Buzzin': The Nine Lives of a Happy Monday

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It’s just life, innit? I know people who’ve lived a life of high adventure; I always thought mine was f**king boring compared to theirs.” This is plain nonsense, for even a cursory dip into the book reveals the sort of tossed-aside snippets most other tomes might make a major feature of. “When I regained consciousness, I was in hospital,” he writes at one point. “I [then] caught the MRSA superbug, a really f**king nasty one.” He was in a coma for a month. “Multiple organ failures, heart failures, all sorts of shit going down. I was given the last rites.”

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O'Mahony, Marsha (9 September 2022). "Happy Mondays star Bez marries long-term girlfriend in sleepy Herefordshire". Gloucestershire Echo. Gloucester . Retrieved 10 September 2022. In a funny way,” says the father of three, and grandfather of one, “I’ve lived a charmed life. But, you know, like everyone else, I’m still two or three pay cheques away from being homeless again, and I never forget that. I worry about putting food on the table every day, so I’m in the job market. I’m open to offers.” Bez married his partner fitness instructor Firouzeh Razavi 39 on 3 September 2022. The two had been in a relationship since 2014. Bez had made a Wooden Stonehenge for a Game of Thrones style wedding. [20] [21] In popular culture [ edit ] I think there was a failing there,” he says, “because I expected the case to be found in my favour. There was no evidence of assault. It was my word against [his girlfriend’s] word.” According to Bez, the two have a good relationship today, and share a son. “But I fought the law, and the law let me down.” Whatever he may say, the uncomfortable fact is that he was convicted. Three-quarters of all domestic abuse cases are closed early without the suspect being charged, according to a 2021 report. Ryder, who was recently diagnosed with ADHD, is insistent that Bez has the same condition, but Bez refuses to be tested. “Not interested, mate.” Bez with Angela Egan in Dancing on Ice (Photo: Matt Frost/ITV)MELBOURNE, THIS EVENING! Come and join me for an EXCLUSIVE 'In Conversation' show at The Thornbury Theatre to hear stories from my past and present. You will also get the chance to ask me anything you like! In the sitcom The Royle Family, Antony announces that he will be managing a band called "Exit", which will partly be inspired by Happy Mondays, with one of the members doing an imitation of Bez.

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This is when, in a manner surely unreplicated by any other human who ever lived, he branched out. First, to stave off bankruptcy, he appeared on Celebrity Big Brother (2005), alongside Germaine Greer and Brigitte Nielsen, and won. Neither an accomplished musician nor even a very good dancer, Bez was a prime candidate for fleeting celebrity, soon to sink into ‘Where Are They Now?’ obscurity. Tried my hand at cooking Teppanyaki style this afternoon ahead of our second show here in Melbourne at Forum Melbourne, I think I did a good job 🤣

Coffee4Craig provides vital support for Manchester’s homeless and people in crisis. Each evening we operate an out of hours’ drop-in service in the heart of Manchester city centre. We offer hot food, showers, food parcels, medical support and mental health crisis intervention. In the comedy series Peep Show, Jeremy gets a mercy spot in a band called The Executioner's Bong as they tell him he can "get in on maracas". Jeremy protests, "I won't be Bez. I wanna be in there on merit!" A whistle-stop tour of the man born Mark Berry’s 58 years on earth, it takes in urchin behaviour, homelessness, drugs, the Happy Mondays, more drugs, a near-fatal motorbike crash, new teeth, a kidnapping, bankruptcy, prison, stints on reality TV, standing to become a member of Parliament, and the Zen pleasures of beekeeping. The fact he’s even here today to recount it all is remarkable enough; that he manages to do so with what appears to be most of his marbles still intact frankly beggars belief. Because Bez himself makes for an unreliable narrator, the book frequently gives paragraphs over to his Happy Monday comrade, Shaun Ryder, himself an unreliable narrator. “You could throw him out of a jumbo jet at 50,000 feet,” Ryder says of Bez, “and he’ll land on a mattress and walk away.” Bez and his family on a fishing trip in Cornwall (Photo: Supplied) When he attends an ayahuasca ceremony, he’s told: “We’ve never, ever encountered anybody who has as many hallucinations as you do.” And at some point after recovering from jaundice, pleurisy and hepatitis B, he is held hostage by “some c**t with a gun in my face”, more of which later.

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Never even watched that programme before, so didn’t know what I was letting myself in for,” he notes. Five years later, he spent a month in prison for assaulting his former girlfriend, something he vehemently denied then, and continues to today. Bez with Shaun Ryder of Happy Mondays (Photo: Stuart Mostyn/Redferns)

gura na jednu stranu, život ga vraća na drugu, pa na kraju završi na trećoj, o kojoj ni mislio nije. I bori se, trudi, zalaže, a kao da ništa ne radi. Ponekad se, retko, ponešto primi i izađe onako kako je hteo. Pa i onda svi potrče da mu to razgrade. A opet mora, ne može drugačije, nego da se upinje. I kad zna da nema kud. Pogotovo onda. Jer, ko jednom posustane, ko reši da se ne trudi, ko se prepusti, taj tek nikakve izglede nema na zelenu granu da izađe. A zaostane, odmah i nestane. Ovako, dok radi, dok prevezuje i podvezuje rasuto, kupi klasje u snopove i sadeva u krstine, možda ga život opet baci na neku iole plodniju njivu u rodnijoj godini. Ako stane, neće ga baciti nigde, ostaće tu gde je stao, bos na strnjištu.” When he bowled into Celebrity Big Brother in 2005, he ended up winning the series, as viewers came to understand his fundamental decency and sunny outlook. Occasionally, he admits, there are bouts of depression, though he prefers the term “low moods”, for which he self-medicates by reading books, everything from David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas to something called Return of the Warriors: The Toltec Teachings Volume 1 by Theun Mares, an “action-based approach to life” guide that sounds both complicated and convoluted, but which Bez describes as “brilliant”. Today, he remains a recreational drug user, but eats healthily and extols the virtues of vitamin C and apple cider vinegar.