ANDREW WEATHERALL: A DISCO POGO TRIBUTE

“Keep the books coming, keep the music coming, keep the art coming. When you thinkyou know everything, you can miss out on a lot. When you realise you don’t [know everything] the floodgates come down a bit and you start following literary links and musical links that you might not have made before. It’s a whole new parallel universe.”

Andrew Weatherall, 2015

A Disco Pogo Tribute To Andrew Weatherall, a 320-page hardback that gathers everything we love about the man and his music. It is the fourth in our hardback Tribute series – following Daft Punk, Aphex Twin and LCD Soundsystem – and the long-overdue successor to the sold-out and hard to find Jockey Slut Tribute To Andrew Weatherall from 2020.

Inside you’ll find the best of that original Jockey Slut book, plus more than 200 pages of brand new material – fresh essays, oral histories, interviews and photography from the writers, photographers, musicians, producers, DJs, designers and friends who knew Andrew best.

From the fanzine kid at Boy’s Own to the producer who rewired Primal Scream and made ‘Screamadelica’ sound like the future; through The Sabres Of Paradise, Two Lone Swordsmen, The Asphodells and the much-loved A Love From Outer Space night and Convenanza festival, Weatherall left behind a body of work, a sensibility and a way of carrying yourself that is still being unpacked six years on. This is the book that tries to do all of it justice.

Highlights include: an interview with Bobby Gillespie that goes beyond ‘Screamadelica’, essays on ‘Sabresonic’, ‘Haunted Dancehall’, the Two Lone Swordsmen and his solo releases, plus a look into his many remixes. In addition: oral histories on his early years, A Love From Outer Space and Convenanza, an interview with Timothy J. Fairplay on The Asphodells and a celebration of his art work and his NTS radio shows. And then
there’s the Disco Pogo Tribute regulars: a timeline, family tree, a studio gear deep dive, discography and more...

Featuring interviews with Sean Johnston, David Holmes, Jagz Kooner, Leftfield, Shaun Ryder, Chemical Brothers, Terry Farley, Dot Allison, Beth Orton, Irvine Welsh, Daniel Avery, HAAi, Tia Cousins, Steve Mason, Richard Fearless and many more.

The book's editor Jim Butler will helm discussions from the following collaborators and shipmates:

Justin Robertson will talk about Weatherall and his artwork

Jagz Kooner about remixes and Sabres

Cymon Eckel about Boy's Own/ his early years.

Lizzie Walker on the book's genesis and Andrew's archive.

The book is being published with the full blessing, approval and cooperation of the Weatherall estate, who will also receive a share of the profits from the book and the event.