Astronef is the nom de guitarre of Andrew James, who is forced to use the French word for rocket because there are already too many people called Andrew James who play guitar.

Astronef also provides a cunning two-word review for lazy journalists who don't like his music and have seen Spinal Tap at least once. If there were any. Quantum journalists.

Andrew records songs onto his laptop with one or both of his guitars, sometimes adding his rudimentary ability with drum machines into the mix. Can you tell he wants a band? He wants a band. Sort of. He's not quite sure how he'd cope with having other people to make his mistakes for him.

Astronef is mostly about songs with lots of lyrics in them, some of which are clever, some of which are wry, most of which are about girls (sometimes they are all about the *same* girl), although sometimes there are songs about lofty intellectual problems, or subjects of great environmental and political import...