*Happy Mondays* *March 25, 1990 / G-Mex Centre / Manchester, England UK* 0:29 Rave On 5:56 Do It Better 9:05 Tart, Tart 14:06 Step On 19:17 Performance 23:24 Hallelujah 27:29 Clap Your Hands 31:44 Kuff Dam 35:33 Lazyitis (The One Armed Boxer) 39:59 24 Hour Party People 44:02 Mad Cyril *encore* 50:44 God's Cop 56:17 Wrote For Luck
Twistin me Mellon man. Brilliant. The Happy Mondays , the Charlatans ,Inspiral Carpets ,The Shamen and the Stone Roses were my teenage years and i have to say it was a fucking brilliant time to be alive and so many memories and laughs we my best mates who are still my best mates. Every tune brings it right back. Amazing.🙏
@@roywilson4514 Twistin me Mellon. Is English for someone doing your head in. Or someone got your head puzzled So to answer your comment . Mellon being head.👍. 😂😂😂
I was at their first gig in Liverpool in the 80s. It was at the Flying Picket, there were 7 people in the audience. They put on an incredible show. It was self evident that they were going to be massive commercially and culturally. Sean William Ryder the bastard son of John Lennon.
its as shame theyre mostly known for being off their heads on e, every member of the band was incredibly good and the first two albums shouldnt be overlooked
Why is nobody saying anything about the bass, the guitars, the keyboards, the drumming, the lead vocals, Bez iconic dancing, the lightshow, why is nobody saying anything about the smoke machine?
I am falling in love with this band 30 years on... I was born in the states in 1991, so I had no idea they existed. Shaun would have been fun to hang with!
i just watched the 24 Hour Party People movie. I thought they were exaggerating with the Happy Mondays bits but oh boy they weren't. This is madness. They seem to be doing drugs onstage, the singer is reading the lyrics on a sheet of paper, everything is un-cordinated, there's a dude with maracas tripping the fuck out, they brought in an elder guest singer and they just left him there walking in circles 30 minutes after they finished their song together.
Karl Denver was definitely aware of the vibe haha he'd been around the block man by then. MDMA makes people just vibe out and in my opinion its a mix of being high as fuck on multiple drugs (band and crowd both) and just not caring that led them to their height... alll the way to their infamous Barbados ending lol But the movie was mad exagerrated man, Shaun only read off the paper for Step On because A. It was brand new at the time, and B. It was a cover song lol i mean yeah sure he's on heroin but still
What an underrated band. They should have just hammered out gigs in Detroit, Chicago and Florida. I reckon those crowds would have taken to it a bit more. The whole dance scene owes everything to these lads. Anyone else remember all those 12" remixes DJ's would play before "Rave" or "Techno" existed as a concept. When "Techno" basically meant 'Kraftwerk'! New Order, 808State and Altern8 where the only other bands actually writing original material for the Dance people to reproduce and mix into their live sets, for a while at least. Amazing!! Then that "Radio Friendly" music came out where they got female models to mime for MTV vidz, Wow. It went down hill so quick, illegal raves, warehouse parties and island festivals kept it all a float but, for most, who were introduced to music through mainstream radio, it was stuff like '2 Unlimited' - "...No! No! there's no Limit". Oh dear, Christ on a Bike Meash! LOL az Fek!
around same time 808 state & guy called gerald were going in manc, unique 3 were going in dirty bradders, ital rockers, nightmares on wax and LFO were going in that Leeds and forgemasters and sweet exorcist were going in sheff
It could be lingering stage fright, or nerves, or the imminent fear of the plebs throwing and hurling bottle at his throat and head, which could, indirectly affect his ability to recall often improvised, unpolished and maybe unrehearsed lyrics, on the spot, while keeping time with the various sound streams emanating from the keyboards and rhythm section.
@@CroTube5000 looks like that's what he's taken and that's the one they were known for .... apart from Shaun who did them as a starter then went a bit harder for his main course..
The idea of having a dude like Bez is damn creative, don't know if the most creative idea I've ever seen, but it's damn creative I gotta say. Also shows Shaun & Bez being great pals, no man left behind.
Not that new at all , hawkwind had Stacia , and yeah cressa was a vibe man for the roses , kiss had one who used to introduce them as the greatest band in the world , it’s all part of 😂the act
Pills, Thrills and Bellyaches was a CD that I constantly rocked in 1990 and 91. It twisted my melon, for sure… well, it wasn’t just that album that twisted my melon. 😏
Me and my mate Spike went to this concert on the Saturday night the 24th march they played 2 nights at the g-mex, as I recall the line-up was A Guy called Gerald then 808State ( who were awesome) followed by the Mondays , I was only 22 fuck me wheres the last 30 years gone lol.....
I saw The Happy Mondays a couple of times- including after they got back from their insane trip to Barbados. It was a massive party but they had the groove. The way they walk on here sums it up.
100% right mate. Tony Wilson could see that though. He said the Mondays rhythm section was one of the most important things to ever happen in music history (or something along those lines)
Me too. I was on the train escaping from my library job in Manchester. Because I was not feeling too well. Guess who was in the same carriage? Bez, eating KFC. Just me and him. He went "alright" and put a thumbs up. I just went, hiya Bez. Lol. I half expected him to freaky dance up the aisle. Lol.
I was there. It was wonderfully chaotic. It seems different looking back at it. I have a photo of me and my friend sat on the steps of the The Hacienda afterwards, first in line. Taken on a disposable camera, no phones. Lol. The shutter was still down. Thanks for posting.
Me and a group of mates went that night, me and 1 mate didnt have tickets, thiught the touts would have sone but out of luck. Wentvto the boardwalk and blur were on. There were 3 people in that night. Blur sat about playing hurdy gurdy's.
I saw the movie version of 24 hour party people and it blew my mind. I'm from memphis, and this music wasn't nearly as popular here, so it really snuck up on me. Ya'll were aggressively challenging genre and format, more worried about conveying feeling than anything else. Got linked to the new Shaun Ryder Mumbo Jumbo video and have been falling down the rabbit hole ever since.
The area where bridgwater hall is now, was leveled and fenced off at the time. Some cheeky lad had broken in, opened the gate and was charging five quid to park. My mate (who was driving) called him out and he just waved us through. He must of made a couple of grand that night.
What an amazing show. The HM sound great and the crowd is dancing their asses off. It must have been really fun to see them live. And also be part of the Manchester scene starting with Joy Division and the beginning of Factory Records to getting down at The Hacienda to that Madchester sound and vibe.
@@SuzanneO707 That is awesome you were at that show. What other bands were you into from that era? I just watched the Stone Roses documentary about they're reunion tour...That is sad news about the Hacienda. I've seen the same thing happen to some of my favorite venues. i guess change is inevitable.
@@stevesheldon2342 It was fun, chaotic and very visceral. I racked over to the Hacienda afterwards with my gig/clubbing pal. I've got a photo taken with a disposable camera, of us sat on the doorstep of the Hacienda. It wasn't even open the shutters are down, lol. You can see the gig poster pasted on the wall behind us.We just wanted to get in and dance, we didn't drink much or do "anything" else. Yep, change comes. Best wishes.
Sorry, other bands.... I was in bit of state of flux between the bands around at the time and belting songs out before that, The Smiths, Joy Division, New Order, The Fall, Echo and The Bunnymen etc Dance music was my bag too. I was brought up hearing a lot of Northern Soul, punk, Bowie, ska & Mowtown & great "indie bands". I tend to like certain tunes. The Stone Roses were special. One of my favourite tunes was Perfume by The Paris Angels. It was great to see local kids up there making music. And go to gigs where people danced and all that.
And this was mostly pre-Thrills, Pills, and Bellyaches, the greatest album to date, the genre, if you get it. They're groove like no other, will be studied for the unforeseeable future. If only they'd kept it going a little longer.. Rowetta, with lungs like a megalodon, albeit short backings, was the first women to make the finals on X Factor in 2004.
Great Concert , It's Like To See To Artic Monkeys In Glastonbury Reciently Made " Favourite Worst Nightmare" Permorming Perfectly The Songs , In This Case Happy Mondays Just A Time Did The Most Popular Album In 1990,Very Good Performance
@@basedsouljah well, considering I was only 14 at the time,but I've gone on to see a couple more don't worry!!!,,,😎👍😁,and headline the hacienda with my own band in 97,,so I'm a little bit interesting!!
I know so little about the Mondays but everytime I hear them it stops me in my tracks. It's almost incomprehensible to fathom how innovative the Mondays were. Paul Ryder and Gary Whelan ♥were amazing I think a big part of the reason they aren't held in higher regard is they got back together to early. If they held off another 10-15 years and let their stock rise like Blur and the Roses did, they could have sold out arenas and headlined festivals.
I was there and they were an hour late and donavon who was on before them was getting cans, rubbish chocolate and crisps thrown at him. I felt a bit sorry for the guy, I think he was Shauns father in law. .😂
I was at audio school in 1990 and had no idea who this band was. Technology sucked back then, hard to find good music. One radio station playing crap, one tv station. Word of The Stone Roses got out but never heard of Mondays until years later.
Yeah a long time ago, but Shaun use to live around the corner from me 15 yrs ago in Perth, he lived here for a little time cause he was been help by Steve Malinder- DJ and from the house Martin’s to get off his addiction to heroin, which he did so or he would of died.. true Manchester sound…
