It’s essential viewing, offering a unique insight into the heart of acid house and the messy consequences of a 24-7 lifestyle. The film features contributions from an incredible line up of talking heads, including the surviving members of the band, the film’s cast, Irvine Welsh, Jeremy Deller, Shaun Ryder, Roisin Murphy, Lynne Ramsey, Heavenly’s Jeff Barrett and many more. Thanks to Heavenly Films’ Martin Kelly, Weekender is being issued on BluRay for the first time, along with I Am Weekender - a seventy minute long documentary directed by Chloé Raunet about the making of the film and the impact it has had since it was first shown. Both the film and the track are a hell of a legacy for a band that flamed and burnt out way too early. Wiz’s film was a direct inspiration on Danny Boyle’s adaptation of Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting, the movie that shaped much of how club culture has been portrayed on screen ever since. In the years after its release, passed around on VHS tapes in a pre-internet era, the film’s notoriety grew and it’s influence seeped into popular culture.
Acclaimed on its release on Heavenly in 1992, Weekender was the Zenith of Flowered Up’s short, meteoric career - and their untimely swan song, an twelve minute single that was accompanied by a short film. It’s strange to think that a music promo could end up being one of the defining moments in the history of an independent record label, but that’s exactly what Weekender was.
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