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Happy Mondays

January 2024

  • Black Grape Shaun Ryder and Kermit

    ‘National treasure? It’s better than crackhead’: Shaun Ryder and Kermit on the return of Black Grape

    One is in his dressing gown, the other recommends carrot juice: clearly things have changed among the indie-dance act. They talk us through their hedonistic 90s, plus grief, Farage and fatherhood

December 2023

  • Frankly, the Smiths

    ‘I feel more like myself when I’m Morrissey’: the bizarre lives of tribute acts

    With tickets for big-name stars at a premium, it’s a great time to be a tribute act. Artists from ‘Tina Turner’ to the Arctic Numpties take us into their bizarre lives

October 2022

  • ‘Her first appearance takes some beating’ … Amy Winehouse.

    Ranked
    The 100 greatest BBC music performances – ranked!

    As the Beeb celebrates its centenary, we take a look at its most memorable pop moments, from the birth of grime to the first sightings of Bob Dylan and Bob Marley, plus TOTP goes Madchester and countless classic Peel sessions

July 2022

  • Alexis Petridis

    Paul Ryder brought funk to Happy Mondays’ debauched carnival of sound

    Alexis Petridis
  • Paul Ryder performing with Happy Mondays in 2019.

    Paul Ryder, Happy Mondays bassist, dies aged 58

February 2022

  • Bez doing a two-finger peace sign

    Flashback
    Bez looks back: ‘I was a nightmare, even as a baby’

    The Happy Mondays dancer/percussionist recreates a photo taken in Cuba after his band were booted out of the US and talks about his wild youth

November 2021

  • Tim Booth of James performing in Leeds.

    James review – shamanic Mancs provide spiritual nourishment

    Led by Tim Booth, the band play an adventurous set that shows them still questing for enlightenment

October 2021

  • HAPPY MONDAYS SHAUN RYDER AT MANCHESTER ARENA.

    How to Be a Rock Star by Shaun Ryder review – candid, brilliant and bizarre

    The lead singer of the Happy Mondays and star of Celebrity Gogglebox mixes funny stories with moments of real poignancy as he looks back at three decades of rock’n’roll debauchery

July 2021

  • Teenage kicks: Bez

    Teenage kicks
    Bez’s teenage obsessions: ‘With cider, you can literally taste spirituality’

    As the Happy Mondays dancer releases his first track as a vocalist, he reminisces about his youth, from spells in prison to bonding with Shaun Ryder at the Haçienda

May 2021

  • Shaun Ryder, photographed at the The Worsley Park Marriott Hotel in Manchester.

    The G2 interview
    Shaun Ryder: ‘I was a heroin addict for 20-odd years, but there’s been no damage off that’

    From ADHD to alopecia and learning the alphabet at 28, the Happy Mondays singer has had a wild, eventful life. He discusses hedonism, parenting – and why he has to spend so much time correcting Bez

January 2021

  • Bez dancing on stage with maraca

    Get Buzzin’ With Bez: Happy Mondays star to launch YouTube fitness class

    Cult hero wants to ‘get fit and mentally happier’ after ‘mainly sitting on sofa’ during lockdown

July 2020

  • Flowered up … (clockwise from left) Ian Brown from the Stone Roses, Bobby Gillespie of Primal Scream, Bez of the Happy Mondays and the Beloved.

    Club culture
    Twisting my melon, man! The baggy, brilliant indie-rave summer of 1990

    As the new decade dawned, indie and rave collided and a seismic party began. Bands from the Happy Mondays to Primal Scream relive that explosion of pills, thrills and endless possibilities

February 2020

  • Andrew Weatherall during The Apple Cart Festival 2011 at Victoria Park.

    Andrew Weatherall obituary

    DJ and record producer whose work on Primal Scream’s 1991 album Screamadelica helped it win the first Mercury prize

September 2019

  • OConnell Ryder

    Jack O'Connell to play Happy Mondays' Shaun Ryder in biopic

    Jason Isaacs and Maxine Peake in talks to star as Ryder’s parents in Twisting My Melon, based on ‘Madchester’ singer’s autobiography

August 2019

  • .<br>Shaun Ryder Musician 01-10-2013 Photograph by Martin Godwin.

    This much I know
    Shaun Ryder: ‘I’m a really good dad, this time around anyway’

    The Happy Mondays singer tells James McMahon about UFOs, coming off drugs, children, Bez and losing his hair

March 2019

  • Shaun Ryder and Bez.

    ‘Anyone else would have kicked him out’: celebrity flatmates reveal all

  • SHAUN RYDER BY ELSPETH MOORE

    Wrote for Luck: Selected Lyrics by Shaun Ryder review – unique, hilarious, vicious

January 2019

  • Shaun Ryder.

    Shaun Ryder to publish lyrics collection through Faber

    Wrote for Luck showcases words of Happy Mondays songwriter hailed in Madchester years as ‘on a par with Yeats’

November 2018

  • The line up... (from left): Pete Doherty, Johnny Rotten and Flowered Up.

    The five stages of a rock reunion - from Shiiine On to supporting Hard-Fi

    The band are back together! But what happens next? Whether it’s the Streets, the Libertines or the Sex Pistols, there are predictable chapters to the comeback

September 2018

  • Bez and Rowetta Idah with Jarvis Cocker and Candida Doyle on Bargain Hunt

    Bez gets Happy Mondays disqualified from Bargain Hunt special

    Dancer broke show’s rules by artificially inflating prices, handing victory to Pulp
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