Exclusive: Happy Mondays sign up for ghost hunt show

The Happy Mondays have signed to appear on an episode of ITV2's Ghost Hunting With... series.

Four members of the iconic Manchester band – lead singer Shaun Ryder, percussionist Bez, drummer Gary Whelan and backing vocalist Julie Gordon – will hold a seance at a Victorian jail in Lincoln, before tracking down spectres at a Nottingham manor house that was used for sex parties in Elizabethan times.

Pop groups Girls Aloud and McFly, several members of the Emmerdale cast and a group of Radio 1 DJs have previously appeared on the show, which is hosted by former Blue Peter presenter Yvette Fielding.

Bez, the winner of Celebrity Big Brother in 2005, said: "You've got to watch this one, man - especially if you don't believe in 'em. Yvette's not kidding when she says that she doesn't know who's gonna be more scared - the ghosts or us. You decide!"

Ghost Hunting With… The Happy Mondays will air on ITV2 later this year.