Black Grape announced an extensive UK tour in November and December 2025 today. The tour will mark the 30th anniversary of the classic debut Number 1 album It’s Great When You’re Straight…Yeah, The band’s main […]
A lot has changed since Black Grape released their last LP, Pop Voodoo. Shaun Ryder was diagnosed with ADHD in 2020 and lost his brother Paul, and Kermit (Paul Leveridge) lost his father just days […]
Despite initially splitting up after just five years in 1998, with several extended hiatus’, Black Grape turned 30 this year. While there was no mention of this anniversary, new material debuted from their forthcoming fourth […]
Black Grape will release the brand new album Orange Head on DGAFF Recordings on 19th January 2024. Today, they share “Dirt”, which follows previous singles”Milk” and “Pimp Wars.” On “Dirt” which sees the duo time […]
Black Grape returns with the brand new album Orange Head, which will be released on DGAFF Recordings on 3rd November 2023. Today they reveal the first single, “Milk.” Black Grape could only have been made […]
An Evening with Shaun Ryder begins on Saturday night at the Sugar Club in Dublin. The evening features an in-depth interview with the man himself, about his years in Happy Mondays & Black Grape, the […]
Legendary Manchester band Happy Mondays have announced a marathon twenty-nine date Greatest Hits Tour for October, November and December 2019 which includes Belfast Limelight 1 on Wed 4th Dec. The Happy Mondays’ classic line-up of […]
Following the success of their album ‘Pop Voodoo’ (Universal Music) which showcased the band’s first new material in 20 years the band announce a series of shows in the UK. As Irvine Welsh writes in […]
BLACK GRAPE WILL RELEASE THE SINGLE ‘I WANNA BE LIKE YOU’ ON 11th AUGUST. THE ALBUM ‘POP VOODOO’ IS OUT ON 4TH AUGUST Black Grape return with the brand new album ‘Pop Voodoo’, which will […]
Black Grape reveal the video for ‘Pop Voodoo’ the title track and lead single from their forthcoming album, out 7th July. ‘Pop Voodoo’, will be released on UMC (Universal Music) on 7th July 2017. The […]
Black Grape return with the brand new album ‘Pop Voodoo’, which will be released on UMC (Universal Music) on 7th July 2017. The album showcases the band’s first new material in 20 years and is […]
It’s pretty hard to believe it’s been 21 years since Black Grape released their debut album It’s Great When You’re Straight….Yeah! Formed by Shaun Ryder and Bez on the back of their success in the […]
On November 4th Radioactive/UMC will release a three-disc Deluxe Edition of one of the greatest British albums of the 1990s, Black Grape’s It’s Great When You’re Straight…Yeah. Black Grape was founded in 1993 by legendary […]
Art of the front man part 2 – ‘Shaun Ryder the anti front man’ Sometime in 1993 I was first told about this dude named ‘Shaun Ryder’, of course I had heard of the ‘Happy Mondays’, but being […]
The psychedelic funk of George Clinton, the brooding menace of Massive Attack, the rolling hypnotic beats of Happy Mondays and the vision and flow of Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five are all essential ingredients […]
Music legend Shaun William Ryder is back on the road with his post Happy Monday’s band Black Grape. They played a brilliant show in Belfast on Saturday night, I caught up with him earlier in […]