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Steve Coogan and Wilson were acquainted before filming, having first met in 1975. When Coogan later worked on a Granada Television late night show, the two men occasionally socialized. [9] Winterbottom recalled that Wilson helped the production team make connections with "everyone involved in the scene." [7] Happy Mondays Confirm They'll Play 25th Anniversary 'Pills 'n' Thrills...' Tour video". NME . Retrieved 19 April 2015.

Royal Shakespeare Company actor Paul Popplewell took the role of Paul Ryder, while the real bass guitarist had a cameo as a gangster. Because I’m Shaun’s younger brother, he was always observing me up close. ‘I don’t have a decent bone in me’ could be Shaun singing about himself. He was up to a lot of bad things at that point.” Hour Party People" was released as the second single from Squirrel and G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile (White Out) on 12 October 1987 [86] on 12" vinyl, with "Yahoo" and "Wah Wah (Think Tank)" its B-sides. [87] Factory took on two film-makers, Keith Jobling and Phil Sotton, who were known as the Bailey Brothers; they had worked on videos for the Smiths album, The Queen Is Dead (1986). [88] [89] Tony Wilson saw Happy Mondays live with the duo, telling them that he wanted to make a music video for "24 Hour Party People". The Bailey Brothers were impressed with the band's performance, and signed up for the task. They filmed the band driving an Oldsmobile in Ancoats, with footage from a passenger's perspective filmed later. [90] The single was promoted with a UK tour that month, their first headlining tour in the country. [91] Happy Mondays ended 1987 with two shows at Warrington and Manchester in December. They played four shows in 1988: a supporting slot for Stump in February and three headlining shows in May. [92] Reissues and related releases [ edit ]

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Factory set Happy Mondays up in a Belsize Park house, with the band living in one room and electricians and builders living in the other rooms. [33] [34] Day was the only band member with a full-time job by this point, and could afford food; the others resorted to theft. [35] The first two days consisted of playing songs for Cale, who was impressed with Day's skills. [31] After the first week, they scrapped their efforts and began again. [36] Young was bewildered by the band's performances, saying that its members did not seem to know what they were playing much of the time. [37] Cale found it difficult to work with Ryder; [ which?] he liked his voice, but was unable to follow the lyrics. Ryder wrote them on pieces of scrap paper before discarding them, leaving Cale unable to see if they could be improved. Many of his vocals included ad-libs (making it difficult to re-do a specific line), and Ryder said that he had forgotten what he sang moments before. [38] Happy Mondays performed before another re-formed act, Rage Against the Machine, at the 2007 Coachella Music Festival in Indio, California. They were introduced by Tony Wilson. Bez missed the show because he could not get into the US due to "passport issues". [23] The band then toured throughout the summer of 2007 including a trip to the Numusic Festival in Norway. They played Splendour in the Grass in Australia in July 2009, and the UK V Festival in August 2009. What: The complex and troubled lead singer of Joy Division, Curtis was the dark heart and soul of the band. He took his own life in 1980, leaving behind two acclaimed albums, "Unknown Pleasures" and "Closer". Sperling, Daniel (30 January 2012). "Happy Mondays confirm reformation". Digital Spy . Retrieved 26 September 2022. Ryder then moved to Los Angeles before forming his own group, Big Arm, which released a 2007 album entitled Radiator and toured Britain that year as support to former Stone Roses singer Ian Brown.

Gordon Barr (1 February 2012). "Interview: Shaun Ryder from Happy Mondays". Evening Chronicle. Media Limited . Retrieved 6 May 2012. The highlight of the film, arguably even more than Frank Cottrell Boyce's screenplay, is Steve Coogan as Tony Wilson. As everyone reading this probably knows, Coogan based his famed Alan Partridge character on Tony Wilson's career as a television reporter, so he's really playing a variation on Alan Partridge here. What's amazing about Coogan's performance is that he manages to draw even this Partridge fan into Tony Wilson's world so much that I didn't care about any similarity. It's still a stunning comic performance, and excellent during the darker, more serious scenes in the film as well. I'd go as far as saying that it's one of the best male performances of the decade. The rest of the cast is too large to go through one by one, but everyone is excellent here, some going for a sort of slightly altered impersonation of the real-life person they're playing, some creating their own version. a b c Smith, Evan (1 December 2013). "History and the Notion of Authenticity in Control and 24 Hour Party People". Contemporary British History. 27 (4): 466–489. doi: 10.1080/13619462.2013.840537. ISSN 1361-9462. S2CID 159889143. Paul Ryder: Happy Mondays bassist and Shaun's brother dies at 58". BBC News. 15 July 2022 . Retrieved 15 July 2022. Beaumont-Thomas, Ben (15 July 2022). "Paul Ryder, Happy Mondays bassist, dies aged 58". The Guardian . Retrieved 15 July 2022.

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Monroe, Jazz (15 July 2022). "Happy Mondays Bassist Paul Ryder Dies at 58". Pitchfork . Retrieved 16 July 2022. It would be unfair to dismiss "24 Hour Party People" as a biographical look at Tony Wilson. It's so much more. It's a celebration of music, of a lifestyle, of a bygone era. It also plays like a Greek tragedy, albeit substantially more fun, but there is no shortage of darkness and tragedy in the film. The shifts in tone are particularly remarkable, as the film veers from its usual dry, sardonic tone into real pathos and examination of the dark side of almost any phenomenal success. Ryder appeared in the films The Ghosts of Oxford Street, Losing It, and 24 Hour Party People, where he played the part of a gangster. [8] Other projects [ edit ] It feels like the film equivalent of a Vonnegut novel. The fourth wall is constantly broken & the story is built around sizable chunks of truth, bits of legend, sci-fi, rumors, and just flat out lies.

a b c d e "Festival de Cannes: 24 Hour Party People". festival-cannes.com . Retrieved 24 October 2009. 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.Ryder, Shaun (2012). Twisting My Melon: The Autobiography. London: Corgi Books. ISBN 978-0-552-16547-1. a b Harnell, Steve (August 2021). "Happy Mondays interview". Classic Pop. Archived from the original on 30 August 2021 . Retrieved 27 September 2021. a b Naylor, Tim (March 2020). "Oops! ... I Did It Again". Record Collector. Archived from the original on 5 May 2020 . Retrieved 20 March 2020. Paul Morley (22 February 2001). "24 Hour Party People: shooting the past". theguardian.com. Guardian News & Media Limited . Retrieved 31 May 2023. J.P.Gorman (26 April 2007). "Happy Mondays' Bez Denied Visa For Coachella" (News article). Pop Blend. Cinema Blend LLC . Retrieved 6 May 2012.