Shaun Ryder has been struggling with the UK heatwave, saying it reminds him of a time when class A drugs were the only way to soothe his sunburn.
The Madchester legend, who partied hard in the 1990s, has been feeling the heat in his native Salford. But things aren't as bad as a few decades ago when he required a hospital stay after too much sun.
Shaun's aversion to heat and alopecia
Shaun told the Daily Star: "I don't really like it. I sweat, like a mother f***** because I've got no body hair whatsoever.
"I'm totally f****** alopecian up to the max. So there's nowhere for the sweat to go except f****** roll off me head and I've got no eyebrows and I've got no eye lashes that makes it f******* aggravating in the sun.
"I just won't go out in it, you know, when I'm working it's usually late."
Scarred by the sun: Valencia incident
In fact, the Happy Mondays star is literally scarred by the sun following an unfortunate incident in the 1990s which left him in hospital.
"Years ago when we were in Valencia, in Spain, we'd just done a TV show about 5 o'clock in the morning playing live," recalled Shaun, no longer on substances.
"We get out of the studio, something like 9 in the morning, fall asleep on the beach, and I wake up in the evening with third degree f****** burns. I had to go hospital.
"Good job I was taking heroin at the time. It made the pain not as bad. I got out of hospital and then we had to go and do another show."
Upcoming tour and book
Shaun is hitting the road later this year for a new spoken word tour where fans will be able to hear more of these improbable truths and his carnival of excess straight from the horse's mouth.
Shaun’s UK tour runs from September 23 - November 22, and his new book 24 Hour Party Person is out now.
