Andy Clockwise was born out of the imagination of a 20 year old Andy Kelly. Starting music at 4 years old on the violin, the violin, Andy grew to resent the instrument when he says "I saw 'They Will Never Tear Us Apart' by INXS at 5am on a Saturday morning and it changed my life forever."
Leaving the violin on the backburner and taking inspiration form his parents old Motown and folk records, Andy moved to the drums and guitar, mastering them by the age of 14, playing in bands with people twice his age.
By the time he left school, Andy had come in the top ten of his state in music but, "always wanted more, something real, something more about life than musicianship, you know, about getting fucked up and having your heart broken."
So with dreams of being a history professor he enrolled in arts at Sydney Uni. "Nothing was happening; it was dead, old Trotskyites and dinosaur academics and the same rich kids I tried to get away from. It was all ecstasy and no acid".
Andy says "I want to mix chaos with beauty on stage. If I don't have an edge and I'm too slick then how am I meant to express what it is to be human? Correct me if I'm wrong, but why else would you F@#king do it?"
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