I saw him at The Brain a couple of times, maybe '91?
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Wow. Yeah. I don’t think I ever went to one…
Received some very sad news from London yesterday. We’ve lost Michael Cook. He was a good pal and I’ll really miss him
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Oh no. Great memories from Low Life. Seemed a lovely fella whenever I spoke to him.
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It’s absolutely awful news
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Way too young. Awful. We hadn’t been in touch in ages but i’ll always have fond memories of first meeting in the 2000s via DJH and then Lowlife and endless gigs, parties, him telling darkly funny stories on long car journeys to festies. He made the best tacos too. Beneath the often sarcy veneer, there was a really kind soul and we would meet in pubs around Stokey or watch the footie on big European nights. He was always unmissable on his skateboard on Church Street. I remember meeting up in Ibiza and Brighton by which time he was getting bored of DJing. He put me on to so much music, all this weird and wonderful stuff he’d picked up in the US. So many memories flooding back. I wish I’d kept in touch more after moving away RIP
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Heartbreaking news. I saw Bill yesterday and he is going to make some kind of announcement on DJ History. As of yet, no one has managed to be in touch with Michael’s family, so he was going to hold off until that happened.
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Oh no, I only shared it on IG as I’d seen a few others doing the same. Have taken it off public view now.
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That is very sad, going to play Sun Haze Blues, one of my favourites of his from peak DJH days. RIP.
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It was good to chat to him at the IMAX the other week. Incredibly sad news.
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I had the pleasure of crossing paths with Michael three times, all at various stages of misbehavior on my part. He was incredibly nice, and had stories for days. At the time there was a gang of us from Manchester who used to go wherever and make a spectacle of ourselves and he got involved in the shenanigans with us and on the way out he remarked to Steven, I think, that he’d finally met a nice South African and pointed at me. I had at least 3 people give me the 45 when I left and he started all of that. It did mean that at after parties people would generally break out into, “I’ve never met a nice South African…”
RIP to someone who seemed like one of the good ones.
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Funny, dry, intelligent, talented. Had a few bad breaks over the years. Definitely one of the good guys.
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i met him in LA in 1990/91. i was still a teenager. it feels weird to say - and there weren’t that many people i felt this way about - but i wanted him to like me. i thought he was super cool, doing super cool things, and i wanted to be part of that. i never mentioned that on our DJH chats as it would have sounded corny to say, but i would have told him had we met back up in real life. he was influential.
RIP, and i’m sending out love to his friends and family.
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A lovely chap was Michael. RIP. x.
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I first met him when I was doing Big Chill FM when I was on shift as overnight station manager at the second enchanted garden; having a very bumpy comedown from an inadvertent candy flip (thanks, interFACE peeps!) and having to be on shift while a Knight of the Occasional Table played a set involving bagpipe techno (thankfully they understood my predicament and knew how to drive a desk, so I left them to it) - but then MichaeI took over, and played a sunrise set that just blew me (and everyone else that heard it) away.
IIRC, he ended his set with, and very kindly gifted me a CR-R of, his amazing edit of “God Only Knows”.
Didn’t see him for a bit after that, until Low Life became a very regular thing in my life.
We’ve lost another good’un.
Rest in power.
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Very sad news. RIP Cookie 
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Re-posting this beauty from Michael xx
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A bonafide legend. Played on more hits than I’ve had hot meals.
I still say Green Onions is the greatest instrumental tune ever written.
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