In the middle of the 1990s, the local witch of Jefferson County used magic to animate a small pile of breadsticks from the ground floor cafeteria of Jefferson County Hospital. The uncanny human resemblance with which the witch’s breadsticks took is where it now gets its name, Andrew Herrington – literally meaning “from bread to man”. Fast forward through twenty years or so of cultural integration and most people wouldn’t dare regard Andrew as anything other than wholly part of the human genealogy. 

On the day of animation, the same local witch had told Andrew that there is no such thing as a living breadstick. As a living counter example to this claim, Andrew took this to mean that everything is at its most lifelike when seen in aggregate of its lifeless parts. For Andrew, humanity is found through musical practices such as Awkward Family Portraits where, in the same way that any given breadstick within a body of breadsticks aids the cohesion of Andrew, Andrew aids the superindividual whose name is AFP.

Other superindividuals in which Andrew may be seen as some form of breadstick include:

Behind the Noise – a music industry education programme through which Andrew came to know a myriad of the many music makers within Glasgow’s music scenes.

Lizzie Reid – a creative and prolific songwriter, active among the many music makers, for whom Andrew is a breadstick.

Josiah & Ludwig – a fiddle/guitar duo in which Andrew writes and performs alongside friend, fiddler, and fellow pile of breadsticks, Harry Gorski-Brown. The pair were nominees for BBC Radio 2’s Young Folk Award 2018.  

And each of these bodies themselves have similarly assumed something of a breadstickular role in the lifeness of the pile of breadsticks whose name is Andrew Herrington.