Black Grape

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Black Grape: Pips Out For The Lads
Interview by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 3 June 1995
If you expected old fruit SHAUN RYDER to come back as reconstructed new man you were pissing in the wind. PAUL MOODY discovers that the ...
Black Grape: Forget It All For An Instant
Interview by Lisa Verrico, Vox, July 1995
After all the pills, thrills and bellyaches, Shaun Ryder felt peckish — so he nipped off to Kentucky Fried Chicken. It took him three years ...
Interview by Cliff Jones, The Face, August 1995
Call the cops! Manchester's premier exponent of hooligan rock is back, and sounding better than ever. Cliff Jones grills the Black Grape head honcho on Star ...
Black Grape: It's Great When You're Straight... Yeah! (Radioactive)
Review by Stephen Dalton, Vox, September 1995
YOU KNOW the story. Just over two years ago, it all went pear-shaped for Shaun Ryder. Smack addiction, bitter infighting and musical stagnation finished off ...
Interview by Lisa Verrico, Vox, October 1995
In the first of a series never, ever to be continued, Shaun Ryder presents his passport to the land of a thousand karma sutra babes. ...
Black Grape: Shaun Ryder, Pop Star
Interview by Ben Thompson, The Independent, 1 October 1995
Once the high priest of proletarian hedonism, Shaun Ryder has traded in the low-life for a leafy London suburb. It's been a good move. The ...
Black Grape: Spills 'n' Thrills and Jelly Aches
Report and Interview by Johnny Cigarettes, Vox, November 1995
After breaking and entering the album charts at Number One, BLACK GRAPE decided to drag their scuzzy, 24-hour party on the road. VOX gets over-friendly ...
Monster Bunch!: Black Grape: Empress Ballroom, Blackpool
Live Review by Stephen Dalton, New Musical Express, 13 April 1996
BLOODY HELL. Seven years since The Stone Roses played a legendary show in this very building, and seven days after they split, it's like Madchester ...
Straight to Stupid: Black Grape
Interview by Dave Thompson, Alternative Press, 1997
DANNY SABER'S been a busy boy. Produced the Rolling Stones, remixed David Bowie, and then seven weeks recording the new Black Grape album, climbing ...
Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 24 November 1997
WHEN SHAUN Ryder recently sang Black Grape's comeback hit 'Get Higher', he no doubt afforded himself a mischievous grin. For years, Ryder was the dark ...
see also Happy Mondays
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