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 ...
Grape expectations are happily fulfilled
Profile and Interview by Caitlin Moran, The Times, 21 July 1995
Shaun Ryder's new band have made a brilliant album, but it won't impress the Pope. Caitlin Moran explains ...
Black Grape: Wulfrun Hall, Wolverhampton
Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 22 July 1995
BLACK GRAPE are currently the hottest new property in British rock. Even prior to their first single, acres of music press coverage had signalled the ...
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 Caitlin Moran, Ikon, September 1995
Head Monday Shaun Ryder, head-case Bez, and dread-head Kermit are Black Grape, the band who always say YES! to another excess. CAITLIN MORAN nods in ...
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 ...
Interview by Simon Price, Melody Maker, 11 May 1996
This week's FA Cup Final between Liverpool and Manchester United isn't a matter of life and death. It's much more important than that. SIMON PRICE ...
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 ...
...And The Arrest is History: Great Rock'n'Roll Drug Busts Through the Ages
Retrospective by Stuart Bailie, New Musical Express, 25 January 1997
Liam Gallagher's caution for possession of cocaine is the latest in a long line of rock'n'roll drug busts. STUART BAILIE remembers those other pop stars ...
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 ...
Live Review by Ian Gittins, The Guardian, 30 June 2015
BLACK GRAPE hit No 1 with their debut album in 1995, yet never truly felt part of the Britpop circus. For obvious reasons, you were ...
see also Happy Mondays
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