ContactMusic — Happy Mondays will reform next year Lead singer Shaun Ryder is spearheading plans to get the Step On group back together for a special documentary after he was approached by promoters keen for them to tour with The Stone Roses who reunited earlie... more info

Guardian Music — It has been a bumper year for memoirs, from Shaun Ryder to Nile RodgersWhen looking back on a year of music books that themselves tend to look back, it makes sense to start with Simon Reynolds's Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past (Fa... more info

Altsounds — *Dixie* *Answering Shaun Ryder's call* London five-piece rock 'n' roll band Dixie release their UK debut single “What You Gonna Do” on 21st November 2011 through 301 Records, and they follow that by tearing through 27 UK tour dates... more info

Guardian Music — Soul singer Bobby Womack reveals how a phone call from Gorillaz helped him rekindle his career, and TV presenter Jonathan Ross hails the unlikely cartoon groupThe roll-call of Gorillaz collaborators over the last decade includes Danger Mouse, Ibrahim... more info

Guardian Music — Tokyo, LincolnAfter Happy Mondays and Black Grape "reunions" that lacked most of the personnel, the autobiography, and eating crocodile penis in the Celebrity jungle, you wonder what will constitute Shaun Ryder's next attempt to restore his former gl... more info

NME — Happy Mondays singer will start his quest in native Manchester more info

ContactMusic — Happy Mondays frontman Shaun Ryder has landed a new TV job fronting a show which searches for Ufos The star is best known for his drug-fuelled wild days in the British band but has been hiding a secret obsession with extra-terrestrials He will now... more info

Gigwise — Singer will kick off quest in Manchester... more info

Altsounds — The raw, undiluted autobiography of a true rock star whose music and antics inspired a generation of 24-hour party people. In May 1982, Tony Wilson opened the Hacienda's doors for the very first time, and a new era of British music was born. The so... more info

Altsounds — The hugely popular club night has fast built a reputation as London's place to be - the likes of *Kasabian, Noel Gallagher, Noel Fielding, Miles Kane, Adam Ant, Stephen Graham, Arctic Monkeys* and many many more regularly take to the stage or prop up... more info