Black Grape have been added to the Beano On The Sea at Hastings Pier over the long Friday to Saturday weekend of 8-10 September 2017.

Bez out of Happy Mondays also hosts one of the aftershow parties over the weekend.

The Lightning Seeds, Cast, Echobelly, Reef, Space, Dodgy, The Bluetones and many more complete the line-up.

Weekend tickets are available now priced 99 GBP via beanoonthesea.com

Labels: Bez, Black_Grape, gigs

Bez, who has announced himself as a prospective candidate for the Salford and Eccles seat on an anti-fracking (and anti-GM food) ticket at the next general election, has spoken to the BBC about the decision.

Meanwhile, various media campaigns have been invented by the Twitterati, most notably this one by Markemoon.

Labels: Bez, Happy_Mondays, politics

FAC 51 The Haçienda returns to Manchester for a special New Year's Eve party at the newly-renovated Albert Hall. A top line-up is headlined by DJs Frankie Knuckles, Todd Terry and Marshall Jefferson and they are backed by regular Haçienda favourites including Graeme Park, Herbie Saccani, Allister Whitehead, Tom Wainwright and 808 State DJs.

Main Room

Frankie Knuckles
Todd Terry
Marshall Jefferson
Graeme Park
Herbie Saccani
Rowetta (Live PA)
Bez (Vibe Provider To Bring In The New Year)

Downstairs

Hacienda Classics with Allister Whitehead, Tom Wainwright,808 State Djs, Tricky Disko & Chris Crooks on Percussion

Tickets priced 25.00 GBP are available now via See Tickets, Skiddle and Ticket Text.

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The Albert Hall
27 Peter Street
Manchester
M2 5QR

Labels: 808_State, Allister_Whitehead, Bez, DJ, FAC51_The_Hacienda, Rowetta

Peter J Walsh rose to prominence during the late Eighties by capturing many iconic images of the chief protagonists of the Madchester era including Happy Mondays, The Stone Roses, The Charlatans and many more. He also became a regular at FAC 51 The Hacienda and documented the sights, sounds and smells of many a night at the legendary club.

Peter has just launched an online shop for the sale of exhibition quality inkjet prints of a selection of his work. Prints are available in A5, A4 and A3 sizes in limited editions of 250 and prices start at 25 pounds.

To celebrate the launch, Cerysmatic Factory is proud to present a competition to win an A3-sized exhibition inkjet print (regular price £100) of a Walsh original photo of the late Tony Wilson. Peter has set the question which is:

Which group of people from the Sixties was Tony inspired by?

Was it:

A. The Situation Room
B. The Situationists
C. The Stipulation

And now the small print: Answers by email please. One entry per person. Closing date Friday 15 July 22:00 BST. By entering you agree to be added to the email newsletter that Peter will send out at occasional intervals to notify interested parties about updates to his site. The winner will be selected at random out of the Cerysmatic hat soon after the closing date.

Good luck!

Labels: Bez, competition, Happy_Mondays, Peter_J_Walsh, photography, Shaun_Ryder, Tony_Wilson

The August issue of MOJO magazine includes the MOJO Awards and guests none other than Shaun Ryder and Bez presenting Mark E Smith with an award for The Fall's Peel Sessions Box Set and a great photo of Bez with Slash out of Velvet Revolver.

Labels: Bez, Shaun_Ryder

The NME is reporting that Channel 4 are considering a new reality show featuring Bez, who recently won the same channel's Celebrity Big Brother show. Bez's next door neighbour Shaun Ryder may also feature in the show which sounds like it would be similar to The Osbournes. Is there life in the Reality TV genre after all?

Labels: Bez, Shaun_Ryder, television

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