Panania boy Andrew Tierney has made it in the tough entertainment industry as part of Human Nature. PICTURE: GETTY IMAGES
FROM the quiet streets of Panania to the neon lights of the Vegas strip, Andrew Tierney’s music career has carried him far from his childhood home.
Despite the glitz and glamour of his current life, the Human Nature vocalist still fondly remembers growing up on Gorman Ave and playing with the neighbourhood kids at nearby Bruce Reserve.
“I only have good memories of Panania and Bankstown,” Tierney said of his childhood locale. “I think it was a great area to grow up in. It seemed like we had everything we needed.”
Tierney and his brother Michael attended Panania’s Tower Street Public School.
There, the young Andrew was a member of the school choir, led by his mother Wendy.
“She was the beginning of music in my family,” he said.
“We sang a lot at home.
“What I learnt at Tower Street really set the ball rolling for me.”
But music was not his only passion.
He also played soccer for Panania RSL Soccer Club, training regularly at Kelso Park.
As a teen, Andrew attended Hurlstone Agricultural High School, boarding the train each morning at Revesby or Panania stations to make his way to Glenfield.
“Hurlstone’s got a great reputation,” he said of his old high school. “It prides itself on giving a slightly better level of education.
“It was primarily a sporting school. I got a little bit of stick for that, I was ‘the music guy’.”
Despite the school’s penchant for sports, it was there that the beginnings of what would eventually become Human Nature were formed.
And it was at Bankstown Town Hall the boys first performed as a vocal group, as part of Bankstown Council’s Talent Advancement Program (TAP).
Human Nature will start its Direct from Las Vegas Australian tour in Tasmania on December 3 alongside the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
The boys will hit Sydney’s State Theatre on December 16, 17 and 18 to perform a mix of Motown hits, original numbers and songs from their forthcoming album, a collection of Vegas-inspired classics reworked in their own style.
Christmas, Tierney said, would be spent with the family, in the peace and quiet of Panania.
Source: whereilive
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