What kinda effect would you say putting the exhibition has had on Maria, and is it something you think she might want to do again, in some form? Indeed it is, must be rewarding to recieve such reactions to the artwork. So which would you say are your stand out pieces from the exibition? Yes Please!, then, may go largely uncelebrated as it passes its 25th anniversary. But its mixture of warm Caribbean sun and hard Manchester rain, sleek production sheen and lyrical despair, makes the album brilliantly unique, a weird combination of Eddy Grant, Joy Division, Tom Tom Club and one of the best lyricists in British history straining at the very end of his patience. Forget the four lousy songs that end Yes Please!, stop worrying about the demise of Factory and you can appreciate the first six songs on the album for their raw emotional power.

This for me stands up with the Best. I willcontinueas always to make art, its the only thing I can do. We are hoping to take this Exhibition to other parts of the country, and we are also in talks about taking it to New York, for which we will be working on new works for. And I will continue toencourage Maria to paint and draw. Happy Mondays Confirm They'll Play 25th Anniversary 'Pills 'n' Thrills...' Tour video". NME . Retrieved 19 April 2015. Yes Please! may have a lot not to like on it but it definitely has enough quality to keep it an interesting listen and it is certainly worth your while revisiting it once in a while. What goes up must come down… The band toured New Zealand and Australia in February and March 2019, performing their 1990 album Pills 'N' Thrills And Bellyaches. Happy Mondays had a meeting with McGough and Wilson, who gave the band three options on where to record: a studio in Amsterdam, which they all were against; a studio inside a formerly used church in Manchester, which was run by pop producer Pete Waterman; or a studio in Barbados. Waterman had made a pitch to produce the band's next album, which Ryder and Whelan were against while the rest of the band plus McGough were up for. Whelan stated if they went with Waterman, he would quit. All of them went with Barbados, bar Day who wanted to make the next album in Manchester. When asked by the band why he wanted to be in Manchester, Day reasoned that they all had families there. [22]Here is a debut album that feels one step ahead of the times and even the band themselves. The signs of what was about to unfold are there in the shape of the absolute classics Kuff Dam and Tart Tart which sound like the E was starting to seep in to the bloodstream. Happy Mondays would catch up with their own ideas and push them further forward on their next album and with the help of Martin Hannett and Ecstacy they were about to release their first seminal album…. In the meantime, the members of the band had taken advantage of their fame and fortune, living lives of decadence and excess. Lead singer Shaun Ryder, in particular, was notorious for his Caligula-esque antics, such as hosting four-day parties featuring sex shows and dwarfs. Meanwhile, he took so many drugs he made the Gallagher brothers look like teetotalers. Miranda Sawyer (25 February 2007). "It's great when you're straight" (News article). The Observer. Guardian News and Media Limited . Retrieved 6 May 2012. Morley, Paul (2021). From Manchester with Love: The Life and Times of Tony Wilson*. London: Faber and Faber. ISBN 978-0-571-25249-7.

To be honest a lot of the paint we used was fromQualitySave,and got to say I like a Quality Save brush. It has good freedom in its strokes (ha ha). How about the publicity you, Maria and the exhibition has caught over the last 6 months. Its been really well received hasn’t it, on many different levels. But what would you like to think the images and the whole idea behind it can influence in other artists and those who have Downs Syndrome maybe? I’ve seen a lot of people who live life on the edge, but I’ve never before seen a group of people who had no idea where the edge is,” Weymouth recalled.

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Gordon Barr (1 February 2012). "Interview: Shaun Ryder from Happy Mondays". Evening Chronicle. Media Limited . Retrieved 6 May 2012. In place of the kind of creative unity required to navigate such headwinds, the Happy Mondays had mutiny in the ranks. Reflecting on the group’s choice of producers, in Twisting My Melon, Shaun Ryder complained that “the rest of the band didn’t get it; they didn’t understand that our fans liked our sound. They thought that if we could incorporate Chris and Tina’s sound into the Mondays’ sound, then all the Talking Heads fans would get into it and we would break into a much bigger market. But it doesn’t work like that.”

I also remember what seemed like a massive Lowry print (Sunday Afternoon) of Peel Park that we had on the wall in the front room at home. And the day an old family friend of mum and dads from Salford who used to call round to fix the hoover, and him saying he knew Lowry! This I thought this wasunbelievable as a little kid, how could anyone know someone who had painted this. And this around the time of the 70’s seemed to us like a long time passed, but also someone famous too!. Though at that time I had no idea really who he was, it was just a great massive print on our front room wall. But years later I found out that he only died in 1976 and would of still been alive when Ronnie was talking to me, about him. The other great thing and theconnectionof why Mum and Dad would be so pleased about our exhibitionat Salford Art Gallery is that they only lived down the road from the gallery, offchapel street salford. Dad lived onMeadow Roadand Mum just down the road on what wasRosamond street just pastAdelphi. So Yeah Mum and Dad would have loved the fact that me and Maria have an exhibition at Salford Art Gallery, they would be so proud of Maria and really happy. That’s actually a really interesting way of looking at it, not being tied down to latest trends or by the established way of the art world could be one reason why working alongside you Maria has created striking and original pieces of art?Howe, Jon. "Are You Man U, You? - When The Happy Mondays Played Leeds' Elland Road". Sabotage Times . Retrieved 11 August 2019. Yes Please – Happy Mondays". The Irish News. 2 August 2013. Archived from the original on 10 October 2021 . Retrieved 14 October 2021. J.P.Gorman (26 April 2007). "Happy Mondays' Bez Denied Visa For Coachella" (News article). Pop Blend. Cinema Blend LLC . Retrieved 6 May 2012. It perhaps goes without saying that the decision by the Happy Mondays to make their fourth album, Yes Please!, in the sun-kissed paradise of the Caribbean was not without incident. Recorded at Blue Wave Studios, a lavish complex owned by the reggae star Eddy Grant, its towering costs helped bankrupt Factory Records, the label on which it was released. With sales of 50,000 copies – far less than a quarter of its predecessor, Pills’n’Thrills And Bellyaches - it would be its authors’ last LP for 15 years. First inspired by Motown artists, Ryder was then drawn to the Chicago house music of the 1980s, saying that his bass lines were “me trying to replicate that style but using a real instrument rather than a computer”.

This Exhibition is dedicated to the Memory of Our Mum and Dad Tom and Mary Carroll and Our Sister Mag and the rest of the family for all there support a b Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDFed.). Mt Martha, Victoria, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p.124. Ryder, whose brother Shaun fronted the group, was a founder member since their formation in 1980 and had rejoined for the group’s most recent reunion in 2012. In his years away from the Happy Mondays, Ryder released an album with another group, Big Arm, in 2008 and moved to Los Angeles in the late 00s. He also performed live with the New York funk group Tom Tom Club, whose members Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth (also of Talking Heads) had produced Yes Please!.Brod, Doug; Krugman, Michael. "Happy Mondays". Trouser Press. Archived from the original on 3 December 2020 . Retrieved 27 September 2021. Between 10th and 11th – second album by contemporaries the Charlatans, released after Madchester/baggy's demise