Happy Mondays and Black Grape frontman Shaun Ryder is publishing a new memoir and will personally sign every copy.

“I’ve done more books now, I think, than Shakespeare, sort of,” said Ryder, announcing the release of 24 Hour Party Person .

In the book, Ryder moves from his hedonistic Mondays era – recalling taking crack cocaine for the first time in New York while on tour – to his appearances on Celebrity Gogglebox alongside bandmate Bez. “Dodging bullets in Jamaica, surviving a gunpoint ordeal in New York and escaping kidnap in Amsterdam” are among the stories to appear in the memoir, according to publisher A Way With Media.

“I had a right laugh writing my first book, and people liked it, so when the chance to write another came up, I thought ‘why not?’” said Ryder.…