1992
Shaun Ryder - Vocals.
Paul Ryder - Bass.
Gary Wheelan - Drums.
Mark Day - Guitar.
Paul Davis - Keyboards.
Bez - Bez.
Rowetta - Vocals.

1992 - Factory fund the Mondays' New Album Recording Sessions
Notes: Initially the LP was to be recorded with Steve
Osbourne and Paul Oakenfold again but Factory suggested, ex-Talking Heads members, Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz. Factory planned for the band to fly to California to record at The Bee Gees Miami Beach Studio. Steve and Paul were apparently "too busy" to record again with the Mondays', see the difficult Judge Fudge/Stayin' Alive recording sessions. The studio location was changed, with a little persuasion from Mondays' manager Nathan. Arrangements were made for Barbados...

17 January 1992 - Happy Mondays fly from Manchester to Barbados
Notes: Shaun's supply of 1,500mls of methadone is accidentally broken in the lounge of Manchester Airport. There would be no replacement during until he returns back to the U.K.
From 01 September 1992 - Select Magazine, Miranda Sawyer wrote:
BARBADOS January 17 1992, 5.30pm - Thirty-Five Thousand feet above the Atlantic Ocean, Cruising at 570 miles an hour, the British Airaays Boeing 747 laps up the nine flight from Gatwick to Barbados. It's due in at 7pm. An hour and a half to go. Sitting stiffly in his seat, Shaun Ryder jerks his head to look around at the rest of the Happy Mondays, seated in different parts of the budget class section. Didn't one of them just say? But no, they're all absorbed in the film. Voices...He wipes the sweat from his brow and gives his head a shake. But the voices won't go away, they're getting louder, screaming round his head now, ripping up his nerves by the roots, giving him the horrors. He tries to smile at his baby daughtr Jael, but his body gives an involuntary twitch as he so, nearly sending his drink into th aisle. Jesus. He can feel himself getting angry. He makes a concentrated effort calm down, controlling his shuddering, breathing carefuly, slowly... God it's fucking Norway in here man why don't they turn the heating up why don't they stop shouting when it's hot it's cold can't you hear man stop it stop... Shaun's shoulders shake and he begins to laugh. He's thinking of the cleaner back at Manchester Airport, the poor bastard who had to mop up 1,500 mls of methadone, Shaun's supply, broken in the departure lounge, bottle smashed and precious liquid seeping over the floor.
7.30pm: "He says we've got to have a return ticket back out in order to enter Barbados." Nathan 'McDog' McGough is getting annoyed. First the customs had wanted their work permits, and Nathan, knowing that they weren't neccessary, sorted it out pretty easily. But now they're making things really awkward saying no one can come in without an exit ticket. Nathan has a return flight to the UK, but no-one else has. "But we don't know exactly when we're going to leave Barbados," McGough repeats impatiently to the customs official.'We're recording and staying at Blue Wave studios. We're going to Miami in a couple af months to do the mixing and we'll be leaving then." It's to no avail. An hour and half later, £3,000 lighter, Nathan holds 12 air tickets to Miami in his hand and the Happy Mondays are free to go.
The band, Nathan, his girlfriend Lara, Shaun's girlfriend Trish and baby daughter Jael, Bez's girlfriend Debs and their baby Arlo, and Simon Machan the Monday's programmer and live sound engineer pile into the waiting passenger vans. Their luggage and equipment are loaded on and they off for the studio. Night has fallen, it's dark, the narrow, unlit roads are littered with frighteningly huge craters and there's hardly any traffic. And all you can see around you is sugar cane. It feels primitive, a very weird place...
Peter Hook said, 1992: “Factory went to the wall. There had been costly album projects, such as New Order’s recording trip to Ibiza and the Happy Mondays’ infamous recording trip to Barbados. Bankrolling all of the above brought the company to its knees.”
16 July 2019 Bez Interview Article written by Mark Millar for XSNOIZE.com: Was recording 'Yes Please' in Barbados possibly the maddest time in the Monday's?
Bez: It was quite a mad time then, but it was also a great time as well because we had eight weeks in Barbados. The funny thing was when we got to the island, all the leading dignitaries came out to meet us and invited us for a meal. Because it's such a small place, everyone from the mayor right through to the chief of police all knew us – so I think we made quite a wave there. It was completely bonkers but also really enjoyable as well. We don’t have any regrets, and for me, it was one of those times that I’ll never forget – we had such a great time. We are so fortunate and lucky to have done the things that we've done, and it was a great experience for us.
The 'Yes Please’ album didn’t sell very well and was blamed on the fall of Factory records. What do you think of the album all these years later?
Bez: I disagree with that - the collapse of Factory wasn’t down to us. Factory was expanding so quickly, and there was pressure on us and New Order at the time to get these new albums out, to pay to keep Factory running, so to blame the Happy Mondays is a bit unfair really – it was over-expansion on other people’s parts. I thought that 'Yes Please' was a very good album - we wanted Paul Oakenfold and Steve Osbourne to produce the album, and they weren’t available at the time. Everybody expected 'Yes Please’ to have more of the same Dance and rock n roll cross over style as the album before, but we went with Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth, who did more of an old fashioned production, but I think it’s a good record. I think 'Yes Please' was a stepping stone to the future because Kermit was on the song 'Cut Em Loose Bruce,’ from the album, and then Shaun and he worked together on the Black Grape record, and that turned into a very successful partnership.

19 January 1992 - Blue Wave Studios, Barbados
Notes: The Blue Wave Studios owned by Eddy Grant.
From 01 September 1992 Select Magazine, Miranda Sawyer wrote: January 19: First day in Blue Wave studios. Converted from stables by a Mr Edward 'Give Me HOPE! Joanna' Grant, the studios form part of Bayley's Plantation, a low 17th century colonial style house, high on a hill, surrouneded by sugar cane fields. Happy Mondays have got their muso heads on. Ignoring a sign reading "No Food No Drink No Smoking Past This Point". they pull on fags, take the occasional swig of beer or the local rum punch, and work. Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz (former Talking Heads bassist and drummer, and producers of the Mondays' new album)want them to rehearse six songs they've already got, then get them down rough, mistakes and all, on the guide tracks. Then, after writing the rest, they'll get each of them in to perform their parts live all the way through. The band are more than happy with this idea. As Paul says, they've not done that for about five years, just played together in the studio for seven hours a day — and they concentrate hard all day.

20 January 1992 - Sam Lord's Castle Hotel, Barbados
From 01 September 1992 Select Magazine, Miranda Sawyer wrote: January 20: There's a phone call for Nathan at the studio. An irate cleaner demands his presence at Sam Lord's Castle, a hotel on the east of Barbados with villas in its huge grounds ("like a nice upper-class Pontin's in Barbados," - Gary) where Paul Ryder, Gary and Paul "PD" Davis are staying. Nathan placates her, fearing the worst, and sets off. He knows that Shaun stayed over there as well last night... Did they all have a fight? Have they emptied the house contents out the window? Have they emptied the house contents through the window? The cleaner is practically apoplectic when he arrives, "They have destroyed the house," she announces dramatically and throws open Gary's bedroom door. Nathan wants to laugh. "What's wrong with it?" he asks, quite sincerely. "I mean it's a tip, but it's no more than you'd expect from four lads having a weekend together". Gaz has emptied every single item of his clothing on to the floor ("it needed ironing"). There's cigarette packets, towels, ashtrays, bottles...The cleaner won't be soothed. Gary, PD and Paul move out.

23 January 1992 - Blue Wave Studios, Barbados
Notes: Bez crashes the Suzuki jeep in the plantaion fields drivig back to the studio.
From 01 September 1992 Select Magazine, Miranda Sawyer wrote: January 23: It's early afternoon and the sun scorches down on Bayley's Plantation. Tina Weymouth, long, fair hair flapping in the constant Barbados wind, stands in the courtyard watching her children Robin (9) and Egan (5) climb a huge, bearded fig tree of the type that gives Barbados its name - it means The Bearded One in Spanish. She smokes a cigarette, fanning herself with her other hand. Gradually she becomes aware of a thin figure in the distance, padding slowly up the hill towards the house. It looks like Bez, but it can't be - Bez has driven the jeep into town. Tina shades eyes, strains to see clearly. It is Bez. And there's something odd about the way he's walking, he seems to be holding his right arm awkwardly...
Nathan: "I went and picked up the jeep that morning. It was a really nice one, open topped Suzuki, only six months old. By afternoon I discovered Bez doing handbrake turns in the fields outside the studio. I explained to Bez that Suzuki jeeps turn over really easy, they're only aluminium and they've got a really high centre of gravity, and that Alex Sadkin, Grace Jones' producer, had died in the Bahamas in one of the very same vehicles. I knew all this, so I just said to Bez, Be careful, keep it on the roads." "And that afternoon he went off to buy some bottles of rum punch, and on the way back, instead of taking a road, he just drove across the plantations fields, hit a huge rock covered by some weeds, and the thing just somersaulted through the air! It landed on the roof with him inside it. Half a mile from the studio. And I don't know how he got out of there with a bust arm. The distance between the driver's seat and the roof was about nine inches." Shaun: "I drove to town that way one day and I couldn't do more than 15 miles an hour without getting thrown out of the car. Bez must have been doing 55."
From North Fork Sound, Howard Thompson, New Suffolk, NY 23rd St, NYC, USA: The following year, Factory booked the band into Eddy Grant’s studio in Barbados to record the follow-up to Pills etc. Chris Franz and Tina Weymouth from The Talking Heads were in the production seat(s). Periodically, I’d call Nathan to see how things were going, angling for an invite out to the island. Usually, he’d say things were proceeding nicely, but after they’d been in Barbados for nearly 3 months and we hadn't heard anything, I thought it was time to pay a visit. Upon arriving at the studio, I ran into Bez who had his right arm in a sling. He told me he was leaving for the UK the following day to get some 'proper' treatment. I asked what had happened and he told me that, in crashing and rolling his jeep early in their visit, he’d broken his arm. Good thing he's the dancer, not the drummer, right? What I found out later was four weeks after the initial break, he’d gone jet-ski-ing against doctor’s orders and broken it again. (Later, we learned that Bez’s arm, at that point, was gangrenous and extensive surgery was required. He ended up with a four-pronged, external metal brace bolted into his arm to hold the bone together.)...

26 January 1992 - Blue Wave Studios, Barbados
Notes: Shaun crashes his car into a wall.
From 01 September 1992 Select Magazine, Miranda Sawyer wrote: January 26: End of the first week. Casualties: one house, one arm, two cars. To add to Bez's rollercoaster jeep antics, Shaun has written off another vehicle. Numbed by tranquillisers prescribed by the studio doctor as a methadone-substitute, pissed on rum punch, he smashed his car into a wall on Saturday night. And then hit another wall. Blew all four wheels, and then drove on it for two miles. The tyres are shredded down to the metal. Nathan's been dividing his time between the hospital, the car-hire firm, the
the estate agent's, and the bank. Despite all this unforseen hassle, the managers happy. Each day when he comes back to the studio, he listens to what the group have done and it lifts him.
They came to Barbados with six songs and Chris and Tina have had them in the studio every day, playing the grooves, writing, rehearsing, working hard. They work from 11am to about 7pm. And it's paying off. They're sounding brilliant. Nathan decides not to tell the record company about what happens outside the studio.

28 January 1992 - Blue Wave Studios, Barbados
From Select Magazine, Miranda Sawyer wrote: January 28: Shaun sits on the toilet with his pipe, smoking a rock of crack. It's his tenth of the day. Each of the white raisin-sized rocks contains about 25 grammes of cocaine, and, As Shaun has discovered, the island is crawling with the stuff. £1 a rock, he thinks, as the little pebble heats up to emit the cracking sound that gives it its name. That's £24 a rock cheaper than at home, and it looks like he can get the price down even lower. The Mondays chose Barbados - Shaun too - partly because they knew there was no heroin there. They'd thought there were no class A drugs at all, just weed. Shaun has discovered otherwise. He hides in the toilet from the others, smokes crack, works on his lyrics.

1992 - Tape 1 Instrumentals - Blue Wave Studios, Barbados
Side A: Total Ringo / Naughty Neck (aka Naughty Nick) / Cowboy Dave / Nasty Sutte (aka Nasty Slut aka Nasty Suite) / Mond That Tree (aka Mind That Tree) / Salford Soca (aka Salford Social) / Theme Netto (aka Theme From Netto)
Side B: Dustman / Angel / Lady Dickhead
Notes: The infamous Yes Please! Recording Sessions. Recorded on a X L II S 90 Japan Maxell High Resonance - Damping & Heat Resisting Cassette. Black tape stickered cassette. From sticker on A-Side 'Happy Monday Rough Mix'. Often noted as ''Tape 1 Instrumentals''
''Shaun Ryder kidnapped the tapes and held them for ransom until Tony Wilson sent more money over so both he and Bez could buy more crack!'' ''...one of the craziest in music history with Bez crashing every single thing he happened to get behind the wheel of and Shaun caught carrying furniture out of Eddie Grants recording studio to sell for crack, and living in his underpants as he sold all his designer gear for crack too! The stories go on and on!''
Bez broke his arm twice, the band managed to crash eight cars, Shaun was coming down from Heroin and Methadone but quickly became addicted to crack. At one point during the sessions he was apparently doing more than 50 rocks a day, 12 grams of cocaine.
From Select Magazine: Gary 'Gaz' Whelan said: We could have gone and done this LP in Cornwall or London and done it at a quarter of the price — and then all's we'd have to do is sell 60,000 and we'd have a profit, we'd have money. But that's kind o' cheating in a way. If you can go somewhere that's gonna cost more but you're gonna get a better record then you should go there. You're getting up in the morning, you're in Barbados, you walk to studio in your sandals, it's hot and you're in a good mood - obviously you're gonna put more into it, it's gonna come out a bit happier. If we'd done it in England it would have been oooooh God... It'll take longer to make money but the LP's a lot better for it. I think it's a really good LP, better than the last one. I liked working with Tina and Chris. When I first met Tina I thought she was a bit of a space cake but she's really nice. She always talks about us being artists, and at first I thought she was just doing it to be friendly, but she's like that all the time, It was good too, with Chris being a drummer. that he just said, do what you want. A lot Of producers want to change things all the time but he was great. I enjoyed it, this was the easiest LP I've ever done.
From North Fork Sound, Howard Thompson, New Suffolk, NY 23rd St, NYC, USA: Chris and Tina brought me into the studio, where I was expecting to hear some mixes. They told me that all the tracks were done but they were waiting for Shaun to finish the lyrics and do his vocals. They said they'd got a couple of vocals down but they wouldn't play them. "Not good enough...unfinished". Unfortunately, he’d gotten deeply into smoking crack and was, essentially, dysfunctional. His couldn’t write and his voice was shot. Furthermore, I was told he’d been selling furniture from the studio and was now nickin' items and food from the studio's kitchen to fund his habit. The band’s parts were done and they were fed up with waiting around for him to get it together. Chris & Tina played me four or five instrumental tracks which sounded pretty good, though not quite what I was expecting, and suggested I spend some time with Shaun so I could see for myself the extent of the problem. The vibe at dinner was fragile. The band mainly kept to themselves and Shaun, who'd been sleeping all day, didn’t even show up. Bez was preoccupied with packing, so I got to know Chris and Tina a little. I told them we’d met briefly before in Lyons, France when the Talking Heads' were on tour with The Ramones and Eddie And The Hot Rods. (That particular occasion was marked for me by the Hot Rods’ guitarist, Dave Higgs, getting turned in by the hotel's concierge to the local gendarmes for removing a hotel door and only a hefty payoff by Meaty, their tour manager saved him from a stint in jail. Plus, the Hot Rods told me the Ramones weren't interested in partying and were in bed by ten). Shaun finally surfaced and he and I made plans to drive into Bridgetown, the island's capital, and shop for some reggae. Shaun's been over to my place, with Bez, a couple of times. He's always thoroughly good value and a fun hang with a sharp northern wit. So I was looking forward to our expedition and the following day, I picked him up at noon and we set off, with him navigating. About 10 minutes in, he said "Make a right, H...we need to stop in here, get some smoke for the drive. You want some smoke for the drive, don’t ya?" pointing to a dirt track in a field that would eventually lead to a dilapidated wooden, two-room shack inhabited by a couple of Rastafarians. I got introduced, and we made a deal for $20 worth of the sweet weed. Now, these guys were Shaun’s buddies (so to speak) so we had to stay and share a joint or it wouldn’t have been polite - etiquette, ya know - so spliffs were rolled, passed and smoked and it's not long before the room begins to spin. I go outside to get some air. I guess I'm lucky, because it doesn’t take much to get me high - two or three puffs on a joint will set me up for hours. Also, I can take it, or leave it. That goes for anything that might be addictive. I rarely smoke in public because then usually I find everything hilarious. So now I’m higher than I’d ever been before - in my life - and Shaun and the guys are grooving to The Congos, a righteous roots band once produced by NoFoSound fave, Lee “Scratch” Perry. Another 20 minutes go by and I remind Shaun we had an appointment in town so we bade the guys farewell and set off again. Normally, I wouldn’t drive in an impaired condition, but my co-pilot wasn’t going to, so I concentrated as hard as I could and tried to erase the visions of the imaginary Daily Mirror headline “Mondays’ Singer Killed In Caribbean Car Crash” that was currently spinning through my mind. I opened the window for a cooling breeze, anything to keep me focused on driving but that earned an "H, shut the fookin window, willya, I’m trying to smoke ‘ere". I wind up the window and look over to my left (the steering wheel was on the right) and see he’s only trying to inhale smoke through an empty ball point pen casingfrom something burning on a piece of silver paper.
"Shaun, what the fuck are you doing?"
"Just smokin’, H. Don’t worry...it’s only the rock".
"The rock? What the fuck is that?"
"Crack, H. Me, I’m up to 35 rocks a day. It's ok...I can handle it".
Jeez. I realized he must have made a separate deal with the Rastas back in the shack while I was outside. I pulled myself together as best I could and we talked about the 'situation' until we got to the record shop. He told me he'd dropped (and broken) the bottle that held his Methadone at Manchester Airport just as they were departing the UK, leaving him with nothing to see him through his time in Barbados. And the only drugs available on Barbados were ganja and crack, so he’d managed to acquire a debilitating (and expensive) habit. He'd spent all his per diems and had to find alternative ways to pay his bills. But right now, he felt good, so we spent the next hour and a half listening to dancehall reggae 45s. Shaun had told me he was really into a Barrington Levy song called ‘Love The Life You Live’, but the shop had sold out. I 'expensed' our purchases and we headed back to the studio. On the way, he suggested we stop off at a roadside bar he knew about for Red Stripes and rum drinks and I took some 3-D photos of Shaun, outside. Looking back, I don't feel proud of enabling Shaun but I'm pretty sure it wouldn't have been much different, had I not been there. He'd given me a glimpse of his world and I found it both exhilarating and scary at the same time. Finally, we made it back and I dropped him at his room back at the studio. I tracked down Chris & Tina. We talked and decided it would be best to send everyone home, for Shaun to go into rehab and then finish the album when he was better. They told me I should call the UK to fill them in. I got the feeling they’d already alerted management and the record company about the situation but had been told to finish the album or they wouldn't get paid. I called Nathan, who told me he had his own problems involving custody of his child and wasn’t able to focus on anything else. Told me to call call Wilson. I informed Tony that Shaun was in pretty bad shape and we should get him into rehab because, at this rate, something very bad might happen. He might lose a singer permanently, and the band itself was so demoralized, it wouldn't have surprised me if they called it a day. In all my dealings with Tony, this was the first, and only, time I ever knew him to be unable to make a decision. That was odd. He suggested I call his partner at Factory. I think I spoke to Alan Erasmus, but whoever it was, that person wasn’t too thrilled to hear what I was saying. I didn't know it then, but Factory was going through some dire financial straits, largely brought on by the costs of these sessions. He told me to do what I thought best and that gave me the green light to shut things down. The band were relieved they could finally go home. I'm sure Chris & Tina must have been wondering if the last 3 months had been worth it. Someone told me that Shaun was met at Heathrow with a couple of grams of heroin and checked himself straight into rehab. I don't know if that's true. Eventually, work resumed on the album and he completed his parts at Comfort's Farm Studios in the not so sunny climes of Surrey. "Yes, Please" was released, got savaged in the press, the Mondays broke up, Factory declared bankruptcy and Roger Ames' London Records scooped up New Order....
13 September 2021 -The Big Issue EASY RYDER (7 MINUTES) Shaun Ryder Interview: TBI: But in the past there were stories of mayhem surrounding Happy Monday recording sessions? SWR: Well that wasn’t really true. We’d been struggling artists for years and then suddenly we released [1990 album] Pills’N’Thrills and Bellyaches and became regulars on Top of the Pops. Paul Oakenfold and Steve Osborne had produced it and given us that sound that took us into the top 20. So suddenly everyone wants to work with them to get the same sound. Which meant that when we wanted to record a follow-up, they were too busy to work with us. So [Factory Records boss] Tony Wilson hired Chris [Frantz] and Tina [Weymouth] to produce Yes Please! with us in Barbados. They were great producers but I knew they weren’t right for the Mondays. Suddenly we had the drummer trying to record one beat in a studio for 10 hours. It was musical masturbation.

Barbados Sessions - Tape 2 Instrumentals
Monkey In The Family / Cowboy Dave / Dustman / Total Ringo / Theme From Netto / Stinkin Thinkin /
Sunshine & Love / Unknown Instrumental #1 / Unknown Instrumental #2
Notes: Tape 2 Instrumentals. Yes Please recording sessions, all instrumental. Recorded by Mark Roule.
From Bootleg notes: ...this time one of the tapes from the infamous Barbados recording sessions for the Yes Please album. This is the Yes Please Instrumentals Volume #1 and you may know the story of how Shaun Ryder basically kidnapped these tapes and held them for ransom until Tony Wilson sent more money over so both he and Bez could buy more crack! haha The whole recording session has to go down as one of the craziest in music history with Bez crashing every single thing he happened to get behind the wheel of and Shaun caught carrying furniture out of Eddie Grants recording studio to sell for crack, and living in his underpants as he sold all his designer gear for crack too! The stories go on and on! Anyway, while Shaun and Bez were busy trying to smoke rocks the size of their fists the rest of the band were away making the music and melodies and this is the first collection of 9 completely instrumental tracks, 7 of which you will recognise as they went on to feature on the finished album in a more complete form obviously but there are also 2 tracks that were left unused and these have never been released anywhere or been heard anywhere before, so even though they are quite basic instrumental tracks they will probably be of great interest to any big Mondays fans out there.''
Bootleg: Yes Please Instrumentals Volume #1 (CD-r)
Bootleg: T Archive Volume 1 (CD-R) - See The Sorrow (1983/84 demo recording) / Freaky Dancin' Jam (pre Squirrel album rehearsal/jam) - Guitar Solo Jam (pre Squirrel album rehearsal/jam) / Fat Lady Wrestler (Blistred Rabbi Demo Tape 1988) / Do It Better E2 Mix (version 1) / WFL LSD Mix 2 / Holiday (Pills LP LA Sessions, Capitol records, 1990) / Mad Cyril Rehearsal (unknown session) / Unknown Instrumental (Pills LP LA Sessions, Capitol records, 1990) / Step On (live at PInkpop Festival 1991) / Stinkin Thinkin (alternate version, Barbados Sessions) / Total Ringo (alternate version, Barbados Sessions) / Bass & Drum Idea 2 (1993 final session)
Bootleg: T Archive Volume 2 (CD-R) - 1981 Demo #1 (attic rehearsal) / 1981 Demo #2 (attic rehearsal) / Happy Side Of You (1983/84 demo recording) / Delightful (1983 Bungalow Tape) / Comfort & Joy (Spirit Studios Sessions 1985) / 24 Hour Party People (Vocal Demo) / Desmond / Yahoo (Bristol Bierkeller, Soundcheck 1987) / Do It Better (Driffield Sessions 1988) / Clap Your Hands (Hillsborough Benefit Gig 1989) / Rare Interview (includes conversation regarding the debut album and the bummed album, including talk of song titles and recording) / Wrote For Luck (Rehearsal) / Tart Tart - Step On (Amsterdam Paradiso 1990) / Monkey In The Family (Barbados Session 1992) / Opportunity Knows (Final ever session 1993)

Tape 3 Alternate Mixes #1
Stinkin Thinkin / Angel / Theme From Netto / Monkey In The Family /
Love Child / Total Ringo / Cut Em' Loose Bruce / Sunshine & Love / Dustman
Notes: Bruce Martin played additonal percussion on several tracks.

Tape 4 Alternate Mixes #2
Stinkin Thinkin / Angel / Theme From Netto / Monkey In The Family / Cut Em' Loose Bruce /
Love Child / Total Ringo / Cut Em' Loose Bruce / Sunshine & Love / Dustman

Tape 5 Alternate Mixes #3
Stinkin Thinkin / Angel / Theme From Netto / Monkey In the Family / Cut Em' Loose Bruce / Love Child /
Total Ringo / Cut Em' Loose Bruce (Version 2) / Sunshine & Love / Dustman /

07 / 08 February 1992 - Sessions
Notes: Sessions continue. From 01 September 1992 Select Magazine.

18 February 1992 - Bez comes out of Hospital after another operation on his arm.

10 March 1992 - Yes Please initial recording finishes.
Notes: The Barbados sessions end. Shaun is flown back to the U.K. and asked to re-record all the vocals for the album.
06 August 2019 - Happy Mondays - Interview with Shaun Ryder by Richard Lewis from pennyblackmusic.co.uk published: 6 / 8 / 2019: “I mean I write to the music and I just couldn’t get anything there, so I just ended up getting off my tits,” Shaun explains, with the singer and brother Paul developing addictions to crack cocaine that was in abundant supply on the island. “And when I came back I went in the studio and wrote the lyrics. I was basically touching writer’s block. That’s when it started then, so I did the best that I could.” Out of the to put it mildly trying circumstances, the resultant album was far from the disaster some later considered it. Featuring Ryder’s best lyrics, the LP’s ruefully regretful lead single ‘Stinkin’ Thinkin’’ ("Kiss me for screwing everything in site/Kiss me for never getting it right") showcased a different side to the singer. “'Stinkin’ Thinkin’ basically came from the fucking psychiatrist when I was in rehab in Chelsea,” Shaun remembers. “They brought an American guy in who was doing all the American spiel, and it was ‘Stinking Thinkin’, "Why not think positive?" and all that sort of thing. I was just taking anything from anywhere in order to get lyrics.”.

1992 - Compass Point Studios, Nassau?
Notes: 04 April 1992 NME Magazine article mentions these recording sessions. Unconfirmed.

March - May 1992 - Comfort's Place Studios, Surrey
Angel (Vocals)
Notes: Shaun finished the vocal recordings in the U.K., shortly followed by a stint in rehab.
From Happy Mondays Top 10 from Shiiine On Blog, Gaz Whelan said: 1. Angel - From the Album ‘Yes Please’ which is most of the bands favourite album. I remember being in Surrey in the studio and Shaun was recording vocals and he was getting impatient and kept asking the studio to stop the session when the Simpsons came on TV so he could watch and have a break.. During one take he was singing ‘When did the pain start when did the Symptoms begin” – amazing lyric. Then he throws in ‘When did the pain start, when does the SIMPSONS begin”, so it was kept in. I was laughing for ages…absolute classic. I love everything about this song. It shows the best in every member of the band, its very Happy Mondays in our original form – maybe subconsciously going back to our primeval beginnings just before we split..!

04 April 1992 - Shaun Ryder is sent to rehab in Chelsea
Notes: The celebrity rehab centre in Chelsea cost at £10,000 a week.

N - 11 April 1992 - NME Yes Please Album Recording Update
From NME 11 April 1992: Mondays 'ready for autumn' HAPPY MONDAYS have announced release schedules for their first single since last Novembers Top 40 'Judge Fudge', and their fourth studio LP. Which will be some three months later than expected. The band's official spokesperson told NME that the new single is now due out on Factory in August, while their as-yet untitled LP, originally scheduled for release in June, cannot be expected until September. The band's first UK dates since their headline appearance at Manchester's Cities In The Park festival last August, are also unlikely to be before "autumn or winter '92', The Mondays' spokesperson claims recording of the new LP is complete and mixing will commence next month in New York.
However, and despite strenous official denials, insider sources continue to maintain that Shaun Ryder was only capable of completing one vocal track on the new LP, due to the detoriorating physical condition that resulted in his recent hospitalisation in London. Those same sources insist that Mondays' guitarist Mark Day is working on his debut solo LP, another development currently denied by the band.

01-24 June 1992- Studios, 54th Street, 8th Avenue, New York
Notes: Initial Steven Stanley mixing sessions for Yes Please, Axis Studio. The mixing sessions schedule, apparently, was to include mixing in Miami at Gloria Estefan's studio back in May.

N - 18 June 1992- NME speculate the London Records Deal to buy Factory Records
Notes: Article published 18 June 1992 in the NME with a brief interview with Tony Wilson regarding the deal.

20-22 June 1992 - New LP Rough Mixing, Axis Studios, New York
23 June 1992 - New LP Rough Mix, Axis Studios, New York
Good Steady Job / Cowboy Dave / The Things That Come Out Of My Mouth /
Cut Em Loose Bruce / Monkey In the Family / Total Ringo / Angel /
Theme From Netto / Dustman / Sunshine & Love
Notes: Steven Stanley mixed most the album tracks here, Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth (former Talking Heads) produced the tracks.
From Select Magazine, Miranda Sawyer wrote: Axis Studios, New York - Chris, Tina Shaun, & Steve. Shaun "Chris would write down loads of words like monkey and lion and shit, and then say, Try and use as many of these as you can"

June 1992 - Shaun walked out on a last chance deal with EMI for a KFC
Notes: The deal was shown in the '24 Hour Party People' Michael Winterbottom film as Factory were selling to London Records but apparently Shaun actually walked out of the EMI meeting to get a ‘Kentucky’ Fried Chicken meal. Apparently Nathan McGough said EMI were willing to pay £1.7 million for a five album deal.
From NME 27 February 1993: The band will not be signing to EMI AAR director Clive Black told NME: We did have lone
discussions with the band but nothing was concluded. We never reached a point where legal people were talking to legal people..." PolyGram, who were tipped to sign the Mondays for months, opted out of the race claiming the band were asking for too much money.

1992 - After not paying tax for the band Shaun & Nathan sold everything they could get their hands on to pay for the bill.
Notes: Gary, Mark and Paul went down to the rehearsal room before their instruments and equipment was sold.
From Excess All Areas - Happy Mondays - A Biography by Simon Spence: Paul – “Eeveryone was just running into the rehearsal room and grabbing what they would. We owed tax, a load of money for equipment, hire of the rehearsal place and we all had mortages to pay, but there was nothing left...I was back my mums, back in my old bedroom thinking 'How Did This Happen.'.

July 1992 - Shaun is arrested in West Didsbury and is charged for driving under the influence.

199? - Shaun and girlfriend Trish split
Notes: Trish raises baby daughter Jael.

1992 - Stinkin' Thinkin' Video Shoot
Notes: The final video and the last shoot with The Bailey Brothers. Notes from Pills 'N' Thrills And Bellyaches Collector's Edition 2007 Booklet "Video Produced and Directed by The Bailey Brothers, 1992. Also credited on the DVD as "Produced by Adam Dunlop at Medialab, Directed by WIZ, 1992".
Official: Pills 'N' Thrills And Bellyaches Collector's Edition 2007 CD & DVD

M - 01 September 1992 - Happy Mondays appear on the cover of Select Magazine £1.60
Notes: "Crack, Heroin, Gangrene? The album that almost killed Happy Mondays. The full unspeakable story." Includes Miranda Sawyer's account of the Barbados recording sessions.

05 September 1992 - Melody Maker interview music industry stars and review Stinkin' Thinkin'
Notes: Interview excerpts from Melody Maker Magazine
Toni Halliday: Curve 'When the Mondays first came out, I didn't reall think of them as thuggish. To me it just seemed as though they were being natural, that they were just a bunch of friends having a good time doing what they wanted to do. I was really suprised when the homophobia thing came out because, in all the interviews I'd read with them, they'd always seemed really bright and intelligent. I felt quite let down really, even I realise where they come from is a horbed of predjudice. But, in a way, I suppose it's good that they said that stuff, that it was so in-your-face because it served as a reminder that we've still got a long way to go in that area. It didn't put me off their music. I mean, I don't go along with junkies much either and that didn't put me off Nick Cave'.
Richey Edwards, Manic Street Preachers: 'The band were working class playthings of the press until student journalists got tired of living out their rock'n'roll fantasies through them. Everyone should respect Happy Mondays for not caring either way. Penthouse was perfect for them. As for the homophobia, the Mondays were exposed for what they always were. And every journalist ignored it for years as they constructed the band they wanted, the band they thought should come from a working class estate.'
Derry, EMF: 'I like the Mondays. They've got a good attitude. They just get with their own thing. Even though there's a lot of press going on about the heroin habits and stuff, that doesn't really matter, it's up to them. At least they're having a good time! Everybody has different problems, whatever they are, and they've got to deal with it. And that's ehat the Mondays have done, they've come up with a good new album. I like what I've heard of it so far.'
Mark, EMF: 'I thought the 'Penthouse' thing was great. I take my hat off to them for that. Those photos of Bez and Shaun were brilliant. They looked better than the woman. I only bought it to look at them!' Derry: 'There's something reall down-to-earth and normal about Happy Mondays, there's no hidden secrets, they don't try and hide anything and I admire them for that. There's the Michael Jackson star-type people, and then there's bands like Happy Mondays who people can easily relate to.' Mark: 'They take the piss, which is good. And you never know what they're going to do next. If they carry on like this, in five years' time they'll be legends, on a level with the Stones or Led Zep. They don't go out of their to shock, but either way I'd still rather read about whatever Happy Mondays are up to than read about Fergie sucking some blokes toe.''
Bob Stanley, St. Etienne: 'The new singles's not very good. And their attitude these days is fairly appalling. But you can't deny 'Freaky Dancin' (second ever Mondays single) is a complete work of genius, one of the most important British records of the late-Eighties in terms of its influence. It had no precedent. Beyond Bummed though they sort of lost the plot. Even they admit it's just a career now...'

07 September 1992 - Stinkin Thinkin U.K. Release Date
FAC 362
Artwork by Central Station Design.
Produced by Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth.
Recorded by Mark Roule. Bruce Martin - percussion.
All tracks written by Happy Mondays. Published by FFRR T/A London Music Ltd.
Stinkin Thinkin (Stephen Hague Mix) - Additional production and mix by Steven Hague, mix engineer Mike "Spike" Drake.
Stinkin Thinkin (Boy's Own Mix) - Additional production and remix by Terry Farley and Pete Heller for Boy's Own Productions, mix engineer Gary Wilkinson.
Stinkin Thinkin (Junior Style) - Additional production and remix by Terry Farley and Pete Heller for Boy's Own Productions.
Promo VHS FAC 302 7.9.92
12inch
7inch FAC 362/7
Stinkin Thinkin (Hague 7") aka (Stephen Hague Mix) 4:25
Stinkin Thinkin (Boy's Own Mix) (Edit)
Cassette
CD
Stinkin Thinkin (Stephen Hague Mix) 4:25
Stinkin Thinkin (Boy's Own Mix) 8:08
Baby Big Head
Stinkin Thinkin (Junior Style)
Stinkin' Thinkin' was scheduled for release 01 September 1992, From 22 August 1992 - NME Magazine noted a hopeful release date of 01 September 1992 for the single, whilst the week after the NME announced, 29 August 1992 - NME Magazine: Happy Mondays have been forced to delay the release of their long-awaited single 'Stinkin' Thinkin" until September 7. The band's first single from the forthcoming album'...Yes Please' has been held back due to production problems surrounding their promotional video. Details of their biggest UK tour in three years are expected next week.

1992 - Stinkin Thinkin U.S. Release Date
Cassette
Stinkin Thinkin (Radio Version)
Stinkin Thinkin (Boy's Own Mix)
12inch Mega Mixes Vinyl - Elektra ‎- 0-66363
Stinkin Thinkin (Boy's Own Mix)
Stinkin Thinkin (Junior Style Mix)
12inch Promo Vinyl - Elektra ‎- ED 5620
Stinkin Thinkin (House Side) aka 8:09
Stinkin Thinkin (Alternative Side) aka 8:13
CD Promo
Stinkin Thinkin (Radio Version)
Stinkin Thinkin (Boy's Own Mix)
Stinkin Thinkin (LP Version)

September 1992 - Top Of The Pops, TV Show, BBC Studios, London
Stinkin' Thinkin'
Notes:
13 September 2021 -The Big Issue EASY RYDER (7 MINUTES) Shaun Ryder Interview: TBI: Is that what split the band up the first time? SWR: It was because me and Bez did all the press, got all the front covers – when we walked into Top of the Pops the door would be held open for me and Bez and then let go of when the others walked through because no-one knew who they were. When that started happening it really starting annoying people.

28 September 1992 - Yes Please U.K. Release Date
Produced by Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth.
Additional percussion on Stinkin' Thinkin' - Bruce Martin, Backing vocals by Rowetta. Mixed by Steven Stanley.
Additional percussion on Sunshine & Love - Bruce Martin, Backing vocals by Rowetta. Mixed by Steven Stanley.
Additional percussion on Angel - Bruce Martin, Backing vocals by Rowetta. Mixed by Steven Stanley.
Artwork by Central Station Design
FAC 420
CD FACD 420
Vinyl FACT 420
Cassette FACT 420c
Stinkin Thinkin
Monkey In The Family
Sunshine & Love
Dustman
Angel
Cut 'em Loose Bruce
Theme From Netto
Love Child
Total Ringo
Cowboy Dave
Notes: Produced by Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth former members of Talking Heads. Tina & Chris were also known as The Heads, a band who would record and release more Shaun Ryder collabartions in the future (see Black Grape - 1996). Promo poster noted '...Yes Please! the album they don't want you to hear! fact 420'. A Happy Mondays Promo Calendar was issued, for 1992 into 1993, only to boost sales of the bands new album 'Yes Please'. It featured 12 different photos and all the Mondays dates were highlighted by bigger font.
The song 'Cowboy Dave' is a reference to the late Dave Rowbotham who was murdered in an axe attack.
Cut 'em Loose Bruce actually features Kermit from Ruthless Rap Assasins, Shaun, Bez and Kermit would soon form Black Grape after the demise of Happy Mondays.
From Happy Mondays Top 10 from Shiiine On Blog, Gaz Whelan said:
1. Angel - From the Album ‘Yes Please’ which is most of the bands favourite album. I remember being in Surrey in the studio and Shaun was recording vocals and he was getting impatient and kept asking the studio to stop the session when the Simpsons came on TV so he could watch and have a break.. During one take he was singing ‘When did the pain start when did the Symptoms begin” – amazing lyric. Then he throws in ‘When did the pain start, when does the SIMPSONS begin”, so it was kept in. I was laughing for ages…absolute classic. I love everything about this song. It shows the best in every member of the band, its very Happy Mondays in our original form – maybe subconsciously going back to our primeval beginnings just before we split..!
3. Total Ringo - Bit self indulgent but this was the only song completely written around that drum fill. We wrote it in the studio in LA.. Another amazing lyric that in my opinion makes the song – ‘Its pure art room’.
From Select Magazine, Miranda Sawyer wrote: Gary 'Gaz' Whelan: We could have gone and done this LP in Cornwall or London and done it at a quarter of the price - and then all's we'd have to do is sell 60,000 and we'd have a profit, we'd have made money. But that's kind of cheating in a way. If you can go somewhere that's gonna cost more but you're gonna get a better record then you should go there. You're getting up in the morning, you're in Barbados, you walk to the studio in sandals, it's not and you're in a good mood — obviously you're gonna put more into it, it's gonna come out a bit happier. If we'd done it in England it would have been ooooog God...It'll take longer to make money but the LPs a lot better it. I think it's a real's good LP, better than the last one. I liked working with Tina and Chris. When I first met Tina I thought she was a bit Of a space cake but she's really nice. She always talks about us being artists, and at first I thought she was just doing it to be friendly, but she's like that all the time. It was good too, with Chris being a drummer, that he just said, Do what you want. A lot of producers want to change things all the time but he was great. I enjoyed it, this was the easiest LP I've ever done.
Paul 'PD Davis: The way we did the other LPs was in an atmosphere where it'd be raining, cold, you'd have all sorts of people turning up in leather jackets from other bands...And this was done in another climate. If we'd done it in Europe it'd just have been fastpaced uptempo nonsense. Out there it was laidback, no one to disturb you. You walked around in shorts, you did it how you're supposed to. So the album sounds different, totally relaxed, but it's there. There was all the usual rock and roll shit out there, but people should remember - there's six of us, not just person. People always go for the news flash rather tnan the whole story. Chris and Tina were brilliant. It was sad to go in the end, 'Yes Please' is very professional, very deep, very relaxed. Musically you can tell they're trying to say something even without the words. What sort of thing? That the kids should stand up for themselves! No, I'm joking. Not any statement, just, I don't know. Travelling makes you realise there's a world out there, it makes you think of a bigger audience than just English people in their denims. We need to go to America next, I think. They've had enough of that EMF stuff there, I think they've cottoned on that they're just like American bands. This album is not all that dance shit, screamy, American, lead guitar solo, house..all those ingredients that they're used to. Our stuff has its individual flavour, more so on this album. We've got the right ingredients, melody and stuff - and we look the part. Since we've from come back from Barbados we've all quitened down. It's nice to know that you don't have to be off your shed all the time.
Interview with Shaun Ryder by Richard Lewis from pennyblackmusic.co.uk published: 25 September 2015: Now with several years hindsight Shaun has re-evaluated the disc. "The reason I was sort of hard on that album is that I didn’t want to change from Oakenfold and Osborne," he explains. "I knew the next album, even though it would have the same producers would have been slightly different. It would have been what ended up being the first Black Grape album (1995's ‘It’s Great When You’re Straight... Yeah!’)." Produced by Talking Heads' rhythm section, Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth, several reviewers criticized the scrubbed-clean production of 'Yes Please', which some felt eradicated the Mondays' wayward energy. "Chris and Tina are great producers, great people. I just hadn’t had time to accept they were doing the album," Shaun recalls. "I mean, now I’ll walk into somewhere and it’s on or I’ll come across a track playing and it’s alright. I’m not as hard on it as I was."
From 23 November 2015 - Record Collector Article 'Penicillin For The Soul' by Jim Keogha:
“By that point the band was falling apart and everything that had made us great had disappeared,” sighs Shaun. “Although I still think if we’d managed to get a producer like Oakey on Yes Please!, the outcome might have been different, more like Black Grape’s first album, It’s Great When You’re Straight… Yeah,” he muses, referring to the rap-rock band he formed with Bez’s after the Mondays’ demise.

1992 - Yes Please U.S. Release Date
CD
Cassette

...Yes Please! Tour
Notes: Paul Ryder was endorsed by Elites bass guitar strings, I presume his bass guitars for the upcoming dates were strung with this brand.

10 October 1992 Saturday - De Montfort Hall, Leicester * Doors Open: 19:30 * Ticket Price: £12.00 * Support Act(s): Stereo Mc's, DJ Jam MC's

11 October 1992 Sunday - Free Trade Hall, Manchester * Doors Open: 19:30 * Ticket Price: £10.00 (Grand Circle, Centre Circle M 33) * Support Act(s): Stereo Mc's, DJ Jam MC's
W.F.L / Loose Fit / Sunshine & Love / Donovan / Kinky Afro / Cowboy Dave / Hallalujeh / Stinkin Thinkin / Angel / Cut Em Loose Bruce / Step On / Dustman / Theme From Netto / Monkey In The Family
Notes: Bootleg date is often noted as 'Free Trade Hall 1991'
Bootleg: Audience Recording (Tape / CD-R)

12 October 1992 Monday *According to the ...Yes Please! U.K. Tour Schedule this was the bands day off.

13 October 1992 Tuesday - City Hall, Newcastle * Doors Open: 19:30 * Ticket Price: £12.00 * Support Act(s): Stereo Mc's, DJ Jam MC's
14 October 1992 Wednesday - Barrowlands, Glasgow * Doors Open: 19:30-02:00am * Ticket Price: £10.00 * Support Act(s): Stereo Mc's, DJ Jam MC's
15 October 1992 Thursday *According to the ...Yes Please! U.K. Tour Schedule this was the bands day off.
16 October 1992 Friday - Newport Centre, Newport, Wales * Doors Open: 19:30 * Ticket Price: £12.00 * Support Act(s): Stereo Mc's, DJ Jam MC's

17 October 1992 Saturday - Academy, Brixton, London * Doors Open: 18:00 * Ticket Price: £12.00 * Support Act(s): Joe Roberts, Stereo Mc's, DJ Jam MC's
W.F.L / Loose Fit / Sunshine & Love / Donovan / Kinky Afro / Cowboy Dave / Hallalujeh / Stinkin Thinkin / Angel / Cut Em Loose Bruce / Step On / Dustman / Theme From Netto / Monkey In The Family
Notes: The show was like looking into the future. The arrangements were different, the line up had changed and they even had a rapper on stage. The seeds of Black Grape are sown?.
Apparently the show was broadcast in Japan. I have a conflicting date 05 November 1992 noted which could be the TV broadcast date.
An edited version was also broadcast on UK TV Channel 4 too, several years later.
There was also an FM broadcast of the same show.
Theme From Netto is often cut from the broadcast and the bootlegs are often confused with 18 October 1992 Sunday - Kilburn National Ballroom.
Bootleg: FM Broadcast (Tape)
Bootleg: Japanese TV Broadcast (VHS)
Bootleg: FCI TV PRODUCTIONS… (VHS / DVD-R)
Bootleg: U.K. TV Broadcast (VHS)
Bootleg: Brixton Academy, London, 5th November 1992 plus BBC 3 Documentary: Shaun Ryder: The Agony And The Ecstasy (DVD-R)

18 October 1992 Sunday - Kilburn National Ballroom, 234 Kilburn High Road, NW6, London * Doors Open: 19:30 * Ticket Price: £12.00 * Support Act(s): Stereo Mc's, DJ Jam MC's
W.F.L. / Loose Fit / Donovan / Kinky Afro / Sunshine And Love / Cowboy Dave / Stinkin' Thinkin' / Angel / Cut Em Loose Bruce / Theme from Netto / Dustman / Step On / Monkey In The Family / Hallelujah
Notes: Often noted as 26 October 1992, which was probably the FM broadcast date. Final date of the tour.
Official: 1993 - In Concert 568 BBC Transcription (TCD 0566) CD (18 October 1992 - The Kilburn National, London) (Intro not listed on the sleeve) Wrote For Luck / Loose Fit / Donovan / Kinky Afro / Hallelujah / 'Angel' / Cut 'Em Loose, Bruce / Dustman / Theme From Netto / Monkey In The Family / '...I'm Mark Goodier - join me again for more of the best live...'
Boolteg: 26/10/92 Kilburn (Tape) FM Recording - W.F.L. / Loose Fit / Donovan / Kinky Afro / Sunshine And Love / Cowboy Dave / Stinkin' Thinkin' / Angel / Theme from Netto / Dustman
Bootleg: Kilburn National (CD-r) FM Recording - W.F.L. / Loose Fit / Donovan / Kinky Afro / Step On / Monkey In The Family
Bootleg: FM () W.F.L. / Loose Fit / Donovan / Kinky Afro / Hallelujah / Angel / Theme from Netto / Dustman / Monkey In The Family / Step On / Loose Fit / Donovan
Bootleg: 26 October 1992 Broadcast (52:33) - W.F.L. / Loose Fit / Donovan / Kinky Afro / Hallelujah / Angel / Cut Em Loose Bruce / Dustman / Theme From Netto / Monkey In The Family

19 October 1992 Monday *According to the ...Yes Please! U.K. Tour Schedule this was the bands day off.

20 October 1992 Tuesday - City Hall, Sheffield * Doors Open: 19:30 * Support Act(s): Stereo Mc's, DJ Jam MC's
Notes: *Date According to the ...Yes Please! U.K. Tour Schedule.
21 October 1992 Wednesday - Victoria Hall, Hanley, Stoke * Doors Open: 19:30 * Support Act(s): Stereo Mc's, DJ Jam MC's
Notes: *Date According to the ...Yes Please! U.K. Tour Schedule.
22 October 1992 Thursday - Guildhall, Preston * Doors Open: 19:30 * Support Act(s): Stereo Mc's, DJ Jam MC's
Notes: *Date According to the ...Yes Please! U.K. Tour Schedule.
23 October 1992 Friday *According to the ...Yes Please! U.K. Tour Schedule this was the bands day off.
24 October 1992 Saturday - Civic Hall, Wolverhampton * Doors Open: 19:30 * Support Act(s): Stereo Mc's, DJ Jam MC's
Notes: *Date According to the ...Yes Please! U.K. Tour Schedule.
25 October 1992 Sunday - Corn Exchange, Cambridge * Doors Open: 19:30 * Support Act(s): Stereo Mc's, DJ Jam MC's
Notes: *Date According to the ...Yes Please! U.K. Tour Schedule.
26 October 1992 Monday - Guildhall, Portsmouth * Doors Open: 19:30 * Support Act(s): Stereo Mc's, DJ Jam MC's
Notes: *Date According to the ...Yes Please! U.K. Tour Schedule.

1992 - Noel's House Party, BBC TV Studios, London
Sunshine & Love
Notes:

09 November 1992 - Sunshine & Love U.K. Release Date
FAC 362
Sunshine & Love produced by Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth. Recorded by Mark Roule. Remixed by Dave Bascombe. Additional percussion on Sunshine & Love - Bruce Martin, Backing vocals by Rowetta.
The 4:02 Edit ws mixed by Steven Stanley.
Staying Alive produced by Paul Oakenfold and Steve Osbourne. Engineered by Dave Burnham. Written by B. R. & M. Gibb and published by BMG Music Publishing Ltd.
Artwork by Central Station.
12inch Remix Promo
Sunshine & Love (12" Remix) 5:09
Sunshine & Love (Fire Island Mix) 8:27
Sunshine & Love (Junior Mix) 6:52
7inch Vinyl
Sunshine & Love (7inch Edit)
Staying Alive (The Bee Gees cover) (7inch Edit)
12inch
Sunshine & Love (Lion Rock Mix No. 2)
Sunshine & Love (Lion Rock Mix No. 1)
Cassette
Sunshine & Love (7inch Edit) 3:23
Staying Alive (The Bee Gees cover)
Sunshine & Love (Lion Rock Mix No. 1)
Sunshine & Love (Dub)
CD
Sunshine & Love (7inch Edit) 3:23
Staying Alive (The Bee Gees cover)
Sunshine & Love (Lion Rock Mix No. 1)
24 Hour Party People (M-People Remix)
Notes:

1992 - Sunshine & Love U.S. Release Date
CD
Sunshine & Love (Lion Rock Mix No. 1)
Judge Fudge
Stayin Alive (The Bee Gees cover)
24 Hour Party People
Sunshine & Love (Single Version) 4:02
Notes: Sunshine & Love (Single Version) 4:02 appears on 'Double Easy Th

1992 - Angel U.S. Promo Only Release Date
Elektra ‎– PRCD 8671-2
Angel (Edit)
Notes: Appears on 'Double Easy The US Singles' compilation.

Live '92...Yes Please! Tour
02 December 1992 - Logo (Grobe Freiheit), Hamburg, Germany
Bring A Friend
Notes: The band suffered several sound issues during the show. Bring A Friend makes a welcome return to the set.
I thought the Europe dates were all cancelled? This show seems to circulate though. I also have the date from a Live 92'...Yes Please Europe tour poster as: 02 December 1992 - Grobe Freiheit, Hamburg, Germany
Bootleg: Audience Recording (47:07)

03 December 1992 - Neue Welt, Berlin, Germany
Notes: Date taken from 'Live 92'...Yes Please' Europe tour poster.
06 December 1992 - Nachtwerk, Munchen, Munich, Germany
Notes: Date taken from 'Live 92'...Yes Please' Europe tour poster.
16 December 1992 - Live Music Hall, Koln, Germany
Notes: Date taken from 'Live 92'...Yes Please' Europe tour poster.

December 1992 - France *Cancelled*
December 1992 - Netherlands *Cancelled*
Notes: From 07 November 1992 - Melody Maker: HAPPY MONDAYS have cancelled European dates planned for next month, and have issued a statement warning fans not to respond to press advertisements offering coach trips to the scrapped shows in France, Germany and the Netherlands. The cancellations follow disappointing ticket sales on the band's recent UK dates, and the surprisingly poor chart performance of their recent single, "Stinkin' Thinkin'". A spokeswoman for the band told The Maker that the European dates had been scrapped because the group "needed to stay in England to promote their new single". The spokeswoman added that the band had no plans beyond the release of the single, "Sunshine And Love" , which is set for release by Factory on November 9 - thus adding weight to recent rumours that the Mondays may be planning a lengthy lay-off.

1993 - Final Session Tape 1
No Mans / Anus / Opportunity Knows / Jam #7 / Tron / Walking The Dog (cover) / Dirty Bitch / Did You Ever
Notes: Tape 1 of 2. Tron is an unconfirmed title, it could have read 'Tran'. Unconfirmed if the tracks were instrumental, unlike tape 2. Anus had been previously known as 'Arsehole' during the Rave On Sessions.
From 20 March 1993 NME Magazine article: Mondays' 'unfinished' business
Happy Mondays' final eight songs could be at the centre of yet another dispute in the band's long-winded and acrimonious split.
Dubbed 'the unfinished symphony' , the songs were demoed before the band split. It is unclear whether Shaun Ryder was referring to the songs when he claimed, in recent press interviews, that he has written new material. But Mark Day, Paul Davis and Gaz Whelan have made it clear that they are prepared to take the battle into court if Ryder attempts to use the tracks.
Mark Day told NME he has consulted solicitors about a possible action and was advised not to comment. But he added, "If they want to press it, we will go to court—we will fight it. "But I don't want to get into any slanging match, I just want to get on with making music, which I'm best at. I've come out after 12 years penniless."

February 1993 - Final Session Tape 2
Did You Ever (Instrumental) / Opportunity Knows (Instrumental) / Dirty Bitch (Instrumental)
Bass & Drum Idea #1 (Instrumental) / Bass & Drum Idea #2 (Instrumental) / Walking The Dog (cover) (Instrumental) /
Notes: Tape 2 of 2. There were only two known tapes of the bands last sessions. Unconfirmed location though. Happy Mondays were almost finished. Factory Records had sold out to London Records. Happy Mondays last album Yes Please had flopped. The music scene was changing. Tensions were high between brothers Shaun & Paul Ryder. Shaun wanted to continue making music his way. The only way was Black Grape. Only Opportunity Knows (Instrumental) & Bass & Drum Idea #2 (Instrumental) have leaked from the tape, so far.
From Louder Than War, 13 May 2012 Carl Stanley interview with life-long fan Phil Grunshaw: ''And that final ever recording session…un-finished tracks: This was a real surprise when I got this off T, I think Horse had only just got a copy of it himself! 6 demos with no vocals from after Yes Please, with names too;….1. Did You Ever 2. Opportunity Knows 3. Dirty Bitch 4. Bass & Drum Idea #1 5. Bass & Drum Idea #2 6. Walking The Dog''
Bootleg: T Archive Volume 1 (CD-R) - See The Sorrow (1983/84 demo recording) / Freaky Dancin' Jam (pre Squirrel album rehearsal/jam) - Guitar Solo Jam (pre Squirrel album rehearsal/jam) / Fat Lady Wrestler (Blistred Rabbi Demo Tape 1988) / Do It Better E2 Mix (version 1) / WFL LSD Mix 2 / Holiday (Pills LP LA Sessions, Capitol records, 1990) / Mad Cyril Rehearsal (unknown session) / Unknown Instrumental (Pills LP LA Sessions, Capitol records, 1990) / Step On (live at PInkpop Festival 1991) / Stinkin Thinkin (alternate version, Barbados Sessions) / Total Ringo (alternate version, Barbados Sessions) / Bass & Drum Idea 2 (1993 final session)
Bootleg: T Archive Volume 2 (CD-R) - 1981 Demo #1 (attic rehearsal) / 1981 Demo #2 (attic rehearsal) / Happy Side Of You (1983/84 demo recording) / Delightful (1983 Bungalow Tape) / Comfort & Joy (Spirit Studios Sessions 1985) / 24 Hour Party People (Vocal Demo) / Desmond / Yahoo (Bristol Bierkeller, Soundcheck 1987) / Do It Better (Driffield Sessions 1988) / Clap Your Hands (Hillsborough Benefit Gig 1989) / Rare Interview (includes conversation regarding the debut album and the bummed album, including talk of song titles and recording) / Wrote For Luck (Rehearsal) / Tart Tart - Step On (Amsterdam Paradiso 1990) / Monkey In The Family (Barbados Session 1992) / Opportunity Knows (Final ever session 1993)

1993 - Happy Mondays split
13 September 2021 -The Big Issue EASY RYDER (7 MINUTES) Shaun Ryder Interview: TBI: Were they jealous of Bez? SWR: I brought Bez into the band and I knew how important he was. I even offered him big slices of my songwriting like I did with the rest of the band. But they just didn’t want Bez there in the band, they didn’t get it. And really the band started falling out because Bez was becoming more famous than the rest of them, was more of a star than the rest of them and was earning more money than the rest of them by doing other things. So their jealousy split that band up. It was nothing to do with drugs. Everyone was off it on drugs. But [the split] had nothing to do with that, never has done.