There is a moment towards the end of Michael Winterbottom’s film 24 Hour Party People (The Steve Coogan starring story of Factory Records) that makes us realise just how powerful Happy Mondays were back in those Baggy, Madchester days of the late 80s / early 90s. It’s an arial shot of Manchester at night, a glimmering landscape of multi-coloured lights disguising the culture of drugs and gun crime lurking below. Happy Mondays’ “Hallelujah (Club Mix)” pounds on the soundtrack with the euphoria of that opening wail and the trademark lazy beat kicking in. The acid-soaked technicolour of Happy Mondays didn’t so much hide the sordid backdrop of the era as highlighted it. In retrospect, it seems short-lived, but for a limited time, the Central Station produced poster designs that appeared to cov...