“Eh, jib down ‘ere Jules, not on the Manc Way,” he says. Read more: Our picks for Manchester's best small gigs in November 2022 So as a result, remembering some of the stories for the book was, shall we say, a challenge.Ĭrammed into the back of his mate Jules’s Ford Puma - Jules is a concert photographer who’s known Bez for years, and took the pictures at his wedding - we navigate the truly hideous traffic from town to the Trafford Centre thanks to his still keen knowledge of the city’s cut-throughs. Other than that, the 58-year-old is blissfully happy, and looks in staggeringly good nick for a man who was very much in the room when the notion of ‘24 hour party people’ was conceived. Currently to get a decent curry is a 20 mile round trip, so that would change too.īez, with his new memoir (Image: Vincent Cole - Manchester Evening News) Dave from Out Of The Blue sends him fish deliveries sometimes. Organic grocer Unicorn, the Barbakan bakery and fishmonger Out Of The Blue, all in Chorlton, would come with him. He loves it there, ‘wouldn’t live anywhere else’.īut there are things he’d transplant, if he could.
He can see the Black Mountains from his back doorstep and goes walking, cycling, and heads out into the wilds on his motorbike. She sang a song she’d penned specially for the couple, and the party afterwards lasted two days.
He lives near Hereford now with his wife Firouzeh, who he married a couple of months ago. They’re glad to have seen you and always generous with their words.”īez - also known as Mark Berry - was just visiting his old hometown last week.
“Meeting people comes with the territory, he says. Read more: Review - Bob Dylan at the O2 Apollo And, y’know, his granddad is Bez rave icon, Madchester pioneer, Celebrity Big Brother winner, Calvin Klein model, freaky dancer.
Luca has been up on stage a few times at festival gigs, and has got in free to Glastonbury and Bestival. So getting anywhere with Bez is time-consuming. And he will always - always - want to talk to them too, have a picture, ask where they’re from, talk about the Happy Mondays, whatever they want. Because wherever he is, people want to talk to him. He’s 10, nearly 11, and with an eye for good casualwear, like his granddad, and we’re just having a quick chat while Bez signs copies of his new memoir at Waterstones in the Trafford Centre.īasically, the complaint is that you can’t take him anywhere. What would it be like if Bez was your granddad? “It’s kind of annoying, actually,” says Bez’s grandson Luca.
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