Dancing Or Baking Or Snogging
More random musings from Fat Roland. On his mind this month (as far as we can tell) is ‘Big Brother’
Andrew Weatherall: “I’m a sponge, I want to soak up everything”
The first interview with Andrew Weatherall outside of his role in the band Bocca Juniors, which was originally published in the UK weekly music paper Melody Maker on 17 August 1991
Servi
Sweeping the forgotten corridors of sound, Scott Blixen sets his sights on Servi
Andrew Weatherall: “A mind full of strange and interesting stuff”
Bocca Juniors vocalist Anna Haigh, Jagz Kooner from The Sabres Of Paradise, and acclaimed Faber author Michael Smith share their memories of working with Andrew Weatherall
Gavin Bryars ‘The Sinking Of The Titanic’
As the inaugural release on Brian Eno’s Obscure imprint, ‘The Sinking Of The Titanic’ has inspired generations of artists and listeners alike. Yorkshire composer Gavin Bryars reveals how he penned, or rather, “put together” this iconic composition
Andrew Weatherall: “Getting a groove going in a cloud of smoke”
The inside story of ‘Phonox Nights’, the forthcoming album from Andrew Weatherall and Nina Walsh’s Woodleigh Research Facility project, which includes some of Weatherall’s final original recordings
Donna Summer ‘Once Upon A Time’
Freewheeling through time and space, Kris Needs continues his adventures in sound. This month: Donna Summer’s ‘Once Upon A Time’
Andrew Weatherall: “He was the funniest man I’d ever met”
An extract from ‘Punkadelic!’, a forthcoming book detailing Nina Walsh’s madcap adventures with Andrew Weatherall, including some epic high jinks at the legendary acid house club Shoom
Pierre Bastien
On ‘Baba Soirée’, his new collaborative album with Michel Banabila, mechanical instrument maestro Pierre Bastien revels in unusual ways to manipulate the sound of his cornet. His influences are a steady diet of artistic rule-breakers… and tiny circuses
