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Dance beats that sound like they were concocted in a pharmacy, breasts sprouting from nowhere, hooking for fun (and profit)—guess elder statesman of musical decadence Shaun Ryder felt that he needed to show those Last Night’s Party whippersnappers how to engage in excess the right way. More »
Posts Tagged ‘Happy Mondays’
Re-Examining The Happy Mondays: My Domestic Squabble Decided By You, The Reader
Thu Jan 10 2008 by dangibs
Like every home, I’m certain, the Casa de Gibson has been busy compiling our own year in review package for publication in our annual Arbor Day newsletter (it’s a long lead-time publication). While we were discussing our top five events of 2007, there was some disagreement about the top spot, with my wife Tara’s contention that the birth of our daughter should be No. 1, and my contention that since said birth on Dec. 17 missed the Dec. 15 cutoff it will have to wait and see how it does in 2008. Rules are rules, I say. I placed the Happy Mondays reunion at Coachella up top, and that’s when the real ugliness began.
Happy Mondays Start Repaying Their Debt To Tony Wilson
Wed Jul 11 2007 by Maura
Earth can they afford this?” The money the band is reaping from all those canceled shows and craptastic songs can’t be that good.Mondays help fund label guru’s cancer fight… More »
Listening Station: The New Happy Mondays Song Nearly Breaks Us
Thu May 31 2007 by Maura
maura@idolator (2:41:40 PM): oh my god
maura@idolator (2:41:43 PM): this new happy mondays song
JesshM4M (2:40:53 PM): uh oh
maura@idolator (2:42:07 PM): can we have an IM CONFERENCE about it
maura@idolator (2:42:11 PM): please
JesshM4M (2:41:11 PM): im supposed to be working!
JesshM4M (2:41:15 PM): ok send it to me
maura@idolator (2:42:22 PM): it’ll take the length of the song
Unhappy Mondays To Go Bezless In America
Fri Apr 27 2007 by Maura
Those of you pumped up to see the Happy Mondays at Coachella on Sunday night are about to have your melons twisted–Bez, the band’s maraca-wielding mascot, has been barred from entering the U.S.: A statement released by the band said: “Due to tightening immigration and working visa legislation,… More »
Coachella’s Latest Reunion Announcement Will Twist Your Melon, Man
Mon Jan 22 2007 by Maura
Los Angeles radio station KROQ has the full Coachella lineup on its site; in addition to the Rage-Chili Peppers-Bjork headlining trio, the lineup includes Willie Nelson, the Arcade Fire, Fountains of Wayne, and–the Happy Mondays? What?
The full lineup after the jump.
