Flowered Up - 'A Life With Brian'

by Heavenly Recordings

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Michael Tanner At last...Best London band of last 40 years gets the respect it deserves....FU Forever. Favorite track: Doris... Is A Little Bit Partial.

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Flowered Up’s debut album ‘A Life With Brian’ reissued for the first time since its original release in 1991, newly remastered and available on double LP and limited coloured double LP on April 19th.Including new sleevenotes by Heavenly’s Robin Turner, the reissue adds their seminal 1992 single ‘Weekender’ and it’s Andrew Weatherall remixes to the vinyl album package for the first time. Sounding better than ever, this comprehensive reissue of ‘A Life With Brian’ offers a fresh perspective into the frenziedly exciting, all too brief musical career of Flowered Up. Although they started out playing at acid house clubs, they were very much a rock’n’roll band. A gang who embodied the spirit of their times, stepping from the darker corners of the dance floor onto the stage in a seamless transition from working the cash economy to soundtracking the very highest points of the night. Sing it loud: “let me touch the world / I’ll make it good, I’ll make it fine.”

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•••

Flowered Up’s debut album ‘A Life With Brian’ reissued for the first time since its original release in 1991, newly remastered and available on double CD with remixes on April 19th.
Including new sleevenotes by Heavenly’s Robin Turner, the reissue adds their seminal 1992 single ‘Weekender’ and it’s Andrew Weatherall remixes to the vinyl album package for the first time. Sounding better than ever, this comprehensive reissue of ‘A Life With Brian’ offers a fresh perspective into the frenziedly exciting, all too brief musical career of Flowered Up. Although they started out playing at acid house clubs, they were very much a rock’n’roll band. A gang who embodied the spirit of their times, stepping from the darker corners of the dance floor onto the stage in a seamless transition from working the cash economy to soundtracking the very highest points of the night. Sing it loud: “let me touch the world / I’ll make it good, I’ll make it fine.”

Includes unlimited streaming of Flowered Up - 'A Life With Brian' via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. ... more

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Includes a download of all track featured across the double CD edition.

•••

Flowered Up’s debut album ‘A Life With Brian’ reissued for the first time since its original release in 1991, newly remastered and available on double LP and limited coloured double LP on April 19th. Including new sleevenotes by Heavenly’s Robin Turner, the reissue adds their seminal 1992 single ‘Weekender’ and it’s Andrew Weatherall remixes to the vinyl album package for the first time. Sounding better than ever, this comprehensive reissue of ‘A Life With Brian’ offers a fresh perspective into the frenziedly exciting, all too brief musical career of Flowered Up. Although they started out playing at acid house clubs, they were very much a rock’n’roll band. A gang who embodied the spirit of their times, stepping from the darker corners of the dance floor onto the stage in a seamless transition from working the cash economy to soundtracking the very highest points of the night. Sing it loud: “let me touch the world / I’ll make it good, I’ll make it fine.”

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	1.	Sunshine 05:22
	2.	Take It 04:31
	3.	Crackerjack 03:30
	4.	Mr Happy Reveller 03:10
	5.	Hysterically Blue 04:12
	6.	It's On 03:54
	7.	Silver Pan 02:37
	8.	Phobia 04:00
	9.	Eggrush 04:46
	10.	Doris... Is A Little Bit Partial 05:01
	11.	Weekender 12:55
	12.	Weatherall’s Weekender (Audrey Is A Little Bit Partial mix) 15:22
	13.	Weekender (BTWS Re-Animation) 08:08
	14.	It's On (Feel Pain Remix) 04:57
	15.	Phobia (Paranoid Mix) 04:59
	16.	I'll Be Your Dog 04:20
	17.	Take It (Pure Sexy Dub) 05:09
	18.	Flapping 02:51
	19.	Crackerjack (Clive Langer Version) 03:29
	20.	Don't Talk Just Kiss 04:28
	21.	Better Life 05:39
	22.	Take It (Edge Of The Box Mix) 04:47
	23.	Crackerjack (Everyone You Know Naughty Remix) 05:51
	24.	Weekender (Audrey Is A Little Bit More Partial) 16:59

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LONDON RECORDS REISSUE FLOWERED UP’S DEBUT ALBUM
‘A LIFE WITH BRIAN’ FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE
ORIGINAL 1991 RELEASE

NEWLY REMASTERED WITH SEMINAL 1992 SINGLE ‘WEEKENDER’ INCLUDED IN PACKAGE FOR THE FIRST TIME

AVAILABLE APRIL 19TH ON MULTIPLE FORMATS INCLUDING EXPANDED DIGITAL, LIMITED COLOURED VINYL 2LP & 2CD & AND STANDARD BLACK VINYL.

***Please note that due to licensing stipulations this release is not available for purchase digitally, however a download of the full album and bonus tracks will be granted with physical orders from release day.***

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Including new sleeve notes by Heavenly’s Robin Turner, the reissue adds their seminal 1992 single ‘Weekender’ to the album package plus a host of previously unreleased tracks and remixes, including newly commissioned remixes by Everyone You Know and Beyond The Wizards Sleeve.

Upcoming duo Everyone We Know’s thrilling contemporary
remix of FU classic ‘Crackerjack’ comes instantly with album pre-orders.

Beyond The Wizards Sleeve remix ‘Weekender’, the first remix in seven years from DJ/Producer duo of Erol Alkan and Richard Norris. They comment: “Flowered Up's Weekender is a work of a very special magic, of a particular time, place, feeling that you can hear busting out of the speakers. It was a challenge to take on such an iconic work, but we attacked it and pulled it into a few new shapes which nod to the original while taking it someplace else. Do you believe in magic?”

Emerging out of the Capital’s now legendary Acid House scene and being one of the first signings to the nascent Heavenly Recordings, Flowered Up were heralded as London's answer to the Happy Mondays and were so hot that they made the cover of both NME and Melody Maker before they’d even released a record. The ten tracks on ‘A Life With Brian’ represent a snapshot of a band who perfectly reflected their environment - the London streets they grew up on and the clubs they came of age in.

Released on Heavenly the following Summer, Flowered Up’s Clive Langer-produced thirteen minute masterpiece ‘Weekender’ is included on the album package for the very first time. The single was accompanied by a ground-breaking short film directed by Wiz, whose raw depiction of a weekend of clubbing is perhaps the single greatest document of early 90s rave culture and was the subject of the acclaimed 2022 Heavenly Films documentary ‘I Am Weekender’.

The album remastering was overseen by Flowered Up keyboard player Tim Dorney, and ‘A Life With Brian’ now sounds the way the band always wanted it to sound. “Modern mastering techniques have made it sound so much better,” explains Tim. “We went through the original 1/2-inch tape track by track and using a mix of modern software and some classic analogue pieces, we made it louder, wider and punchier all round.”

Sounding better than ever, this comprehensive reissue of ‘A Life With Brian’ offers a fresh perspective into the frenziedly exciting, all too brief musical career of Flowered Up. Although they started out playing at acid house clubs, they were very much a rock’n’roll band. A gang who embodied the spirit of their times, stepping from the darker corners of the dance floor onto the stage in a seamless transition from working the cash economy to soundtracking the very highest points of the night. Sing it loud: “let me touch the world / I’ll make it good, I’ll make it fine.”

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