Buzzin': The Nine Lives of a Happy Monday

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I know people who’ve lived a life of high adventure; I always thought mine was f**king boring compared to theirs. When I got kidnapped, and held up by gunpoint and machetes, that was a massive turning point,” he says.

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So please donate or fundraise what you can because investing in your local community to help it thrive can be a massively rewarding experience. He is a beekeeper and beer brewer in his spare time, and has lived on land-shares in Herefordshire and Wales. 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. In August 2021 it was announced that Bez would be a competitor on BBC's Celebrity MasterChef and in October 2021 that he would be a competitor on the fourteenth series of Dancing on Ice in 2022. Today, he remains a recreational drug user, but eats healthily and extols the virtues of vitamin C and apple cider vinegar.I started looking after myself about eight years ago when I thought I was going to start a revolution and set up a political party. Growing up, dancing was a massive part of our culture: you’d go out to these venues and see different types of dancing in every room – the northern soulers, the metal headbangers, the ska rudeboys, the punks and people who loved disco. One of my favourite memories is sitting at the back of one of Hemingway’s favourite bars with mojitos and big fat cigars. In 2006, Bez was promoting a compilation album titled Bez's Madchester Anthems: Sorted Tunes from Back in the Day. Today, Bez is known for his political endeavours – in 2015 he set up the We Are the Reality party and stood as MP of Salford – as well as his work as an environmentalist and campaigner.

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By the time I was about 19, I decided I didn’t want to get caught up in the sort of shit I was doing again, so thought the best thing I could do was to have a huge adventure and go travelling.The seat was won by the new Labour Party candidate, Rebecca Long-Bailey, who received 21,364 votes (49. I picked up a pair of maracas and shook them so hard I ended up with a blister the size of a 50p in the middle of my hand. Bez is best known as the maraca player, dancer, and de facto mascot of rock band Happy Mondays, having been invited by lead singer Shaun Ryder shortly after the band was formed. 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? I got chased out of town and had to hide in a cave for three weeks until the money I’d been waiting for arrived.

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The incumbent Member of Parliament (MP), Hazel Blears, announced her intention to stand down at the election. He fell in love (with Firouzeh Razavi, a singer), and together they put down permanent roots near Hay-on-Wye, while he kept eyes and ears open for further opportunities. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous. I've also always been really keen on saving the planet and that, so when I met these guys at Glastonbury who showed me a sustainable way of managing myself as well as the land, it all started to make sense to me. 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.Some members of my family, yeah, are highly intelligent, but unfortunately that sort of missed me,” he shrugs. Three-quarters of all domestic abuse cases are closed early without the suspect being charged, according to a 2021 report. During early Mondays performances, Ryder would have people come up to him afterwards saying how nice that he was helping out the “kid with the special needs” by allowing Bez to dance alongside him. Friends introduced him to Ryder – then in the process of getting a band together –, convinced they’d be kindred spirits.