Well, hey everyone, it's Nate here with episode 285 of The Vinyl Guide. Today on the show,

we have Catherine Meyer, an author, journalist, and co-founder of the UK Women's Equality Party,

and was also married to the late Andy Gill of Gang of Four. Now, you may already know that

Andy was a friend of the show, appearing on episode 155 in early 2019,

to discuss his then-upcoming tour of Australia and delve, of course, into many of the

vinyl record history and stories and things that we cover here on the show. If you haven't

already, I recommend you check out this interview. Andy was so brilliant, and his music

remained so influential to many,

including myself, that it was such a wonderful moment for the show, and of course, for me

personally as well. Now, what happened after that Australian tour was quite tragic. After a few

postponements, Ganga Four finally played Australia in late 2019, and then left our shores to play

a few dates in mainland China before heading back to the UK, at which time many members of the

touring party, including Andy, became ill with a mysterious respiratory infection which Andy never

recovered from. Now, this is in late December 2019, January 2020,

and unfortunately, Andy passed from this illness on February 1st. The evidence now suggests that

Andy may have been amongst the first people to succumb to COVID-19, which would challenge

the official timeline that many of us have heard

from various news sources. Now, originally, Catherine was coming onto our show today to talk about

the problem of leisure, a wonderful tribute album to Andy's music and Gang of Four, and it was

already underway before Andy passed. She tells the story of the album today, as well as the book Good Grief, which she wrote in the months after Andy's passing.

But today, Catherine also talks about the illness, the passing.

She shares some stories about Andy and some of the fun tales of the musicians that he worked with and so much more.

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