Whatever happened to Shaun Ryder? -Mondays

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Just wondering if anyone has kept up with Shaun Ryder? My collection follows: Happy Mondays, Heads, Black Grape, Mondays Reunion, Russel Watson-Barcelona,& Amateur Night at the Big Top. Anything missing? I saw there was something new with Drug Smugglaz or something like that, but I don't know if he actually does vocals.

― happylemoncarpets (happylemoncarpets), Monday, 22 March 2004 02:59 (twenty-two years ago)

there was a very sad documentary about him on BBC3 a few weeks ago. For about the last fivce years he has made no money at all beacuse after dumping his managers about five years ago they sued him and won and he now owes them a load of cash (about 250,000 pounds if i remember) so every penny he makes from gigs, dj slots, royalties, etc.. go es to them. therefore he is completely broke and living in a little terraced house somewhere in the north of england surviving on borrowed money from his friends. There is not much point in him releasing records until he's got his legal stuff sorted out or all the money goes to his former managers. A pretty sad story really - the only option (cave for winning his legal case, which seemed pretty unlikely from the doc) is bankrupcy, but the problem with that is that he would lose all of his royalty rights - for obvious reasons his main source of income.

Healthwise he was pretty bad - eating a pack of remmies every day to cope with heartburn - but certianly not a complete drug casualty. The heartwarmign part of the story is that he lives next door to bez, who seemeed to me to be in much worse health than sean...

― Robin Goad (rgoad), Monday, 22 March 2004 09:25 (twenty-two years ago)

To be honest, it's a victory that he's still here. He'll never go totally without, I suspect, because there will always be someone who remembers. Maybe this lawsuit-instigated poverty is God's way of reducing his drug intake, and in a strange way, amount to a blessing in disguise.

― Bunged Out (Jake Proudlock), Monday, 22 March 2004 10:24 (twenty-two years ago)

is there a website for donating to Sean? i would be tempted! but it's a bit like Nick Cotton. Dot wanted to help him but was too scared he's waste it on drugs.

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 22 March 2004 10:46 (twenty-two years ago)

The heartwarmign part of the story is that he lives next door to bez, who seemeed to me to be in much worse health than sean...

This is heartwarming? You mean you put one recovering drug addict who has ruined his life, health and career next to another recovering drug addict who has ruined his life, health and career - and not just any recovering drug addict who has ruined his life, health and career but the same recovering drug addict who has ruined his life, health and career who was ruining his life, health and career in tandem with you when you were ruining your life, health and career. You see what I'm driving at?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 22 March 2004 11:33 (twenty-two years ago)

i lost you during the second sentence

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 22 March 2004 11:35 (twenty-two years ago)

i think he meant it was heart-warming that they're still mates and live next door to each other. regardless of their drug-addled conditions this is just LOVELY and a sitcom surely beckons ('Dungurnin'?)

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 22 March 2004 11:36 (twenty-two years ago)

You must be on drugs - or maybe I am

― Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 22 March 2004 11:37 (twenty-two years ago)

...or Dunsnortin, Dunshootin etc etc

― Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 22 March 2004 11:37 (twenty-two years ago)

...or Dunsnortin, Dunshootin, Dunpoppin etc etc

― Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 22 March 2004 11:37 (twenty-two years ago)

They're living in Glossop iirc, he's been djing at that indie night thta's started at Turnmills too

― chris (chris), Monday, 22 March 2004 11:51 (twenty-two years ago)

the album he put out last year, Amateur Night at the Big Top, was dire

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Monday, 22 March 2004 12:44 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, i meant it was heartwarming that they are still mates.

according to the programme he was off all drugs execpt ganja, and booze. he spent a lot of time eating smoothies.

― Robin Goad (rgoad), Monday, 22 March 2004 12:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know about that. I saw a newspaper article about him recently, and he took some drugs before a dj slot. Small scale though, compared to his prodigious consumption of the past.

― Bunged Out (Jake Proudlock), Monday, 22 March 2004 13:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know if I feel sorry for the guy or not. He wasted his own money on drugs and bad decisions, he got to travel the world and perform and basically get pissed for a living.
But of course, I partly feel bad about his situation -- for him as a human being and as a formerly (?) great performer.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Monday, 22 March 2004 14:24 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, i meant it was heartwarming that they are still mates

Sean: Ya know what, you're my besht fookin' mate, Besh.
Bez: No, you're my besht mate in the whole f-f-f-fookin' world.
Sean: Who are you again?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 22 March 2004 14:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry should read Shaun - I must lay off the booze and ganja and stick to the Rennies in future

― Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 22 March 2004 14:44 (twenty-two years ago)

three years pass...

TS madchester genius vs spanner who yelled over good music

― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 11 January 2008 23:41 (eighteen years ago)

^ban

― wanko ergo sum, Friday, 11 January 2008 23:50 (eighteen years ago)

for genius or spanner?

― Autumn Almanac, Saturday, 12 January 2008 00:08 (eighteen years ago)

yes ban shaun ryder

― J0hn D., Saturday, 12 January 2008 01:08 (eighteen years ago)

there is no off position on the genius spanner

― energy flash gordon, Saturday, 12 January 2008 01:20 (eighteen years ago)

ok there is really, Shaun found it before the second Black Grape album

― energy flash gordon, Saturday, 12 January 2008 01:20 (eighteen years ago)

"TS madchester genius vs spanner who yelled over good music"

i have yet to find the good music part! i'm still looking though. spent a little time on youtube. didn't find it. i'll go back though.

― scott seward, Saturday, 12 January 2008 01:24 (eighteen years ago)

God's Cop

― Autumn Almanac, Saturday, 12 January 2008 02:00 (eighteen years ago)

scott there is a song by Happy Mondays called "kuff dam" on the Young Popular & Sexy compilation (Fac 151? if I am right about that please kill me) which will persuade you that they were at one point a truly fucking awesome band

― J0hn D., Saturday, 12 January 2008 02:01 (eighteen years ago)

were they completely different then? to what they became.

― scott seward, Saturday, 12 January 2008 02:02 (eighteen years ago)

As much as I like Wrote For Luck, Kinky Afro etc I think the 1st album is my favourite.

― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 12 January 2008 02:12 (eighteen years ago)

i agree. in fact the first two 12" are probably my fave mondays by far, as much as i love bummed

― electricsound, Saturday, 12 January 2008 02:18 (eighteen years ago)

two years pass...

http://www.3am.co.uk/upload/image/592x0/c6a2ea75-422a-4e71-baf5-0f62782a0a2f.jpg

― Home Taping Is Killing Muzak (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 23:17 (sixteen years ago)

― Mark G, Friday, 12 March 2010 09:30 (sixteen years ago)

― woof, Friday, 12 March 2010 09:47 (sixteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1338370/Shaun-Ryder-blamed-bad-memory-hard-living--fact-dodgy-thyroid.html

Crazy. I guess he's doing well after all. More power to him

― frogbs, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 20:52 (fifteen years ago)

four years pass...

this is good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FP4u0pWM0QE

― i;m thinking about thos Beans (Michael B), Tuesday, 9 February 2016 16:47 (ten years ago)

His new teeth are as disconcerting as Shane Macgowan's
http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-ash2/41607_2359188193_3658_n.jpg

― mahb, Tuesday, 9 February 2016 17:07 (ten years ago)

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