HAPPY Mondays singer Rowetta has launched a legal case against a theatre production company after claiming she has not been paid.

Rowetta, 42, appeared alongside Three Degrees' star Sheila Ferguson in The Songs of Sister Act, which played to a packed audience at Manchester's Palace Theatre in February as part of a two-week tour.

But almost three months after the tour ended Rowetta - a former Happy Mondays backing vocalist - says she has not been paid her £3,500 fee from production company Juxtaposed Productions after it went bust.

The London Gospel Choir claim they are also owed £15,000. The show was organised by Daniel Wood, 23, from Astley, Wigan, who was a director of Juxtaposed Productions with his father Geoffrey.

According to Companies House, Juxtaposed Productions Ltd was struck off and dissolved on January 29, two days before the theatre tour began.

It was struck off because details of directors and other basic information had not been supplied.

Daniel Wood filed for bankruptcy on March 26, after Rowetta, who also appeared on X Factor in 2004, launched a case in the small claims court for the money he owed her. The case is now in the hands of the official receivers.

Rowetta, from Bury, said: "Because I live in Manchester people who worked on the show have been contacting me asking me what to do.

"I am getting emails daily from members of the band, the lighting crew, the sound crew, the PA company, photographers, videographers - it goes on and on.

"I have been told that the only way we can get the money back is to take it to court ourselves."

Rowetta also claimed: "Initially Daniel said he had transferred the money he owed me into the bank, but it never arrived.

"After the tour I could not contact him, none of the phone numbers we had worked, and the website was taken down."

Bazil Meade, of the London Community Gospel Choir, said 10 singers who took part in the tour had only been paid rehearsal fees, leaving a shortfall of around £15,000.

He said: "There should be an organisation which can come in and sort out a situation like this, but we are told the only option is for us to spend more money to hire lawyers to take them through the courts."

The M.E.N could not get hold of Daniel or Geoffrey Wood.