days as one of Madchester’s most vital bands, through their chaotic drug addled years right up til the Mondays’ all-new clean-living image via I’m A Celebrity and UFO’s, they’ve always been a band to exclaim over and love dearly. Tey’re heading out on tour to celebrate the 25th anniversary of one of their best albums Pills ‘n’ Trills and Bellyaches, and are swinging by Norwich to give us a delicious shot of pure 90’s baggy. I had the honour of talking to an ebullient Shaun Ryder as he prepares to lead the Mondays out on tour, and then make records for the whole of 2016.
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You’re coming to Norwich on tour to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Pills & Trills and the gig’s actually on the original release date! It’s your most commercial work and such an important album. Are there any tracks in particular you’re looking forward to performing? You’re very knowledgeable! It was our top album. It was our breakthrough commercial album for sure. Well, over the years we’ve played a lot from that album, Kinky Afro and stuff, but we’ve never gone out and done the album as a whole before. Tere are only three tracks on it that we’ve never played live before. Will you be playing some other choice favourites from other albums as well? Oh yeah, we’ve got to because that album only runs 50 something minutes. I think we’re also going to stick in some songs from that rainforest thing we did (TV show Singing in the Rainforest). Oh yeah, I’ve seen some photos of you in mud huts! How was that experience for you? It was great, a really good experience. Apart from Rowetta, who stayed with the chief, we all shared the same hut.
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“Fleetwood Mac probably took more ldrugs than us
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It was a very bonding experience! We hadn’t done that since 1985 when we all lived in one room in London when we were making our first album. We got to do some good as well because if you download the track the money goes to the tribe so they can continue with their way of life. (get it on iTunes! Ooh La La To Panama) It must be great to get out on tour with the Mondays and play all those classic
tracks...almost like a chance to do it all again. What’s life like on tour now there’s no sex or drugs - only rock n roll? It’s great! Sex, drugs and rock n roll are great in your 20’s and 30’s, you know, but obviously you have to clam
he Happy Mondays need no introduction. From their early
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