From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V11 #156 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Sunday, November 1 2009 Volume 11 : Number 156 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [idealcopy] liam maher RIP [Tim ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2009 03:51:12 +0000 From: Tim Subject: Re: [idealcopy] liam maher RIP They didn't stand a chance really coming out with what was basically very easily labelled as cockney version of Happy Mondays. But I remember being quite smitten with their debut 'It's On' I recall an excellent BBC live session which showcased them tunes far better than their album which suffers from a very clean overproduction with General Midi preset keyboard sounds almost obscuring the energy of their live show. Weekender was very promising indeed and had they come up with an album response to Britpop they could have cleaned up and wiped out the likes of Menswear. Alas that last track for Heavenly is kind of Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine meets Gary Clail..very 1991 (for 1994) and hints at why they faded from view. Go on Spotify and hear "Take It" which is probably the closet anyone really got to mixing House Music and Rock...until The Klaxons started that particular ball rolling again. PAUL RABJOHN wrote: > sad to read that Liam Maher , singer of Flowered Up , died last week. now i > know they were dismissed in certain (cruel) quarters as cockernee chancers , > but i always thought when they got it right (like "Weekender" and a few of the > tracks on the album) they were quite something. sadly i fear they did not have > the TSB Rockschool workaholic attitude of modern landfill indie types. also > they were about as likely to get a workmanlike tour organised as they were to > get nominated as spokespersons for a "Just Say No" campaign. sadly these > things conspired against them , and even the help of their onstage cheerleader > Barney Mooncult (imagine Bez dressed up as a giant flower , just possibly a > little "well refreshed") couldn't get them the recognition they certainly > thought they deserved. > > they don't make indie bands like that these days. and > here's their final track (unreleased) to silence any doubters. or something > like that.... > > www.twitter.com/heavenlyrecs > > p ------------------------------ End of idealcopy-digest V11 #156 ********************************