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“You’d have Mark talking about strings, Our Kid talking about amplifiers. Whereas me and Bez would just walk in and be ourselves. So nobody wanted to talk to them”: Shaun Ryder on life in the Happy Mondays

Singer has a new memoir out this month

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Watching Watership Down on acid with Bez: Shaun Ryder releases new memoir 24 Hour Party Person

Happy Mondays frontman says forthcoming book will include bullet-dodging scrapes in Jamaica and New York as well as ‘bust-ups and benders’ with his bands

The Guardian - UK

Shaun Ryder teases new Happy Mondays album is halfway finished and takes aim at Trump

Shaun Ryder has spilled that he has six tracks ready for the first Happy Mondays album in almost two decades.

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'It was the best feeling in the world': Shaun Ryder revelled in the success of Black Grape's debut album

Shaun Ryder felt that he proved his doubters wrong with Black Grape's chart-topping debut album It's Great When You're Straight... Yeah, which came following the breakup of Happy Mondays.

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Zeppelin and Floyd hoped his magic would rub off on them. The Happy Mondays just wanted to kidnap him. Donovan just dropped the most epic, name-dropping answer to a question ever

After all, why reply with a short response when you can weave a long tale involving Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Pink Floyd and more instead?

Louder

Legendary band announces three gigs at iconic Glasgow venue

A legendary band has announced three concerts at an iconic Glasgow venue.

The National (Scotland)

Black Grape: It’s Great When You’re Straight… Yeah at 30 – one of music’s greatest comeback stories

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Shaun Ryder had the world at his feet. His band, The Happy Mondays, had been key players in the UK “Madchester scene” and had scored a platinum selling album with 1990’s Pills ‘n’ Thrills and Bellyaches. Bands everywhere had tried to imitate the…

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"At a self-described 'post-punk festival', they've put the guy who defined both punk AND post-punk on a little stage in a car park. Lydon is raging…" PiL, Johnny Marr and Death Cult thrill at 'post-punk festival' Forever Now

The National Bowl at Milton Keynes plays home to an underserved tribe in a celebration of 80s alternative music

Louder

"A national treasure? I'll take that over being called a smackhead, crackhead loser": Shaun Ryder on Black Grape, The Happy Mondays, Gogglebox and why it's great when you're straight, yeah

At 61, Shaun Ryder is still having more fun than anyone you know

Louder

‘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

The Guardian - UK

“I’d not played for 17 years. I put all my guitars in the loft and never touched them. I didn’t think I knew how to play anymore”: When Happy Mondays split, Mark Day gave up guitar – and was surprised to find he could still play when he returned

Happy Mondays were one of the architects of the Manchester scene that gave birth to Oasis. Armed with basic gear, most of which he can’t remember, their genre-splicing guitarist is finally proud of the influential music he helped create

Guitar World

A beginner's guide to Factory Records in five essential albums

The story of the Manchester indie label that changed the world

Louder

Mantra Of The Cosmos: Who are the members of the new supergroup?

The new band is made up of former members of the Happy Mondays, Oasis, and Ride

Evening Standard

Members of The Who, Oasis, Happy Mondays and Ride join forces for new supergroup

Mantra Of The Cosmos’ first single, Gorilla Guerilla is out now

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Manchester Evening News

"This next tune is to everyone who stood firm and didn’t give a f**k": Ian Brown reviewed

Ian Brown opened Neighbourhood Weekender with Live at the Big Top gig

Manchester Evening News

Happy Mondays and Ian Brown set for ‘big top’ festival in Warrington

The gig happens the night before the Neighbourhood Weekender

Manchester Evening News

What it's like when your grandad is Bez - Happy Monday, writer, underwear model

The legendary vibesman on his new book, losing a friend and how he hates talking about himself

Daily Mirror

Why Shaun Ryder quit drugs after sex parties, 'crack island' and biting dog on LSD

Legendary Happy Mondays frontman Shaun Ryder, who is celebrating his 60th birthday today, gave up his drug-fuelled lifestyle for an emotional reason

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Manchester Evening News

Happy Mondays star Paul Ryder laid to rest as Manchester’s music scene pay respects

Ian Brown, Rowetta, Peter Hook and Clint Boon were amongst those in attendance

Manchester Evening News

Happy Mondays release charity single on vinyl in memory of Paul Ryder

The single costs £10 and is available to pre-order ahead of its release in November

Manchester Evening News

We just lost Paul Ryder. And all these other Manchester music legends were taken far too soon

We look back at some of pivotal figures from the city's illustrious musical history who we lost prematurely

The Guardian - UK

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

The bass guitarist, who has died aged 58, anchored the Madchester band and gave the listener something to latch on to amid a swirl of psychedelia and rave

Chronicle Live

Happy Mondays' Paul Ryder dies ahead of Sunderland gig at Kubix festival as band pull out

Happy Mondays' founding member Paul Ryder has died just as the band were due to take stage at Kubix festival in Sunderland

Daily Mirror

Happy Mondays bassist Paul Ryder, 58, dies hours before show as band pay tribute

Happy Mondays bassist Paul Ryder has died hours before the band were going to perform in Sunderland

Liverpool Echo

Pointless Celebrities: Bez and Shaun Ryder's friendship including four-day parties

The friends toured the world as part of the Happy Mondays band

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