Just back from a week in Tenerife at a nice hotel where this shite was oozing out all day every day on the sun deck. Most of it could be made by AI and possibly is.
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1990 started when the December TOTP had Stone Roses & Mondays both on ‘live’
As an added bonus Warp / Bleep peaked & Weatherall doing some brilliant stuff
Oh & Boys Own released a Soul II Soul breakbeat cover of Crowded House!
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Never seen that before, bloody brilliant!
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I was there, it was a 2 day festival in Heaton Park, summer of '91, organised by Factory in honour of Martin Hannett who’d died a few months earlier.
I’d just left school and jibbed in with my mates thanks to a gap in the fence my fave Uncle, Mark was ‘overseeing’ .
The Mondays were fantastic, the crowd was rammed, roiling and heaving, I was right in the middle of it, trying to stay upright at times as it swayed and moved, singing away in my Shamen T shirt,
Mark passed away recently, cancer. R.I.P.
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I’m always reluctant to point out examples of these kind of tunes, as I suspect several involved in their creation are likely lurking or possible members of this forum! Just because I don’t like it is no reason to offend somebody’s passion/creativity (seriously though, you can stop making them now haha).
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I saw the Mondays in 1989 on the saturday after that famous TOTP. At the Town and Country Club in London. For a 16 year old from Essex it was completely mind blowing. I had a 11am kick off on the Sunday which, unsurprisingly I didn’t make.
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Early Mondays, especially 89-90 looked great to go with it.
The Roses of that era too.
A far cry from the Adidas Spezial shite they are associated with now.
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Awful. Fuckers head to toe in that crap.
“I used to be a Casual”
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I saw them following Feb (poss March) at GMEX… distinctly remember 808 State too they were brilliant.
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That was the first ever concert I ever went to.
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Wembley Arena same tour for me, 15 years old armed with 10 Silk Cut, Gary Clail supporting.
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Was at that one. Wicked. Possibly my first gig too!
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But I look relatively cool in the sweatshirt I bought here in the States. Will remind myself not to pack it when I come over in October.
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Ha ha ha! 
I was at that. It was great fun.
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I saw the Mondays twice in '89, one at Warrington Parr Hall and once at Liverpool Uni. They were brilliantly shambolic back then, opened up with Rave On. Superb.
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I was there too!
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I also went in the November of 1990 when they were on the ‘Pills and Thrills’ tour. Donovan supporting. Was a bit of a let down I seem to recall. I’m sure the Mondays only played for just over an hour and then got off.
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Big Mondays fan. I love all of their Factory output but I love this tune the most.
But yeah, they’ve been phoning it in for years
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