“Crazy on the Weekend” is the sole album by English indie band Sunhouse. Working with producer John Reynolds, the band continued their practice of recording outside a studio environment, working in the producer’s house in Notting Hill. Their acoustic-based songs were augmented by washes of strings and organ, earning comparisons to Nick Drake, Tom Waits and Beth Orton.
A singer who sold just a handful of records in his lifetime and who was never much on the radio or TV died aged just 46.
Sinéad O’Connor provides backing vocals on the track “Hard Sun”.
Released in March 1998, “Crazy on the Weekend” had some critical success including a five star review in Uncut. It featured in the year end best of lists for various blog sites and magazines. Despite the critical success, the album sold poorly and the band never recorded again. Singer-songwriter Gavin Clark went on to form the band Clayhill and made several guest appearances on recordings by Unkle as well as providing music for many of Shane Meadows’ films, including a beautiful version of The Smiths’ Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want for This Is England.. Clark died in 2015.
His voice was a beautiful thing, fragile and careworn – an angel drunk on whisky. His lyrics were full of despair and hope and love and fear and death. The album was called “Crazy on the Weekend“. It came out in 1998, in the wake of things such as “Be Here Now” by Oasis and “Urban Hymns” by The Verve, at the apogee of Britpop, just as the bubble was bursting.
Right away it got a five-star review in Uncut, where it was exalted as one of the records of the decade and where Gavin’s songwriting was compared to Elvis Costello and Gram Parsons.
The Fat Angel Sings 