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In an exclusive extract from the new book, FAC 461 Factory Records: The Complete Graphic Album, label co-founder Tony Wilson reflects on what made the look of Factory Records so outstanding and how the Happy Mondays managed to offend Genesis P. Orridge
Yes Please! is the runt of the Happy Mondays’ litter, an album more likely to turn up on lists of career-ending releases and studio disasters than on playlists and radio. But as Yes Please! approaches its 25th anniversary, could this least redeemable of albums be due a critical re-think? Ben Cardew pushes for a place in history for this unique work of ageing, regret and disaster
Soldiers, tequila and asti-spumanti slammers, ecstasy, guns, LSD, brandy and waitresses. The good, good, good, good, good, good, double-good recording of Bummed by the Happy Mondays as dimly remembered by Shaun Ryder, Bez and others and told to Daniel Dylan Wray
As Tom Tom Club hit the UK, Stephen Dalton sits down for a fascinating chat about Talking Heads, their relationship with David Byrne, their creative and romantic relationship, and why working with the Happy Mondays was even more difficult than you might have thought
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