Maccer

Background

Maccer is the lead singer of the Gurning Chimps, a British band from Manchester on its first tour of the United States in 1992. He is managed by Kent Paul and has a long history of hard partying.

He is notorious for hard partying and breaking musical taboos, and his excesses have left him with a stutter and some unusual habits. The Gurning Chimps are known for a style the game calls extremely baggy.

Events of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

Maccer appears in Don Peyote, after he and Paul go missing in the desert on a drug-fuelled trip arranged with The Truth. CJ finds them cornered by locals and gets them out, but the rest of the band is gone. Maccer and Paul then turn up in Las Venturas, where they hang around Caligula's Palace with Ken Rosenberg. Maccer later becomes part of the group supporting Madd Dogg's comeback.

After the desert rescue, Maccer stays close to Paul, following him into Ken Rosenberg's circle at Caligula's Palace. In Vertical Bird he is in Madd Dogg's studio with Paul when Toreno interrupts. In Riot he is at Madd Dogg's mansion watching the news of Tenpenny's trial with CJ and his friends.

Personality

Maccer is chaotic, cheerful and barely in control of his own impulses, with a stutter and a running joke about compulsive habits that Paul tries and fails to stop.

Paul's attempts to make him behave usually make things worse. Even so, Maccer is good-natured, and CJ treats him with amused tolerance.

Relationships

Kent Paul is his manager and constant companion. He is on friendly terms with CJ and Ken Rosenberg.

He is one of several music-industry figures who end up around Madd Dogg at the end of the game.

Trivia

• Maccer is voiced by Shaun Ryder, the singer of Happy Mondays.
• His arrival from Manchester can be heard on the West Coast Talk Radio station.
• The rest of the Gurning Chimps disappear in the desert and are never found.
• Paul's efforts to cure Maccer's habits are a running joke in their scenes.