Get Loaded in the Dark

After a phenomenal sell-out showcase at the O2 Academy, Brixton on New Years Eve, Get Loaded in the Dark is set to return on Easter Thursday with the same intentions as those on NYE...to throw one hell of a party! Interest is brewing as to which acts will be playing Get Loaded’s next instalment, but we can assure you it will be packed full of the very best and most exciting talent around. So what better way to get started than to announce the reformation of a world famous act for their first gig in more than a decade…

In a World Exclusive, Get Loaded is bringing Shaun Ryder’s Black Grape to The Coronet for their first live performance since 1997! The band are reuniting to coincide with the release of Shaun’s greatest hits album this summer and seven years after Get Loaded successfully reformed his previous incarnation the Happy Mondays (and one year after we showcased the resurrection of Orbital), we are delighted to present another legendary comeback!

“It’s great, it’s interesting, it’s part two. I've had a break and now I’m back to do it. Danny Saber and I have a great working relationship and the time is right.”' Shaun Ryder

As one of the most successful bands to emerge from Manchester in the 1990’s, following in the footsteps of The Stone Roses, New Order and The Charlatans, Black Grape’s debut album ‘It’s Great When You’re Straight… Yeah’ charted at number one in 1995. The critical and commercial success of the album represented one of the most triumphant comebacks in rock & roll history and featured three top twenty singles including the brilliant ‘Reverend Black Grape’, ‘In the Name of the Father’ and ‘Kelly’s Heroes’, as well as the iconic pop art image of Carlos The Jackal on the album’s cover. Two further top ten singles followed in 1996 with ‘Fat Neck’ and football anthem ‘England’s Irie’ (recorded with The Clash’s Joe Strummer), resulting in the band being asked to take the headline slot of that year’s Reading Festival alongside The Stone Roses and Rage Against The Machine.

Coming to Get Loaded this Easter for their first live show in over 12 years, the return of Black Grape is sure to be an extraordinary and exhilarating experience full of wall-to-wall anthems. Make sure you get yourself a ticket as we welcome back one of the finest bands to emerge from our shores from the past 20 years.