Happy Mondays : Greatest Hits

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Happy Mondays started life as a weird indie band out of Salford who came to the attention of the legendary Factory Records. The line-up of the band during this first and most important ten-year phase never changed, and the six original members Shaun Ryder, Paul Ryder, Gary Whelan, Paul Davis, Mark Day, and Mark "Bez" Berry remained a tight unit until the first incarnation came to an end in 1994. saw another re-formation, comprising original members Bez, Whelan and Shaun Ryder along with another group of musicians.

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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. The tour included other shows at the Manchester Arena, plus other dates in Bournemouth, Glasgow, Dublin, Leeds, Sheffield and Nottingham. was released a few months prior to completion of the new album, Uncle Dysfunktional released in mid 2007. The Mondays' first EP for Factory was in 1985, and it wasn't until two years later that they released their stupidly-titled debut Squirrel and G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile (White Out).wound up marking the end of the Mondays’ first phase (though Shaun and Bez soon found their way back to top of the UK charts with their post-Mondays outfit, Black Grape). 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. Shaun Ryder pronounced that amends had been made, friendships reinstated and that it was just like the old days, but without the madness. Rock band the Happy Mondays have announced their first UK headline tour in five years, coming to the Corn Exchange in Cambridge on April 11th.

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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. During the tour, the group will perform some of their classic hits including 24 Hour Party People, Step On, Hallelujah, Loose Fit and Judge Fudge. Seven years passed, and in 1999 Happy Mondays re-formed, [15] with founding members Shaun Ryder, Paul Ryder, Gary Whelan and Bez but without Paul Davis and Mark Day. The band then toured throughout the summer of 2007 including a trip to the Numusic Festival in Norway. Paul Ryder himself had a cameo role in the film as a gangster and Rowetta appeared in the film as herself.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. The latter, recorded at Capitol Studios in Los Angeles, went platinum in the UK, selling more than 350,000 copies.

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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. A fictionalised depiction of the band is featured in the 2002 film 24 Hour Party People, with Danny Cunningham as Shaun Ryder and Paul Popplewell as Paul Ryder. 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. The band composed a track with members of the tribe for a performance, penning the track "Ooo La La to Panama".citation needed] One of their most popular songs is "Lazyitis (One Armed Boxer)", featuring a surreal duet between Ryder and Karl Denver. It contains a line Shaun adapted from the David Essex film, Stardust: "You were wet, but you're getting dryer.