Twisting My Melon by Shaun Ryder

Author:Shaun Ryder
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781446463178
Publisher: Bantam Press

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May was the Haçienda’s eighth birthday. The Haçi was still at its peak then, and people would kill to get into birthday parties or New Year’s Eve or whatever. They would pay £300 for a ticket from a tout. Ridiculous prices. And I had handfuls of them. I was still in that mindset where I couldn’t help but take advantage of the chance to make a bit of extra dough. I could just be standing outside the Haçi waiting for a mate or something, and people would come up to me and say, ‘Shaun, have you got any tickets? Can you sell us a ticket please?!?’ They’d offer me £300 for a ticket that I was probably just going to give away to a mate, and then someone else would see that going on, and go, ‘’Ere, have you got another one, Shaun?’ There were times when I’d literally just go outside the club for a bit of fresh air for five minutes and come back in with an extra couple of grand in my pocket.

The morning after the Haçi’s birthday we were supposed to go to Paris to do some TV show, but I didn’t get out of bed. I think we ended up telling people that I’d done ecstasy for the first time for quite a while and when Bez came round to get me the next day I was still too wasted. But the truth is more likely to be that I didn’t have any heroin, and I wasn’t going anywhere until I got some. If the gear wasn’t there, I wasn’t getting on a plane.

As much as we would listen to the new sounds and acid house when we went out at that time, we were still listening to old classics at home and on the tour bus. Remember we were born in the early 60s, so we were young kids when all the late 60s music first came out and it had stuck with us. We had always loved Donovan and decided to go and see him when we heard he was playing Colne, which is about forty-five minutes’ drive north of Manchester. To me and Bez, Donovan was as cool as Dylan; he’d written some brilliant songs.

A lot of people don’t realize who played on all those songs as well. When I got to know him later, I’d be like, ‘Who played bass on that?’ and it would be Noel Redding from the Jimi Hendrix Experience or someone like that. He would just write these numbers like ‘Sunshine Superman’ on his acoustic guitar and Noel Redding would come round and drop a bass line on it, just go ‘Bum, bum, bum-bum-bum-bum’ and then just get off. No fee, no publishing or anything on it; Donovan would get the lot. People like Noel Redding had just given these great bass lines away back then, whereas I had Our Kid saying, ‘I wrote the bass line on that. I want seventy per cent of that tune!’

Anyway,

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