The back-to-back adventures of a full-throttle life from the maverick broadcaster, pioneering DJ and
unstoppable foreign correspondent Andy Kershaw will unfold at Alexander’s in Chester on Sunday (October 20).
Andy Kershaw has already lived ten lives to everybody’s one. As a teenager, he was promoting major rock gigs at Leeds University.
He was Billy Bragg’s driver and roadie one day and presenting Whistle Test and Live Aid the next.
A passionate music enthusiast, he is a man with an obsessive curiosity about the world.
Over a 25 year career, he has worked for the Rolling Stones and Bruce Springsteen, shared an office with John Peel and has amassed a record collection that weighs more than seven tons.
A fearless adventurer, he has visited 97 countries and, as a rock and roll war correspondent - for Radio 4 and the broadsheets - he has reported from some of the world's most perilous places including Iraq, Sierra Leone, North Korea, Angola and Haiti.
Andy was one of very few journalists to be an eyewitness to the Rwanda genocide.
He has won more Sony Radio awards than any other broadcaster.
Five years ago, he went through a turbulent time in his personal life but, ever the survivor, he has come roaring back, written his astonishing life story and returned to the airwaves, recently fronting BBC Radio 3's Music Planet series.
He is also making documentaries for Radio 4 and working for The One Show on BBC1.
For details of his Chester appearance, call 01244 340005 or visit www.alexanderslive.com.
