There is only a couple of days to go before Happy Mondays visit Bedford to headline ParkLive.
Friday's (August 1) event will also feature Ash, Stereo MC's and The Scruff.
To get you warmed up for the calendar highlight, Happy Mondays frontman Shaun Ryder went On Track with us...
The song that first awakened your musical senses?
The Beatles with Michelle, or one of those from around 1968, that sort of time...
Physical or digital – how do you take your music?
Oh god, downloading is just so easy for lazy people like me.
If I want anything I just go to iTunes and press it. I got my Dean Martin that way. I go through all sorts of stuff and go 'I used to have that...I'm having it again now!'
I've downloaded Prefab Sprout tracks that I've not heard for f*****g years...
The first time you thought 'Music is the job for me...'
It would have been around 1974, when I watched That'll Be The Day, and Stardust, with David Essex.
I had always loved music and fantasised about being in a band, but the one that did it, and made me go 'I want to do that' was when I went to watch Stardust.
I thought 'I really want that. I don't want to die of a drug overdose, but I want everything else – the pills, the birds and the booze!'
Your best on stage memory
We played at Wembley Arena. It was our show and in the early days when my Dad was roadying for us. I asked him to do something and my Dad was very p****d off.
In front of 10,000 people he came on and punched me right in the nose. Fantastic.
Our manager at the time, Nathan, sacked him!
And your worst on stage memory...
A stage collapse. We were in Spain on one of those dodgy outdoor festivals and we had just finished soundcheck, literally got off stage – one or two seconds later and the whole f*****g lot went!
All of our equipment was crushed to the size of cigarette packets. We were really lucky that none of us were dead.
One song by another artist you wish you had written
Jumpin' Jack Flash. It's the best song in the world. Two minutes and 22 seconds long, or something mad like that. It's just perfect...
If you could step into the shoes of someone else who would it be?
I would be Dean Martin for the day – who wouldn't want to be Dean Martin in his fantastic loafers and suits?
Any genre of music you can't stand?
Not really, no. It's just in me to find something in every genre of music...even heavy metal!
I like some heavy stuff, your obvious ones, like AC/DC...especially when you hear it in the right place or the right car in the right weather...
To book tickets for the ParkLive click to http://www.lphconcerts.co.uk/parklive/
