The Paul Ryder Tapes - Sex, Drugs, the Mondays and Me

On this award-winning podcast where Happy Mondays founding member Paul Ryder tells his complete life story to his ex-wife journalist Angela Smith, this bonus episode features the most requested interviewee from the main series - Tuff Gong Studios owner Lee "Latch" Parker. As well as being an enthusiastic participant of the Madchester rave scene, he was there when the Mondays famously reformed with...

On this award-winning series that tells the complete life story of the legendary founding member and bass player of Manchester legends Happy Mondays, Paul Ryder, this bonus episode features an extended interview with the Manchester icon, former Mondays roadie and Stone Roses Vibesmeister - Cressa. Cressa was with Paul through the brightest and darkest of times and shares his often harrowing memori...

The legendary International DJ, Remixer and Producer Paul Oakenfold is the special guest in this bonus episode - how Indie Dance was born, the recording of Pills and Thrills in Los Angeles and when everything went sour due to a thief in the ranks. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The legend that is Mani is the star of this bonus episode where he opens up about trying to trick the BBC when the Mondays and the Roses both did Top of the Pops and describes the close camaraderie between Manchester's finest musicians. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Another special bonus episode featuring an interview that will make you laugh as well as cry - Lee Deavall (producer/remixer for Atomic Kitten and Nigel Kennedy) and Himat Singh (producer and percussionist with MVITA) both worked with Paul after Himat met him on a music production course in 1999. As well as writing tracks about assassins and ram raiders with Paul, they experienced the benevolent a...

This special bonus episode features an extended interview with Happy Mondays drummer Gaz Whelan., talking about Paul's struggles with heroin, fights with Shaun and how his quirky sense of humor bonded the two of them. Paul also makes a ghostly appearance, sending shivers down Gaz's spine! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Paul's US writing collaborator Matt Cheadle talks about the writing process, shares two previously unreleased songs they wrote together and talks about touring with the Tom Tom Club on the West coast of the US in this special bonus episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

An explosive interview with one of Paul's best friends Jason Godwin, who shared in Paul's addiction struggles and talks with openness and honesty about the dark times: Paul wrecking cars in France, going to Paris to buy drugs and Paul's reaction when he found out his son had cancer as well as an eerie premonition about the music to be played at his own funeral and much much more.. Check out Angela...

On this award-winning show, this special bonus episode features the extended interview with the legend that is Bez! Shenanigans in Brazil, washing dishes in the bath and almost getting his finger bitten off whilst trying to break up a fight between Paul and Shaun and much much more! Check out Angela's other podcast, Accidentally Milf - Online Dating Adventures After 50 - the podcast that inspired...

No-one can get enough of the Rock n Roll mums! We listened to you and are bringing you the first in a series of several bonus episodes featuring Happy Mondays Paul and Shaun Ryder's mum Linda Ryder and Gaz Whelan's mum Sandra Whelan aka The Rock n Roll mums! They've been best friends for 40 years and in this special bonus edition, they talk about the early days of the band, a fight with Shaun that...

This episode has it all: the wild antics of Manchester legends Happy Mondays when they travelled to Brazil to play to 200,000 people and were dragged off by Piers Morgan to meet the great train robber Ronnie Biggs - a trip filled with white powder, ladies of the night and brushes with the law; a dramatic marriage break up car chase as host Angela finally splits with Paul after he's caught cheating...

Due to popular demand we have a special bonus episode this week featuring part one of an exclusive interview with everyone's favorite guest, Rock n Roll mum Linda Ryder - the mum of Paul and Shaun Ryder, giving her perspective on her sons' fame and notoriety. She's charming, witty, down to earth and has a wicked sense of humour! Hear about how she coped with Paul's struggles with addiction, how he...

This award-winning show charts the life of the late Paul Ryder - founding member and bass player of Madchester legends Happy Mondays - as he tells his story to his ex-wife, journalist Angela Smith. This week we have a bonus episode to celebrate the re-release of Paul Ryder's Big Arm album - Radiator - 16 years exactly since its original release. We hear from all of the Big Arm members including Pe...

In this award-winning podcast that has topped the charts in both the UK and Ireland, Paul Ryder, founding member and bass player of Manchester indie dance music legends Happy Mondays opens up to his ex-wife to tell his complete life story - a tale of classic rock n roll excess and a tragic fall from grace before once again rising up to beat his demons. He details the highs of rock n roll success a...

On this award-winning show, bass legend and founding member of Happy Mondays, Paul Ryder tells his complete life story with at times shocking and disarming honesty. In this episode, his son is diagnosed with cancer at age 10 and given a grim prognosis, so Paul and his wife turn to desperate and potentially illegal methods to save their son. Mani from The Stone Roses and Primal Scream along with Ne...

On this award-winning show charting the dramatic life story of Happy Mondays founding member and bass player Paul Ryder - interviewed by his ex-wife journalist Angela Smith - the Mondays, just having reformed in 2012 with the original line-up, are playing together for the first time in 17 years. Newly clean and sober Paul fights to keep his sobriety in the face of untold stress as his youngest son...

On this award-winning podcast, Paul settles into life in Los Angeles and holds a party with an array of celebrity guests including Stephen Marcus, the actor who played the role of Nick the Greek in Lock, Stock and two Smoking Barrels, a Sex Pistol, a member of Bananarama, Spear of Destiny drummer Dolph Taylor and Kate Winslett's psychic. Then Paul hears about an article in The Sun claiming that Ha...

On this award-winning show, Happy Mondays founding member and bass player Paul Ryder tells his unfiltered life story to his ex-wife Angela. In this episode he meets his childhood hero David Bowie and has a chance encounter in a bar with Mickey Rourke. He travels to Sweden to educate people on a controversial detox method and his mum Linda tells of how she almost became a Hollywood celebrity. Happy...

Paul watches helplessly as his chateau burns down, then rummages through the ashes trying to retrieve his beloved lyrics book. He travels to Prague to do a life-threatening heroin detox using a little-known substance called Ibogaine, acts in the movie 24 Hour Party People which details the rise and fall of his band Happy Mondays and goes on the Frank Sidebottom show where he duets with the one and...

In this hilarious and poignant podcast which finished recording just 12 days before Paul Ryder passed away and reached the number one position in the UK and Ireland Music Podcast charts, Paul opens up to tell his entire life story - the complete story of his time with the band he founded - Happy Mondays - detailing the triumphs as well as the terrible struggles he endured with addiction, mental he...

The Mondays have reformed but tensions between Paul and Shaun reach crisis point and lead to Paul leaving the band. He struggles with drugs and goes into a series of rehab facilities. On one relapse, he is rescued from a drug house by Robbie Williams. Paul and Angela buy a chateau in France and rush to renovate it before paying guests arrive and in the meantime, Liam Gallagher is banned from the M...

Happy Mondays reform after a 6 year hiatus and Paul, fresh from a nervous breakdown and heroin addiction is worried. He enlists his friend, Dave, to accompany him on the tour to keep him on the straight and narrow but things go awry when Dave is mysteriously summoned home by his wife. Backstage food fights, kegs of beer onstage and an encounter with Marilyn Manson follow in yet another madcap epis...

On this dramatic episode, the Mondays miss out on a lucrative record deal after Factory goes bust and Shaun is hours late for a showcase. Paul descends further into heroin addiction and gets sectioned after suffering a nervous breakdown. Check out Angela's other podcast, Accidentally Milf - Online Dating Adventures After 50 - the podcast that inspired this one! Please support The Paul Ryder Tapes...

Paul's heroin use switches to crack as the band go to Barbados to record their fourth album with Chris Franz and Tina Weymouth from Talking Heads, Rowetta leaves but quickly rejoins the band, Paul makes his most devastating confession yet and Linda and Sandra get a shock at a hotel when they suspect an orgy is going on in the room next door! Check out Angela's other podcast, Accidentally Milf - On...

Happy Mondays go awol for three days as the director of the Step On video waits for them in Barcelona, Paul's dad Derek gets in big trouble with mum Linda after their big show at Wembley Arena, The Stone Roses dancer Cressa has to make a painful choice and Paul takes heroin for the first time as his short-lived marriage crumbles. Check out Angela's other podcast, Accidentally Milf - Online Dating...