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Siamese Dream Happy Mondays

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The Siamese Dream Happy Mondays Special

Your hosts…

Claude Mono

Anton Maz (spiritually there but at home looking after his unwell family)

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Happy Mondays play Metropolis next Wed 25/10

Siamese Dream are play Happy Mondays Mon 23/10

Claude and Anton hit the studio in their best Joe Bloggs and take a deep dive with remixes, obscurities and rave on bangers plus mad tales of hazy crazy days

LISTEN

Show re-stream here

Spotify Playlist here – the tracks we played plus some other classics

PLAYLIST

Siamese Dream Happy Mondays Intro

Katie Puckrick – Shaun Ryder (The Word 1992)

Happy Mondays – Little Matchstick Owen

Happy Mondays – The Egg

Interview Shaun Ryder and Karl Denver

Happy Mondays – Lazyitis (One Armed Boxer feat. Karl Denver)

Happy Mondays – Dennis And Lois

Happy Mondays – Stinkin Thinkin /

Happy Mondays – Loose Fit (Paul Oakenfold Mix)

Happy Mondays -W.F.L. ‘Think About The Future’ (The Paul Oakenfold Mix)

Gaz Whelan – I Still See Bez

Happy Mondays – Donovan

Happy Mondays – Angel

Happy Mondays – Clap Your Hands

INTERMISSION (Grab a Kebab)

Interview Jamie Hutchings w/ Andrea Sturgess

Jamie Hutchings – Bachelors Buttons

PART TWO

Happy Mondays – Step On (Twistin My Melon Man Mix)

Happy Mondays – Kinky Afro

Shaun Ryder – Scooter Girl

Happy Mondays – Tart Tart (Live at Sheffield University 1989)

Happy Mondays – Stayin Alive

Happy Mondays – Kilamenjero (Rave On)

WANT MORE

Bummed Documentary

A short documentary which overviews ‘Factory Records’, as they help promote ‘The Happy Mondays’ during the recording / release of their second album, ‘Bummed’. Click the link in the video or go direct here.

Perth Connections

Anton Maz co-host for this edition of Siamese Dream DJed the after party at the last Happy Mondays Perth gig at The Astor – the after-party was at Amplifier and Anton tells the story of dropping Shaun, Bez and Rowetta along with Alan McGee into a taxi at 4am out the front of Amps and none of the band remembering where they were staying, and they were all at different hotels. Anton wished the taxi driver good luck as they headed into the night.They did get there.

Anton back in the mid-90s played in Yummy Fur the Perth-based and Manchester-inspired band loved equally by clubbers and indie-heads.

Jack (Kiriakos Lucas from Yummy Fur) played guitar pn Amateur Night in the Big Top. Band connections with Shaun Ryders Perth-based cousin Pete Carrol led us to his brothers Matt & Pat Carroll of legendary Manchester-based Central Station Design , who were responsible for some of the best Mondays artwork as well as the iconic Madchester logo, to do album artwork for the Perth-based band which was a big honour. Check out ‘The Story’ below and read on…

Amateur Night in the Big Top

The story goes something like this.

Ryder recorded his vocals in Carroll’s make-shift studio in his garage, which were recorded by Carroll and Norton. And lets not forget to mention Chad Hedley of Dada Records on percussion. Ryder had originally heard tracks Carroll and Shane Norton were working on for Offworld Sounds. “Our Pete just said, ‘Tell us a story.’ I’ve got that many, Pete reckoned I should record them once and for all” said Shaun Ryder. “I’m kind of a novelist in the way that 9/11 was a Great American Novel” the singer added.

The album is subtitled “Clowns and Pet Sounds”. It was released in September 2003 and co-produced by Pete Carroll, Shane Norton and Cabaret Voltaire’s Stephen Mallinder. It was recorded in Perth, Australia and released on the OffWorld Sounds record label run by Carroll and Mallinder.

Shaun stayed at his cousin’s Pete Carroll house in Perth. He thought the quiet location would be a good opportunity to go cold turkey from his previous heroin addiction.

Despite Shaun not wanting to make any music while in the country, Pete thought it would be something to distract him with. In April 2001, it was reported that Ryder had started recorded an album; sessions continued into July 2002. Carroll served as the executive producer on the project. Shane Norton of Kuling Bros produced and engineered the material and former Cabaret Voltaire member Stephen Mallinder acted as co-producer on “Scooter Girl”, “Clowns” and “Murder”.

The Ecstasy and the Agony

The Ecstasy and the Agony. A beautiful documentary filmed with Shaun and his family and during some of Shaun’s toughest times. The spirit of life shines through.

Gaz Whelan the Happy Mondays drummer has been working on a side-project to bring to life acoustic versions of Happy Mondays tracks. In their stripped back form the beauty and quality of the arrangements shines through but really hearing Shaun’s lyrics is a treat. In between tracks Gaz talks about his life with the band including growing up in Salford, The Hacienda, and touring. Great tales. Gaz explains that the band were not at all that interested in touring an acoustic project. You can just imagine the conversation with Shaun and Bez 🙂 – Tracks include: Kiny Afro, Loose Fit, Hallelujah

Gaz Whelan’s other musical project Black Symphony featuring Rowetta from the Mondays here

An interview with Angela Smith, former wife of Happy Mondays bass player and founding member – Paul Ryder, who died on 15th July 2022, after she had recorded many hours of interviews with him for the podcast The Paul Ryder tapes – On Spotify. Try here.

“We didn’t really expect that Paul would go before Shaun…”