debut album and Andy was suggested, partly because people felt that he would ‘get’ my guitar playing, because of his angular, Gang of Four, style.

“We turned up at Andy’s studio near Chancery Lane and had never seen anything like it: all white, programmed pastel lighting and a glass ceiling… it was like Miami Vice, a million miles away from the damp railway arches we’d been used to… Andy was also wearing some rather fancy midnight blue slippers with embroidered tigers on them (I’ve actually just realised that our album cover ended up being a tiger emerging from a ball of fire).

“He made some pretty radical changes to the song arrangement, which we were unsure about and eventually the session didn’t get used, but I kept the mixes in my archive. Years later I happened to be listening through work from back in the day and I dug out Andy’s version of ‘Drop the Bomb’, where he had turned one of the verses into chorus and was like ‘goddamn it, he was right!’

“As it turned out, I bumped into him and Catherine at a mutual friend’s wedding in France a year or two later and we hung out all day. He was hilarious, really warm and smart, with a great memory for that session from years before. At some point I turned to him and said ‘you know what, you were right about that chorus’ and without a pause, he just smiled cheekily and went ‘I know’.”

Featured here is a Youtube link to the official video of the other version of “Drop the Bomb” produced by Chris Sheldon !