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

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

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Legendary founding member and bass player of Happy Mondays, Paul Ryder, who sadly passed away in July 2022, recorded a tell-all podcast series with his ex-wife, journalist Angela Smith, in the months leading up to his death. The resulting series, The Paul Ryder Tapes - Sex, Drugs, the Mondays and Me is his legacy. Hear the whole truth about the band and his life with no stone unturned - addiction, family feuds, mental breakdowns, infidelity and his son's cancer diagnosis are all discussed in depth, along with some hilarious anecdotes about life as an unconventional rock n roll star. Joining him are some of the people he rubbed shoulders with, such as Paul Oakenfold, Mani from The Stone Roses, Peter Hook, fellow band members Bez, Rowetta, Gaz and Mark and even his mum makes an appearance. Poignant, gripping and massively entertaining. Launching July 15th, available weekly.

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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 her husband Derek used to be fashion forward, her attitude to the lies peddled in the press, meeting the Sex Pistols, and how the they all coped when the band first broke up. Next week is the grande finale of the main series with the final interview with Paul - recorded just 12 days before he passed away.


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 by becoming a patron at Patreon.com/thepaulrydertapes


If you'd like to rent Paul's Normandy chateau that's featured in the series, (where he recorded the Big Arm album), email [email protected] for a big discount on the airbnb price! Check it out on airbnb at www.francechateauforrent.com


Visit the main website at paulryder.tv for links to our socials and please give us a review if you've not already done so!


Thanks so much for being a part of the series!



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The Paul Ryder Tapes - Sex, Drugs, the Mondays and Me - Bonus Episode 1 - Big Arm: When Ian Brown got mad,  dragging Paul out of a drug house and trouble in Berlin
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11/19/23 • 43 min

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 Pete Smith, Danny Short, Daz Gilkinson, Lea Mullen and Chris Connelly aka Double Pudding and Chips. Pete talks about pulling Paul out of a drug house, Danny shares a story about mimicking Ian Brown while the band were on tour with him and Daz talks of a celebrity encounter he'd rather forget. Lea reminisces about touring with Paul during their time with the Mondays and Double Pudding drives the band's gear to a gig in Berlin with Paul's dad Derek. The album is out today - Paul Ryder's Big Arm - Radiator - so get yourself a copy!


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 by becoming a patron at Patreon.com/thepaulrydertapes


If you'd like to rent Paul's Normandy chateau that's featured in the series, (where he recorded the Big Arm album), email [email protected] for a big discount on the airbnb price! Check it out on airbnb at www.francechateauforrent.com


Visit the main website at paulryder.tv for links to our socials and please give us a review if you've not already done so!


To see all of the podcast episodes on video go to our YouTube channel at

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgdRdtMEzwjBW8ZE3uc8FBQ

Join our Sunday club where at 8pm UK time Angela and Paul's youngest son Chico are live in the chat!


Thanks so much for being a part of the series!



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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 at the highest level and the lows of drug addiction, sex addiction, mental breakdowns and having a child with cancer, all told with a disarming level of honesty and underpinned with his understated sense of humour. Guests this week include Mara Gordon - International Cannabis Expert, Gaz Whelan - Happy Mondays drummer as well as Linda Ryder - mum of Paul and Shaun Ryder and Sandra Whelan - mum of Gaz Whelan, Happy Mondays video director Phil Shotton, Club Promotor Tyler Jacobson and Paul's son Chico Ryder.


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 by becoming a patron at Patreon.com/thepaulrydertapes


If you'd like to rent Paul's Normandy chateau that's featured in the series, (where he recorded the Big Arm album), email [email protected] for a big discount on the airbnb price! Check it out on airbnb at www.francechateauforrent.com


Visit the main website at paulryder.tv for links to our socials and please give us a review if you've not already done so!


Thanks so much for being a part of the series!



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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 New Order and Joy Division's Peter Hook and Inspiral Carpets' Clint Boon rally round to help raise money for Paul's son and Ricki Lake asks a favor of the family,


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 by becoming a patron at Patreon.com/thepaulrydertapes


If you'd like to rent Paul's Normandy chateau that's featured in the series, (where he recorded the Big Arm album), email [email protected] for a big discount on the airbnb price! Check it out on airbnb at www.francechateauforrent.com


Visit the main website at paulryder.tv for links to our socials and please give us a review if you've not already done so!


Thanks so much for being a part of the series!



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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 Chico is diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of cancer. Featuring special guests: Phil Saxe, John Robb, Linda Ryder, Sandra Whelan, Jason Godwin, Mark Day, Paul Davis, Gaz Whelan, Lee "Latch" Parker, Anthony "Muzzer": Murray and Chico Ryder.


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 by becoming a patron at Patreon.com/thepaulrydertapes


If you'd like to rent Paul's Normandy chateau that's featured in the series, (where he recorded the Big Arm album), email [email protected] for a big discount on the airbnb price! Check it out on airbnb at www.francechateauforrent.com


Visit the main website at paulryder.tv for links to our socials and please give us a review if you've not already done so!


Thanks so much for being a part of the series!



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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's other podcast, Accidentally Milf - Online Dating Adventures After 50 - the podcast that inspired this one!


Please support The Paul Ryder Tapes by becoming a patron at Patreon.com/thepaulrydertapes


If you'd like to rent Paul's Normandy chateau that's featured in the series, (where he recorded the Big Arm album), email [email protected] for a big discount on the airbnb price! Check it out on airbnb at www.francechateauforrent.com


Visit the main website at paulryder.tv for links to our socials and please give us a review if you've not already done so!


To see all of the podcast episodes on video go to our YouTube channel at

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgdRdtMEzwjBW8ZE3uc8FBQ

Join our Sunday club where at 8pm UK time Angela and Paul's youngest son Chico are live in the chat!


Thanks so much for being a part of the series!



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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 for the third and final time and the tragedy of Paul's sudden death and the fight that ensued that day as well as detail of Paul's celebrity-studded funeral where there was not a dry eye in the house and an audacious move by two of the guests who skipped the line for a line in the bathroom as the priest looked on! Bring your tissues for this episode.

Featuring Bez, Rowetta, Mark Day, Gaz Whelan, Peter Hook, Clint Boon, Mani from The Stone Roses, Linda Ryder, Sandra Whelan, Andy Hardy, Dave Brettell, Anthony Murray aka Muzzer and Phil Saxe.


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 by becoming a patron at Patreon.com/thepaulrydertapes


If you'd like to rent Paul's Normandy chateau that's featured in the series, (where he recorded the Big Arm album), email [email protected] for a big discount on the airbnb price! Check it out on airbnb at www.francechateauforrent.com


Visit the main website at paulryder.tv for links to our socials and please give us a review if you've not already done so!


To see all of the podcast episodes on video go to our YouTube channel at

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgdRdtMEzwjBW8ZE3uc8FBQ

Join our Sunday club where at 8pm UK time Angela and Paul's youngest son Chico are live in the chat!


Thanks so much for being a part of the series!



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The Paul Ryder Tapes - Sex, Drugs, the Mondays and Me - The Best of The Paul Ryder Tapes Part Three

The Best of The Paul Ryder Tapes Part Three

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07/22/24 • 105 min

The final part of a three part "best of" series - featuring choice cuts from The Paul Ryder Tapes series with late Happy Mondays bassist and founding member Paul Ryder and his ex-wife Angela Smith along with special guests Alan Howard, Rosemary Barratt, Sonny Ryder, Chico Ryder, Rowetta, Paul Popplewell, Jeanette Jackson, Daz Gilkinson, Danny Short, Pete Smith, Linda Ryder, Sandra Whelan, Gaz Whelan, Dolph Taylor, Alison Taylor, Steven Marcus, Sarah Nelson, Latch, Paul Davis, John Robb, Phil Saxe, Jason Godwin, Mara Gordon, Mani, Bez, Mark Day, Anthony "Muzzer" Murray, Dave Brettell, Clint Boon and Peter Hook. Hear about Happy Mondays trip to Brazil where they met Ronnie Biggs, Paul's son Chico's cancer battle, his infidelities and encounters with Mickey Rourke, George Harrison, Ringo Starr and Prince.

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The Paul Ryder Tapes - Sex, Drugs, the Mondays and Me - The Best of The Paul Ryder Tapes Part Two

The Best of The Paul Ryder Tapes Part Two

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07/08/24 • 95 min

This is part two of a three part "Best Of" series - where we treat you to the very best bits of the series. Laugh with us and cry with us as the highlights of Paul's life are re-lived - from the heady heights of success with Happy Mondays through to his drug addiction and breakdowns. Featured in this episode are Paul Ryder alongside his ex wife Angela Smith and guests Philip Shotton, Andy Hardy, Dave and Maureen Brettell, Clint Boon, Rowetta, Gaz Whelan, Linda Ryder, Sandra Whelan, Tony Wilson, Phil Saxe, Tony Michaelides, Rosemary Barratt, Alan Howard, Anthony "Muzzer" Murray, Mark Day, Paul Davis, Paul Oakenfold, Cressa, Bez, Pete Smith, Daz Gilkinson, Danny Short, Chris "double pudding" Connelly, Lea Mullen, Paul Poppelwell, Jason Godwin, John Pennington and John Robb

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The Paul Ryder Tapes - Sex, Drugs, the Mondays and Me - Episode 1 - The early madcap years in the Ryder household

Episode 1 - The early madcap years in the Ryder household

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07/14/23 • 44 min

The late Paul Ryder - founding member and bass player of Manchester legends Happy Mondays - talks candidly to his ex-wife, journalist Angela Smith, about growing up and discovering a love of music after seeing David Bowie perform on Top of the Pops when he was eight years old. We meet some surprise guests including Paul and Shaun's mum Linda - and Mondays drummer Gaz Whelan who has a spooky encounter whilst talking about Paul, who he describes as being like a brother to him. This podcast series was recorded in the months leading up to Paul's tragic death and was finished just 12 days before he passed away. The episodes - each one packed with special guests - will be released every Saturday from July 15th 2023 - the anniversary of his death.


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 by becoming a patron at Patreon.com/thepaulrydertapes


If you'd like to rent Paul's Normandy chateau that's featured in the series, (where he recorded the Big Arm album), email [email protected] for a big discount on the airbnb price! Check it out on airbnb at www.francechateauforrent.com


Visit the main website at paulryder.tv for links to our socials and please give us a review if you've not already done so!


Thanks so much for being a part of the series!



Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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The Paul Ryder Tapes - Sex, Drugs, the Mondays and Me currently has 56 episodes available.

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The podcast is about Addiction, Bass, Biography, Music, Music History, Indie, Podcasts and Music Interviews.

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The average episode length on The Paul Ryder Tapes - Sex, Drugs, the Mondays and Me is 51 minutes.

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