Artist
Black Grape
Black Grape is a rock artist from Manchester, UK formed in 1993. 16 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Rock · Manchester, UK · Best rock albums
- 16
- Releases
- 1995–2024
- Active years
- 1993
- Formed
Artist
Black Grape is a rock artist from Manchester, UK formed in 1993. 16 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Rock · Manchester, UK · Best rock albums
Most popular
Pop Voodoo
2017
Liquid Sunshine
Single · 2024
Part of Everything
Single · 2024
The Limelight
Single · 2024
Milk
Single · 2023
Dirt
Single · 2023
Pimp Wars (Edit)
Single · 2023
Nine Lives (Radio Edit)
Single · 2017
I Wanna Be Like You (Radio Edit)
Single · 2017
In The Name Of The Father (Choppers Mix)
Single · 2016
Fat Neck (Beat The Fuck Down Mix By Goldie)
Single · 2016
Reverend Black Grape (The Crystal Method Edit)
Single · 2016
Kelly's Heroes (The Milky Bar Kid Mix)
Single · 2016
The band was formed in 1993 by former Happy Mondays members Shaun Ryder and Bez. It was Ryder's first musical project after the disintegration of Happy Mondays due both to his multiple drug addictions and to disagreements about revenues with other bandmembers. The formation of the new band was intended to draw a line between his past life and his new one. Ryder and Bez recruited rappers Paul "Kermit" Leveridge and Carl "Psycho" McCarthy, drummer Jed Lynch (like Leveridge, a former member of Ruthless Rap Assassins), and guitarist Wags (formerly of the Manchester-based group the Paris Angels). Recording of new material started that year, although the group was not under contract. In 1995 Black Grape was signed by Radioactive Records (an imprint of major label BMG) and released its debut album It's Great When You're Straight... Yeah. It immediately charted at number one in the UK Albums Chart, and spawned three Top Twenty singles. The first single "Reverend Black Grape" managed to outsell the Happy Mondays cover of John Kongos "(He's Gonna) Step On (You Again)". The third single, "Kelly's Heroes" - a song lampooning society's obsession with celebrities and idols that had much to do wi…
