Album Review by Mark Bayross
Recorded between 1990 and 1994, when Ride rose at lightning speed from darlings of the weekly music press to selling out arena-sized venues at the drop of a hat, WAVES documents the five sessions the band recorded for BBC Radio 1.
Running in chronological order, with John Peel sessions
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Album Review by Mark Bayross
A decade or so ago, before Suede, before Radiohead, and before Oasis, four youngsters from Oxford propelled British guitar music onto the world stage at such a speed that not even they knew what had hit them. For a while, guitarist Andy Bell, drummer Loz Colbert, bassist Steve Queralt
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Interview by Mark Bayross
Ten years ago, Ride were one of the biggest bands around, and one of Britain’s biggest exporters of six-string fireworks. After the band’s split in the mid-nineties, guitarist and chief song-writer Andy Bell enjoyed some success fronting his own group, Hurricane #1, but an offer to fill the vacant bass
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