Name: Orange Head
Brand: Black Grape

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

DGAFF1LPC2

Colour

Purple

Colour details

Black and Grape Coloured Vinyl.

Discogs ID

[r29525011]

Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: Yes

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

Double LP with Three Extra Tracks and Signed Print.

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2024-01-19

Signed copies

Signed copies: Yes

Supplier GB

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

5053760108993

Total Cap

Purple LPx2 | Signed Copy | Rough Trade Exclusive

DGAFF1LPC1

Orange

Orange and Black

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Bonus LP with Three Extra Tracks.

Signed copies: No

5053760105008

Orange LPx2

DGAFF1CDX

Deluxe CD with Three Extra Tracks.

5053760109303

DGAFF1LP

Black

Extended format: No

Standard LP

5053760104995

Black LP

DGAFF1CD

Standard CD

5053760104988

Artist

Black Grape

Genre GB

Alternative / Modern

Label GB

DGAFF Records

Vinyl variants, bonus material and signed editions exclusively available from Rough Trade.

Black Grape was formed in 1993 by vocalist/bandleader Shaun Ryder and dancer Bez of Happy Mondays. They added Kermit and Ged Lynch from Ruthless Rap Assassins, as well as guitarist Paul Wagstaff from Paris Angels. The sound was brought together by producer Danny Saber from Los Angeles. Black Grape's music fused the drugged-out baggy attitude of the Happy Mondays with a denser, brighter electronic and hip hop production style. Their debut album was described as "the party Prince was describing in the song '1999'."

Newest Listed Items

The return of Black Grape with an essential new platter. 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. Both Shaun Ryder and Paul Leveridge, known as Kermit, came from edgy-but-cool parts of the city. In Shaun’s case Salford, with Kermit originating from Moss Side. For those unfamiliar, ‘the Moss’ lay in the shadow of Manchester City’s old stadium at Maine Road, and was one of the first multi-ethnic areas in Manchester.

Black Grape are widely regarded as one of the most innovative and iconic bands of the last twenty five years. 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. &nbsp;

Ryder has grown from a wild young tearaway into a British National Treasure. Black Grape always were a grimily cosmic musical jigsaw, melding rock, hip-hop, acid house, psychedelic pop and reggae with Ryder’s gutter poetry, delivered in his inimitable shyster’s bark. &nbsp;

Orange Head

Music GB

Discover Orange Head by Black Grape. Limited edition CD and LP formats available. Signed copies. Released by DGAFF Records. Innovative and iconic band from Manchester.