How Liam Maher from Flowered Up changed my life

Before their single Weekender became an anthem for hedonists, Flowered Up inspired me to put on my first ever gigThinking about it now, I owe my career to Liam Maher, the frontman of Flowered Up who died yesterday. Back in 1990 I was just another a teenager in thrall of the music press itching to leave my hometown of Newport. There were no clubs in South Wales playing acid house or its low-slung rock'n'roll counterpart, "baggy" (not yet a term of derision). Flowered Up were part of that new bre...

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