Shaun Ryder confirms live concert date at The Village in Dublin on December 10th 2011!

Legendary mancunian frontman, well known for leading Black Grape and Happy Mondays into the spotlight – Shaun Ryder, has officially confirmed a new string of live tour dates entitled ‘The Up Close & Personal Tour’. Shaun Ryder has announced that he will be performing live at The Village of Wexford Street in Dublin on Saturday the 10^th of December 2011. Tickets for this live concert date are priced from €25 and are on sale now through Ticketmaster and usual outlets nationwide. Click here to buy tickets.

Once compared to WB Yeats by the late great Tony Wilson, the legendary Madchester icon Shaun Ryder returns with his new band to play a career-spanning set, including hits from his former bands, Happy Mondays and Black Grape.

Shaun Ryder, singer, lyricist, actor, author, hedonist, father, television personality and occasional newspaper columnist is a renaissance man for people who skipped the renaissance to continue the party. As the frontman for the legendary Happy Mondays & Black Grape Shaun Ryder was the poster boy for rock & roll excess in the late ’80s and early ’90s. As the outspoken and brutally honest  leader of the Madchester scene, Ryder was voted most likely to become an international star as well as the next rock & roll casualty in pre-Brit-pop Great Britain. Thankfully Mr Ryder has survived to tell the tale and arrives in Dublin battle-scarred but still a potent and mercurial live force.

Shaun Ryder was born in Manchester, England, on August 23, 1962. In 1982, Ryder formed the Happy Mondays, drawing upon ’60s psychedelia, ’70s funk, and ’80s house music. The group released its John Cale-produced debut LP, Squirrel and G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party People Plastic Face Cant Smile (White Out), in 1987 but it wasn’t until the appearance of their second album Bummed, produced by Martin Hannett that the Mondays were thrown fully into the spotlight as the leaders of a truly decadent musical movement in the UK. Ryder’s sleazy, rap-influenced vocal style was more punk than funk, reflecting the street talk of club-hopping Manchester youths and connected with disaffected working class youth in a way that no movement had since the advent of punk rock.

Pills ‘n’ Thrills and Bellyaches was released in 1991 and featured the now legendary singles Step On & Kinky Afro and went on to sell 350,000 copies in the UK.  Co-produced by Paul Oakenfold (emphasising their direct connection to the UK dance scene) Pills ‘n’ Thrills was the apex of the Mondays success with their follow-up album Yes Please! a relative critical and commercial failure and heralded the end of The Happy Mondays phase one.

In 1993, Shaun Ryder formed Black Grape, further developing the Happy Mondays’ party-all-the-time sound with a greater emphasis on rap and funk. Black Grape’s first album, 1995′s It’s Great When You’re Straight…Yeah, debuted at number one in England.

Shaun Ryder has subsequently stayed in the spotlight via occasional Happy Mondays reformations, a column in the Daily Sport, an appearance on I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here (runner-up),  a voice actor for Grand Theft Auto and most recently collaborated on a biography of his life. But Ryder has fully committed to his solo career and will be performing new Shaun William Ryder material in addition to the Mondays and Black Grape classics that helped to define a generation.

Don’t miss Shaun Ryder when he performs live at The Village of Wexford Street in Dublin on December 10^th 2011.

If this is your first time visiting Music Scene, why not become a fan of our Facebook and Twitter pages through the icons at the top of the page. Also, check out some of our great competitions by clicking here!