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. He did more television (MasterChef, Dancing on Ice, Gogglebox), a bit of boxing, some DJing, and then came the beekeeping. Happy Mondays were chaos incarnate, the kind of act who, back in the early 1990s, were celebrated for their piratical behaviour. Bez took part in Series 4 of Adrenaline Junkie (aired on 1 October 2008 on ITV2), the tasks involved taking on the world's biggest bungee down the front of the dam which featured in GoldenEye, building an ice hotel in the mountains, and undertook a jump from one cable car to another. But, you know, like everyone else, I’m still two or three pay cheques away from being homeless again, and I never forget that.

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Even though I get up on stage and dance in front of loads of people, I wouldn’t say I’m a confident person. 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. In January 2021, during the third lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic, Bez began operating as an online fitness instructor producing content on YouTube under the title "Buzzin’ with Bez". He is a beekeeper and beer brewer in his spare time, and has lived on land-shares in Herefordshire and Wales.The journalists were all shitting themselves in fear of what might happen to them, but everyone in Cuba was so lovely to us. 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. We won't bombard you, we'll only send content related to us and we will NEVER pass your details on to anyone else. I got some of [lead guitarist] Moose's acid, dripped it in the cut and ran back out with me shakers.

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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. Through Black Grape, the second band he co-fronted with the Mondays’ Shaun Ryder, and his ever-presence in the mass media, Bez’s popularity has grown exponentially, his star rocketing ever upwards. When both men faced large tax bills, Bez and Ryder reformed the Happy Mondays in 1998, but it was short-lived. In Manchester I was constantly taking out and putting nothing back in to myself, but here I can still have the mad parties, but I'm exercising, eating the right stuff, and making myself strong for the occasional bender.He was born in Salford in 1964, the son of a nurse and, improbably, a high-ranking police officer who would take a dim view when his son grew up a modern day artful dodger. Mark Berry, better known as Bez, rose to fame as the dancer-slash-percussionist for indie dance group the Happy Mondays. 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.

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The band announced in September 2012 that they were writing their first album with the original line-up in more than 20 years. SIGN UP TO GET EXCLUSIVE OFFERS, INFORMATION ABOUT UPCOMING GIGS, PROMOTIONS, CHARITY WORK AND A MONTHLY MERCHANDISE GIVEAWAY WITH CHANCE TO WIN SIGNED TSHIRTS, MARACAS, TICKETS TO GIGS AND MORE!So disappointed that train shenanigans stopped me getting there, but glad that my nephew James Slade managed to get there - don't think he got to speak to you, but I know he really enjoyed the event, so thanks Bez! 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. There was no damage to my brain, thankfully, but I still pretended I’d lost my memory when the police came, so I didn’t have to tell them where I was staying.

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I’m sure if the version of me pictured in 1996 could hear me say that, he’d tell me to shut up and rack up!First in the Happy Mondays, then Black Grape, and later on TV, in politics, and bee-keeping, Bez is a true rock and roll revolutionary and the very embodiment of acid house.