Image by Paul Husband.
Black Grape return this year with a new album ‘Orange Head’, which will be released on DGAFF Recordings on 3rd November.
The album arrives ahead of a small UK tour, with Shaun Ryder and Paul “Kermit” Leveridge and the band due to headline venues in Birmingham, Manchester, Cardiff, London, and Southampton this November/December, alongside a festival appearance at the Shiiine On Weekender.
Black Grape could only have been made in Manchester. The swagger, fun and cryptic humour seem hewn from a city historian AJP Taylor once described as offering an archetypally different way of English urban life to London.
Black Grape have had 4 Top 10 singles and their debut album ‘It’s Great When You’re Straight… Yeah’ shot straight to No.1 in the UK charts upon its release in 1995 and went Platinum. Follow up album ‘Stupid Stupid Stupid’ went Gold in 1997.
They have spent 2021/22 playing festivals and will be playing live again this Autumn with a new UK Tour.
17th November – Shiiine On Weekender
23rd November – The Mill – Birmingham
24th November – Albert Hall – Manchester
30th November – Tramshed – Cardiff
1st December – Electric Ballroom – London
2nd December – Engine Rooms – Southampton
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