Liquid Stone
Here Comes The Weekend (own label, 1981)
Lots of credits on this one, although all five of them were worryingly just 'Liquid Stone'. That's not the kind of info that helps track down the band. Never mind, someone had to do it, so I withheld all food for a month from the pack of trained LDK-bloodhounds, teamed them up with my most-crack LDK-sleuths, and sent them out with the instructions to not come back 'Stone-less, or else. After a few days word came back that some bleary-eyed late-night fine-toothcombing of old fanzines had produced a lead: we now knew which part of the country, if not the actual town, they were from! Local scenesters were quizzed but no-one remembered anything. After a week or so of pestering anyone vaguely Aylesbury-ish (even Otway had to answer to the LDK-prod: we took the opportunity to ask about the Anal Surgeons single he'd produced but which had never been released, too - were there test pressings, maybe? No...) - for the Liquids were assessed to have been in that neighbourhood - someone somewhere remembered that one of the band, who they vaguely recalled the name of but knew nothing about, was now in Mud. The Mud. Seemed unlikely, but with no other leads... Find the bloke 'in' Mud (he had been, but wasn't any more), he's not been in Liquid Stone but he has been in Liquid Gold, they of the shake-yer-booty disco bump of "Dance Yourself Dizzy". Bugger. But hang on, all is not lost: he knows someone from Liquid Stone, and even knows where he is these days! Bingo!!
"Here Comes The Weekend" was the band's only single, although they did punt a private 'demo'-type 9-track cassette too (the LDK-archive copy is mush and hiss and mud [no, not that Mud]). The other side, "Because Of You", is great too. It's one of the very rarest of all UK LDK-type private singles.
