Happy Mondays are an alternative rock band formed in Salford, Greater Manchester, UK in 1985. The band is fronted by Shaun Ryder, who formed the band with his brother Paul Ryder, who played bass. The ...

Happy Mondays were signed to Factory Records, and seen as drug-munching seers of the northern indie dance crossover in the late 1980s when their songs Wrote For Luck and Hallelujah were partly ...

Happy Mondays have spoken to NME about the scrapped Shaun Ryder biopic and plans to get “back at it” with music in 2025. Watch our interview below. Before their “hysterical” appearance ...

"Wales probably saved my life." Mark "Bez" Berry is best known as the dancer and maraca-toting face of '80s and '90s "Madchester" band Happy Mondays. His drug and alcohol-fuelled life saw him rise ...

It’s a bit of a surprise to realise that Unkle Dysfunktional is actually the Happy Mondays’ first album since the disastrous Yes Please – the record that destroyed Factory - 15 years ago.