Shaun Ryder: pills, thrills and Happy Mondays

Unfiltered with Oli Dugmore

Unfiltered with Oli Dugmore || JOE Media

Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2018

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Happy Mondays and Black Grape frontman Shaun Ryder joins a starstruck James O’Brien for a rock ’n’ roll rollercoaster of an interview. We journey from Shaun’s early days in ‘monochrome’ Manchester, to the formation of the Mondays, the technicolour highs and explosive lows of band life, break ups and reformations, coming off drugs and embarking on new journeys with Black Grape.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Unfiltered with me James O'Brien featuring this week.
0:16.0	Man I'm so excited about this.
0:19.0	Sean Reider in the house, happy Mondays and Black Graper
0:22.0	cause he's back on tour with black
0:24.1	grape in September well through to November you can find out more at black grape
0:28.7	official dot com and I am in that horrible situation where someone who I first started thinking was awesome in about 1988
0:38.0	I'm about to meet for the very first time. You were bang on time on time which I find a little disappointing.
0:48.3	Oh no I mean well now you know being you know an old geezer almost 60 we are bang on time these days
0:53.8	I mean back in the day we was looking to get the day right yes well that's the
0:58.2	old line isn't it about Keith Richards I think said he couldn't write his
1:01.5	autobiography because he couldn't remember any.
1:03.2	Well, yeah. We'll get on to that.
1:05.2	And I can remember the 60s better than the 90s.
1:07.6	Because you were born in 1962 in Salford.
1:11.2	Family originally was quite sort of functional. Dad was a postman, mom was a nursery teacher,
1:17.3	yeah. nursery nurse and so big Catholic family. No stealing, go to church, go to school.
1:22.8	Those are the values that parents tried.
1:24.3	Absolutely, yeah.
1:25.3	They didn't.
1:26.1	You went to church?
1:27.4	Yeah, went to church.
1:29.3	But the stealing and the school.
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