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Happy Mondays recording new album

Shaun Ryder announces follow-up to 'Uncle Dysfunktional'

Happy Mondays are recording a new album and hope to release it in early 2009.

Singer Shaun Ryder confirmed that the band were recording the follow-up to 2007's 'Uncle Dysfunktional' in Stockport.

The singer told Billboard: "It's sounding good. We had a few tracks left over from the last Mondays' album, so we thought that we might as well do another one.

"Knowing us, it'll probably come out in about two years time. I mean, the other one, we had that in the can for, what, two years before that got released, because of legal problems. It took us eight or nine years to sort out all that.

"So we've now got ourselves a new set of legal problems, which will probably take another few years to sort out and then we can get this one out."

The new album will be Happy Mondays' sixth.

Happy Mondays tickets:

Date / Time	Artist	Venue	Town/City	Buy
Dec 12, 2009 19:00	Happy Mondays	Manchester Evening News Arena	Manchester	Buy Happy Mondays tickets from Seetickets
Dec 31, 2009 20:00	Happy Mondays	O2 Academy Liverpool	Liverpool	Buy Happy Mondays tickets from Seetickets

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lil miss emileee

May 22, 2008

you can tell when hasbeen bands run out of money carnt you !! hes twisting ma melons maaaan !!! lol

brmanuk

May 22, 2008

cracking. unkle dysfunktional, give or take a few tracks, was excellent, dispite what nme said at the time. why do nme seem to have a thing about bands reforming and releasing albums?

rubbersoul7

May 22, 2008

Stop trying to be funny lil miss emileee, you're probably not even old enough to know anything about the Mondays.

BigpoppaJ

May 22, 2008

Rubbersoul7 wind your neck in sunshine, I am old enough to remember them and believe me they are below average. Lil miss Emileee you are right, totally right, they don't mean anything to anyone anymore! Garbage

baronsaladback

May 22, 2008

Everyone needs their smack, none more so than Mr Ryder and his merry band of musical wasters. Bez, however, is a grand example of how zero musical talent and the amazing ability to dance like a twat can get you money, drugs, women and, uh, eventual bankruptcy.

scotcha

May 24, 2008

I loved the Mondays years back but lets all be honest here this new album will be nothing but utter dogshit from start to finish. Shaun lost his ability to write quality tunes 10 years ago.