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Happy Mondays confirm reunion

By | Published on Monday 30 January 2012

Happy Mondays

The Happy Mondays reunion is official, and a string of May dates have been announced.

Backing singer Rowetta Satchell was first to officially confirm that the original line up of the Happy Mondays – including both the Ryder brothers – will reunite this summer, telling the BBC this weekend: “We want to put on a really good show. We decided it would only be special, and work, if it was the total original line-up. We’re all really excited. They are my family these boys, I’ve really missed them and I’m sure they’ve missed each other”.

The most recent reunion of the Mondays, in 2004, was missing some of the original line up, with Paul Ryder having declared a few years earlier that he’d never perform with his brother Shaun again. But it seems Shaun Ryder and his manager have now successfully persuaded the rest of the original line up – plus Bez and Satchell (who weren’t actually there right from the start) – to join in with the latest reformation.

In an official statement this morning Shaun Ryder said: “We all met up last week and some of the lads haven’t seen each other in over ten, fifteen years. It’s as if we’ve never been apart – so good to all be in the same room again. We can’t wait now to get on tour and play the songs that made us famous”.

Rumours of a Mondays reunion circulated late last year, with them being heavily tipped as possible support for this year’s Stone Roses reunion shows, though as yet only the stand alone gigs have been confirmed, as follows:

3 May: Newcastle Academy
4 May: Glasgow Academy
5 May: Manchester Arena
6 May: Sheffield Academy
9 May: Bournemouth Academy
10 May: Brixton Academy
11 May: Brixton Academy
12 May: Birmingham Academy
15 May: Dublin Olympia
17 May: Leeds Academy
18 May: Nottingham Rock City



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