Weatherall / Dexys

Mr Weatherall has created an extended mix of ‘Grazing In The Grass’ from Dexys’ latest album, Let The Record Show: Dexys Do Irish And Country Soul. The track is available to download now, have a listen online below.

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The Woodleigh Research Facility live

There’s a rare chance to see Andrew playing live with the Woodleigh Research Facility on Friday 21st October at St. Andrew’s church in Leith.

Info about the gig and tickets here.

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ALFOS - Sat 22nd October

ALFOS & MNFE return to the Art School on Saturday 22nd October. After packed summer sessions at some of the best festivals in the UK and Europe ALFOS goes from strength to strength. The first show at the GSA in May was fantastic and going into these autumn 2016 and spring 2017 residencies on the back of a busy summer Andrew and Sean will be on fire.

The Art School, 20 Scott St, G3 6PE
11pm – 3am
Tickets cost £9+b/f and you can buy them here.

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Convenanza Festival - Carcassonne

Mr Weatherall and friends will be back in the amazing Carcassonne castle for his festival for three days from 29th September.

This is a truly special event, with a great line-up curated by the man himself. Check out all the info on the festival website here.

Tickets are available here.

Convenanza festival schedule

Weatherall NTS show 2016 dates

Hopefully you’ve managed to catch Andrew’s shows on NTS, if not then past shows are archived here.

The shows are every four weeks and on air live from 1-3pm (UK) forthcoming shows are 1st September, 29th September, 27th October, 24th November and 22nd December. You can listen live online here.

Weatherall & Solar Bears

Mr Weatherall has created not one but two remixes of ‘Separate From the Arc’ by Solar Bears. They will be released on 29th July on Sunday Best, the 12” is limited to only 300 copies so get your order in here.

You can get a sneak preview of both mixes online now. Mix 1 Mix 2

Serial Experiments mix

When our friends at Why People Dance asked Andrew to provide their 100th mix he was happy to oblige. In fact he made a two hour long set for them. Enjoy…

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Weatherall on Cowbell Radio

You can now hear Andrew’s appearance as guest host of the second hour of the Parabox radio show. He plays tracks which have influenced him in the past and still resonate today.

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Weatherall mix for Phonica

Mr Weatherall has completed a rather fine mix for our friends at Phonica. It’s titled ‘Phonic-a-delic (A Trip Through the Back Wall)’ and gives a taste of some of the more esoteric records which they stock.

Listen here

Weatherall mix for Soundwall

Our friends at Soundwall magazine in Italy have uploaded a new mix from Andrew, you can listen to it here. I’ll leave it to Mr W to describe: “I recently had to re-locate my record library and it led to the culling of 6,000 records and hours of re-discovery as I unpacked what was left. I have recorded some of these listening sessions and they will be aired as a series entitled ‘The R.G.C. Library Archive Hour’.” This is number seven and we’ll post the other mixes as they appear online.

The Woodleigh Research Facility - out now

‘The Phoenix Suburb’ is the sound of Andrew Weatherall and Nina Walsh taking a disgruntled sine wave for a walk, throwing it sticks, skimming it on a rough sea and scrunching it up and leaving it at the bottom of a bag over a long weekend. It’s trying to cheer up D minor with ball games and scrabble, puppet shows with tutu’d ponies and frizzy haired gonks and clips of cavorting kittens before giving up and crushing it between rocks mined by sobbing orphans. It’s loading the hum kick and the ticky snare on a tandem and pushing them down the stairs. It’s the final note of Mahler’s 11th heard through an iphone’s earbuds then told its parents had died but why it should dance the polka anyway because life, of sorts, still goes on.

Available on double LP (1000 copies) on 8th January.

You can order the LP here or it will be available in all the usual shops.

The download release date will be 12th February.

An announcement from The Woodleigh Research Facility

Stream The Phoenix Suburb here

The Chairman's Second Quarterly Reading List

1. “On Silbury Hill” by Adam Thorpe.
A lovingly written exploration of the history and continuing resonance of the Wiltshire landmark.

2. “The Whites” by Richard Price writing as Harry Brandt.
Tightly written tales of redemptive murder investigated by veteran New York cops. A genre-transcending piece of work.

3. “The People” by Selena Todd.
A history of the British working class from 1910 to the present. The similarity in the attitudes to the poor then and now is chilling.

4. “Gertrude” by Herman Hesse
An exploration of love and art and the joy and pain that commitment to either or both brings.

5. “Athena” by John Banville.
More love and art but this time swirling around in a world of counterfeit and pretence.

6. “Station To Station” by James Atlee
Mr Atlee collects his laminated pass and travels the Great Western Line and manages to connect Arthur Rimbaud, Stanley Spencer, Diana Dors and Haile Selassie to name but a few.

7. “Night Walking” by Mathew Beaumont.
A literary based history of nocturnal wandering, exploration and transgression.

8. “The White Album” by Joan Didion.
Joan Didion writes in an attempt to make sense of her existence, in reading her we go some way to making sense of ours.

9. “Fatale” by Jean-Patrick Manchette
More redemptive murder but this time our protagonist is a femme fatale in the classic style. Hot blood and Gallic cool.

10. “The Nazi and The Psychiatrist” by Jack El-Hai.
Experiments in criminal psychology with those awaiting trial at Nuremberg as subjects leads one doctor to come to a frightening realisation, viewing leading nazis as victims of personality disorders is a way of ignoring a far more frightening fact that their lives reveal. The fact being that civilization is perilously fragile.