The Latest Breaking News from Black Grape

Rudimental, Groove Armada and more set for Kaleidoscope Festival

Kaleidoscope Festival is returning to London's Alexandra Palace for the sixth year.

BANG Premier · Jun 30

Watching Watership Down on acid with Bez: Shaun Ryder releases new memoir 24 Hour Party Person

Happy Mondays frontman says forthcoming book will include bullet-dodging scrapes in Jamaica and New York as well as ‘bust-ups and benders’ with his bands

The Guardian - UK · Feb 27

Shaun Ryder forced to miss funeral of Stone Roses star after he ‘collapsed’ from illness

‘I had to throw everything I could down me, you know, every sort of painkiller and everything else, just to get through it,’ says Happy Mondays frontman

The Independent UK · Jan 6

In Pictures: The week in Culture

If a picture paints a thousand words... Here’s all you need to know or may have missed about this past week in Culture (24-28 March 2025).

Euronews · Mar 29, 2025

“He was a one-off… We will never see his like again”: Paul ‘Wags’ Wagstaff, guitarist for Happy Mondays, Black Grape and Paris Angels, has died aged 60

Wagstaff was a key figure in Manchester's thriving “Madchester” scene in the '80s and '90s

Guitar World · Mar 24, 2025

"A national treasure? I'll take that over being called a smackhead, crackhead loser": Shaun Ryder on Black Grape, The Happy Mondays, Gogglebox and why it's great when you're straight, yeah

At 61, Shaun Ryder is still having more fun than anyone you know

Louder · Feb 9, 2024

Sunday with Shaun Ryder: ‘I’d be out on my bike now if I wasn’t talking to you’

The Black Grape singer, 61, discusses hip problems, avoiding vacuuming, giving up booze and drugs and his plans to keep gigging till he’s 80

The Guardian - UK · Jan 21, 2024

‘National treasure? It’s better than crackhead’: Shaun Ryder and Kermit on the return of Black Grape

One is in his dressing gown, the other recommends carrot juice: clearly things have changed among the indie-dance act. They talk us through their hedonistic 90s, plus grief, Farage and fatherhood

The Guardian - UK · Jan 8, 2024

"If you stormed in here and said the new record was rubbish, I would probably quit": Joe Strummer's struggle after The Clash

Before his death, Joe Strummer could hardly get arrested. After, he was feted as a rock icon. This is the inside story of the solo years of a punk rock warlord

Louder · Dec 22, 2023

Bristol Sounds 2023: Everything you need to know about headliners, set times and location

The event takes place at Bristol Harbourside this week

Bristol Post · Jun 21, 2023