Ride
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Audio interviews
Interview by Jim Sullivan, Boston Rock/Talk, 3 October 2015
Andy Bell and Mark Gardener talk about why they've reunited; explore the nature of noise, abstraction and the blend of guitars; being back on tour, and singing songs written in their teens at 40. Oh, and they play, unplugged, a couple of tunes!
File format: mp3; file size: 38.2mb, interview length: 41' 11" sound quality: *****
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Review by Alfred Soto, Spin, 15 June 2017
Ride's disappointing comeback album lacks the things that made them great. ...
Forever Now: Ride/Slowdive: Academy, Manchester
Live Review by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 9 March 1991
RIDE, perhaps, are just too much. Too soon, too quick, too assured, too contemporary, too praised, too openly derivative to even be insulted by being ...
Ride: A journey that's really necessary
Interview by Caitlin Moran, The Times, 22 April 1994
Ride were a hit, then they weren't, now they are again. No wonder Caitlin Moran still can't work out why she loves them so much. ...
Interview by Cathi Unsworth, Sounds, 22 December 1990
At the beginning of the year, RIDE were almost unheard of but a series of brilliant records and an old fashioned slog around the country has ...
Ride: Riding The Crest Of A Wave
Interview by Cathi Unsworth, Sounds, 16 March 1991
After a year as top indie kids, RIDE have crossed into the mainstream and are now steaming into the Top 20 and selling-out all their gigs. ...
We Can Be Zeroes: Ride: Going Blank Again (Creation)
Review by Chris Roberts, Melody Maker, 29 February 1992
AND YOU THOUGHT Nowhere was one of the worst album titles of all time! You almost have to hand it to them for having the ...
Interview by Chris Roberts, Melody Maker, 31 March 1990
Three months ago, no one had heard of Ride, yet now they're fast becoming the most sought-after band in Britain, providing positive proof that music ...
Review by Chris Roberts, Melody Maker, 6 October 1990
BEFORE WE start, one thing: 'Dreams Burn Down', eh? What a stormer! Breathtaking, sickening, walls collapsing all around you and oh look the gazelles are ...
Review by David Cavanagh, Select, April 1992
WHOO-EE. Really, you shouldn't have. As a gift to the world, Going Blank Again is a fully- fledged wow, a winner, a stunna, a glory ...
Blank Re-Generation: Ride: Corn Exchange, Cambridge
Live Review by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 14 March 1992
YOU KNOW the future has arrived early when Ride make mincemeat of the whole sorry teen-pop equation. ...
Field Day: Victoria Park, London — an embarrassment of riches
Report by Dorian Lynskey, The Guardian, 8 June 2015
The festival market grows ever more crowded, but east London's clued-up shindig keeps getting it right, with FKA twigs, Patti Smith, Ride and many more ...
Guide by Ira Robbins, trouserpress.com, 2007
INSPIRED BY THE Manchester rave scene, Oxford-to-London art-school quartet Ride – Mark Gardener (vocals/rhythm guitar), Andy Bell (vocals/lead guitar), Steve Queralt (bass) and Laurence 'Loz' ...
Live Review by John Harris, Sounds, 26 May 1990
THE TOWN Hall, a venue that usually forms the setting for nothing more exciting than tea dances and antique fairs, hasn't played host to amplified ...
Creation Records: Rehabsolutely Fabulous
Interview by John Harris, Ted Kessler, New Musical Express, 9 June 1994
A decade on from its inception, Creation rules the British rock underground. The 'Undrugged' party at the Royal Albert Hall, and the random singing of ...
Lush: Spooky (4AD/Reprise); Ride: Going Blank Again (Reprise)
Review by Jon Young, Musician, June 1992
VISIONARY ART or nouvelle junk food? Perfect masters of evocative soundscapes, Britain's Lush and Ride can create a mood quicker than you can dim the ...
Retrospective and Interview by Jude Rogers, The Guardian, 27 July 2007
AT THE START of summer 2007 a supple, shimmery thread started darning itself through a long line of euphoric-sounding albums. From Maps to Blonde Redhead, ...
Review by Keith Cameron, Vox, April 1992
GROWING UP in public is the unhappy lot of any semi-competent British indie band and, as probably the most able floppy-fringed wan-faced contenders of the ...
In The Land of The Riding Sons: Ride: Boardwalk, Manchester
Review and Interview by Len Brown, New Musical Express, 10 March 1990
"TALLULAH GOSH and some bloke from Supertramp" — this is the grim musical history of Oxford according to Ride. ...
Eight-legged Snooze Machine: Ride: Tarantula (Creation)
Review by Neil Kulkarni, Melody Maker, 9 March 1996
Who will mourn RIDE, now gone the way of all flesh? Not NEIL 'Bites Yer Legs' KULKARNI, that's for sure ...
Interview by Paul Lester, Rock CD, November 1992
BOYS AND GIRLS. Musos and teenies. Schoolkids and scholars. Indie-bods and bank clerks. At the start of 1992, Ride attracted them all. ...
Ride: Tarantula (Creation/All formats/Available for one week only)
Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 2 March 1996
FOR WHOM THE BELL TOILS ...
Live Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 4 June 1994
RIDE STRIPPED BARE ...
"Dream-Pop" Bands Define the Times in Britain
Report and Interview by Simon Reynolds, The New York Times, 1 December 1991
THIS YEAR, THE most popular phenomenon in British alternative rock is a wave of hazy neo-psychedelic guitar groups. ...
Ride: Sex And The Singles Band
Interview by Stuart Maconie, New Musical Express, 8 February 1992
They are the model '90s pop group; sensitive young men with floppy hair and languid tunes, displaying cherubic belligerence laced with existential angst. But surely ...
Alan Moulder: Alan Be Praised!
Interview by Tom Doyle, Melody Maker, 18 April 1992
As the man behind Curve, Ride, the Valentines, JAMC and more, producer ALAN MOULDER doesn't seem to be able to put a button-pushing finger wrong. ...
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