Michael Andrews (musician)

Michael Andrews is a San Diego musician and film score composer. He is best known for a cover version of the Tears for Fears song "Mad World", which he recorded with Gary Jules for the Donnie Darko soundtrack, and which became a number one single in the UK in Christmas 2003.

Early musical career

Michael Andrews and childhood friend Gary Jules grew up in San Diego, California where they shared a love of 1980s bands such as Tears for Fears, The Smiths and Echo & the Bunnymen. The duo formed an early version of the Origin, but Jules had left the group by the time it signed a record deal with Virgin Records. At that point Michael Andrews was the chief songwriter and musical leader of the group.

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San Diego, California - The Smiths - Echo & the Bunnymen - The Origin - Virgin Records

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Neither of the two records released by the Origin enjoyed much success, which eventually led to group breaking up. The band had moved to San Francisco by this stage but Andrews moved back to San Diego in 1995 to play with the Greyboy Allstars.

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San Francisco - Greyboy Allstars

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Andrews produced Gary Jules' first solo record Greetings from the Side with equipment rented from The Counting Crows and with engineer J. Bradley Crook who had just finished work on their record Recovering Satellites. Andrews also produced Gary Jules' next album Trading Snakeoil for Wolftickets.

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Greetings from the Side - The Counting Crows - J. Bradley Crook - Recovering Satellites - Trading Snakeoil for Wolftickets

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Andrews also produced the Metarie EP for Brendan Benson in 2003, Metric's Old World Underground Where are you now?(2003), Inara George's All Rise(2005) and played as a session musician on the Jason Mraz album Waiting for My Rocket to Come in 2002.

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Metarie - Brendan Benson - Metric's - Old World Underground Where are you now? - Inara George's - All Rise - Jason Mraz - Waiting for My Rocket to Come

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He played bass on Brendan Benson's debut album One Mississippi and has worked extensively on DJ Greyboy's hip hop albums.

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Brendan Benson's - One Mississippi - DJ Greyboy's

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