Don't forget I have an EXCLUSIVE 'IN CONVERSATION' show here in Melbourne TOMORROW NIGHT at the The Thornbury Theatre, more information can be found here: 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. ITV Dancing on Ice star Bez says he once lived in a cave to escape angry locals". 13 February 2022.

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Mark Berry was born on 18 April 1964 in Bolton, Lancashire, [1] the son of parents from the Norris Green district of Liverpool. [2] His father was a detective inspector. [3] He grew up in Little Hulton and Walkden, before moving to live with his grandparents in Wigan at the age of 16. [4] Career [ edit ] Bez introducing Ziggy Marley at GuilFest in 2011A 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. His adult life has been extraordinary: unbelievable scrapes with mortality, periods of financial ruin, mindf**k moments like when David Bowie genuflected before him, and enough narcotic-strewn hi-jinx to fill several more volumes of memoir. I have an EXCLUSIVE 'IN CONVERSATION' show too, whilst I am out here, in MELBOURNE, details can be found here: 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.” 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.

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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) 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. 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! Bulbul, Nuray (6 February 2022). "Who is Bez's fiancee and how long have they been together?". Chelmsford Chronicle. Chelmsford . Retrieved 28 August 2022. 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!"

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. 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. [22] [23] See also [ edit ] How do everybody, I'm delighted to announce i'll be bringing my DJ set to the Indie Cult Club in Chinnerys Southend, Southend-on-Sea on 1st December. I hope to see you there. 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.

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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. When they too crashed and burned, Bez returned to old habits – small-time dealing. But supplying drugs on someone else’s patch very nearly proved the end of him. 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. 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) 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.”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)

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Buzzin’ simply has to be true because the stories in it are too wild and improbable to exist as fiction. McLoughlin, Lisa (7 September 2022). "Bez is picture of happiness as Happy Mondays member ties knot". Evening Standard . Retrieved 13 October 2023.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 ] 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. I lived in Morocco for a bit and was shoplifting just to survive; pinching bars of chocolate. 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. You create your own reality, and travelling created one that completely changed my whole outlook on life. I met my fiance, Firouzeh Razavi, nearly nine years ago. It was her 30th birthday and she was having a drink with her friends, while I was out with my mate. We walked into this bar, our eyes met across the table, and that was it. I’m not normally romantic, but I tried to make it special when I proposed to her. I set up a posh picnic basket and got her family and my family to wait on the top of this mountain near where we live. Me and Firouzeh walked up the mountain and she noticed a big letter D that I’d put out in tribute to her younger brother who’d died. Then she saw her dad. And her sisters and everyone else, and I proposed. It was great. And it’s easier if everyone is there so you don’t have to tell them all separately afterwards. 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.