I will never get tired of watching Shaun Ryder trying to describe ‘Voodoo Ray’…
Not content with featuring one Happy Mondays-related post today, here’s another, which also features another Manchester music icon. One of…
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Check out this video of the Happy Mondays rocking Manchester’s G-Mex… [March 1990]
Today, 25 March, marks the anniversary of one of the most ‘Madchester’ gigs of all time, the Happy Mondays at…
![Norman Cook lays it all bare… [October 1995]](https://i0.wp.com/909originals.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/muzik-oct-1995-4.jpg?resize=600%2C400&ssl=1 "Norman Cook lays it all bare… [October 1995]")
Norman Cook lays it all bare… [October 1995]
Just months before the launch of his first record as Fatboy Slim, Better Living Through Chemistry, Norman Cook spoke to…
![Happy birthday to New Order’s ‘Blue Monday’- 35 today… [March 1983]](https://i0.wp.com/909originals.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/r-20755-1306113040-png.jpg?resize=600%2C400&ssl=1 "Happy birthday to New Order’s ‘Blue Monday’, which turns 35 today… [March 1983]")
Happy birthday to New Order’s ‘Blue Monday’, which turns 35 today… [March 1983]
It’s hard to believe that Blue Monday, the track that cemented New Order’s transition from a post punk outfit to…
Catching up with 808 State in 1996… [July 1996]
In 1996, seven years on from Pacific State going massive, 808 State released their fifth album, Don Solaris. Featuring a…
This video for Carl Cox’s I Want You (Forever) is so 1991 it hurts…
Back in 1991, legendary DJ Carl Cox dipped his toe into the production game, with the release of I Want…
![Massive Attack’s Unfinished Sympathy entered the charts on this day in 1991… [February 1991]](https://i0.wp.com/909originals.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/massive-attack_s-unfinished-sympathy-entered-the-charts-on-this-day-in-1991e280a6-february-1991.jpg?resize=600%2C400&ssl=1 "Massive Attack’s ‘Unfinished Sympathy’ entered the charts on this day in 1991… [February 1991]")
Massive Attack’s ‘Unfinished Sympathy’ entered the charts on this day in 1991… [February 1991]
When the annals of dance music come to be written, Massive Attack’s Unfinished Sympathy will likely go down as one…
![Dance music invades the (commercial) airwaves... [January 1995]](https://i0.wp.com/909originals.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/unnamed-2.jpg?resize=600%2C400&ssl=1 "Dance music invades the (commercial) airwaves… [January 1995]")
Dance music invades the (commercial) airwaves… [January 1995]
This year, as many of you know, marks the 25th anniversary of the first BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix, broadcast…
Haçienda founder and Factory Records guru Tony Wilson would have been 68 today…
It’s not often that you see Happy Mondays’ frontman Shaun Ryder get all emotional, but then again, Tony Wilson had…
Further evidence why the KLF’s Jimmy Cauty is an absolute legend… [December 1996]
You’ve heard the one about the KLF’s Jimmy Cauty buying up two old Saracen tanks and turning them into ‘weapons of…