Happy Mondays : Greatest Hits

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In August 2006, the band announced that they had completed their first album in fourteen years, with producers Sunny Levine and Howie B, and had signed to Sanctuary Records. from 2004 to 2006 the band were managed by Danny Newman, MD at London Club Turnmills brother of London Club DJ Tall Paul. The band were signed to Factory Records after passing a demo tape to Phil Saxe, a trader at Manchester Arndale who was on friendly terms with Mike Pickering, a DJ at the Haçienda nightclub. Happy Mondays performed before another re-formed act, Rage Against the Machine, at the 2007 Coachella Music Festival in Indio, California.

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Happy Mondays toured the US and Canada with The Psychedelic Furs in late 2009 with Paul Ryder's son and Shaun Ryder's nephew Jake Ryder filling in for Gaz Whelan on drums. by Erasure man Vince Clarke), but we prefer the off-kilter original, taken from the band's second album, Bummed.By July that year, they revealed details of a fourteen track 'official bootleg' live album, Baby Big Head, recorded at the Elland Road concert. Other dates include a show at Troxy in London on April 6, Liverpool's Mountford Hall on April 13 and a show at the Brighton Dome on April 14 to finish off the tour. The band went on to play gigs in Chile and Argentina in May 2012 and then a number of European festivals in the summer of 2012, including Ireland's Sea Sessions, Scotland's T in the Park, the band were headliners at Camp Bestival in Dorset in July 2012 and they performed at the V Festivals in August 2012. In 2016, the band won the Ivor Novello Inspiration Award and in recent years members Ryder and Bez have been spotted in episodes of Channel 4's Celebrity Gogglebox. Gaz Whelan confirmed via the Happy Mondays Twitter account (in answer to a question from a Twitter user named ormi_shinobi) that Davis had left the band.

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Alas, every great party leads to a brutal hangover: After recording sessions in Barbados went notoriously over-budget and off the rails (ahem), 1992’s Yes Please! Happy Mondays started life as a weird indie band out of Salford who came to the attention of the legendary Factory Records. The latter, recorded at Capitol Studios in Los Angeles, went platinum in the UK, selling more than 350,000 copies. On 15 July 2022, the band announced via their Facebook page that Paul Ryder had died in the early hours of that morning.Happy Mondays is comprised of frontman Shaun Ryder, percussion master Mark Berry, better known as "Bez", vocalist Rowetta, guitarist Mark Day, drummer Gary Whelan and keyboard player and guitarist Dan Broad. They have announced an international tour to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches. With epochal albums like 1988’s Martin Hannett-helmed Bummed and 1990’s Paul Oakenfold-produced Pills ‘n’ Thrills and Bellyaches, the Mondays were largely responsible for putting the “mad” in Madchester, pairing psychedelic-funk grooves and strobe-lit club beats with Shaun’s dime-bag philosophies and incisive nonsense.

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The first verse is reportedly about the troubled record producer Martin Hannett, who'd worked with Joy Division and ended up at the desk for Happy Monday's second outing Bummed. The Mondays also influenced many bands around the Northwest and beyond, including the Stone Roses, Oasis, and the Charlatans. To coincide with the band's reformation tour a best of album, Double Double Good was released in July 2012, as well as a live recording of the band's May 2012 gig in Brixton. saw another re-formation, comprising original members Bez, Whelan and Shaun Ryder along with another group of musicians.Some user-contributed text on this page is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply.

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The Mondays played a variety of festival dates in 2005 (including Global Gathering), capping it off with a concert at the Manchester Arena. In the place of Day and Davis were Wags and a number of other session musicians including Ben Leach who had once been a member of The Farm, percussionist Lea Mullen, and rapper "Nuts". One of the best tracks from the Martin Hannett-produced Bummed album in 1988, this tune captures Happy Mondays perfectly before they hit the big time, complete with Ryder's combination of gibberish and urban poetry.Happy Mondays signed to Tony Wilson's Factory Records in the late 1980s and blended their love of funk, rock, psychedelia and house with sounds from the UK's emerging rave scene. The group's work bridged the Manchester indie rock music of the 1980s and the emerging UK rave scene, drawing influence from funk, house, and psychedelia to pioneer the Madchester sound. Taking Labelle's disco-era hit Lady Marmalade as its inspiration, this matched Step On in terms of chart success and gave new recruit Rowetta a moment in the spotlight.