{"id":275300,"date":"2025-11-21T11:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T11:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/275300\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T11:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T11:24:08","slug":"the-mischievous-genius-of-mani-a-unifying-character-in-alt-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/275300\/","title":{"rendered":"The mischievous genius of Mani: &#8216;A unifying character in alt-rock&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a tale that encapsulates the mischievous charm of the man known as Mani, who sadly died yesterday aged 63. Not only was he the definitive bassist of the baggy era and much of the decade beyond \u2013 his deeply melodic basslines always an ear-catching, groove-setting counterpoint to guitarist John Squire\u2019s guitar pyrotechnics \u2013 but an amenable figure who, more than many of his peers and bandmates, really was adored. If Shaun Ryder was Madchester\u2019s drug-widened mind and Bez its saucer eyes, Mani was its broad, welcoming smile. Funny, friendly and inclusive, he was a unifying character across the alternative rock world; a man who didn\u2019t just loosen up the indie rock sphere to allow the poutier kids to dance, but bonded it too. For the Roses, Oasis, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/culture\/music\/primal-scream-hammersmith-apollo-review-b1222146.html\" title=\"Primal Scream at Hammersmith Apollo review: far from a nostalgia act\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Primal Scream<\/a>, Inspiral Carpets, Ocean Colour Scene and many more, Mani was inspiration, compadre, rejuvenator and partner in crime. In a half-shadowed kind of way, Mani was Nineties rock music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a tale that encapsulates the mischievous charm of the man known as Mani, who sadly died yesterday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,2576,128,112848,1769,112720,67207,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-275300","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-liam-gallagher","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-nineties","12":"tag-oasis","13":"tag-primal-scream","14":"tag-stone-roses","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}