Black Grape: Pips Out For The Lads
Paul Moody, NME, 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 good reverend still has a black heart and that his new group, BLACK GRAPE, crushes all opposition in their path.
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