Happy Mondays
Bez looks back: ‘I was always drawn to rebellion’ | Flashback
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
Harriet Gibsone
12, Feb, 2022 @12:00 PM
James review – shamanic Mancs provide spiritual nourishment
Led by Tim Booth, the band play an adventurous set that shows them still questing for enlightenment
Dave Simpson
26, Nov, 2021 @11:31 AM
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
Emma Garland
02, Oct, 2021 @10:00 AM
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
As told to Will Lavin
29, Jul, 2021 @3:00 PM
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
Tim Jonze
10, May, 2021 @10:00 AM
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
Mattha Busby
09, Jan, 2021 @6:08 PM
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
Joe Muggs
07, Jul, 2020 @5:00 AM
Andrew Weatherall obituary
DJ and record producer whose work on Primal Scream’s 1991 album Screamadelica helped it win the first Mercury prize
Adam Sweeting
18, Feb, 2020 @1:54 PM
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
Tom Knight
06, Sep, 2019 @12:54 PM
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
James McMahon
17, Aug, 2019 @1:00 PM
‘Anyone else would have kicked him out’: celebrity flatmates reveal all
Stealing clothes, sharing a bed, cereal for dinner... from Shaun Ryder and Bez to the boys from Busted, former housemates remember their first house share
Martha Hayes
30, Mar, 2019 @8:59 AM
Wrote for Luck: Selected Lyrics by Shaun Ryder review – unique, hilarious, vicious
The words of the Happy Mondays and Black Grape frontman are utterly singular and never less than entertaining
Miranda Sawyer
03, Mar, 2019 @1:00 PM
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