Remembering Mr. Andrew Weatherall who died on this day six years ago and whose music, art, outlook and style affected my world so much: the remixes that began for me with the purchase of Loaded in February 1990 and the Weatherall/ Oakenfold Club Mix of Hallelujah by Happy Mondays a month or two earlier and then went on from there, the words Andy Weatherall Remix in brackets after a song being a guarantee in those early years of something you definitely hadn't heard before, even when you hadn't heard of the artist he was remixing; the music he made and produced first in Sabres Of Paradise and then Two Lone Swordsmen and solo; DJ sets at various venues around the north west of England; the perfectly selected compilation albums, Nine O'Clock Drop, Hyper City Force Tracks, Sci Fi Lo Fi, Watch The Ride; the interviews in the music press and magazines with opinions and arcane references, tales and stories, and of what's hot and what's not; the hour long mixes given to websites; the radio shows for the BBC and NTS with scores of artists and records to chase and tasters of forthcoming Weatherall related releases; the labels he created, Sabres Of Paradise, Emissions, Moine Dubh, Bird Scarer, with those handwritten press releases and lovingly designed artwork; the year he spent as Faber's artist in residence; the advice and references, signs and symbols, he dropped throughout what he was determined to avoid calling a career.
This is thirty minutes of music Andrew made circa 2007 (unbelievably, nearly twenty years ago now), the Two Lone Swordsmen live rock 'n' roll/ garage band, Weatherall at the microphone, solo album part of his inspired and wayward musical life, ably abetted by a cast of musicians including Keith Tenniswood, Chris Rotter, Tim Fairplay, Subway Lung, Nick Burton, Nina Walsh, Julian Wright, Steve Boardman and Gordon Mills, all of whom appeared at different times on Two Lone Swordsman's Wrong Meeting pair of albums and Andrew's Pox On The Pioneers.
Half An Hour Of Andrew Weatherall Circa 2007
- Two Lone Swordsmen: Get Out Of My Kingdom
- X- Press 2: Witchi Tai To (Andrew Weatherall Remix)
- Andrew Weatherall: Privately Electrified
- Two Lone Swordsmen: Patient Saints
- Villalobos: Dexter (Two Lone Swordsmen Remix)
- Two Lone Swordsmen: Glories Yesterday