The RIP thread...

Just heard this and was coming to post it. Terrible news.

Fucking hell no way. Gutted. I met him a few years ago. Told him I'd been a massive fan for years. He asked me my name and I told him. He said 'Well it's a pleasure to meet you Jason'. I'm glad I shook his hand. As close as it gets to being a hero for me.

Had just been listening to this when I saw the Guardian front page. Meant to see him in Bristol a couple of weeks ago but didn't make it :(

https://soundcloud.com/byrdout/sets/andrew-weatherall-unknown-plundererend-times-sound/s-uNn6A

No that's shit RIP.

Knob twiddler for one of my fave albums, Tarot Sport

Fuck

Used to hang around with him during the Bloodsugar/Vent/RGC days. Always deeply perceptive and a very funny fucker. Last time I saw him was at the Moine Dubh launch party - I had no idea what it was going to be but trusting his judgement thought I’d turn up. Had joked with my parter that given it was Weatherall it could be anything from a punk to a folk music label. We arrived and were utterly transfixed, it was a fucking folk label he was launching not something I know a lot about but it was incredible. Was particularly surprised when he came up and said “its James isn’t it, what have you been up to”.

I used to take him for granted. where Derrick May was sizzling and sparking like a hot frying pan Andy was more like a pressure cooker gradually raising the tension with brief moments of release. No flash, nothing excessive, a practice of quiet restraint, kind of playing not what people wanted but what they needed to hear. Some times I’d see/hear him play four times in a week, never playing the same set, different bag of tunes for each place. Never a shit track played but often he’d spin things that would baffle on first listening and become utter favourites a couple of months later.

Very well put . A sad loss

Thanks for the link, some top sounds in there

I’ve been singing (mumbling) You Can’t Do Disco With A Strat all weekend having just booked tickets to see him perform a new work based on The Lark Ascending top of the bill at a barbican folky thing on my beloved’s 50th. So I feel really extra weird that he’s gone and he won’t perform.

Here’s this. Cheers Mr Weatherall.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1GmjXIar4pg

Glad you met him and said that stuff dude! It’s always good to be honest rather than cool and starey.

What you said about Flacky- met her once at a drinks thing - some colleagues had been pretty horrible about her on a previous job I did that she presented - anyway I thought she seemed a pretty nice person.

Great to read that James. You put me onto Moinh Dubh because of that. Yeah he played very individual music, never predictable, always.

10993 at Grays club on Grays Inn Road on a weeknight and Audrey had two copies each of Capricorn- 20hz and The Martian - Stardancer and for 30 minutes blew my mind

I had a similar experience in the sub club that year..
Had a brilliant time at ALFOS a couple of years ago..
A sad loss.. One of the few London DJs who could cut it up here.. And a nice guy..

https://www.instagram.com/p/B8r7ToCA3K1/?igshid=nsbgfrfsex16

Nice mix from the Social in the Albany days. I was at this, can't remember it though, all those Sundays are now merged into one!

https://soundcloud.com/matflint/andrew-weatherall-live-at-the-sunday-social-4th-sept-1994

Heather Couper, who starred on Sky at Night back in the day.

Oh, yeah remember her! RIP Heather

RIP Heather, she was a fave of mine...

Didn't she do a stint on Tomorrow's World as well?

Yeah think she did

Mad Mike Hughes. Turns out homemade rockets aren't the safest form of transport.

Darwin Award nominee?

Well, he certainly left a great impression on the flat earth

I like how the word "Research" has arrows pointing at it.

The arrows forewarn directions of force.

It is a conspiracy, he was murdered to stop proof of the flat earth escaping. You heard it first here.