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?

Howe, Jon. "Are You Man U, You? - When The Happy Mondays Played Leeds' Elland Road". Sabotage Times . Retrieved 11 August 2019. 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 Warburton, John; Ryder, Shaun (2011). Hallelujah!: The Extraordinary Story of Shaun Ryder and Happy Mondays. London: Virgin Books. ISBN 978-0-7535-0781-0. 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.Monroe, Jazz (15 July 2022). "Happy Mondays Bassist Paul Ryder Dies at 58". Pitchfork . Retrieved 16 July 2022. 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”. The band signed to Creation Management in 2015. They have announced an international tour to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches.

This is also the ‘first’ collaborationExhibition held in the history of art between a (so called) established Artist and a person with Downs syndrome – so we are proud of that fact. Happy Mondays Chart History (Dance Singles Sales)". Billboard. Archived from the original on 10 October 2021 . Retrieved 10 October 2021. 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. Yes Please – Happy Mondays". The Irish News. 2 August 2013. Archived from the original on 10 October 2021 . Retrieved 14 October 2021. Ryder flew to Manchester from Barbados, where he left his wife at the airport and went to find drugs. [51] The following day, Ryder was admitted to the Charter Clinic detox centre in Chelsea, London for a period of six weeks, with McGough supervising him. [48] When he left, McGough decided to have Ryder avoid Manchester, subsequently booking them an apartment in Newquay for two weeks. [20] While Ryder was in a healthier state, he still struggled with writing new lyrics. [52] Ryder returned home for a week before going to Comfort's Place Studio in Lingfield, Surrey to do vocals. [53] The sessions re-started in May 1992, with assistance from Ray Mascarenas, for a period of two weeks. [29] [48] Aside from visiting a local pub, Ryder otherwise kept himself free from drugs. On the advice of his doctor, the rest of the band stayed away from the sessions. [54]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.

The greatest opening line to an album ever?? Has to be a contender. So here we come to the “classic”. The Mondays album which always gets cited in lists and music publications. This was the moment that Madchester took over the UK for a brief spell. The band were now linked with fellow Mancunians The Stone Roses and they had moved away from Hannett and into the studio with electronic producer and superstar DJ Paul Oakenfold and Steve Osborne. Here was the band and Factory Records explicitly connecting them in with the chems and dance world. Those that knew spotted it on Bummed but with Pills the band were not being subtle anymore. From the kaleidoscopic cover to the title itself here were Happy Mondays coming for the dance crowd…and they got them. Released on August 31, the lead-off single from Yes Please!, Stinkin’ Thinkin’, debuted on the UK chart at number 39. Barely a month later, its parent LP stalled at number 14. The only international chart troubled by its presence was Australia, at number 99. According to Shaun Ryder, “it was not a good album. There were no catchy grooves… it had absolutely no character. Yes Please! wasn’t the Mondays. It could have been anyone.” 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.a b Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "...Yes Please – Happy Mondays". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 3 October 2021 . Retrieved 11 October 2021. She especially shines on second single “Sunshine and Love,” which otherwise sounds like a bad Duran Duran rip-off and even contains these self-referential lines: “Ooh, we’d like to take credit for this/ We’d love to thank ourselves for this.” No idea if they were being ironic or sarcastic (it was the 90’s after all). But it does make you wonder whether they knew this album was going to bad — and if they even cared at that point. If you watch an MTV News feature from that time, it certainly looks like they don’t. Four albums. Three you could call classic and one near miss. It’s odd as there is a weird symmetry between Happy Mondays and their fellow lauded Mancs The Smiths when it comes to their recorded output. You have the promising debut, the leap-forward cult classic follow up, the celebrated third and the could-have-been-great fourth. Yet you only seem to see think pieces or coloumn inches covering Moz and co with not as much coverage on the Mondays’ first life which is a shame as personally I feel the Mondays are more vital in understanding our recent past and especially our present where club culture is massive and dance music has become the biggest form of music there is. I think a lot have people have liked the boldness of the exhibition, and found it Positive, and Optimistic. In fact below is a letter that wereceived from a young woman and mother of 3 boys, two of which have downs syndrome.. it says everything.

Morley, Paul (2021). From Manchester with Love: The Life and Times of Tony Wilson*. London: Faber and Faber. ISBN 978-0-571-25249-7.

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Brod, Doug; Krugman, Michael. "Happy Mondays". Trouser Press. Archived from the original on 3 December 2020 . Retrieved 27 September 2021.