Buzzin': The Nine Lives of a Happy Monday

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Because Bez himself makes for an unreliable narrator, the book frequently gives paragraphs over to his Happy Monday comrade, Shaun Ryder, himself an unreliable narrator. “You could throw him out of a jumbo jet at 50,000 feet,” Ryder says of Bez, “and he’ll land on a mattress and walk away.” Bez and his family on a fishing trip in Cornwall (Photo: Supplied) In August 2021 it was announced that Bez would be a competitor on BBC's Celebrity MasterChef and in October 2021 that he would be a competitor on the fourteenth series of Dancing on Ice in 2022. [22] [23] See also [ edit ] I met my fiance, Firouzeh Razavi, nearly nine years ago. It was her 30th birthday and she was having a drink with her friends, while I was out with my mate. We walked into this bar, our eyes met across the table, and that was it. I’m not normally romantic, but I tried to make it special when I proposed to her. I set up a posh picnic basket and got her family and my family to wait on the top of this mountain near where we live. Me and Firouzeh walked up the mountain and she noticed a big letter D that I’d put out in tribute to her younger brother who’d died. Then she saw her dad. And her sisters and everyone else, and I proposed. It was great. And it’s easier if everyone is there so you don’t have to tell them all separately afterwards. Berry lives in Urmston, Greater Manchester. He is a fan of Manchester United. He is a beekeeper and beer brewer in his spare time, and has lived on land-shares in Herefordshire and Wales. [7] At some point, he lived next door to Ryder in Padfield, Derbyshire. Bez himself just shrugs. “To be honest, I’d have liked to be more normal and conventional. Unfortunately, that wasn’t to be.”

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This is when, in a manner surely unreplicated by any other human who ever lived, he branched out. First, to stave off bankruptcy, he appeared on Celebrity Big Brother (2005), alongside Germaine Greer and Brigitte Nielsen, and won. Bulbul, Nuray (6 February 2022). "Who is Bez's fiancee and how long have they been together?". Chelmsford Chronicle. Chelmsford . Retrieved 28 August 2022. Never even watched that programme before, so didn’t know what I was letting myself in for,” he notes. Five years later, he spent a month in prison for assaulting his former girlfriend, something he vehemently denied then, and continues to today. Bez with Shaun Ryder of Happy Mondays (Photo: Stuart Mostyn/Redferns) When he bowled into Celebrity Big Brother in 2005, he ended up winning the series, as viewers came to understand his fundamental decency and sunny outlook.I think there was a failing there,” he says, “because I expected the case to be found in my favour. There was no evidence of assault. It was my word against [his girlfriend’s] word.” According to Bez, the two have a good relationship today, and share a son. “But I fought the law, and the law let me down.” Whatever he may say, the uncomfortable fact is that he was convicted. Three-quarters of all domestic abuse cases are closed early without the suspect being charged, according to a 2021 report. Bez, the Happy Mondays’ chief maraca-shaker and an undisputed national treasure, has written a new memoir – and it will be published this autumn.

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In the comedy series Peep Show, Jeremy gets a mercy spot in a band called The Executioner's Bong as they tell him he can "get in on maracas". Jeremy protests, "I won't be Bez. I wanna be in there on merit!"It’s just life, innit? I know people who’ve lived a life of high adventure; I always thought mine was f**king boring compared to theirs.” This is plain nonsense, for even a cursory dip into the book reveals the sort of tossed-aside snippets most other tomes might make a major feature of. “When I regained consciousness, I was in hospital,” he writes at one point. “I [then] caught the MRSA superbug, a really f**king nasty one.” He was in a coma for a month. “Multiple organ failures, heart failures, all sorts of shit going down. I was given the last rites.” Ryder, who was recently diagnosed with ADHD, is insistent that Bez has the same condition, but Bez refuses to be tested. “Not interested, mate.” Bez with Angela Egan in Dancing on Ice (Photo: Matt Frost/ITV) A whistle-stop tour of the man born Mark Berry’s 58 years on earth, it takes in urchin behaviour, homelessness, drugs, the Happy Mondays, more drugs, a near-fatal motorbike crash, new teeth, a kidnapping, bankruptcy, prison, stints on reality TV, standing to become a member of Parliament, and the Zen pleasures of beekeeping. The fact he’s even here today to recount it all is remarkable enough; that he manages to do so with what appears to be most of his marbles still intact frankly beggars belief. When I got kidnapped, and held up by gunpoint and machetes, that was a massive turning point,” he says. The ordeal only lasted a few hours, but clearly affected him. “I didn’t want to keep living like this. I knew I had to do something else.” In a funny way,” says the father of three, and grandfather of one, “I’ve lived a charmed life. But, you know, like everyone else, I’m still two or three pay cheques away from being homeless again, and I never forget that. I worry about putting food on the table every day, so I’m in the job market. I’m open to offers.”

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Bez stood as a candidate for the Salford and Eccles constituency in the 2015 UK General Election. [16] The incumbent Member of Parliament (MP), Hazel Blears, announced her intention to stand down at the election. [17] Bez ran on a platform of "free energy, free food and free anything". [16] He received 703 votes (1.6% of the total turnout) which placed him in sixth position in the constituency. [18] The seat was won by the new Labour Party candidate, Rebecca Long-Bailey, who received 21,364 votes (49.4% of the total). ITV Dancing on Ice star Bez says he once lived in a cave to escape angry locals". 13 February 2022. McLoughlin, Lisa (7 September 2022). "Bez is picture of happiness as Happy Mondays member ties knot". Evening Standard . Retrieved 13 October 2023.O'Mahony, Marsha (9 September 2022). "Happy Mondays star Bez marries long-term girlfriend in sleepy Herefordshire". Gloucestershire Echo. Gloucester . Retrieved 10 September 2022. Bez Interview – Hit The Floor Magazine". Archived from the original on 12 December 2021 – via www.youtube.com. When they too crashed and burned, Bez returned to old habits – small-time dealing. But supplying drugs on someone else’s patch very nearly proved the end of him.

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Neither an accomplished musician nor even a very good dancer, Bez was a prime candidate for fleeting celebrity, soon to sink into ‘Where Are They Now?’ obscurity.Occasionally, he admits, there are bouts of depression, though he prefers the term “low moods”, for which he self-medicates by reading books, everything from David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas to something called Return of the Warriors: The Toltec Teachings Volume 1 by Theun Mares, an “action-based approach to life” guide that sounds both complicated and convoluted, but which Bez describes as “brilliant”. Today, he remains a recreational drug user, but eats healthily and extols the virtues of vitamin C and apple cider vinegar. Mark Berry was born on 18 April 1964 in Bolton, Lancashire, [1] the son of parents from the Norris Green district of Liverpool. [2] His father was a detective inspector. [3] He grew up in Little Hulton and Walkden, before moving to live with his grandparents in Wigan at the age of 16. [4] Career [ edit ] Bez introducing Ziggy Marley at GuilFest in 2011