It's On

I bought the first Flowered Up 12" single on the strength of an article in The Face that I've mentioned before and the fact that they were signed to fledgeling Heavenly records whose previous release had been St Etienne's Only Love Can Break Your Heart which blew me away . I absolutely loved the single at the time and listening to it earlier on, I still love it. It may not be as epic as Weekender but all the elements were there in that first single.

Here's the other side which doesn't get an airing too often, not quite sure why.

Flowered Up - It's On - Sonia

Touched By The Hand Of God VII

It has been over a month since Mr Weatherall featured on this blog. So let's start off the week with one of his best remixes from 1992, a year in which he did brilliant remixes for the likes of Future Sound Of London with the spacey Papua New Guinea, Galliano's Skunk Funk and West In Motion for Bumble amongst others.

We are concerned with Weatherall's Weekender where he takes an already funky hymn to hedonism, Weekender, by a bunch of chancers from Camden Town and stretches it out with 2 mixes clocking in at 15:30 and 17:10 respectively.

I have friends who are not that partial to these remixes but I have yet to hear a compelling argument against them.

Flowered Up - Weekender (Audrey is A Little Bit More Partial)

Whatever You Do Just Make Sure What Your Doing Makes You Happy!

I'm in holiday mode, off today and the whole of next week.

I've got that feeling that I used to get when in my 20's with the prospect of a whole week off and nothing planned.

However instead of finding multiple variations on the theme of "getting loaded and having a good time" I will be spending my week in the park (dry or not), the pictures and playing with Star Wars figures with a 5 year old which always entails all of my men being killed and not one of M's even sustaining a flesh wound, magic.

Here is one of the tracks I always associate with the madness of my early to mid 20's.

Flowered Up - Weekender

And the rather excellent video