Bez, Freaky Dancin': Me and the Mondays

Bez, Freaky Dancin': Me and the Mondays - Considering the amount of drugs that Bez has done over the years, this is a surprisingly coherent account of his life up until the end of the Happy Mondays in the mid-nineties. It presents him as a likeable, if somewhat aimless, bloke who seemed frustrated by his circumstances and his inability to channel his energies into something productive as a teenager. He found his niche with the Happy Mondays, content to spread happiness (through, of course, Ecstasy, dancing and shaking his maracas) and bounced around through the late-eighties and early nineties in a haze of drugs and booze, enjoying his fame.

On the whole, Bez is remarkable namely because he seems to be a reasonable and likeable fellow who has done a lot of unusual things (living in a cave in Morocco with a hippy pothead anyone?). Even if you were never a fan of the Mondays, this book is an enjoyable read.