It would be unfair to dismiss "24 Hour Party People" as a biographical look at Tony Wilson. It's so much more. It's a celebration of music, of a lifestyle, of a bygone era. It also plays like a Greek tragedy, albeit substantially more fun, but there is no shortage of darkness and tragedy in the film. The shifts in tone are particularly remarkable, as the film veers from its usual dry, sardonic tone into real pathos and examination of the dark side of almost any phenomenal success. Interview: Paul Ryder on Life with the Happy Mondays" (Interview). Live4ever. Live4ever Ezine. 11 May 2011 . Retrieved 6 May 2012. Factory set Happy Mondays up in a Belsize Park house, with the band living in one room and electricians and builders living in the other rooms. [33] [34] Day was the only band member with a full-time job by this point, and could afford food; the others resorted to theft. [35] The first two days consisted of playing songs for Cale, who was impressed with Day's skills. [31] After the first week, they scrapped their efforts and began again. [36] Young was bewildered by the band's performances, saying that its members did not seem to know what they were playing much of the time. [37] Cale found it difficult to work with Ryder; [ which?] he liked his voice, but was unable to follow the lyrics. Ryder wrote them on pieces of scrap paper before discarding them, leaving Cale unable to see if they could be improved. Many of his vocals included ad-libs (making it difficult to re-do a specific line), and Ryder said that he had forgotten what he sang moments before. [38] Ellis, Iain (14 May 2010). "Happy Mondays, the Court Jesters of Madchester". PopMatters. Archived from the original on 29 September 2021 . Retrieved 5 October 2021. Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19thed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. pp.242–243. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.

Bonner, Michael (31 March 2012). "John Cale – Conflict & Catalysis: Productions & Arrangements 1966-2006". Uncut. Archived from the original on 29 September 2020 . Retrieved 27 September 2021. Happy Mondays (2000). Squirrel and G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile (White Out) (sleeve). London Recordings. 3984 28252 2.Happy Mondays performed before another re-formed act, Rage Against the Machine, at the 2007 Coachella Music Festival in Indio, California. They were introduced by Tony Wilson. Bez missed the show because he could not get into the US due to "passport issues". [23] The band then toured throughout the summer of 2007 including a trip to the Numusic Festival in Norway. They played Splendour in the Grass in Australia in July 2009, and the UK V Festival in August 2009. Rutter, Harry (17 August 2022). "Shaun Ryder says brother Paul was going deaf 24 hours before 'iffy' death". Daily Mirror . Retrieved 26 September 2022. The highlight of the film, arguably even more than Frank Cottrell Boyce's screenplay, is Steve Coogan as Tony Wilson. As everyone reading this probably knows, Coogan based his famed Alan Partridge character on Tony Wilson's career as a television reporter, so he's really playing a variation on Alan Partridge here. What's amazing about Coogan's performance is that he manages to draw even this Partridge fan into Tony Wilson's world so much that I didn't care about any similarity. It's still a stunning comic performance, and excellent during the darker, more serious scenes in the film as well. I'd go as far as saying that it's one of the best male performances of the decade. The rest of the cast is too large to go through one by one, but everyone is excellent here, some going for a sort of slightly altered impersonation of the real-life person they're playing, some creating their own version.

Official Selection 2002: All the Selection". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 14 December 2013. A fictionalised depiction of the band is featured in the 2002 film 24 Hour Party People, with Danny Cunningham as Shaun Ryder and Paul Popplewell as Paul Ryder. Paul Ryder himself had a cameo role in the film as a gangster and Rowetta appeared in the film as herself. [18] Third incarnation [ edit ] a b Naylor, Tim (March 2020). "Oops! ... I Did It Again". Record Collector. Archived from the original on 5 May 2020 . Retrieved 20 March 2020.The band signed to Creation Management in 2015. They have announced an international tour to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches. Davis joined them the following year and they performed cover hits at youth clubs, first without a name, then as Avant Garde and Penguin Dice.