Andrew Weatherall? (RIP February 2020)

I like Walk of Shame. TBH, I generally like the album. None of it stands out, but as a sound I like it. Pleasant and a different take on the post-punk sound which is no mean feat considering how much it's been rinsed this decade.

"none of it stands out" = stock weatherall critique post-"stay down"

i think it's a fair critique btw

...and most of it I didn't like either. Personally I thought till this one after the Fifth Mission it went downhill for Weatherall (albeit with a few nice house records along the way).

This one grabbed me differently, and as for stuff not standing out I wouldn't say that's always a valid criticism. Would you criticise Gas or Young Marble Giants for it? It all sounds similar but it's a good similar.

Lest we forget

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvBXKSTHEZ0

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Seriously, forgot how great this is!!!

Fifth Mission is stunning. So many styles. I've bought it 3 times.

For archeologists excavating this thread: Weatherall is in part responsible for the Fuck Buttons Tarot Sport, which is in my top 10 of the past 5 years.

Cosign. Awesome record.

Weatherall produced the penultimate track on Warpaint's debut, too.

My copy of The Fool has him down as mixing Undertow and Baby.

I really like the dub mixes he's just done of Steve Mason's Boys Outside - reminds me of Sabres of Paradise mixes circa 94.

I posted that from the iPhone while still in bed, so bow to your actual fact checking there!

I've not heard the Boys Outside dub mixes, but I love that album so will have to seek it out. Is it on CD anywhere or am I gonna have to scour the internetz?

There are two mixes on the Boys Outside single, Nick - on iTunes and (presumably) CD.

With his various mixes and productions this year and his DJ set at the Screamadelica shows, I've enjoyed being reminded how much I love Weatherall. I used to be a total stan, buying every one of his early 90s remixes on vinyl.

Used to have all his Bloodsugar mixes on a hard drive somewhere. Must track them down.

Anyone else listened to his Asphodells project's new record yet? Cosmic/Balearic disco stuff, sounding pretty good on first listen.

I haven't heard it yet but if it's Love From Outer Space-type stuff it'll be amazing.

posted when I'd heard the first track, some of the later tracks feature vocals and are more in a post-punk vein, they remind me a bit of that Harvey Locussollus record.

In fact some melodica work is making it sound a lot like Power Corruption & Lies-era New Order, a good thing in my book.

that sounds pretty good, if it's more like Locussolus and less like the post-punky Two Lone Swordsmen record (From the Double Gone Chapel), I liked that one at first and then it wore off ...

http://soundcloud.com/factmag/weatherall-mix-asphodells

this is really good in places, but a bit guilty of being exactly as you'd imagine it to sound, ie like primal scream.

Yeah that's what I thought, I mean in fairness Weatherall did create that sound but it's such a well-worn grove to slip into that unless it's absolutely sublime I find myself wanting to put something else on. Same goes for the whole Richard Norris/Time and Space Machine thing.

https://soundcloud.com/faber-social/sets/musics-not-for-everyone-series

Say what you like about Weatherall but he has a decent beard.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41YiXGN8kPL.jpg

this is so sooooo good.
its very much in line with his 'love from outer space' groove.
in fact thats the final track on the 3rd cd ..
oh, and he is hoping to sort out a proper dub version of the asphodells album (as opposed to the soon to be released remix set)

http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=470

this is amazing

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/feb/25/andrew-weatherall-interview-dj-disco-maverick

at a family friendly festival a couple of years back i got permission to do the selfish thing and saw him do the extended groove under the 'a love from outer space' banner.

best 3 hours ever.

I've seen him do that as well a day I dunno, I found it all a bit one paced at the time. I was in the middle of five days of Croatian beach festival mentalism and I'd just seen Optimo, so maybe it was a case of wrong set wrong time.

Looking forward to the new album though, even though I wasn't keen on the Asphodells thing I'll always give any Weatherall venture a go.

I saw A Love From Outer Space on Halloween 2013 at Plastic People. His goth side burst out for the occasion at half 12, with extended mixes of Bunnymen, Cave, Suicide etc.

wtf terrible news

RIP Andrew Weatherall, whose talent wasn't just for making music, but for thinking about in a wholly unique way.

— Michael Hann (@MichaelAHann) February 17, 2020

aw, what? fuck

just on Twitter at the moment but Dave Haslam has put this up

I can't believe I am writing this.#RIP Andrew Weatherall

(6 April 1963 - 17 February 2020)

One of the greatest, sweetest, funniest guys I've ever met. pic.twitter.com/hXKR02k850

— Dave Haslam (@Mr_Dave_Haslam) February 17, 2020

We are deeply sorry to announce that Andrew Weatherall, the noted DJ and musician, passed away in the early hours of this morning, Monday 17th February 2020, at Whipps Cross Hospital, London. The cause of death was a pulmonary embolism. pic.twitter.com/cOe6KA0yts

— Prescription PR (@prescriptionpr) February 17, 2020

shit

:(

What a fucking bummer.

What the shit?? RIP.

Fucking hell, that's horrible news. RIP.

oh no! RIP, nooooo

so many classics from the 90s and beyond, of course, but in particular I'll miss his NTS show which I tried to catch every month, was still discovering lots of good stuff from him :(

listened to his nts show just last week, wtf

fuck's sake

Fuck, this sucks bad. RIP.

His NTS was great, yeah.

wtf

oh fuck

Most random Andrew Weatherall memory is buying Tiny Reminders by Two Lone Swordsmen in Northampton HMV while at uni, gegting it home, putting it on, and the CD being a mispress that had the audio of a Shakespeare play or Dickens novel (I forget which - it was 20 years ago) instead of music. The graphic on the CD was right, just the wrong audio.

Weatherall changed the way I think and feel about music in a seismic way.

Super young. He fell off my radar a long time ago (that's my fault, not his), but I think I listen to his My Bloody Valentine remix more than I listen to MBV these days.

a personal favourite mix of his: https://www.mixcloud.com/PacOlgarte/heavenly-presents-andrew-weatherall-live-the-social-volume-3-1999/

kind of random but i just remembered that time he popped up on streetview

Think i just randomly found Andrew Weatherall on Google maps streetview - https://t.co/OKJV37KvkK pic.twitter.com/I9XxvoFDte

— 𝙶𝚛𝚊𝚎𝚖𝚎 (@grohs) September 27, 2016

RIP. Screamadelica will be all over the obits, but Morning Dove White is the one I go back to more often, a favorite album from a favorite era in music.

RIP. I wasn't super familiar with his other material, but I loved Two Lone Swordsmen. Far too young to go.

Ewan Pearson posted a terrific tweet thread yesterday about Weatherall.

1/ Thursday 8th June 2017. The day of the general election. I am working on Tracey Thorn’s new LP and though we are mostly making it in my home studio in Walthamstow, today Tracey and I are going to Seven Sisters, to the space I supposedly share with Andrew Weatherall.

— Ewan Pearson (@ewanpearson) February 17, 2022

60th birthday tribute mix by Optimo (26 days left to listen):

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001kd39

Wilkes intro on the phone at 8:50, 20-min mix at 10:30

Great new introductory guide to his life and work by Joe Muggs over at Shfl -- wonderful stuff:

https://theshfl.com/guide/andrew-weatherall

In Dec 1994 I saw Primal Scream at Shepherd's Bush Empire... who were supported by a live incarnation of Sabres of Paradise (as well as a DJ set from the Chemical Brothers while they were still called the Dust Brothers, and an unannounced acoustic set from Noel Gallagher, and an encore appearance from Paul Weller, it was like the 1994est indie gig ever).

Anyway because the internet is amazing I have found a recording of essentially the same set from Manchester the same month - here

And for some reason - maybe something I read at the time? - I have always vaguely wondered if Weatherall was actually involved in this live show somehow or if it was more driven by Kooner & Burns. Despite knowing him by reputation I wouldn't have known what AW looked like at the time.

Anyway probably I will never know, but thought I would hang this memory out on the internet and maybe someone will one day reply.

the Curses comps, Next Wave Acid Punks Deux (now up to part 3) feel like a kind of continuation of the 9 o’Clock Drop comp. in any case something I imagine he would have very much liked.

yes big fan of the next wave acid punx comps

Huh there's an artist on NWAP 1 with the same handle as an ilx poster?

ha, i've noticed that before, that guy puts out a lot of stuff that's up my alley. def not the same person tho... or is it

xp it's the name of the protagonist in some of charles bukowski's novels

which my bukowski themed local pub chose as its name too.

https://www.chinaskis.co.uk

that’s funny, I liked the Chinaski album from a few years back and did wonder if it was the ilx poster lol

ha I used to know a guy about 20 years ago who had a band called Chinaski. pretty sure he doesn't post on ilx either (or DJ in Germany)

these Next Wave Acid Punks comps look right up my street though, going to check these out

Not me. Confession: I have a vague unease about being associated with Bukowski. Not that I've been arsed to do anything about it.

Fabric have posted sets from their recent Weatherall tribute night:
https://soundcloud.com/fabric/sets/commemorating-andrew
I'm listening to the Smagghe/Richards set which is three hours of burbling acid excellence:
https://soundcloud.com/fabric/ivan-smagghe-b2b-craig

https://materialmusicgroup.bandcamp.com/album/a-love-from-outer-space
This beautiful collection dropped today

In Dec 1994 I saw Primal Scream at Shepherd's Bush Empire... who were supported by a live incarnation of Sabres of Paradise (as well as a DJ set from the Chemical Brothers while they were still called the Dust Brothers, and an unannounced acoustic set from Noel Gallagher, and an encore appearance from Paul Weller, it was like the 1994est indie gig ever).

Anyway because the internet is amazing I have found a recording of essentially the same set from Manchester the same month - here

And for some reason - maybe something I read at the time? - I have always vaguely wondered if Weatherall was actually involved in this live show somehow or if it was more driven by Kooner & Burns. Despite knowing him by reputation I wouldn't have known what AW looked like at the time.

Anyway probably I will never know, but thought I would hang this memory out on the internet and maybe someone will one day reply.

― meat and two vdgg (emsworth), Wednesday, 24 January 2024 11:38 (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

Well the internet did in fact reply!

With Weatherall busy DJing and producing, the group launched as a five-piece live act comprising Burns, Kooner, RIchard Thair (Red Snapper), Phil Mossman (LCD Soundsystem) and Nick Abnett (The Aloof), and played a series of legendary live shows across the UK, Europe and Japan.

Snippet taken from here

Nice find

Burns, Kooner and Thair were also mainstays of The Aloof

The remastered versions of Sabresonic and Haunted Dancehall are now out

https://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/essays/new-acoustic-spaces-in-the-dancehall-sabres-of-paradise-reissues-reviewed

Haunted Dancehall is so good

I didn’t know these reissues were coming but recently (re)bought Haunted Dancehall on cassette, I was living in London when it came out and was a great Walkman album for exploring the city

Unsurprisingly, “Wilmot” and “Tow Truck” were from the same session that produced “RSD”.

Excellent fact.

Six and a half hours of Weatherall and DJ Harvey B2B for RA1000:

https://soundcloud.com/resident-advisor/ra1000-dj-harvey-andrew-weatherall?

stoked

Awesome