Live Music Review: Happy Mondays, Vicar Street, Dublin

It’s 30 years since the Happy Mondays put a firecracker under British rock with tongue-twisting debut album Squirrel and G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile (White Out).

The phantasmagorical blend of Shaun Ryder’s sensitive hooligan rapping, the band’s throbbing dance-pop and maraca-player Bez’s early onset dad dancing were like nothing witnessed before.

Without quite intending too, the Manchester scallywags, from a hardscrabble suburb of Salford, had blown the doors off a music scene garlanded in cobwebs.