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Psychedelic Furs, Happy Mondays Step On Nostalgia Train

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By Cameron Gordon (CHARTattack) October 15, 2009 1:35 pm
A curious pairing of moldy oldies touched down in Toronto this Wednesday night, forging a bridge between new wave and Madchester, and having a lot of fun in doing so. Make no mistake, the combination of The Psychedelic Furs and the Happy Mondays was primarily a nostalgia trip for the thousand or so bodies jammed into the Kool Haus, but cast...
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I Fought The Law... For Nov. 26, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) November 26, 2010 3:19 pm
Oopsie: Three Atlas Sound demo LPs that Deerhunter frontman Bradford Cox uploaded to his blog earlier this week have been deleted for alleged copyright violations. He's since re-uploaded the files. —deerhuntertheband.blogspot.comAn Australian Marilyn Manson fan has been sent to jail for at least 18 months after killing a man who suggested he was...
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Shaun Ryder Bitten By Python

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) November 26, 2010 12:28 pm
The Happy Mondays just can't seem to catch a break lately. First, dancer Bez was sentenced to prison time for choking his ex-girlfriend. Then earlier this month he got in trouble for violating a restraining order filed against him by said ex, which stipulated he wasn't to have any contact with her and was a fugitive for a while.Singer Shaun Ryder...
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I Read The News... For Nov. 25, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) November 25, 2010 2:22 pm
In today's installment of "Oh, dear God, please don't let this happen," Peter Hook says he's going to re-record several Joy Division tracks for a four-song EP with his new band The Light and Happy Mondays singer Rowetta. Ian Curtis just rolled over in his grave. —Slicing Up Eyeballs Korn's Jonathan Davis says he wants to be able to do drugs again...
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I Fought The Law... For Nov. 24, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) November 24, 2010 4:49 pm
I Fought The Law is a new CHARTattack column in which we track musicians' ongoing run-ins with The Man (and each other) everywhere. It looks like Happy Mondays dancer Bez is no longer on the run. He's going back to court after police arrested him at London, England's Euston train station. See, Bez allegedly broke a restraining order involving his...
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I Read The News Today... For Nov. 10, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) November 10, 2010 2:36 pm
Kanye West says Coldplay are better than The Beatles, proving he has not heard a single Beatles song in his entire life. —The Sun In other Kanye news, a porno based on the Taylor Swift incident is coming. Wow. I guess you really can make porn about anything... that or the porn industry is really running out of ideas. —Hollywood Life Death Cab For...
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Bez On The Run

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) November 4, 2010 11:22 am
Bez on the run! Bez on the ruuu-uuun! Happy Mondays dancer Bez texted his ex-girlfriend, who he wasn't supposed to contact under the terms of a restraining order imposed against him in August. So now he's fled his home and cops are currently looking for him so they can arrest him, according to The Sun. That means there's a Bez on the run! A Bez on...
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I Read The News Today... For Oct. 25, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) October 25, 2010 1:02 pm
Nine Inch Nails' Pretty Hate Machine debut album will be reissued on Nov. 22. Trent Reznor remastered the album himself with Tom Baker, and the cover's also been changed this time. It's still as angry as before. —nin.com Girls will release a new EP, Broken Dreams Club, on Nov. 22. It's not known whether it will contain any singles, nor whether...
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I Read The News Today... For Aug. 25, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) August 25, 2010 12:48 pm
Megafaun, Four Tet, Ohbijou, Born Ruffians, Woodpigeon, Chad VanGaalen, and Diamond Rings are among the artists who've redone tracks from The Acorn's No Ghost for a remix album called Make The Least Of The Day. It's out digitally on Sept. 14. —Paper BagBehemoth frontman Adam "Nergal" Darski came down with an illness...
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I Read The News Today... For Aug. 12, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) August 12, 2010 12:03 pm
Does Les Savy Fav frontman Tim Harrington have a hate-on for Arcade Fire? He's been tweeting things like "fuck your 'OK' versions of OK-Computer" over the last 24 hours... —TwitterThe Salteens' first new album in seven years, Grey Eyes, is out Oct. 12 through Boompa. The band will spend September on the Yo Gabba...
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Happy Mondays Drummer Prepares To Unveil His Hippy Mafia (With Added Oasis Rumour)

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By Shaun Despres (CHARTattack) March 9, 2010 4:25 pm
Manchester, England's Happy Mondays may still be together (but with a truncated line-up) but drummer Gary "Gaz" Whelan has his priorities elsewhere at the moment. As he told us last summer, Whelan, who's now a resident of Burlington, Ont., has formed a new group with some of his Mancunian friends, and they're going by the name Hippy...
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Happy Mondays Dancer Bez's Friend Arrested For Alleged Taliban Terrorism Recruitment

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) November 18, 2009 11:30 am
Bez, the Happy Mondays' dancer and winner of the Celebrity Big Brother television series in 2005, discovered this week one of his friends was arrested for allegedly recruiting British citizens to train in Taliban camps in Afghanistan. According to Britain's The Sun tabloid, Matthew Newton, who once ran a T-shirt firm with Bez's (real name Mark...
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Happy Mondays At The Kool Haus

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Photographer: 
John Papamarko
Venue: 
Kool Haus
City: 
Toronto, ON
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October 14, 2009

Happy Mondays At The Kool Haus

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Photographer: 
John Papamarko
Venue: 
Kool Haus
City: 
Toronto, ON
Date: 
October 14, 2009

Happy Mondays At The Kool Haus

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Photographer: 
John Papamarko
Venue: 
Kool Haus
City: 
Toronto, ON
Date: 
October 14, 2009

Happy Mondays At The Kool Haus

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Photographer: 
John Papamarko
Venue: 
Kool Haus
City: 
Toronto, ON
Date: 
October 14, 2009

Happy Mondays At The Kool Haus

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Photographer: 
John Papamarko
Venue: 
Kool Haus
City: 
Toronto, ON
Date: 
October 14, 2009

Happy Mondays Go To Work

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By Ian Gormely (CHARTattack) October 14, 2009 2:50 pm
That the Happy Mondays still exist in any form — let alone as a functioning band — is a minor miracle. Although they were more of a foreign curiosity here in North America, in their native England the Manchunian sextet were a game-changing act who helped blur the boundaries between rock and dance music. Of course, their off-stage behavior...
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Happy Mondays Member Joins Mafia, Looking For DJ Gigs

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By Ian Gormely (CHARTattack) October 6, 2009 4:29 pm
With Manchester, England's Happy Mondays back on the road and half of a new record in the can, it would seem like everything was full steam ahead for the group's trio of original members: vocalist Shaun Ryder, drummer Gary "Gaz" Whelan and dancer and percussionist Bez. But Whelan, who now lives in Burlington, Ont., says that couldn't...
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Islands Touring With Happy Mondays

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By Bianca Marcus (CHARTattack) July 14, 2009 1:21 pm
Montreal's Islands will tour the U.S. this summer and fall, and are scheduled to play a set of dates supporting legendary Brit rockers Happy Mondays and The Psychedelic Furs. Islands' third studio album, Vapours, the follow-up to 2008's Arm's Way, drops Sept. 22 through Anti-. Happy Mondays formed in 1980 and disbanded in 1993. The Madchester...
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