{"id":358452,"date":"2026-01-08T06:17:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T06:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/358452\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T06:17:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T06:17:12","slug":"happy-mondays-music-legend-set-for-market-drayton-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/358452\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Mondays music legend set for Market Drayton stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Mondays&#8217; Shaun Ryder is set to visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shropshirestar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/north-shropshire\/market-drayton\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Market Drayton<\/a> later this year on a tour in support of his new book.<\/p>\n<p>Titled &#8216;Happy Mondays &#8211; and Fridays and Saturdays and Sundays&#8217;, the frontman of the iconic &#8216;Madchester&#8217; band will be sharing tales from his wild life in music and TV during the spoken word tour.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Promotional materials describe the show as &#8220;a carnival of excess, wild tales, and improbable truths.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/f20b143c-44d4-488d-b099-7afcd087e2b9.jpg\"   alt=\"Shaun Ryder\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>Shaun Ryder<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about the tour, Shaun Ryder said: \u201cI have certainly had a bit of a mad life and I can\u2019t wait to share all my stories from Happy Mondays, Black Grape and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is me at my most honest; nothing is off the table \u2013 expect the unexpected and prepare for me to twist your melons, man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The show will take place at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.festivaldraytoncentre.com\/whatson\/liveevents\/liveeventsFeature.php?SHAUN-RYDER--HAPPY-MONDAYS-AND-FRIDAYS-AND-SATURDAYS-AND-SUNDAYS-366\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Festival Drayton Centre<\/a> on Thursday, October 22 at 8pm.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets, priced at \u00a330, are available to purchase online, with VIP and meet-and-greet options only available through the box office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Happy Mondays&#8217; Shaun Ryder is set to visit Market Drayton later this year on a tour in support&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,10730,2652,137755,128,50,43716,1755,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-358452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-events","tag-local-hubs","tag-market-drayton","tag-music","tag-news","tag-north-shropshire","tag-search","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358452","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=358452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}