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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 […]