Classic_Pop_Issue_30_July_2017

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IN THE NAME OF ESSEX

Forget pills, thrills and bellyaches, Shaun Ryder was more

interested in David Essex as a kid. Two early Essex movies

were the unlikely gateway drug for the Madchester man’s life

of debauchery. He told I-D Vice: “What got me involved in music

was going to watch a movie, in 1973, called That’ll Be The

Day, and a year later watching one called Stardust. That sort of

took my attention. I didn't want to die of a drug overdose but I

wanted to, you know, fuck loads of chicks and take lots of drugs,

and get off me face, and go and do rock’n’roll. So that’s really

what sparked my attention to do music.”

Ryder’s other band, Black Grape are back with new album

Pop Voodoo on 7 July, all recorded and mixed in just four weeks.

Dancing mascot Bez is no longer in the Black Grape line-up, and

judging by past history it’s probably for the best. Recalling their

90s heyday Ryder says: “Me and Bez used to drop acid and sit

in a fi eld with the cows. We’d think we was Red Indians and try

and ride cows.” Only in Salford.

● Pop Voodoo by Black Grape is

reviewed on page 91.

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