- Music
- 24 Sep 15
You don't get much more cross-cultural than their new single!
With the first night sold-out, Happy Mondays play a second consecutive gig in Vicar St., Dublin on December 11.
The chaps are celebrating the 25th anniversary of their seminal Pills 'N' Thrills And Bellyaches album, with tickets priced €35 going on sale on Thursday September 25.
If you don't have Watch, you mightn't have seen Shaun Ryder & Co. starring in the first installment of Singing In The Rainforest.
"Five acts are embarking on their greatest musical adventure - to live and work with some of the most remote tribes on the planet," says the blurb.
"They were fascinated by it, the whole village were picking up the instruments and having a go on the drums, guitars and basses," Bez says of the time they spent with the Panamanian Embera people.
Adds Ryder: "We recorded them and speeded it up a little bit, you know, put a few effects on it and let them listen to it. It was something totally new to them... And then when you download the track the night the show airs, all the proceeds go to the tribe so they can carry on living their way of life. For the entire lifespan of that song they get the publishing royalties and everything else."