Andy Cato

Infobox Musical artist
Name = Andy Cato

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Background = non_vocal_instrumentalist
Birth_name = Andrew Derek Cocup
Alias = Caia, Journey Man DJ, Big C
Born = birth year and age|1973
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Origin = Barnsley, Yorkshire, England
Instrument = Trombone, piano
Genre = Electronic music
Years_active = 1996–present
Label = Columbia UK
Associated_acts = Groove Armada
URL = http://www.myspace.com/andycato
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Andy Cato is one half of the electronic dance band, Groove Armada. He is also involved with Rachel Foster in Weekend Players, which is also an electronic dance group.

Early life

He grew up in a village near Barnsley and played the trombone in a colliery brass band, and won the Young Jazz Musician of the Year Award in 1995. He attended QEGS in Wakefield for his schooling. He was also taught the piano.

Groove Armada

After studying History at Wadham College in the University of Oxford, he moved to Cambridge, where he was the DJ at the Spectrum nightclub. He met Tom Findlay in 1994 in Cambridge, through a common friend who was his girlfriend (and currently his wife), Jo, who he met at Oxford. In London they had a dance night called "Captain Sensual At The Helm Of The Groove Armada". They record their music at a cottage near Ambleside in the Lake District.

External links

* [http://www.myspace.com/AndyCato Andy Cato: MySpace]
* [http://www.groovearmada.com Groove Armada]
* [http://www.myspace.com/packupanddancerecordings/ Pack Up And Dance]
* [http://www.columbia.co.uk/artists/groove_armada Columbia Records page]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4652463.stm Making ringtones for O2 in 2005]
* [http://www.jazzweekly.com/interviews/groove.htm Jazz Weekly interview]
* [http://www.tunetribe.com/Article?article_id=773 TuneTribe article]
* [http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/02/09/1044725674869.html Sydney Morning Herald 2003 article]