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Flowered Up
| NAME: |
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Flowered
Up |
| MEMBERS: |
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Liam, Barry Mooncult
et al |
| HIGHEST CHART SINGLE: |
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Weekender |
| ESSENTIAL TUNE: |
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Weekender |
| ESSENTIAL ALBUM: |
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Life Of Brian - BUY
NOW! |
| FASCINATING FACT: |
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Flowered Up did a cover
version of Right Said Fred's Don't Talk just kiss
and nowadays Barry Mooncult does double glazing! |
| BAGGY RATING: |
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Saved the best to last.
Shame they were too wrecked to continue.... |
SOME WRITING ON THE BAND:
Flowered Up were
dubbed as Lonodn's Happy Mondays. The Mondays had Bez,
Flowered Up had Barry Mooncult - a bloke dressed up as
a flower who pranced around the stage in a flowery manner!
Their faces adorned the cover of the NME
before anyone had heard their first single, a piano driven
stormer that went by the name of It's On. It was a really
decent tune and London's first genuine baggy band (I'm
not including Blur!) had arrived on the scene.
It's On came from the band's debut album
which was called Life Of Brian. Like It's On, it's a pretty
good album. Filled with baggy fuelled tunes - not particularly
substantial but good fun nonetheless.
But Flowered Up to me are all about one
song - a song that was to be their final single and undoubtedly
their greatest moment - Weekender.
It's a thirteen minute epic that to me
sums up the hedonistic age of the early nineteen nineties.
It is a song about how mundane work can be, how clubbing
can act as a release to a different stratosphere and how
bumpy returning back down to planet earth can be.
"Weekender go out and have a good
good a good good time."
The video is class, beginning with the
preparations for a big night out - the ironing of the
shirt, the dressing up - then on to hitting the club -
the music swirling - catching the eye of a beautiful girl
- scoring and then the descent into the post club come
down. It finishes with the central protagonist starring
upwards from the top of a tower block as the sky spins
uncontrollably above him.
If you go onto one of the auction sites
you'll probably find a bidding war going on for a copy
- if you can get hold of one, do, it's ace.
Weekender signalled the demise of Flowered
Up.
But if there was ever a band to
go out at the high point of their career it was Flowered
Up.
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