Andy Kerr

Andy Kerr is a Canadian-born musician, originally from British Columbia and currently residing in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Kerr is best known as the guitarist, frequent vocalist, and co-songwriter in the progressive punk rock/punk jazz band NoMeansNo between 1983 and 1992. He has also recorded and performed as a solo artist, and his current group is Two Pin Din. The final lineup of this group included NoMeansNo drummer John Wright.

Kerr went on to join NoMeansNo as guitarist and vocalist in 1983 after founding members Wright and his brother Rob conducted the group as a sporadically active two-piece for four years. His unique sound and playing style added a strong complementary quality to the group. Running a Fender Bassman amplifier through a P.A. speaker, he attained a relentlessly jagged guitar tone quite suited to heavy dynamics of the Wright brothers' rhythm section. During a nine-year stint in the band, he played on four studio LPs, three EPs, a live record, and a collaborative LP with singer Jello Biafra, prior to emigrating to the Netherlands in 1992 and leaving the group.

Kerr was, at different times, also briefly involved with NoMeansNo-related projects the Hanson Brothers and the Showbusiness Giants in the 1980s and early 1990s. In the latter group, he performed on bass guitar. Via his pseudonyms, he is credited as playing "some bass" on several NoMeansNo records as well.

Discography Full-length albums NoMeansNo – Sex Mad (1986) NoMeansNo – Small Parts Isolated and Destroyed (1988) NoMeansNo – Wrong (1989) Jello Biafra and NoMeansNo – The Sky is Falling and I Want My Mommy (1991) NoMeansNo – Live + Cuddly (1991) Showbusiness Giants – I Thought It Was a Fig (1991) Showbusiness Giants – Maybe It's Just Me (1991) NoMeansNo – 0 + 2 = 1 (1991) Hissanol – 4th & Back (1995) Andy Kerr – Once Bitten, Twice Removed (1997) Hissanol – The Making of Him (1998) Two Pin Din – In Case of Fire Break Glass (2008)

EPs and singles Infamous Scientists – Noise 'n' Rhythm 7" (1981) Infamous Scientists – Trouble 12" EP (1982) NoMeansNo – You Kill Me 12" EP (1985) NoMeansNo – The Day Everything Became Nothing 12" EP (1988) NoMeansNo – The Power of Positive Thinking 12" EP (1990) NoMeansNo – Oh Canaduh 7" (1991)