Happy Mondays

[charlie clown]

yeah, those early Factory singles broke the mould a bit and Bummed is one of the great Factory albums, hell, its one of the great albums full stop.

 

I saw them a couple of times, both before they were massively popular and I was blwoan away by them but they went very rapidly downhill about the time that Radio 1 latched onto them.

[Mike]

yeah, those early Factory singles broke the mould a bit and Bummed is one of the great Factory albums, hell, its one of the great albums full stop.

 

I saw them a couple of times, both before they were massively popular and I was blwoan away by them but they went very rapidly downhill about the time that Radio 1 latched onto them.

 

correct.

 

olivers, by the way, was the infamous gay club in chester where big jan turned that car over outside (one for those of us who were around in the 80's). long since closed.

[New York Red]

Try and see the film "24 hour party people" It's pretty good and all about them. Stars Steve Coogan.

[Sir Tokyo Sexwale]

I saw em about 10 times. Even got the Squirrel & G-Man LP with teh placcy sleeve which had the type on it.

 

Do it Better has to be one of their best

[Mike]

Try and see the film "24 hour party people" It's pretty good and all about them. Stars Steve Coogan.

 

its not about the happy mondays actually.

and i guarantee everyone in this thread will more than know about it if they know what squirrel and g man is.

[New York Red]

its not about the happy mondays actually.

and i guarantee everyone in this thread will more than know about it if they know what squirrel and g man is.

 

Agreed, but they do play a substantial part in it, and there is a cameo of Ryder in it.

 

Just trying to be helpful...

[cymrococh]

Aren't they just shown taking drugs on a bus a couple of times?

[smithdown]

Watch the film Performance and laugh out loud at the amount of dialogue nicked for the lyrics to the Bummed album. "It wasn't me, it was Mad Cyril"

 

Saw them for the first time in the Haigh, supporting James, in about 1988. Most people wwere just watching Bez and in between songs you'd hear people shouting to Shaun "is your mate alright lad?"

[Bailo]

Aren't they just shown taking drugs on a bus a couple of times?

Nooo, there's loads of in-studio time with them, on the buses, starting out at The Hac, making it big, then when Tony Whatshisface tries to get in funding from the London record companies and meets Keith Allen with the Mondays in tow, all that bit too.

 

The lad who plays Bez is hilariously uncanny.

[muleskinner]

You're rendering that scaffolding dangerous

[TheLa]

Do it Better has to be one of their best

 

One of the best bit's in 24 Hour Party People is were Wilson is telling Barney that Shaun's the greatest poet since Yeates;

 

"Give him an example of one of your lyrics"

 

"Good, good, good, good. Double, double good"

 

Edited January 9, 2006 by TheLa

[Shirohana]

You're rendering that scaffolding dangerous

 

 

Classic.

[Sir Tokyo Sexwale]

One of the best bit's in 24 Hour Party People is were Wilson is telling Barney that Shaun's the greatest poet since Yeates;

 

"Give him an example of one of your lyrics"

 

"Good, good, good, good. Double, double good"

 

I hated that bit though. That's from Do it Better, at the end of Bummed. The impression I got is that at that part in the filim, they'd just 'signed' the Mondays. Granted, they could have had the song written at that stage. But it seemed like it was done for those who know nothing about them.

 

Anyone go to the Hillsborough Benefit gig they did at the Hac in May 89?

[Dipesh42]

The last time I saw them was at the Orpheum in Boston (1991 I think) ...Bez was in great form ....Pills/Thrills is a fave of mine ...Tokoloshe Man is my fave tune off a compiliation album I bought a while back ..Ace stuff

[pipnasty]

I thought that they sounded like an ammalgamation of every Factory band that had come before them (apart from the Durutti Column, obviously) and I was always amazed by this. Martin Hannet had something to do with this but I remember Shaun Ryder once talking about 'Rave On' (possibly their best track) and saying that he thought of the sound when he was at a rave and he stood in the middle of the different DJ's and could hear techno, funk, soul and house at the same time. And I loved that mess of sound and influences. Mix that with the city of Salford and, as Bill Hicks referencing Terence McKenna would say, heroic amounts of ecstacy and marijuana, and you have a heady mix. Shaun Ryder WAS some kind of genius for a few years (or at least he was until that horrible LP was recorded in Jamaica) and Bez, the icing on the (skunk) cake.

 

And I always thought that live, the ending of 'Wrote for Luck' was far, far superior to the ending to 'I am the Resurrection'. So, burn me.

[Mike]

WFL, i have about 5 different 12" of that, different mixes.

it's the hammer of the gods, madchester style.

 

fact fact.

[Will]

I saw them twice in their prime, and have their first 2 albums. Can't say I really like them much though

[muleskinner]

The first 3 albums are as good as any other British band in the last 25 years have produced.

 

Live I have seen them play some of the best and worst gigs I've witnessed and something always seemed to happen either onstage or in the crowd.