Simon Spence has written books about Andrew Loog Oldham, the Stone Roses, Depeche Mode and the Donnelly Brothers . His new book, Happy Mondays: Excess All Areas presents the band’s story in full for the first time. We caught up with him…
Festivals belong in fields, or so I once thought. “Just 20,000 people standing in a field” sang Jarvis sardonically – written, mind, before Pulp’s seminal Glastonbury performance in 1995. All you need to accurately recreate the typical festival experience is…
Rating: Finding himself playing guitar for the iconic Happy Mondays, co-launching the ‘Getloaded’ club night at London’s Turnmills nightclub, supporting the likes of Glastonbury 2014 headliners Kasabian and developing Rick Genest AKA Zombie Boy’s music project in LA last year, it seems…
We’ve got MORE festival competitions for you! This week we have two pairs of tickets to give away to the awesome Beat-Herder festival. The festival sold out this week but two lucky winners will still have the opportunity to go…
Released just as the second summer of love was about to explode, Happy Mondays second album ‘Bummed’ remains a classic album. Spawning some of the finest material the band ever put out, it is about to reach its 25th anniversary. To…
Although ‘Junction 16’ festival is only in its first year the organisers have landed some top names to perform. Set in the historic village of Betley, the 3 day music festival is set to bring a whole range of people…