SHAUN RYDER

minute is to get the girls out and try and do things with them.

“It just seems like years ago I used to deal with things by getting off my face – now I’m thinking, ‘Why did I do that when it’s so easy not to?’”

Shaun also retains a keen interest in UFOs but is sure we have nothing to fear.

“If we had owt to be scared about from invaders from the stuff I’ve seen in the sky, we’d have been slaved up and working in the fields a long time ago.

“The whole history of this stuff, the powers that be won’t tell us. It’s like we say [on the new album] Everything You Know is Wrong.”

Black Grape’s Pop Voodoo is released on August 4.

The San Fernando Valley sisters have been road hardened since the release of their Days Are Gone 2013 debut. But their brand of anaemic harmony pop has been polished to a sheen that allows for little grit, tension or emotional heft. Whether delivering the incessantly prepped Little Of Your Love or the airy bump and grind of Kept Me Crying, their songwriting is supremely ineffectual. Claims they are the new Fleetwood Mac don’t even deserve rumour status.