British singer-songwriter Andy J Gallagher first hit London’s intimate music venues with punky, Avant-Britpop band 'The Shopkeeper Appeared'. Fame beckoned with plays on BBC Radio One and gigs with global superstars Radiohead, but Gallagher, ever hungry for new creative experiences, headed off to explore the world’s music scenes collaborating with a host of characters including Sparks’ guitarist Adrian Fisher. Once back in the UK, crucial changes in Gallagher’s personal life prompted an outpouring of lyrical emotion and when Roman Jugg, ex-member of seminal punk band The Damned, heard Gallagher’s new demos, he insisted on producing the debut album, Helicopter Dolphin Submarine. Charged with raw, living energy and peopled by real world characters, the album has perfectly pinned down the zeitgeist of modern urbanites living in a wayward generation.