Latest Black Grape News
Shaun Ryder's Biopic Still In Pipeline Despite Creative Dispute
Shaun Ryder's biopic is still in the works – but its makers need new backers.In 2019, it was revealed that 'Skins' actor Jack O'Connell, 33, was to star as the Happy Mondays and Black Grape frontman,...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 21 January 2024
Shaun Ryder Won't Retire While He's Still Fit Enough To Tour
Shaun Ryder has no plans to retire.Like his peers in The Rolling Stones and former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney, who turns 80 in June, the Happy Mondays and Black Grape frontman plans to continue touring...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 14 March 2022
Shaun Ryder Says Collaboration With Noel Gallagher Has Black Grape Vibe
Shaun Ryder's collaboration with Noel Gallagher sounds like "Black Grape mixed" with the former Oasis star's sound.The two rock legends teamed up during the COVID-19 lockdown to make music together and Shaun is delighted with...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 20 August 2021
Shaun Ryder: I Couldn't Live A Rock 'N' Roll Life Now
Shaun Ryder says he'd "probably be locked up in a loony bin" if he was still living a wild rock 'n' roll lifestyle.The Happy Mondays singer was renowned for his hard partying lifestyle when the...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 18 July 2021
Shaun Ryder Teases All-star Solo Album
Shaun Ryder has hinted he’s got huge surprise guests on his new album.The Happy Mondays frontman used lockdown to finally complete work on ‘Visits From Future Technology’ – a record he started over a decade...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 22 May 2021
'They Keep Appearing': Shaun Ryder Still Sees Aliens
Shaun Ryder is still "seeing aliens".The Happy Mondays and Black Grape star - whose 2013 series, 'Shaun Ryder On UFOs', saw him travel around the world in search of the truth about UFOs - has...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 10 February 2021
Shaun Ryder Claims Fans Try To Sell Him Drugs
Shaun Ryder has claimed fans try to sell him drugs all the time.The 57-year-old Happy Mondays and Black Grape star hasn't touched alcohol or drugs for more than a decade, but that hasn't stopped people...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 02 April 2020
Shaun Ryder Cycled To Sobriety
Shaun Ryder quit drugs by going cycling.The Black Grape and Happy Mondays frontman has previously spoken about his use of heroin and ecstacy and says it took mammoth 15-hour bike rides to curb his cravings...
By Clive King in Music / Festivals on 03 July 2017
Shaun Ryder Recording Secret Solo Album
The singer reformed his two ex-bands, Happy Mondays and Black Grape, for comeback tours of the U.K. earlier this year (15), following an announcement in 2012 that Happy Mondays were working on new...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 29 September 2015
Black Grape Plot Summer Reunion Tour
Ryder and his Black Grape bandmate Kermit hit the stage at the Old Granada Studios in Manchester, England earlier this month (Apr15) to support singer/dancer Bez's The Reality Party political campaign and celebrate...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 26 April 2015
Black Grape Reform For Singer/dancer Bez's Election Campaign
Fans flocked to the Old Granada Studios in Manchester, England to support the singer/dancer's All Star Reality Party election campaign and check out his former band, fronted by Shaun Ryder. The group...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 13 April 2015
Happy Mondays Star Shaun Ryder Needs Testosterone Injections To Stay Alive
The singer tells Britain's NME magazine he must receive "a testosterone injection once every three months" or he will "drop dead". Ryder explains he has to resort to extremes because he has...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 09 April 2015
Shaun Ryder's Lyrical Confusion
Shaun Ryder doesn't understand his own songs.The former Black Grape and Happy Mondays singer doesn't understand why Factory Records boss Tony Wilson has previously described him as a "great poet" because there is nothing clever...
By Bang Showbiz on 30 January 2011
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