{"product_id":"friday-still-rains","title":"Friday Still Rains","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThey told me rainy days and Mondays always get you down. Well somebody forgot to tell the sky round this end of town.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFriday Still Rains\u003c\/strong\u003e is Sonny's debut single — a defiant, jangly Madchester anthem written as a direct answer-back to The Carpenters, for anyone who's ever queued in the rain outside a venue and had the best night of their life anyway.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eMusic Track Story\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe whole song starts from one specific, wry complaint: The Carpenters got halfway to something true with “Rainy Days and Mondays” and then stopped. Sonny gives Karen the Monday — “rainy days and Mondays, fair enough — I'll give her that one song” — but Friday is where the maths breaks down completely. A rainy Friday in Manchester isn't a reason to stay in. It's the whole city deciding, on principle, to go out anyway.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe verses sit in real Manchester — the Deaf Institute, Oldham Street, a queue with umbrellas held up like flags, lads in shirts with no jackets because that's just what you do — before the chorus opens into the kind of line built specifically for a crowd to sing back at once: “You can't cancel a city just because of the grey \/ Friday still rains — and we're going out anyway.” No pyrotechnics in the delivery. Just Rickenbacker jangle, a baggy shuffling groove, and a Manc frontman who sounds like he's talking to the whole pub at once.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe bridge is where the joke lands its real point: “Karen sang it sweet and sad, but she got the maths wrong… rainy nights plus Friday? Love, that's a different sum — that's the whole of Manchester singing here we bloody come.” It's funny, and it's also completely sincere — under the swagger, this is a song about civic pride and working-class joy, about a city and its people that a bit of bad weather has never once managed to dim.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt ends the way any proper Madchester record should — cascading Rickenbacker and Hammond organ carrying the chorus out, the whole thing built less to be listened to alone than to be shouted, arms round shoulders, by a queue of people with no jackets on, in the rain, at eleven.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sonny","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53636765876552,"sku":"FARA-FRIDAYSTILLRAINS-MP3","price":0.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0976\/6394\/2984\/files\/friday-still-rains-cover_c1ff5586-88df-48f0-99af-4cb486f189bd.jpg?v=1785721462","url":"https:\/\/spatialx.media\/products\/friday-still-rains","provider":"SPATIALx Media","version":"1.0","type":"link"}