Andrew Weatherall

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Andrew James Weatherall (6 April 1963 – 17 February 2020) was an English musician, DJ, songwriter, producer and remixer.<ref name=":1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> His career took him from being a DJ in the acid house movement of the late 1980s to being a remixer of tracks by Happy Mondays, New Order, Björk, the Orb, the Future Sound of London, My Bloody Valentine, Saint Etienne, Primal Scream, Moby and James.

His production work on Primal Scream's album Screamadelica, adding samples, loops and creating an influential mix of hard rock, house and rave, helped the record win the first ever Mercury Music Prize in 1992 and become one of the most celebrated albums of the 1990s.<ref name="pattison-guardian">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Petridis">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

BiographyEdit

Andrew James Weatherall was born on 6 April 1963, in Windsor, Berkshire, England, to Robert Weatherall and Carol (Spires) Weatherall.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> During his teenage years, he started going to Funk & Soul Weekenders and disco parties. After leaving the local grammar school, he left home at the age of 18, and worked in a variety of jobs including on building sites, as a carpenter and moving furniture.<ref name=":0" />

He moved to London in the late 1980s, where his record collection and musical knowledge brought him requests to DJ at parties.<ref name="pattison-guardian"/> Terry Farley hired him to play at the Trip club, Weatherall playing mostly northern soul and indie records.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite news</ref> Weatherall started writing as a freelance music journalist (using both his own name and the pseudonym "Audrey Witherspoon"). Together with Terry Farley, Cymon Eckel and Steve Mayes, they started Boy's Own, initially as a fanzine commenting on fashion, records, football and other issues.<ref name="Larkin">Template:Cite book</ref>

Weatherall's DJ career started to take off when he met Danny Rampling at skater Bobby's (Bobby Collins) party that he played at in Chapel Market, Islington, and Rampling invited him to play at his club night Shoom.<ref name="GUAR2">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Farley and Weatherall became regular Shoom DJs, playing the upstairs room, and also at Paul Oakenfold's Future/Spectrum nights and Nicky Holloway's Trip. They also did their own parties and started a record label under the name of Boy's Own Recordings.<ref name="GUAR2" /> Along with Pete Heller (who was also a Shoom DJ), engineer Hugo Nicolson and singer Anna Haigh, they released two singles as Bocca Juniors on the label, "Raise (53 Steps to Heaven)" and "Substance".<ref name="Larkin"/><ref name="GUAR2" />

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Weatherall DJing in Edinburgh, 2006

Weatherall's first studio work was alongside Paul Oakenfold on the club remix of "Hallelujah" for the Happy Mondays.<ref name="BBC">Template:Cite news</ref> Other remixes followed, notably "World in Motion" for New Order, "Loaded",<ref name="Larkin"/> a hit remix of Primal Scream's earlier track "I'm Losing More Than I'll Ever Have",<ref name="BBC" /> and the widely acclaimed 'A Mix of Two-Halves' version of Saint Etienne's cover of Neil Young's "Only Love Can Break Your Heart".<ref name="GUAR2" /> His remix of My Bloody Valentine's "Soon" was ranked at number 1 in NME's list of "The 50 Best Remixes Ever".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He produced Primal Scream's album Screamadelica.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=":1" />

In 1992, Weatherall left Boy's Own. He formed the electronic music trio the Sabres of Paradise in 1993, starting a record label under the same name.<ref name="Larkin"/> The Sabres of Paradise released three albums between 1993 and 1995.<ref name="MIX">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In early 1996, after shutting down Sabresonic, Weatherall and Keith Tenniswood became Two Lone Swordsmen, signing to Warp.<ref name="MIX" /> His production of Beth Orton's album Trailer Park helped establish the mix of hip hop and electronica that would later become trip hop.<ref name=":0"/> He set up the Rotters Golf Club label in 2001.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Weatherall produced for artists Beth Orton, Primal Scream and One Dove, and remixed the work of Björk, Siouxsie Sioux, the Orb, the Future Sound of London, New Order, Manic Street Preachers, My Bloody Valentine and James.<ref name="FACT">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He produced the album Tarot Sport for Fuck Buttons to "vast acclaim"<ref name="GUAR2" /> and assisted the Twilight Sad with the production of their third studio album, No One Can Ever Know.<ref name="ALL">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="TheJournal">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 2006, he released his debut solo EP The Bullet Catcher's Apprentice,<ref name="BRAIN">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> followed by his debut solo studio album A Pox on the Pioneers in 2009.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Both were released on his Rotters Golf Club imprint.<ref name="BRAIN" /> His music has soundtracked commercial advertisements for vehicles; Weatherall's "Feathers" was used for the Volkswagen Tiguan in 2007 and Two Lone Swordsmen's "Shack 54" was used for the Ford Fiesta in 2009.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In 2013, the Asphodells, formed by Weatherall and collaborator Timothy J. Fairplay from Battant, released the album Ruled by Passion, Destroyed by Lust on Rotters Golf Club.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> On 1 July 2014, Weatherall began hosting a monthly radio show, Music's Not For Everyone, on NTS Radio in London. In 2016, he released a studio album Convenanza,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> as well as a remix album Consolamentum.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2017, he released a studio album Qualia on Höga Nord Rekords.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Weatherall cited humour as an important component in his musical ideology.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> He was known as the Chairman or the Guv'nor.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

DeathEdit

Weatherall died from pulmonary embolism<ref name="BBC" /> on 17 February 2020 at Whipps Cross University Hospital in London, aged 56.<ref name=sail>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Selected discographyEdit

This lists works on which Weatherall appeared directly.<ref name="ALL" />

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Painted "blue plaque" at the site of The Blue Note on Hoxton Square.

Studio albumsEdit

A Pox on the Pioneers (2009)
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The Phoenix Suburb (and Other Stories) (2015) Template:Small
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Qualia (Höga Nord, 2017)

EPsEdit

The Bullet Catcher's Apprentice (2006)
Kiyadub EP (2017)
Merry Mithrasmas EP (2017)
Blue Bullet EP (2018)

SinglesEdit

"Unknown Plunderer" / "End Times Sound" (2020)

Compilation appearancesEdit

Nine O'Clock Drop (2000)
Hypercity (2001)
Machine Funk Specialists (2002)
From the Bunker (2004)
Fabric 19 (2004)
Sci-Fi-Lo-Fi Vol. 1 (2007)
Watch the Ride (2008)
Andrew Weatherall vs the Boardroom (2008)
Andrew Weatherall vs the Boardroom Volume 2 (2009)
Masterpiece (2012)
Consolamentum (2016)

ReferencesEdit

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External linksEdit

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