Bunce Book Reviews

Up To Me Nuts In Crack: The Shaun Ryder Story '91 to '99

From Jet Setting Pop Star to Nappy Wearing Dribble wreck

Ghost Written By Sister Wendy

04 September 2003

For the best part of twenty years Shaun Ryder has been entertaining us with his drug addled capers. In between he has released some music that has sold in sufficient numbers to enable him to fund his lovely anti-social antics.

In a shameless attempt to cash in before he becomes too incoherent to be understood, he has sat down with Sister Wendy Beckett to record for posterity (and profit) the highlights of his life whilst hopelessly addicted to crack cocaine. Sister Wendy has controversially tried to keep the readers engaged on a higher plane by recording his thoughts phonetically.

An extract follows:

"I was owt ofid maaarn... I mean like I was upferit but I was fuckin owdofid mannnn. Four rocks of crack before breakfast and I wazzup for owt! So, me an' Bez woz of to Spearmint Stringfellows titty bar... I paid these two right goers with huge fat sacks to give us a private dance maannn. It was smart an' we were owt the back man, we were bangin' em man, up the twat an' everyfing.. I might've sucked Bez's purple pole at one time coz I remember 'im whacking uz maann.. but I didn't feel it or nuffink coz I wazzzz owdoffid maaannnnn!"

As can be seen, Sister Wendy has captured the very essence of the Man in this short description of a trip Mr.Ryder made with his best friend to a gentlemens 'American Style' dancing club. The whole book is packed with insightful witty recollections just like this and keeps the reader totally engrossed as he glides effortlessly from one dazzling display of social grace to another.

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Review by Quentin Davies-Cheswick.