Also known as Andy G or Andy Gee, Andy was based in Staffordshire and ran was retail manager for Mike Lloyd Music, with 5 shops including the Mike Lloyd Megastore, in Hanley, Newcastle, Wolverhampton and Stafford, as well as Lotus Records in Hanley. He also ran Lotus Records Mail Order, and subsequently Mike Lloyd Music mail order, that existed from 1979 through to 1996. MLM also had a wholesale division and more, all run and overseen by Andy. In 1983, Lotus Records joined with Inkeys cassette fanzine to organise and promote the first annual UK Electronica Festival at Milton Keynes in 1983, followed by further ones at Sheffield and Stafford through to 1990 when others took over the legacy we'd begun. In 1996, Andy left MLM to join CD Services mail order in Dundee, discovering and promoting hundreds and hundreds of new bands and artists via his 10 mail order catalogues covering all manner of specialist genres from Electronic to space-rock, industrial to Canterbury. At this point, Andy began his own amateur Dead Earnest CD label, which ultimately released 13 albums including the likes of space-rockers Krel, Spacehead, Space Mirrors and Secret Saucer, as well as electronic artist Mooch, Dundee's home grown Mr Spider, Hennissi and Paula Knight, plus the ground-breaking album from Doug Snyder & Bob Thompson. In 2006, he started to promote gigs around Dundee and, over 5-6 years, went on to become one of the city's leading gig promotors of original Scottish bands, followed by a 6 year radio show for Radio North Angus, featuring emerging and unknown bands from Scotland and worldwide. Today he does two separate radio shows - Gee Force Radio show - Every Sunday night 7pm-9pm from East Scotland, worldwide through www.bridgefm.org.uk and Floodplane Radio show - Every Tuesday night 10pm-midnight from West Scotland, worldwide through www.shireextra.co.uk - (New bands, Unknown bands, Scottish bands, Australian bands, obscure bands and more....expect the unexpected....all delivered by me, with a dry humour in the spirit of the great rock and indie radio shows of the past 5 decades). He is one of the leading specialists in the UK on the current Australian indie music scene and has been featuring Australian bands and artists on the show for several years, including 27 radio shows devoted entirely to the Australian music scene, the only radio presenter in the UK to do this. Andy is still doing reviews, and is arguably one of the leading music reviewers over the past four decades. Dead Earnest as a label is now finished, but plans are currently in action to revive it as Deadly Earnest. Currently working on his extensive autobiography, seeking a publisher and hoping to have it published in 2026.