“I’m a little bit shell-shocked today,” guitarist Andy Summers said with a laugh a few weeks ago when I called him for an afternoon interview. “We’ve been making this insane video till after midnight last night where we were throwing paint all over each other. That was intense. And we did that time and time […]
CIRCA ZERO DEBUT “WHENEVER YOU HEAR THE RAIN” FROM FORTHCOMING DEBUT ALBUM, PLUS AN INTERVIEW WITH ANDY SUMMERS ON THE PROJECT’S GENESIS AND PAST GLORY WITH THE POLICE By Alan di Perna / GRAMMY.com (Circa Zero will be featured in an installment of the GRAMMY Museum’s The Drop series on March 26. For more information, visit www.grammymuseum.org.) […]
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Location: The Grammy Museum at L.A. Live Date: March 26, 2014 – 8:00 PM Doors Open: 7:30 PM Ticket Price: $25 After 20 years amassing an impressive, mostly instrumental solo discography that often dug deep into exploring his jazz roots, Andy Summers hopped off The Police Reunion Tour in 2008– a 15 month worldwide jaunt […]
“CIRCUS HERO” DIGITAL PRE-ORDER INCLUDES IMMEDIATE TRACK DOWNLOAD Grammy.com Interview Posting 3/19 Includes Exclusive Stream of “Whenever You Hear the Rain” PR Newswire SANTA MONICA, Calif., March 17, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Legendary guitarist with The Police, fiercely iconoclastic composer and songwriter Andy Summers has teamed up with singer songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Rob Giles (The Rescues) to form […]
Legendary guitarist with The Police, fiercely iconoclastic composer and songwriter Andy Summers has teamed up with singer songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Rob Giles (The Rescues) to form Circa Zeroa band poised to blow people away with its unique brand of rock and roll. Circa Zero recorded their debut album Circus Hero at Summers’ studio Bowl of Cherries in […]
The Police guitarist set out to make a “real rock-driven band record” with his new group… Circa Zero’s debut album, “Circus Hero,” is due March 25 Andy Summers says that touring with the Police during 2007-2008 whetted his appetite to play in a rock band again — and helped give birth to his new group, […]
In 1958, Andy Summers took a bus across his seaside hometown of Bournemouth, England, grasping a guitar without a case. He was heading off to play with a dance band in a local hotel, and several people on the bus asked him how he was getting along with his banjo. Only two years earlier, his […]
THE BIRTH OF CIRCA ZERO (according to Rob) Coattails. Piggybacking. Standing on the shoulders of giants. This is often the case in rock music, though it isn’t always successful. For every Hagar there seems to be two Gary Cherones. For every few great bands, there seems to be a not so great supergroup. But when […]
Artist talk with Andy Summers, Saturday December 14, 6 pm Leica Gallery Los Angeles presents Del Mondo a photography exhibition by Andy Summers Exhibition dates Nov 9, 2013 – Jan 4, 2014 Leica Gallery LA is also a proud participant of this year’s DIEM (Design Intersects Everything Made) Andy Summers is largely known as the […]
