a b c d e "Happy Mondays | full Official Chart History". Official Charts Company. Archived from the original on 1 May 2021 . Retrieved 6 October 2021. In the meantime, the members of the band had taken advantage of their fame and fortune, living lives of decadence and excess. Lead singer Shaun Ryder, in particular, was notorious for his Caligula-esque antics, such as hosting four-day parties featuring sex shows and dwarfs. Meanwhile, he took so many drugs he made the Gallagher brothers look like teetotalers. Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19thed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. pp.242–243. ISBN 1-904994-10-5. Why were the Mondays going to Barbados? According to The Mirror, it was because the island nation was a heroin-free zone at the time and the label spent big money to send the band there, hoping it would force addicts Shaun Ryder and brother and bassist Paul to dry up. Abbit, Beth (26 February 2018). "The Madchester Murder Mystery that inspired an award-winning film". Manchester Evening News . Retrieved 10 March 2018.

He didn’t rejoin for another reunion in 2004, but returned in 2012 when the original members reformed – the group continued to tour until the present day. Morley, Paul (2021). From Manchester with Love: The Life and Times of Tony Wilson*. London: Faber and Faber. ISBN 978-0-571-25249-7.The greatest opening line to an album ever?? Has to be a contender. So here we come to the “classic”. The Mondays album which always gets cited in lists and music publications. This was the moment that Madchester took over the UK for a brief spell. The band were now linked with fellow Mancunians The Stone Roses and they had moved away from Hannett and into the studio with electronic producer and superstar DJ Paul Oakenfold and Steve Osborne. Here was the band and Factory Records explicitly connecting them in with the chems and dance world. Those that knew spotted it on Bummed but with Pills the band were not being subtle anymore. From the kaleidoscopic cover to the title itself here were Happy Mondays coming for the dance crowd…and they got them. Gordon Barr (1 February 2012). "Interview: Shaun Ryder from Happy Mondays". Evening Chronicle. Media Limited . Retrieved 6 May 2012. Bummed is everything the Mondays musical legacy resides on and it is easy to see why when listening again. Shaun Ryder’s lyrics are even more snotty, obtuse and hilarious. His slang and cut/paste style ties him in to Gysin and Burroughs, Bowie and Bukowski. Scattered throughout the album are lyrics that make you laugh, make you cringe and also make you once again pore through them trying to decipher their meaning. Nadsat for the acid-house generation. Here is a debut album that feels one step ahead of the times and even the band themselves. The signs of what was about to unfold are there in the shape of the absolute classics Kuff Dam and Tart Tart which sound like the E was starting to seep in to the bloodstream. Happy Mondays would catch up with their own ideas and push them further forward on their next album and with the help of Martin Hannett and Ecstacy they were about to release their first seminal album…. As you might expect from the Happy Mondays at their chemical peak, it’s not exactly a sober affair – “Everything that’s ever been wrote about us is drugs, man,” says frontman Shaun Ryder at one point. “But then everything we’ve ever done is drugs.” – and in our opinion it deserves to be made into a movie at some point (a comedown response to 24 Hour Party People, perhaps).

We were wondering if u were thinking of reproducing any of your work as we would love to have some for our home not only because we love your pieces but as a constant reminder and inspiration for us as a family. You see we have 3 wonderful little boys and 2 of those little boys are Otis and Eli who are twins and who also have downs.” Rowetta’s powerhouse vocal performances on the album elevate the bands sound even further in the way she brings in an erotic gospel aspect which makes the bands sound feel again like a relative of the vocal driven House music that was popular at the time whilst also connecting them with the soul and funk bands that their sound is so obviously inspired by. Shaun Ryder’s vocals playing in and around Rowetta’s is a thrilling blend. There’s a sensuality to them singing together (most obvious on Bob’s Yer Uncle) and even though Rowetta brings an added femininity to the Mondays’ sound she never once feels like window dressing. In fact it is Rowetta’s famed “Yippee Yippee” on Kinky Afro is often the first sound you think of when thinking of Happy Mondays’ music. Rowetta adds sex, spirituality, power and harmony…wonder what Bummed would have sounded like with her on it???? That’s actually a really interesting way of looking at it, not being tied down to latest trends or by the established way of the art world could be one reason why working alongside you Maria has created striking and original pieces of art?Yes Please – Happy Mondays". The Irish News. 2 August 2013. Archived from the original on 10 October 2021 . Retrieved 14 October 2021. Yes Please! may have a lot not to like on it but it definitely has enough quality to keep it an interesting listen and it is certainly worth your while revisiting it once in a while. What goes up must come down…

Sawyer, Miranda (September 1992). "The Man Whose Head Expanded". Select. No.26. London. ISSN 0959-8367. Four albums. Three you could call classic and one near miss. It’s odd as there is a weird symmetry between Happy Mondays and their fellow lauded Mancs The Smiths when it comes to their recorded output. You have the promising debut, the leap-forward cult classic follow up, the celebrated third and the could-have-been-great fourth. Yet you only seem to see think pieces or coloumn inches covering Moz and co with not as much coverage on the Mondays’ first life which is a shame as personally I feel the Mondays are more vital in understanding our recent past and especially our present where club culture is massive and dance music has become the biggest form of music there is. And I’ve just asked Maria and her favourite is ‘Beach Fish Boat’ (below), Mariasays –‘More Stand Out’

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This Exhibition is dedicated to the Memory of Our Mum and Dad Tom and Mary Carroll and Our Sister Mag and the rest of the family for all there support Yes Please!, then, may go largely uncelebrated as it passes its 25th anniversary. But its mixture of warm Caribbean sun and hard Manchester rain, sleek production sheen and lyrical despair, makes the album brilliantly unique, a weird combination of Eddy Grant, Joy Division, Tom Tom Club and one of the best lyricists in British history straining at the very end of his patience. Forget the four lousy songs that end Yes Please!, stop worrying about the demise of Factory and you can appreciate the first six songs on the album for their raw emotional power. Howe, Jon. "Are You Man U, You? - When The Happy Mondays Played Leeds' Elland Road". Sabotage Times . Retrieved 11 August 2019.

To be honest a lot of the paint we used was fromQualitySave,and got to say I like a Quality Save brush. It has good freedom in its strokes (ha ha). Monroe, Jazz (15 July 2022). "Happy Mondays Bassist Paul Ryder Dies at 58". Pitchfork . Retrieved 16 July 2022. Happy Mondays toured the US and Canada with The Psychedelic Furs in late 2009 with Paul Ryder's son and Shaun Ryder's nephew Jake Ryder filling in for Gaz Whelan on drums. [24] That’s great, and the fact she recognises herself as an artist too is fantastic . How about the paintings that have stood out in the ‘Up’s & Down’s’ exhibition so far, and why would you maybe say that is? Kitty Empire (10 June 2007). "Pop: Happy Mondays, Astoria, London WC2 | Music | The Observer". The Guardian . Retrieved 25 December 2012.Wills, Dominic; Sheehan, Tom (1999). The Charlatans: The Authorised History. London: Virgin Books. ISBN 0-7535-0194-5. A fictionalised depiction of the band is featured in the 2002 film 24 Hour Party People, with Danny Cunningham as Shaun Ryder and Paul Popplewell as Paul Ryder. Paul Ryder himself had a cameo role in the film as a gangster and Rowetta appeared in the film as herself. [18] Third incarnation [ edit ]