Greedy Smith
| Greedy Smith | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Andrew McArthur Smith |
| Also known as | Greedy Smith, Andy Smith |
| Born | 16 January 1956 |
| Origin | Sydney, Australia |
| Genres | New wave, rock |
| Labels | Regular WEA CBS Records TWA Records Liberation Warner Music |
| Associated acts | Mental As Anything The Space Shuttle Ramblers Greedy's on the Loose Greedy's People |
| Website | mentals |
Greedy Smith is the pseudonym of Andrew McArthur Smith or Andy Smith (born 16 January 1956, Sydney), who is a vocalist, keyboardist, harmonicist and songwriter with Australian pop/new wave band Mental As Anything. Smith wrote many of their hit songs including "Live it Up" which peaked at No. 2 on the Australian singles chart. Smith has a solo music career, he has worked with other bands and is also an artist and television personality.
Born Andrew McArthur Smith in Sydney, Australia on 16 January 1956, he later attended North Sydney Boys High in the same year group as future Australian cricket captain Allan Border. Showing an interest in Art he moved on to the East Sydney Technical College (now known as the National Art School) in Darlinghurst in the mid-1970s while also holding down a part-time job as a bottle shop attendant. At college he met fellow students, Martin Murphy, Chris O'Doherty, David Twohill and Steve Coburn, whose band, Mental As Anything, had been playing art school parties and dances since May 1976. While playing harmonica in another band at the time, Smith started appearing on stage with Mental As Anything from around December. He was eventually cajoled fellow Mental As Anything members to learn keyboards on an old wedding reception organ to fill in their sound and he quit his other band.
All early members of Mental As Anything are also artists and have exhibited their artworks since 1982. Although Smith is not as well known an artist as Reg Mombassa, his best known artwork is from his Storm Clouds Over the Piazza series that was exhibited at the Mentals III travelling art exhibition in 1997. These portraits are based on his legendary unfinished novel of the same name, a rambling WWII saga that he used to mention in interviews but is actually fictional in itself.
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