Andrew Weatherall
20 articles
Audio interviews
Interview by Bill Brewster, Rock's Backpages audio, 28 May 2009
The legendary DJ and producer looks back at his suburban childhood and mispent youth; starting the dance music fanzine Boy's Own; the whole acid house scene and its effects; what it means to be a DJ, and his move into the recording studio and his work with Primal Scream.
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Terry Farley, Danny Rampling, Dave Dorrell, Andy Weatherall: Boy's Own Party, East Grinstead
Live Review by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 2 September 1989
BY THE time we got to Grinstead we were...oops! Wrong summer of love...No wallowing in mud here, no bad acid, no teds and no people ...
Interview by Push, Melody Maker, 10 March 1990
The former darlings of indie rock may lose some deities with their new house-orientated single 'Loaded', but Primal leader Bobby Gillespie is determined to use ...
Report and Interview by John Robb, Sounds, 14 April 1990
With The Stone Roses at Spike Island, the Mondays at Glastonbury and numerous other raves, the summer of 1990 should be one to remember. John ...
Report and Interview by Push, Andrew Smith, Melody Maker, 18 August 1990
A couple of years ago, the success of DJ-based groups such as M/A/R/R/S, Coldcut, S'Express and Bomb The Bass heralded a new musical era. Now, ...
Saint Etienne, Flowered Up, Manic Street Preachers et al: Heavenly Records Night, Underworld, London
Live Review by Susan Corrigan, New Musical Express, 12 January 1991
HEAVENLY RECORDS gave 1990 some of its finest moments. A winning combination of happy housers, hippy haircuts, and hopped-up hyacinth heroes, their vibe generated fleeting, ...
Primal Scream: Exiles on mainstreet
Report and Interview by Helen Mead, i-D, July 1991
Primal Scream — the redemption of rock'n'roll? ...
Primal Scream: The Haçienda, Manchester
Live Review by Paul Mathur, Melody Maker, 3 August 1991
KNOCKED OUT LOADED ...
Andy Weatherall: Mixed Emotions
Interview by Push, Melody Maker, 17 August 1991
In his first ever interview outside Bocca Juniors, ANDY WEATHERALL talks to PUSH about being the most sought-after remixing whiz-kid of the Nineties and his ...
Report by Jack Barron, i-D, September 1991
Damned by the Pope as the "most debauched area in Italy", Rimini is fast becoming a Euro-clubber's hedonist mecca. And when hundreds of Brits touched ...
Inner Vision: Andrew Weatherall & Jah Wobble
Interview by Kris Needs, Black Echoes, 15 February 1992
An out-mind experience with the extra-dimensional Andrew Weatherall and Jah Wobble, the man for whom the expression "raving mad" was invented... ...
Overview by Jon Savage, The Guardian, 22 October 1993
Let me take you on a journey... After the drugs and the digital-industrial dreamscapes, just what is the secret of the mega-successful Techno white dance ...
Interview by David Bennun, Melody Maker, 24 September 1994
ANDREW WEATHERALL has towered over the British club scene since he first found fame as a DJ in the acid house explosion. He created 'Loaded' ...
Andy Weatherall: Pick and Remix
Interview by Lisa Verrico, Vox, November 1994
Andy Weatherall twiddled the knobs that turned a Primals ditty into a House classic, and got himself a job for life. ...
Andrew Weatherall: Sabre as a Judge
Interview by Ted Kessler, New Musical Express, 17 December 1994
ANDREW WEATHERALL was a wanker, but he's alright new. At least that what he tells TED KESSLER in the wake of his girlfriend ditching him ...
Liverpool's Cream: Bag Company
Report by Bethan Cole, New Musical Express, 8 April 1995
TRAVELLING TO Liverpool by train, passing through the industrial landscape of warehouses and factories that once made Britain 'Great', you're reminded of the North's 19th ...
Trip Hop: Where The Beats Have No Name
Report and Interview by Stephen Dalton, Vox, July 1995
Trip-hop is now part of pop's international language — but the pioneers of Britain's most successful musical export in years refuse to admit it exists... ...
Retrospective and Interview by Andy Crysell, New Musical Express, 25 April 1998
Disco biscuits, gurning, raves, sartorial bonkersness, and, um, Guru Josh! The ACID HOUSE scene brought us many things when it exploded in 1988; it also ...
Andrew Weatherall: My brilliant career
Interview by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 6 September 2000
Andrew Weatherall helped to invent both dance music and the superstar DJ. Then, burnt out and disillusioned, he went underground. As he emerges with a ...
Obituary by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 18 February 2020
THE LIST OF ANDREW WEATHERALL'S achievements as DJ, musician, songwriter, producer and remixer could fill a hefty volume. His career took him from working as ...
see also Primal Scream
see also Sabres of Paradise, The
see also Two Lone Swordsmen
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