Where? Butlins, Minehead. When? 10-13 November, 2017. Who’s Headlining? Levellers, Embrace, Happy Mondays. Who Else Is On? The Wonder Stuff, Fun Lovin’ Criminals, Peter Hook & The Light, Starsailor, The Farm, Wedding Present, A Guy Called Gerald, Dreadzone, Pop Will…
Happy Mondays play Shiiine On Weekender this November for a second time, and in anticipation for the event we have managed to coax a typically no holds barred interview out of front man and 90s icon Shaun Ryder. He gave…
Finally, the countries quirkiest and most amalgamating festival is up and running again. The rain lashes down as families and wide-eyed youths alike slither though the sludge, hunting high ground to set up camp. Anticipations rise with the mud levels…
Happy Mondays have announced that they’ll be heading on tour to celebrate their 30th anniversary, and play all their greatest hits. The 25-date tour will kick off in Bristol on November 14, and will lead all the way up to…
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Y Not Festival have added even more names to this year’s line up, including Happy Mondays and Frank Turner. Manchester’s melon-twisting ravers Happy Mondays will be joining the likes of Stereophonics, The Vaccines and Two Door Cinema Club on the…
The ever garrulous rapscallion on his ‘posh, middle-class’ wife and offspring, pig’s tickers, taxing issues, close encounters, the wisdom of aging, his enduring appeal and new pastures. We talk to the legend Shaun Ryder ahead of his performance at this…
Nine years ago today (10/08/2007) we lost the man who had fronted the Manchester music revolution through the ‘70s and ‘80s. Tony Wilson’s life work reads as a precisely calculated pathway, leading Manchester towards the epicentre of pop culture. In…
Nostalgia is a heady thing, and this summer has seen the revival of one of the best loved bygone eras of the late 80’s/early 90’s. Stepping into the limelight is the Madchester scene and, as it’s name would suggest, its…
With just over a week to go until this year’s Glastonbury Festival, we asked our writers to pick their fave moments from Worthy Farm… Happy Mondays, 1990 June 1990 and the Happy Mondays are reaching their plateau. Since the release…