Black Grape by Paul Husband
Black Grape release ‘Orange Head’ on January 19th.
Black Grape have shared their latest new album single Dirt.
“Parts of it are about childhood memories that disturbed me,” Shaun Ryder has said. “Not really at the time, but years later.”
We spoke with Ryder last week to discuss Black Grape’s forthcoming LP, as well as the future plans of Happy Mondays and Mantra Of The Cosmos:
“I got a phone call from the States telling me that it was 20 years since It’s Great When You’re Straight… and was I doing anything for the anniversary?,” he told us.
I said I hadn’t really thought about it, but I found out Kermit was in a good place so we just got back together. We did a couple of shows, to see how it went – one in London and one in Manchester – and it went really well. Then we left it up to Alan McGee (Ryder’s manager – more on him later) to get us an album deal and he sorted that out.
Check it out in full right here.