ANDY Oliver

Andy was born in Hartlepool in the North East of England where his family still live. He has lived in a lot of places since leaving home cto pursue his career in acting and music, living in London, Lancashire, Normandy, Carcasonne and now resides in the beautiful seaside town of Ballycastle in Northern Ireland.

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   He started his career working in theatre in Newcastle for companies like The Live Theatre, Bruvvers and Monster productions, as well as appearing in the popular tv show Byker Grove, the police drama 55 Degrees North and Grubbs a one of show for ITV and the discovery Channel. Andy met his wife Janet Bamford in 2001 when working on a play by author David Almond which started in the Lyric Hammersmith and toured nationally, The show was called "Wild Girl Wild Boy," Janet was the wild girl, Andy the wild boy and the rest as they say is history. 

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In 2009 Andy stopped drinking as he was very much dependant on alcohol, "I came to a crossroads in my life, thanks to a friend, I saw that I couldn't continue the way I was, I could either stop drinking or lose everything I loved,"

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It was a in the hard difficult days of sobriety that he found his love of music again, "I felt like I had so much I needed to say about how my life had changed, how I felt about losing that side of my life but more importantly the people who loved me and helped me see I had more to give."