Black Grape at the Electric Brixton, London (Alberto Pezzali for Live4ever)
Black Grape will release a studio album this summer in the wake of their live reunion of 2015.
In the time since, Shaun Ryder’s Happy Mondays segway has been touring consistently and marking anniversaries, but will now offer up something brand new in the form of Pop Voodoo on July 7th.
“The story goes back a bit,” Ryder has told NME of the reunion. “Around about 2009, just after the jungle or just before, I thought about doing Black Grape. I seemed to get a big burst of energy, obviously the Thyroxine and the testosterone, and so we did a one-off show. My manager at the time didn’t think about taking it further but I didn’t have Kermit involved.”
“When I spoke to him I don’t think he was quite there yet, he wasn’t where I wanted him to be. I got Tom Piper in, who’s a well-known drum ’n’ bass guy, to cover Kermit’s bit and we did one show and that was it.”
The LP is being trailed with Everything You Know Is Wrong right here.