Weekender

Flowered Up are credited, Clive Langer produced and Mark Stent mixed. It came out on April 20, 1992 on Heavenly, reached 20 in the UK singles chart for five weeks and 11 on the UK dance chart, and was their last chart entry. The length is 12:53 per Wikipedia and 12:55 per Songfacts. Electronic Sound's feature with Dorney says it grew from a jam at the House in the Woods rehearsal space in Sussex. At Westside Studio in Ladbroke Grove, while setting up for "Crackerjack", the label's preferred single, the band jammed it and Langer urged them to pursue it; the rough demo ran about 25 minutes and it took about five days in a Camden rehearsal room to shape. Liam supplied the opening phrase, which Dorney says mocked city workers partying hard after a week of work, and Songfacts credits Joe Maher with the riff.

Steve Nieve played Hammond organ, Kate St John oboe, Luis Jardim percussion and Don Weller saxophone. It samples the dialogue of Quadrophenia at the start and end, Margi Clarke in Letter to Brezhnev and a snippet of Dobie Gray's "The 'In' Crowd". AllMusic's Heather Phares describes it as denouncing weekend club-goers while advocating a party-all-the-time philosophy. The band and label refused a standard radio edit, and two edits, one muting profanity and one still over 12 minutes, suited no programmers. Andrew Weatherall made two remixes, 15:30 and 17:10. Heavenly reissued it on 12-inch on April 23, 2021, limited to 800.

The video, directed by W.I.Z. (Andrew Whiston), runs 18:20 on a budget of about 30,000 pounds and stars Lee Whitlock as a window cleaner whose weekend leads to a rave and a comedown; the BBC and ITV banned it, and our upload is the 15-certificate version. Select called the single a smart and beady-eyed pop tune and a god-awful heap of retro garbage, Spin an epic account of ravings, highs and lows, and Tom Ewing ranked it 69th in Freaky Trigger's 1999 list of the 90s' best singles. We found no setlist data.