Cardiff-born Steve Andrews has been travelling and is now based in Portugal after spending nine years in Tenerife. He is also known as the Bard of Ely and was given this title by Big Issue Cymru magazine when he was a columnist in the late '90s. It refers to an estate he lived in at the time in Cardiff and not the Ely in Cambridgeshire.He is the author of Herbs of the Northern Shaman, originally published by Loompanics Unlimited in 2000 and republished in October 2010 by O-Books, it has additional text as well as all new colour photos by Katrinia Rindsberg. His autobiographical eBook Hummadruz and a Life of High Strangeness was published by Amazon Kindle. It focuses on the author's paranormal and mystical experiences.He has an anthology of poetry and song lyrics edited by his partner Melissa Houghton. It is entitled The Bard Word and is also available on Amazon Kindle.Andrews has written for Prediction and the National Federation of Occupational Pensioners magazines in collaboration with C.J. Stone, and on his own for Kindred Spirit, Permaculture, Living Tenerife and Feed Your Brain magazines. He was a columnist for the Tenerife Weekly, the Tenerife Sun and a contributor to Tenerife News.As a singer and musician he performed at Glastonbury and the Green Man festivals and was a compère for the Avalon stage at Glastonbury in 2002 and 2003. As the Bard of Ely he has songs released on the Taffia EP on Crai Records in 2002 and on the Green Man Festival album in 2003. He has albums out on DMMG Records, entitled Welsh Wizard and Dive In Deep and these albums are also available on iTunes.In 1998, he worked as a TV presenter for two series of In Full View, a magazine series on BBC Choice.Besides being a published author himself, Steve Andrews is written about in detail in C.J. Stone's Fierce Dancing, The Last of the Hippies and Housing Benefit Hill, in Peter Finch's Real Cardiff, in Christopher James Stone and Arthur Pendragon's Trials of Arthur. Anthony Reynolds's Leonard Cohen: A Remarkable Life. and in Lionel and Patricia Fanthorpe's The World's Most Mysterious People.