Happy Mondays
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Happy Mondays: Dream, Drink or Die
Interview by Jon Wilde, Sounds, 27 September 1986
HAPPY MONDAYS wear flappy flares and absent grins. They wear tatty beards and talk complete rubbish most of the time. JONH WILDE sifted through the ...
Report by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 27 February 1987
Compact Disc has brought the second coming of The Beatles and the promise of a revolution in the rock industry. But is it a sound ...
Review by Paul Mathur, Melody Maker, 18 April 1987
BLUR. The boys from Happy Mondays skitter past us on the rob down the Arndale. Loose limbs and flares kick dust into everybody's eyes. ...
Happy Mondays: The Rock Garden, London
Live Review by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 2 May 1987
HAPPY MONDAYS is where the repetition-repetition-repetition of post-Velvets jangle-drone meets the repetition-repetition-repetition of '70s funk. Imagine a cross between the Blue Orchids and Hamilton Bohannon, ...
The Fall/The Bodines/Happy Mondays: International, Manchester
Live Review by John Robb, Sounds, 2 May 1987
STRANGE HOW, these days, any gathering of vaguely well known groups always makes you think of charity and polished consciences. But tonight seemed to be ...
Happy Mondays: "Everything Else Is Foreign, Innit?"
Interview by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 9 May 1987
HAPPY MONDAYS box ears as Factory's rhythm frenzy new boys. DELE FADELE is welcomed to their working week. ...
Happy Mondays: The Monday Club
Interview by Robin Gibson, Sounds, 9 May 1987
More Factory fodder as the label present HAPPY MONDAYS — a group who've festered in Manchester for five years and who are now about to outrage the nation's ...
Happy Mondays: Black Horse, Camden, London
Live Review by Roy Wilkinson, Sounds, 16 May 1987
STUMBLING ON like a misdirected sextet of Stretford End psychopaths who've come down for the match and somehow ended up in this scale model of ...
Happy Mondays: Black Horse, Camden, London
Live Review by Roy Wilkinson, Sounds, 16 May 1987
STUMBLING ON like a misdirected sextet of Stretford End psychopaths who've come down for the match and somehow ended up in this scale model of ...
Happy Mondays — Funk Disc Location
Interview by Ian Gittins, Melody Maker, 28 November 1987
UNTAMED AND UNRELENTING, Happy Mondays have still managed to carve out splinters of ordered funk from their fractured pop chaos. Ian Gittins struggles through a ...
Interview by Jon Wilde, Melody Maker, 12 November 1988
In Manchester "shit" means great. Yet a year after Happy Mondays' shit debut album, Squirrel And G-Man, some critics have already written off the band. ...
Profile and Interview by Martin Aston, Auckland Star, 1989
IF PUNK WAS the answer to the broad lack of genuine invention in the musical mid-70s, then the Acid House phenomenon answered those who believed ...
Happy Mondays, Kit: University of London Union, London
Live Review by Ian Gittins, Melody Maker, 18 February 1989
LAUGHING MAD ...
Report and Interview by Ian Gittins, Melody Maker, 15 April 1989
IAN GITTINS JOINS THE MANCHESTER REPROBATES ON THEIR TOUR OF IRELAND AND WITNESSES MAYHEM, MADNESS AND BAFFLING BRILLIANCE. ...
The Stone Roses and The Happy Mondays
Report and Interview by Nick Kent, The Face, January 1990
AFTER A YEAR of underground success, Stone Roses and Happy Mondays crowd into a Top Of The Pops dressing room to celebrate their entry into ...
Happy Mondays and A Guy Called Gerald Hit the Northern Lights
Report and Interview by Andrew Smith, Melody Maker, 30 March 1990
They came, they saw, they got wrecked and the police were called. Last week, Andrew Smith travelled to Reykjavík with both bands and witnessed scenes ...
Happy Mondays: Homage to Catatonia
Report and Interview by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 31 March 1990
It's just another manic HAPPY MONDAYS, as the Manc scuzz bags-made-good wreak havoc in a nab-it-all frenzy through Europe on their way back to a ...
Step Right On Up: Happy Mondays/808 State: G-Mex, Manchester
Live Review by John Robb, Sounds, 31 March 1990
With rave rock shifting into top gear, 8000 watch its spiritual fathers Happy Mondays go mad in Manchester G-Mex. John Robb witnesses one of the ...
Madchester vibes in the area... it's the Happy Mondays
Interview by Sylvia Patterson, Smash Hits, 4 April 1990
Shaun! Bez! Gaz! The other blokes! It's the Happy Mondays! And they're such rock 'n' roll degenerates they make Guns N' Roses look like Yell! ...
Report and Interview by John Robb, Sounds, 14 April 1990
With The Stone Roses at Spike Island, the Mondays at Glastonbury and numerous other raves, the summer of 1990 should be one to remember. John ...
Happy Mondays: Wembley Arena, London
Live Review by Barbara Ellen, New Musical Express, 21 April 1990
IN THE ARE(N)A! ...
Ryders On A Storm: Happy Mondays in The Altered States of America
Report and Interview by Betty Page, Vox, October 1990
"GET THAT THING off, man... get that dangerous f***ingmotherf***ing thing off!" Shaun Ryder has just had the tip of my sleek black Olympus micro-cassette machine ...
Interview by James Brown, New Musical Express, 6 October 1990
Get your hands on your handbags HAPPY MONDAYS are back. After a long hard summer recording in Los Angeles, the ugliest band in Britain have ...
Happy Mondays, Donovan: Wembley Arena, London
Live Review by John Harris, Sounds, 24 November 1990
FUNNY GAME, this pop business. You can either master its niceties, turn yourself into a big bucks circus and revel in the fact that you'll ...
Interview by Mat Snow, Q, December 1990
IT IS FOUR in the afternoon and Shaun Ryder, the allegedly handsome front man of Happy Mondays, is enjoying his breakfast. Manchester being the only ...
Happy Mondays: Pills 'N' Thrills And Bellyaches (Factory)
Review by Betty Page, Vox, December 1990
IT MAY TAKE a while for the nation to be convinced of Happy Mondays' worth, to believe that they're not drug-dealing lowlife scum pissing around ...
Report and Interview by Tony Fletcher, Spin, December 1990
THE YEAR 1990 has been one of re-evaluation and subsequent rejuvenation for bands in Britain. Spurred on by the excitement of 1988's acid-house scene and ...
Is Shaun Ryder Really A Sex Symbol?
Report and Interview by Simon Witter, Sky, Summer 1990
He's no oil painting but the Happy Mondays' grubby lead singer Shaun Ryder is deluged with love letters from admiring teenage girls. Now the group's ...
Interview by Susan Compo, Siren, 1991
As the Happy Mondays prepare to release a live album to counteract/complement the Baby Big Head bootleg, what’s a girl with a book of post-punk ...
Mardi* Grass!: Happy Mondays: La Cigale, Paris
Live Review by Betty Page, New Musical Express, 16 March 1991
(*That's French for the day after Monday) ...
Jane's Addiction/Happy Mondays: Madison Square Garden, NYC
Live Review by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 11 May 1991
IT MUST HAVE seemed an inspired notion to pair these unabashed champions of drug culture, but inside sources tell me that it's turned out to ...
Happy Mondays: Renting and raving
Interview by James Brown, New Musical Express, 26 October 1991
SHAUN RYDER Is suing News Of The World after they alleged he was a rent boy before he was a singer. JAMES BROWN hears the ...
Happy Mondays: Working Class Zero
Interview by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 16 November 1991
1990 was the year HAPPY MONDAYS could do no wrong. But this year they've made more headlines than records — Ronnie Biggs, editing Penthouse, the ...
Anthony Wilson: Renaissance Manc
Interview by Stuart Maconie, New Musical Express, 30 November 1991
FACTORY: aloof, elegant, misunderstood Mancunian home of Joy Division, New Order, Happy Mondays, possibly the coolest record label in the world — but there are ...
Happy Mondays: Yes Please! (Factory)
Review by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 5 September 1992
NO THANKS ...
Review by Max Bell, Vox, October 1992
HAPPY MONDAYS' fourth album arrives in a cloud. The nest of vipers stirred by Shaun Ryder's interview with the NME last year is one factor ...
Happy Mondays: Brixton Academy, London
Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 19 October 1992
THESE ARE troubled times for the Happy Mondays. Their new album, Yes, Please!, reputedly went over budget and has not had the sales to compensate. ...
Happy Mondays: That Monday Mourning Feeling
Report and Interview by Tom Hibbert, Q, December 1992
FOR NO IMMEDIATELY discernible reason, Shaun Ryder is attempting to perform a party trick and failing miserably. He is trying to flick a cigarette (one ...
Report by Paul Lester, Melody Maker, 5 December 1992
FACTORY RECORDS, arguably the most influential record label of the Eighties, fell into the hands of the Receiver last week — after months of speculation ...
Happy Mondays: It’ll End In Tears…
Report by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, May 1993
IT WAS KENTUCKY Fried Chicken that did for the Happy Mondays, according to eye-witness accounts. The band were all foregathered at EMI's London HQ with ...
Black Grape: Forget It All For An Instant
Interview by Lisa Verrico, Vox, July 1995
After all the pills, thrills and bellyaches, Shaun Ryder felt peckish — so he nipped off to Kentucky Fried Chicken. It took him three years ...
Interview by Cliff Jones, The Face, August 1995
Call the cops! Manchester's premier exponent of hooligan rock is back, and sounding better than ever. Cliff Jones grills the Black Grape head honcho on Star ...
Memoir by Susan Corrigan, i-D, October 1995
Five years ago an explosion of music, drugs and flares hit a certain Northern city. Now with Oasis, the Stone Roses and Black Grape in ...
Interview by Lisa Verrico, Vox, October 1995
In the first of a series never, ever to be continued, Shaun Ryder presents his passport to the land of a thousand karma sutra babes. ...
The Haçienda: Working on a Building of Love
Retrospective by John McCready, The Face, May 1997
It gives us such great joy to sayThat fifteen years ago todayA club was born — the HaçiendaA venue for the maddest bendersSo as you ...
Retrospective and Interview by Andy Crysell, New Musical Express, 25 April 1998
Disco biscuits, gurning, raves, sartorial bonkersness, and, um, Guru Josh! The ACID HOUSE scene brought us many things when it exploded in 1988; it also ...
The Stone Roses and Happy Mondays: What The World Is Still Waiting For?
Retrospective and Interview by Jack Barron, Melody Maker, 13 March 1999
It was the scene that produced some of the best bands the world had ever seen. Now, with the Happy Mondays reforming end The Stone ...
Happy Mondays: 192-Hour Party People
Report and Interview by Jack Barron, Melody Maker, 15 May 1999
The Kings of hedonism HAPPY MONDAYS have just completed their triumphant eight-date comeback tour. We joined them on the road to hear about their slightly ...
Review by Ian Fortnam, music365.com, August 1999
Of course, this whole Mondays comeback nonsense merely drags the hard-won bad name of everyone's favourite Manc scamps down to even lower levels of infamy. ...
Robbie Williams, Gomez, Happy Mondays, Placebo, Stereophonics: Slane Castle, Dublin
Live Review by Robin Bresnark, Melody Maker, 4 September 1999
RELIGHT MY EIRE! ...
Shaun Ryder: "I look all right, don't I?"
Interview by Ted Kessler, The Guardian, 20 June 2003
Two years ago Shaun Ryder was finished. He had lost his money, his mates and the plot. With a new album out, he tells Ted ...
It's a very happy Monday for Bez
Report by Caitlin Moran, The Times, 24 January 2005
Victory for the man who tried to escape Celebrity Big Brother. ...
Essay by Steve Redhead, Rock's Backpages, August 2007
'YOU SALFORD NANCY Boy!' was a regular insult hurled from the wings at the late Anthony H. Wilson, educated at De La Salle College in ...
Happy Mondays: Manchester Arena, Manchester **
Live Review by Stephen Dalton, The Times, 8 May 2012
LIKE a musical version of a Civil War re-enactment society, the elder statesmen of Manchester's fabled 1980s rock scene are returning to relive their youthful ...
Happy Mondays: Brixton Academy, London
Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 13 May 2012
IF YOU DISCOUNT HIS PROPENSITY for using the f-word, you could call Shaun Ryder a solid citizen these days. The Happy Mondays' leader is slim, ...
see also Black Grape
see also Shaun Ryder
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