Andrew Pendlebury
| Andrew Pendlebury | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Andrew Scott Pendlebury |
| Born | 1952 (age 64–65) |
| Origin | Australia |
| Genres | R&B, country, post-punk, southern gospel |
| Occupation(s) | Musician |
| Instruments | Guitar, backing vocals |
| Years active | 1975–present |
| Labels | Cleopatra, WEA, East West |
| Associated acts | The Sharks, Myriad, The Sports, The Gentlemen, The Dugites, Stephen Cummings Band, Slaughtermen, The Gospel According to St Kilda, The Patriarchs, Stephen Cummings' Lovetown, Frank McCoy Trio, The Revelators, Crown of Thorns, The Mercurials |
Andrew Scott Pendlebury (born 1952) is an Australian guitarist-songwriter. From 1977 to 1981 was a member of The Sports (with Stephen Cummings) and from 1986 to 1988 he joined Slaughtermen (with Ian Stephen). He has undertaken other projects and issued four solo albums. At the ARIA Music Awards of 1993, Pendlebury's solo work, Don't Hold Back That Feeling, won Best Adult Contemporary Album. In 1999 Australian rock music historian, Ian McFarlane, described Pendlebury as having "pursued a career that garnered him much critical acclaim, but little in the way of mainstream success. Although occasionally compared with Tommy Emmanuel, Pendlebury has preferred to follow a more low-key, highly specialised path away from the limelight". From 2003 he has been a member of The Mercurials.
Andrew Scott Pendlebury was born in 1952 and grew up in Melbourne. His father, Laurence "Scott" Pendlebury (1914–1986); and mother, Eleanor Constance "Nornie" Gude (8 December 1915 – 24 January 2002); were both visual artists. His older sister, Anne Lorraine Pendlebury (born 21 August 1946), became a stage, film and TV actress. In May 1953 Scott won the Dunlop Art Contest, with a first prize of A£300, ahead of Arthur Boyd.
From the age of four years Pendlebury studied classical violin learning Bach and Vivaldi. After completing secondary education, Pendlebury followed his parents into visual arts and exhibited art works, which were "mainly impressionistic-style landscapes". Inspired by Django Reinhardt and Jimi Hendrix, Pendlebury taught himself guitar and began a career in music. By 1979 Anne appeared in the ABC-TV drama series, Twenty Good Years. Scott's portrait of his two children, Anne and Drew Pendlebury (actress and musician respectively), was a finalist for the 1979 Archibald Prize.
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