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Ride is an English
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band formed in
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in 1988. The band consists of vocalists and guitarists Andy Bell and
Mark Gardener Mark Stephen Gardener (born 6 December 1969, in Oxford, England) is an English rock musician, and a singer and guitarist with the shoegazing band Ride. Ride Gardener formed Ride with Andy Bell (guitar), whom he met at Cheney School in Oxfo ...
, drummer Laurence "Loz" Colbert and bassist Steve Queralt. They are recognised as one of the key pioneers of
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, an
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subgenre that emerged to prominence in the United Kingdom during the early 1990s. The band's first two albums, ''Nowhere'' (1990) and ''
Going Blank Again ''Going Blank Again'' is the second studio album by English rock band Ride, released on 9 March 1992 on Creation Records. It was produced by Alan Moulder, and peaked at No. 5 in the UK Albums Chart. In October 2009 the album was certified gold ...
'' (1992), are critically acclaimed as two of the greatest shoegaze albums of all time. The latter's lead single, "
Leave Them All Behind "Leave Them All Behind" is a song by the British rock band Ride. It was released on 10 February 1992 as the lead single from the band's second studio album ''Going Blank Again'', of which it is the opening track. The song's lyrics are a confiden ...
", was the band's most commercially successful song, reaching No. 9 on the
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. Both ''Going Blank Again'' and its 1994 follow-up, ''Carnival of Light'', peaked at No. 5 on the
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. Ride broke up in 1996 prior to the release of their fourth album ''Tarantula'', which received negative reviews. Bell joined
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in 1999 as their bassist. The band reunited in 2014 to tour again, and also put out the albums ''
Weather Diaries ''Weather Diaries'' is the fifth studio album by English rock band Ride. The album was released on 16 June 2017, and is the first Ride album since 1996's ''Tarantula''. The album was produced by English DJ Erol Alkan and mixed by long-time Rid ...
'' (2017) and ''
This Is Not a Safe Place ''This Is Not a Safe Place'' is the sixth studio album by English rock band Ride. The album was released on 16 August 2019, the date being announced on 23 April 2019 along with the release of the album's first single, "Future Love". The album i ...
'' (2019).


History


Starting out (1988–1989)

Andy Bell and Mark Gardener had been to
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in Oxford, appearing in the school's musical theatre productions, and in October 1988, they moved to
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to do Foundation Studies in Art & Design at North Oxfordshire College and the Oxfordshire School of Art & Design. There they met Laurence Colbert and Steve Queralt. Queralt, who also went to
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, was recruited from the local
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record shop where he worked as a singles buyer (although Bell and Queralt had already played together in an obscure reggae/pop band called "Big Spiderback"). After considering various names, the band settled for 'Ride', with its evocation of travel, and after the
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. Bell has cited a performance by
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as the inspiration for forming a band. The band formed in the summer of 1988 and played their first gig as Ride for the College's Christmas Party towards the end of the year. While still at Banbury, the band produced a demo tape, recorded in Queralt's bedroom and hallway, including the tracks "Chelsea Girl" and "Drive Blind". Queralt and his record shop boss and future Ride manager Dave Newton had started a live music night in Oxford called ''Local Support'', and it was due to a cancellation by another band that Ride got their first proper gig at one of these nights.
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of
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heard a copy of the demo that was in the possession of the DJ
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, and this led to interest from former Mary Chain manager
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. After the band supported
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in 1989, McGee signed them to his
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label.


Early Creation years (1989–1993)

Ride released three EPs between January and September 1990, entitled ''
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'', ''
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'' and ''
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''. All three EPs made it into the UK top 75, with ''Play'' and ''Fall'' reaching the top 40. ''Rides top-75 placing was a first for
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. The first two EPs were released together as ''
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'' in the USA in July 1990 (and later released in the UK in 1992), while the ''Fall'' EP was incorporated into the CD version of their first album, '' Nowhere'', released in October 1990. Bell said that the band kept putting out new material to remain fresh in listeners' minds, comparing it to the release schedules of
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and
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. The band were often labelled as part of the "shoegaze" scene, but the band rejected this, Bell stating "my first reaction was like, this is another boring tag. These days...that's pretty much still my reaction". Gardener said of the band's influences "We liked the noisy bands of the time. When we were at art college we went to see My Bloody Valentine, House of Love,
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and
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. I think these all had a lot of influence on us in the early days as they were great gigs". The band recorded two sessions for
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's
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show in 1990, and their popularity with the show's listeners saw them with three tracks in the
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that year, with "Dreams Burn Down" and "Like a Daydream" at numbers 3 and 4 respectively, and "Taste" at number 25. ''Nowhere'' was a critical and commercial success, reaching No. 11 in the UK, and the media dubbed Ride "The brightest hope" for 1991. Demand for new material was high, and the band recorded another EP, '' Today Forever'', released in March 1991. The EP marked a change in direction for the group away from the noisier early style. Ride made their first international tour to Japan, Australia and France later on that year. Tickets for the performances in Japan sold out within minutes. In February 1992 the band broke into the UK top 10 with "
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", and the following month saw the release of the band's second album ''
Going Blank Again ''Going Blank Again'' is the second studio album by English rock band Ride, released on 9 March 1992 on Creation Records. It was produced by Alan Moulder, and peaked at No. 5 in the UK Albums Chart. In October 2009 the album was certified gold ...
''. However, its followup, "
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", disappointed and barely scraped the top 40 despite extremely high expectations, and Creation stopped promoting the album as a result. The band then embarked on an ill-fated American tour. The strain within the band was already apparent, Bell stating "By the time the second album came out we were touring too much. We were tired. We then took time off, but it was too much time off".


Change in musical direction (1994–1996)

Ride were able to see out 1993 riding on the success of ''Going Blank Again'' and a third album was keenly anticipated. A double weekend of gigs with The Charlatans that year ('Daytripper') kept them in the public eye amid a wider lack of interest in the shoegazing scene. Their third album, ''
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'', was released in June 1994, at a time when
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was the focus of the music press. Produced by
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and partly engineered by
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(future
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producer) – except "How Does it Feel to Feel?" by
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producer
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– and featuring a guest appearance on keyboards from
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of
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, the album was split between songwriters Gardener and Bell, with the former's songs making up the first half of the album and the latter's the second. Not only did the album's sound eschew the band's earlier influences in favour of inspiration from
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, but the band's approach to songwriting also changed: whereas earlier material had mostly been developed by the band in jam sessions as a group, for ''Carnival of Light'' Bell and Gardener would arrive in the studio with their songs more or less fully formed. Opening with the riff-heavy "Moonlight Medicine", tracks also include "From Time to Time", "Birdman" and a cover of The Creation's "How Does It Feel to Feel?", which was released as a single. The album was not well received by critics, Bell explaining "These were good times but the music took second place. When we recorded the ''Carnival of Light'' album we got indulgent". By the end of 1994 even the band themselves were critical of the album, referring to it within the group as "''Carnival of Shite''".


The break-up (1996)

1995 saw the dissolution of the band while recording ''
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''. Gardener and Bell had led the band away from their shoegazing roots to become more contemporary, hoping to change their style with the times. Queralt has remarked that the band had two future directions open to them, and they chose the wrong option. Gardener had become interested in
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, and wanted Ride to incorporate that into their style, while Bell disagreed. The track listing of ''Carnival of Light'' gives an indication of the tension that was mounting between the two guitarists, with the first half of the album being songs written by Mark Gardener and the last half of the album being songs written by Andy Bell - Andy Bell had refused to let his songs be interspersed with pieces written by Gardener. Years later Andy Bell explained "Imagine an argument where the way you win, is by saying 'I don't want my songs on the same side of the album as yours' and it ACTUALLY HAPPENS. We were allowed by the people around us to behave like total babies." By the time ''Tarantula'' appeared, the band was beginning to self-destruct. Bell penned most of the songs while Gardener provided only one - the tension within the band leading to an inability to write meaningful musical pieces. ''Castle on the Hill'', written by Bell, was a lament for the band's situation and contains references to Gardener's self-imposed exile from the group. Gardener walked out during the album's mixing sessions, and the band announced their break-up shortly before its release in March 1996. The album was released and remained on sale for one week before being withdrawn. Critics and fans alike had panned the album (although the first single off the album, " Black Nite Crash", was awarded "single of the week" by weekly music magazine
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). The album was described by ''
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'' as "an abomination of '70s/ Lenny Kravitz clichés, full of third- and fourth-rate tunes and, ultimately, bad blood", going on to say "the words are just plain awful throughout, not even worth printing". ''
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'' were more complimentary, stating "the album is saved from maudlin self-obsession because it's rawer and rocks harder than anything else Ride have recorded". Since the break-up, both Bell and Gardener have been more reflective about the group's disintegration, with Bell especially admitting his own part in the process.


Post-break-up years (1997–2001)

After the split, Andy Bell formed a new band called Hurricane No. 1 but this project was permanently dissolved when he was asked to play bass for
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after having turned down the opportunity to join Gay Dad. He lived in
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during this period. Mark Gardener and Laurence Colbert joined with Sam Williams to form the Animalhouse. As BMG signings, they were successful in Japan. The band was, however, short lived and split in 2002.


Channel Four and beyond (2001–2013)

On 16 October 2001, all four members of Ride agreed to be filmed by
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. The footage was used for the show ''Pioneers'', a documentary on
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, and featured a thirty-minute improvised
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. The recording of this song, plus two short sound checks, were released in 2002 as ''Coming up for Air''. The interest in this limited release CD caused the band to consider future releases. In late 2002, Ride released a 3-CD box set which is made up of ''OX4_ The Best of Ride'', ''Firing Blanks'' (Unreleased tracks) and ''Live_Reading Festival 1992''. In 2003 they released ''Waves,'' a collection of tracks from five radio sessions recorded for the
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. Mark Gardener then pursued a solo career. From 2003 to 2005, Gardener toured extensively, sometimes with the help of Oxford friends
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, in order to personally fund a full-length studio album. During the tour, a three-track EP with Goldrush (''Falling Out into the Night'') and a live album (the acoustic solo ''Live @ the Knitting Factory, New York City'') were released. He also spent part of 2005 working with the French duo rinôçérôse. In late 2005, Gardener's album ''These Beautiful Ghosts'' was released in North America on United For Opportunity. Any thoughts of permanently re-forming the band, however, were previously explicitly denied by Bell, with the reasoning that it would not live up to expectations. However, band members, Bell included, had stated that they would not mind working with each other again. Since then, Bell and Colbert have made an appearance at one of Gardener's early shows; Bell later shared two nights of acoustic sets with Gardener in November 2003 when Gardener made a tour stop in Bell's then home of Stockholm.


Reunion albums (2014–present)

On 19 November 2014, it was announced that Ride had reunited again for a series of tour dates in Europe and North America, in May and June 2015. On 10 and 17 April 2015 Ride performed at the
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, following a live performance broadcast by
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on 8 April 2015. The band appeared at different venues and festivals, in northern America and Europe, including
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and others. They also toured America with fellow shoegaze band DIIV. The reunion was originally meant for touring only, but after playing shows together again, the band decided that the experience should also lead to the recording of a new album. On 21 February 2017, Andy Bell and Mark Gardener were interviewed on BBC 6 Music by Steve Lamacq, followed by the premiere of "Charm Assault", their first new single since 1996's "Black Nite Crash", and their first new song in 21 years. The next day, the band released another single, "Home Is a Feeling". On 23 March 2017 Ride announced their first new studio album in 21 years, ''
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''. The album was released on 16 June 2017. It made number 11 in the UK album charts and gained critical and fan approval upon its release, supported by a tour of Europe and North America across the summer and autumn of 2017. On 27 May 2018 they played a hometown gig, as first support to
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, in Oxford's South Parks, as part of the two-day "Common People" festival (the previous day had been in
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). In March 2019, the band announced that their upcoming sixth studio album had already been finished, with the same producer as their previous album,
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. The new album, called ''
This Is Not a Safe Place ''This Is Not a Safe Place'' is the sixth studio album by English rock band Ride. The album was released on 16 August 2019, the date being announced on 23 April 2019 along with the release of the album's first single, "Future Love". The album i ...
'', was released on 16 August 2019. In 2022, Ride announced that the band had been working on a seventh album, set for release in 2023 or 2024.


Members

*
Mark Gardener Mark Stephen Gardener (born 6 December 1969, in Oxford, England) is an English rock musician, and a singer and guitarist with the shoegazing band Ride. Ride Gardener formed Ride with Andy Bell (guitar), whom he met at Cheney School in Oxfo ...
– vocals, rhythm guitar * Andy Bell – vocals, lead guitar, keyboards * Steve Queralt – bass * Laurence "Loz" Colbert – drums


Discography


Studio albums


Compilations, EPs and live albums

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'' (1990) Sire/Creation *''Kaleidoscope'' (1991) Sire (promotional only) *'' Grasshopper'' (1992) Sire/Warner Bros. *''Cosmic Carnival'' (1994) Sire *''Live Light'' (1995) Mutiny/Elektra *''Ride (Box Set)'' (2001) Ignition *'' OX4 The Best of Ride'' (2001) Ignition *''Firing Blanks Unreleased Ride Recordings 1988–95'' (2001) *'' Live Reading Festival 1992'' (2001) *'' Waves: Radio 1 Sessions 90-94'' (2003) *''Tomorrow's Shore'' (2018)


Singles


Videography

*''Ride: Live at Brixton Academy'' (1992)


References


External links

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