Flowered Up's Liam Maher just died.

Maher was the lead singer of London's early '90s answer to the acid-house baggy sound of Manchester's Happy Mondays and The Stone Roses, and rarely got much credit from the press despite a mad live reputation and being behind one of the era's most ambitious never-ending anthems.

"Weekender," nearly thirteen minutes long and released on Heavenly Records (Beth Orton, Saint Etienne, Manic Street Preachers) is what you get when the scene's earth-breaking hedonism flouts the abyss with an ever-changing epic of quintessential attitude, monstrous drugs, echoed guitars, a sort of daft earnestness, and electric currents of positivity, essentially becoming both an emblem and a tribute to the sound of the times.

Heavenly writes:

It ran through styles faster than kids escaping from a corner shop break in, sprinting from guitar-heavy mooching shuffle to stoned ambient middle to final insanity race to the end, all the while Liam railing against weekend clubbers, promoting a fatalistic 24-7 party lifestyle.

The song spawned a short film by seminal music-video director Wiz.

As well as The Twang's entire career.

Maybe now they'll be missed.

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