Christine Clarke, Notts He said, “You know what the best thing is about cocaine? Yeah it was a bit of a petulant act! It’s weird, that kind of organised male violence, isn’t it just repressed homosexuality? How does this process unravel? Little did I know it was a cover of a Jacques Brel death song called “Le Moribund”! Having a blind faith is an amazing thing but also a very dangerous concept. I'd rather be noticed for a brief glimpse of something, rather turn a head for a second, rather than people gawp. I was a bit conflicted because my ego was slightly stroked, but my artistic sensibilities were rankled. But that’s the glamorised version. “He knew how I worked,” Weatherall explains. Why should I just go to some small northern town and have a ruck in a car park. It was the only Twitter thing I've read in my life, but I imagine my friends shield me from the hundreds of people saying what a twat I am. I’ve become a bit obsessed with the late-’50s Hells Angels look, when it was still rock’n’roll. There are tracks there which are just a few months old, some are eighteen months old. I'm still just as enthusiastic as I was then. It had my picture on it, the date and like first hour, second hour. This is the next part in the process. I hate it to be drug-related, but it’s also a wider metaphor for life. [6] Along with Pete Heller (who was also a Shoom DJ), engineer Hugo Nicolson and singer Anna Haigh, they released two singles as Bocca Juniors on the label, "Raise (53 Steps to Heaven)" and "Substance". “I'm glad you used the word fun, because although we're very serious about what we do, and the music has been described as dark, I still like laughter in the studio,” says Weatherall. You know and that’s what happens in music. whose lives are declared null and void,  And I thought it’s really nice but part of me is “Do I want to be the next” whatever…? I said: ''Well, I need a job.' Nick Warren The more famous your guest is, it’s less your record. But there's more to it than that.” He describes Betjeman's albums as “beautiful, dark, well-orchestrated,” and Betjeman's “kind of fruity manner, like a schoolteacher with a slightly rascally side to him.” He played his favourite track, Late Flowering Lust, with its Velvet Underground-like bassline to Fairplay, who immediately suggested they cover it. He said: 'No you don't, because that record you've got under your arm there is going to be reasonably successful.' He was without doubt a constant evolving and interesting force within this insipid industry. As such we have incurred significant losses and sadly now have some serious concerns about our stability and future as a publication. I love them for that. I never had a bad trip, but I’d have the mother of bad trips if I ever took LSD again. [23] He was known as the Chairman or the Guv'nor, among many other titles conferred upon him. One day I will spend thousands of pounds on a vintage pocket watch. But then you’re thinking people making this music weren’t actually born or were very, very young. What computers do is what’s been done for 100s of years. That's what I feel like. You’ve always had a keen eye for clothes – how would you describe your current look? I don't like to decry things as it is usually people younger than myself. Who are press-ganged into menial labour, Our claim to fame was supporting The Dancing Did at Windsor Arts Centre. We live in a world where every minute is documented, so there’s not so much room to mythologise anything. That’s why people like them. [7], This lists works on which Weatherall appeared directly. I’m fascinated with history and you know living in these times it’d be pointless dismissing it because you just realise that in 20 or 30 years time people will be reading the history of now and be absolutely fascinated with it. ", "Yeah! I have a problem with it, ’cos the suggestion is that having an orchestra do it somehow makes it a more serious work.