Question: Which band was formed first Happy Mondays or The Posies ?

Context articles: First Happy Time
Central Station Design
Steve Osborne
Flowered Up
Frosting on the Beater
Brotherhood of Lost Dogs
Every Kind of Light
Happy Mondays
The Posies
The Numbskulls

The early phase of the Battle of the Atlantic during which German Navy U-boats enjoyed significant success against the British Royal Navy and its allies was referred to by U-boat crews as "the Happy Time" (""Die Glückliche Zeit""), and later the First Happy Time, after a second successful period was encountered.
Central Station Design is a Mancunian design company founded by Pat Carroll, Karen Jackson, and Matt Carroll.
 It is usually associated with Factory Records and the Madchester scene of the early 1990s.
 The company created album cover artwork and posters for Factory artists including The Happy Mondays, Black Grape, and James.
 Their design for the Happy Mondays' "Madchester Rave On E.P." in late 1989 became the iconic logo for the movement.
 The Carrolls are cousins of Shaun and Paul Ryder of the Happy Mondays.
Stephen John "Steve" Osborne (born 1963) is a multi-platinum selling British record producer, living in Bath, England.
 He has worked with a wide variety of musicians, including A-ha, New Order, Elbow, U2, Happy Mondays, Placebo, Gregory Porter, Doves, KT Tunstall, Vanessa Carlton etc. (see below for complete list).
 During the 1990s, Osborne was half of the Perfecto Records team, a production and remix collaboration with Paul Oakenfold; the artists they worked with included Happy Mondays and U2.
 He was part of the 1990s dance music act Grace, also with Oakenfold, which existed from 1994 to 1997.
 Osborne most recently has worked with Cat's Eyes on their critically acclaimed album, released in April 2011.
 At the 2012 Soundedit Festival in Poland, Steve Osborne received the prestigious 'The Man With The Golden Ear' Award.
 In 2000 Steve was replaced by Andy Gray who then went on to remix Moby's Natural Blues, U2's Beautiful Day and compose the music for Big Brother UK with Oakenfold under the name Elementfour.
Flowered Up were a five-man British band, formed in Camden Town, London in the late 1980s.
 They were influential in the Baggy movement alongside "Madchester" bands Happy Mondays and Northside and were best known for their 13-minute single "Weekender".
Frosting on the Beater is the third album by the Seattle rock group The Posies, released in 1993.
 It featured a heavier, more intense sound than the band's prior works, in part due to production duties being handled by Don Fleming.
 "Dream All Day," "Solar Sister" and "Definite Door" were released as singles, with the first two getting moderate airplay and the third being the band's only single to break the UK Top 75.
 "Flavor of the Month" was a swipe at the many overnight-sensation grunge bands in The Posies' hometown of Seattle.
 "Coming Right Along" appeared on the soundtrack to the movie "The Basketball Diaries" (1995, Island Records).
 "Dream All Day" was later used as the title of the band's best-of compilation, released in 2000.
 Frosting On The Beater was the last album original drummer Mike Musburger appeared on.
Brotherhood of Lost Dogs was a short-lived band formed in mid-2004 by former Eve 6 frontman Max Collins, Brian Young of Fountains of Wayne and The Posies, and Joe "Bass" Howard formerly of The Posies.
 The group was disbanded around May 2005 without ever releasing any recorded material.
 Beginning in June 2005, Max Collins teamed up with former Eve 6 drummer/vocalist Tony Fagenson to start a new project, tentatively titled The Sugi Tap.
 The Sugi Tap was also short lived.
 Eventually, Collins joined back up with Fagenson and a new band member, Matt Bair, to reform Eve 6.
 Jon Siebels of the original Eve 6 originally decided not to return because he was committed to his new band, Monsters are Waiting.
 However, after leaving Monsters are Waiting, Jon once again reunited with the other members of Eve 6.
Every Kind of Light is an album from the band The Posies, released June 28, 2005.
 The album was released in the U.S. by Rykodisc.
 This was the first full-length album release by The Posies since 1998's "Success".
 The Posies had broken up after "Success"' release.
 However, starting in 2000, the band began performing numerous reunion shows while principal songwriters Ken Stringfellow and Jon Auer pursued solo recordings and tours.
 This is the first Posies album to feature bassist/guitarist Matt Harris and drummer Darius Minwalla.
Happy Mondays are an English alternative rock band from Salford, Greater Manchester.
 Formed in 1980, the band's original line-up was Shaun Ryder (vocals), his brother Paul Ryder (bass), Mark Day (guitar), Paul Davis (keyboard), and Gary Whelan (drums).
 Mark "Bez" Berry later joined the band onstage as a dancer/percussionist.
 Rowetta joined the band as a guest vocalist in 1990.
The Posies are an American power pop group.
 The band was formed in 1987 in Bellingham, Washington by primary songwriters Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow.
 They are best known for their radio hits "Golden Blunders" (from "Dear 23"), as well as "Dream All Day", "Solar Sister" and "Flavor of the Month" (from "Frosting on the Beater").
The Numbskulls (aka HyperzombieNumbSkulls) were an influential acid house band from Boulder, Colorado in the early to mid-1980s.
 Influenced by the Madchester style of music of The Stone Roses and Happy Mondays, as well as punk/new wave bands New Order and The Cure, the Numbskulls catalogue included whimsical lyrics juxtaposed against repetitive keyboards, trance-like drumming, melodic vocals and quirky punk guitar hooks.
 They referred to their musical style as "danceable dirge".
 The band was a four piece with band leader, Mike Harris Bacidore on keyboards, bass, and vocals, Mateo Juarez (Matthew Harris Sullivan) on lead guitar and vocals, Mike Tomich on guitars and vocals, and Scuz Roland (Don Adydan) on drums.
 The Numbskulls were founded by Bacidore and Sullivan in Longmont, Colorado in 1983.
 The band often dressed up in leisure suits and rubber masks, reggae attire, or as hippies and played under a variety of inane monikers, most notably "Happy World Beat" — thus, only their most rabid fans were aware of their true identity.
 They enjoyed playing techno punk jams, an antithetical punk style whereby their songs would often last fifteen minutes or more and were a spontaneous combination of funk, punk, reggae, jazz, techno, and new wave.
 The Madchester style to which their music is often associated was not yet popular in the United States, and as fervent followers, the Numbskulls ushered the era of ecstasy laden rave culture of the late eighties in the Boulder and Denver area of Colorado.
 The band released several underground albums including "HyperzombieNumbSkuLLs" (1983), "Rubberface" (1984), "Big Bowel Movement" (1985), "Get in the Groove" (1985), and "Red Light" (1986).