London Records are to mark 40 years of the Happy Mondays with a series of special releases, beginning with the new compilation ‘The Factory Singles’, available November 28th on double CD, double LP & cassette.
In March 2026, Happy Mondays will embark on a huge UK tour to celebrate 35 years of ‘Pills ’N’ Thrills and Bellyaches’, supported by original 1991 tour mates The Farm and Northside. Tickets on sale now here.
‘The Factory Singles’ compiles all Happy Mondays singles on the legendary Manchester label Factory Records, including “Step On”, “Kinky Afro”, “Hallelujah” and “24-Hour Party People”. This definitive collection captures the band’s ground-breaking output from 1985 –1992, celebrating their pivotal role in shaping UK music culture. ‘The Factory Singles’ will be available across multiple formats — including 2LP, 2CD, and a 1LP Blood Records Exclusive. The artwork has been conceived by Sublime Limbo (original Central Station team members Pat Carroll & Karen Jackson) alongside Sam Carroll – and features distinctive variations across each format. Vivid, enduring ink stains serve as a striking visual metaphor for the lasting imprint the band left on Manchester and the British music scene.
Complementing the physical editions, a brand-new digital remix drop series will be unveiled from renowned producers Daniel Avery, Paul Oakenfold, Anna Prior, Mella Dee, and Shadow Child – bridging the Mondays’ legacy with today’s electronic innovators. Original Mondays collaborator Paul Oakenfold has revisited “Step On” after 35 years with a stunning new remix available October 29th.
Of the remix, Oakenfold comments: “When I listen back to Step On now, it still sounds dangerous. It still sounds alive. And it still gets dancefloors moving. That’s the test of real music—not how it charts, but how it feels decades later. To be able to come back to it 35 years on and give it a fresh spin is special. It’s not just nostalgia – it’s about showing that the spirit of the track still connects, still has that edge, and can still light up a dancefloor today.”
Oakenfold, who produced Pills ’N’ Thrills and Bellyaches as well as providing many of the Mondays most successful remixes, also contributes liner notes, in which he writes: “When I think back to working with the Happy Mondays, I don’t think about chaos first. I don’t think about the drugs or the headlines. I think about the music. Because above all else – above the madness and the mayhem – was a sound that was utterly new. A sound that broke the rules. A sound that made your feet move before your brain caught up. A sound we helped shape, together.”
Since emerging from the deviant streets of early 80s post-punk Salford, Happy Mondays have been the UK’s craftiest doyens of accidental, spasmodic genius. The nation’s premier rock ‘n’ roll pirates, who swerved the boredom, dodged reality and made something out of nothing. Something different from everything that had gone before. Both cackling lunatic delinquents and savvy musical scholars, they comprised Shaun Ryder and his dastardly wit, his brother Paul’s undulating basslines, drummer Gaz Whelan’s enigmatic beats, guitarist Mark Day’s intoxicating guitar lines and Paul Davis’ transcendental keyboards. And Bez, of course, with his onstage maracas and pterodactyl-winged freaky dancin’, who was (and remains) their one-off talismanic soul.
Signed by the late, great Anthony ‘Tony’ Wilson to the still-influential Factory Records in 1985, Happy Mondays released four albums on the label – ‘Squirrel And G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile (White Out)’ (1987), ‘Bummed’ (1988), ‘Pills ‘N’ Thrills And Bellyaches’ (1990) and ‘…Yes Please!’ (1992).
The collapse of Factory in November 1992 – in part caused by the £400,000 bill for recording …Yes Please! in Barbados – marked the beginning of the end of the first incarnation Happy Mondays, who split in 1993, with Shaun going on to form the hugely successful Black Grape with Kermit of Ruthless Rap Assassins.
Happy Mondays have successfully reformed several times, and last year undertook their first headline tour since the passing of founder member Paul Ryder in 2022. In 2026, Happy Mondays will celebrate the 35th anniversary of ‘Pills ‘N’ Thrills And Bellyaches’ with an extensive UK Tour.
HAPPY MONDAYS – THE FACTORY SINGLES – TRACK LISTINGS
2CD:
CD1
01 Delightful
02 Freaky Dancin’
03 Tart Tart
04 24 Hour Party People
05 Wrote for Luck
06 Lazyitis – One Armed Boxer
07 Hallelujah (The MacColl Mix)
08 Step On
09 Kinky Afro
10 Loose Fit
11 Judge Fudge
12 Stinkin’ Thinkin’
13 Sunshine & Love
14 Angel
CD2
01 Tart Tart (The Reflex Revision)
02 24 Hour Party People (Jon Carter’s Main Vocal)
03 W.F.L. (Think About The Future Mix)
04 Hallelujah (Club Mix)
05 Rave On (Club Mix)
06 Step On (Twistin’ My Melon Mix)
07 Kinky Groovy Afro Remix AKA “Euromix”
08 Loose Fit (Greg Wilson and Ché Wilson Remix)
09 Bob’s Yer Uncle (Perfecto Remix)
10 Stinkin’ Thinkin’ (Junior Style) (12” Mix)
11 Sunshine & Love (Fire Island Mix)
2LP
Std Black
Coloured – Magenta & Yellow
A1 Delightful
A2 Freaky Dancin’
A3 Tart Tart
A4 24 Hour Party People
A5 Wrote for Luck
B1 Lazyitis – One Armed Boxer (with Karl Denver)
B2 Hallelujah (The MacColl Mix)
B3 Step On
B4 Kinky Afro
B5 Loose Fit
C1 Judge Fudge
C2 Stinkin’ Thinkin’
C3 Sunshine & Love
C4 Angel
D1 Hallelujah (12” Mix)
D2 Step On (Twistin’ My Melon Mix)
D3 W.F.L. (Think About The Future Mix)
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