Manchester Evening News (Free subscription) | 12/17/2008
FOR a man who doesn’t consider himself “much of a traveller”, affable Happy Mondays' drummer Gaz Whelan sure has spent a lot of time of filling out international visa forms.
There Goes The Fear (Free subscription) | 11/13/2008
I don’t know about you, but I’m having a really hard time this Christmas finding books within budget for my friends and family… Following on from our previous post about musical gifts, those lovely people at Virgin Books have been in touch to offer you 35% off their range of music books and free postage [...]
Cerysmatic Factory (Free subscription) | 10/18/2008
Sculptor Michele Rashman, wife of ex-Simply Red and Happy Mondays manager Elliot, is "relieved" that her sculpture of Shaun Ryder as 'talented dog' failed to attract a buyer at last weekend's inaugural Buy Art Fair held at Urbis in Manchester. "I'm glad it didn't sell because i'd like to tour it round the country a bit first". But why didn't the work of art, entitled 'Hey Shawarma', realise its modest...
The Sun (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
SINGER Shaun Ryder is barking mad after someone nicked his beloved pooch Oscar
Chinalyst - China blogs in English (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Hangzhou, China. Remember that scene in 24 Hour Party People, when Shaun Ryder's character says "I don't want no bunny rabbit food" when he looks at the veggie food spread on Tony Wilson's fancy new table? Except he's got an accent and it sounds like he says "bully rabbi" instead. I wonder what the Happy Monday singer would say if we offered him a bunny rabbit head. Would he eat it?
Manchester Evening News (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
SALFORD Lads Club has long been a mecca for Smiths fans - and now it's been used as a mosque.
Buzzin Music Blog (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Happy Mondays singer Shaun Ryder has landed a cameo role in the latest series of Channel 4 series Shameless, says a report in the Sun. Ryder is allegedly a huge fan of the TV show and thinks it is really funny says an insider, ‘His scenes in it are particularly hilarious, He has a very dry sense of [...]
Digital Spy (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Happy Mondays singer Shaun Ryder is to cameo in Shameless.
Manchester Online (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
IT'S a bizarre twist of pop history that Eddy Grant, he of Electric Avenue and Gimme Hope Jo'anna, had a key role in the tale of Madchester.
Cerysmatic Factory (Free subscription) | 06/01/2008
Shaun Ryder (Happy Mondays): "I'm not a working-class Tory. I just think what Thatcher did had to be done for the good of the country". The Guardian , 31st May 2008.
Electric Roulette (Free subscription) | 05/22/2008
The Happy Mondays are recording a new album. I suppose I could leave the story at that to be honest, but in the name of value for money (ie you don't pay a bean to read this while I get...
Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 05/21/2008
After fifteen years of dormancy, the Happy Mondays have already started work on their second album since reforming in 2007. Last year, Shaun Ryder and company released their still-unreleased-in-the-U.S. fifth album Uncle Dysfunktional, and leftover tracks from those sessions will make their way onto the next, still-untitled album, which the band hopes to release in [...]
Manchester Evening News (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
THINK Madchester and it brings to mind the Happy Mondays, baggie fashion and the late 1980s, when Manchester was the centre of the musical universe.
The Rawking Refuses to Stop! (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Courtesy of MGM/UA As the title suggests, 24 Hour Party People is a film about self-indulgence. The story of Tony Wilson and Factory Records -- the label that spawned Joy Division, New Order and the Happy Mondays -- it's an unflinching look at vice, obsession and their consequences. In one of the film's first scenes, Wilson (a charmingly befuddled yet self-important Steve Coogan) receives a blow job...
Celebrity Baby Blog (Free subscription) | 04/02/2008
by auditioning contributor Carlie: First it was UK indie band Happy Monday's Shaun Ryder, 45, who became a dad to 7 lbs 9 oz daughter Pearl Emma Elizabeth Ryder on February 10th; now band mate Mark "Bez" Berry, 43, is about to embark on fatherhood himself. Speaking to Manchester Evening...
