Background
He grew up in Toronto, where he and Charlie Angus founded the Toronto punk band L"Étranger.
He grew up in Toronto, where he and Charlie Angus founded the Toronto punk band L"Étranger.
In the late 1990s he wrote for the Toronto weekly Now. His first release on the label was a reissue of L"Étranger"s last recording, Sticks and Stones. He released three albums as a solo artist and had a number of hits, including "Time and Place", "Boomtown", "What Am I Gonna Do with These Hands" and "A Lot of Talk".
In 1993, his album Hi was recorded at Metalworks Studios in Mississauga, Ontario.
He then formed the band Ursula, who released the album Happy to be Outraged in 1995. However, that band was not successful, and broke up after just the one album.
He also wrote for the Toronto-based Now magazine. In 2000 he collaborated with Hawksley Workman and Jason Collett on Chrome Reflection, an album credited to Bird.
When the election was called, on March 26, 2011, his main campaign issue was that Davenport"s incumbent Member of Parliament, Mario Silva, was not a "full-time" Member of Parliament. Andrew Cash lost his seat in the general election held October 19, 2015, one of many New Democrats who were swept away when the Liberal party came from third place to form a majority government.
On May 2, he defeated Silva, becoming a caucus colleague of his former bandmate Charlie Angus, also a Member of Parliament for Timmins—James Bay since 2004.