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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
Andrew Barker Of 808 State Fame Has Died Aged 53
Tributes continue to pour in for late 808 State star Andrew Barker, who has died aged 53.The influential Manchester electronic music group - who are credited with pioneering the acid house sound - announced the...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 08 November 2021
Lewis Capaldi And Lionel Richie To Headline 2022 Isle Of Wight Festival
Lewis Capaldi, Lionel Richie, Kasabian, Pete Tong & the Heritage Orchestra presents Ibiza Classics conducted by Jules Buckley and Muse will headline 2022's cinch presents the Isle of Wight Festival. The annual music extravaganza will...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 27 September 2021
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
Happy Mondays Star Bez Feared For His Life Amid Covid-19 Battle
Happy Mondays star Bez thought he was going to die amid his battle with COVID-19.The 56-year-old dancer felt like he had suffered a heart attack when he fell poorly with coronavirus last year, and he...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 02 August 2021
Happy Mondays' Bez Makes Vocal Debut On Trippy Doorly Track
Happy Mondays' Bez has made his vocal debut on ‘Flying Bus’, his collaboration with house producer and DJ Doorly.The 56-year-old dancer is best known for shaking his maracas on stage alongside Shaun Ryder and co,...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 30 July 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
Shaun Ryder Says Drugs Have Given Him His Libido Back
Shaun Ryder thinks his medication has reignited his libido.The 58-year-old star believes he's currently taking more drugs than ever and according to his wife Joanne Ryder, it's helping to improve their love life.Shaun shared: "I’m...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 26 February 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
'I Had Hollywood And I Blew It': Shaun Ryder Could've Been A Big Movie Star
Shaun Ryder claims he could've been a household name in Hollywood.The Happy Mondays star appeared in 1998's 'The Avengers' as Donavan alongside the likes of Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman, but he screwed up his...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 17 June 2020
Donovan Recalls Wild Ecstasy Trip With Happy Mondays
Donovan took Ecstasy with the Happy Mondays.The 60s folk legend and his wife Linda were introduced to the drug by their former son-in-law Shaun Ryder - who was married to their daughter Orielle at the...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 16 May 2020
Shaun Ryder Offered Reality Show
Shaun Ryder insists he's too ''boring'' for a reality show.The Happy Mondays frontman claims he's been approached multiple times to have cameras put in his home but he doesn't think the nation would find his...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 11 May 2020
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
Bez Selling Honey For Charity
The former Happy Mondays star, real name Mark Berry, launched a campaign to boost Britain's bee population in 2013 and installed hives in a rooftop garden in the centre of his hometown....
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 11 August 2015
Shaun Ryder Spooked By Close Encounter After Ufo Tv Show
The Happy Mondays frontman travelled to Chile in 2012 to shoot a show about extraterrestrials, and shortly after returning to the U.K. he was stunned to see a mystery craft outside his home....
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 02 July 2015
Shaun Ryder's Life-changing Trip
Shaun Ryder found recording in Panama ''life changing''. The 52-year-old singer was joined by his Happy Mondays bandmates to live with the Embera Drua tribe to record a single for new show 'Singing in the...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 06 June 2015
Happy Mondays Record First New Song In 20 Years
Happy Mondays have recorded their first song in 20 years with a rainforest tribe in Central America. While on a trip to Panama to film reality TV series 'Singing In The Rainforest', the 'Step On'...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 28 May 2015
Happy Mondays Sign Up For Reality Tv Show
The reformed hellraiser won a new army of fans when he appeared as a contestant on British survival show I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! in 2010. Now he is...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 27 May 2015
Bez Stung By Bees For Two Years
The Happy Mondays star, real name Mark Berry, started bee-keeping in 2013 in a bid to stop the dramatic decline in honeybee colonies and its potentially damaging effect on the environment. However,...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 29 April 2015
Shaun Ryder Takes Aim At Stephen Hawking Over Aliens
The British physicist stated in a 2010 documentary that it would be a disaster for Earth if extraterrestrials landed on the planet, and suggested experts should stop trying to find and communicate with...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 28 April 2015
Shaun Ryder Agrees To Jungle Tv Show Return
The Happy Mondays star garnered a new army of fans when he appeared in the 2010 series of the U.K. reality show and entertained viewers with his antics, eventually finishing second to singer...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 27 April 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
Happy Mondays Headline Bl9
Happy Mondays and Razorlight are to headline the BL9 Weekender.The 'Step On' rockers and 'America' hitmakers will top the bill at Bury FC's Gigg Lane ground over the weekend of 13-14 June, while a host...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 16 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 Wants To Write For Taylor Swift
Shaun Ryder wants to write songs for Taylor Swift and One Direction.The Happy Monday singer - who has six children from three relationships, including three with current wife Joanne - claims he doesn't know much...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 19 February 2015
Bez Wants Britons To Grow Their Own Food
Former Happy Mondays star Bez wants organic gardens installed on top of every office block in Britain in an effort to provide cheap food.The dancer, real name Mark Berry, plans to run in the 2015...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 19 March 2014
Bez Refusing To Give Up Drugs For Political Run
Happy Mondays star and aspiring politician Bez is refusing to give up drugs for his election run.The former dancer, real name Mark Berry, recently revealed his plan to stand in the U.K.'s 2015 general election...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 19 March 2014
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