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Amateur Night in the Big Top
Amateur Night in the Big Top is the first And only official solo album by Shaun Ryder, of Happy Mondays and Black Grape. The album is subtitled "Clowns and Pet Sounds". It was released in September 2003 and co-produced by Pete Carroll, Shane Norton and Cabaret Voltaire's Stephen Mallinder. It was recorded in Perth, Australia and released on the Offworld Sounds record label run by Ryder's cousin Pete Carroll and Mallinder. 
Carroll also founded littleBIGMAN records with Happy Mondays
he performed Paramore's "Decode". He was one of the top five male vote getters and advanced into the Top 13.
Guest performer on the Top 13 Results night and runner-up of "American Idol" season 10 Lauren Alaina named Dixon and fellow contestant Jessica Sanchez as her two favorites to win the competition. His elimination on April 19, 2012, was considered a big surprise because he had never been in the bottom three. After the show, judge Steven Tyler said that he was "beyond shocked