2 posts tagged “indie”
This video is the Indie Chart from September 1992. The first track played in full is one of the singles from the Nick Cave album Henry's Dream.
However, the real reason I'm posting this is that at number one is an obscure band who unfortunately got caught up in the dying backwash of Madchester. The New Fast Automatic Daffodils weren't really anything to do with a scene, but because they were from the same place, they got lumped in with the likes of the Happy Mondays. While not quite their last gasp, it was their last single to really trouble the industry, but I've always liked its rather fatalistic view on the world. Hopefully you will too.
* Interesting point in that Wikipedia article: "Only episodes from 1991-92 and 1996-98 were shown due to other episodes being stored on video formats which they no longer had the ability to play" Thank goodness for people with VHS tapes, eh?
This is one of those "thanks to the Internet" things but until a month or so ago I'd never seen this video, despite it coming out fifteen years ago. Weekender, you see, was a classic of the early 90s, an epic indie/dance hybrid documenting the ups and downs of a weekend's rave.
The short film was directed by Wiz, who went on to produce videos for the Chemical Brothers, and it wasn't unreasonable to call it that; like the track, it runs for a good quarter of an hour. While it was early in his career, though, it marked the end of Flowered Up's career, after a lone album and a few singles. What a glorious swansong.
As I said, although I'd heard of the video ages ago, it was never shown on TV (or at least, never whilst I was watching), and it took a while to show up online (although I'd heard the track a few times, mainly in the evenings on Radio 1; Annie Nightingale loved the track and played it regularly, including it on a rather good compliation album). However, now someone's digitised it, and so I can share it with you all. Enjoy.
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