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RIDE Confirm European Tour Dates

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RIDE are touring in Europe next April & May, tickets are on sale now and available from here.

22nd April - Paris, France - Le Trianon
23rd April - Lille, France - L'Aeronef
24th April - Utrecht, Netherlands - Tivoliredenburg
26th April - Gothenburg, Sweden - Pustervik
29th April - Oslo, Norway - Rockerfeller
30th April - Copenhagen, Denmark - DR Koncerthuset

2nd May - Warsaw, Poland - Proxima
3rd May - Prague, Czech Republic - Lucerna Music Bar
4th May - Berlin, Germany - Metropol
6th May - Vienna, Austria - Wuk
8th May - Munich, Germany - Muffathalle
9th May - Cologne, Germany - Kantine
10th May - Hamburg, Germany - Fabrik

Mantra Of The Cosmos Live In Liverpool

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Mantra Of The Cosmos will be playing two shows at The Cavern Club in Liverpool on Sunday 19th January 2025.

The band features Zak Starkey, Andy Bell, Shaun Ryder and Bez.

Tickets for the afternoon show can be found here and the evening show here.

An exclusive vinyl of Domino Bones that features Noel Gallagher can only be purchased at these gigs.

Alliance' By GLOK / Timothy Clerkin Is Out Now

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Andy Bell recording under his electronic alter ego GLOK, and the producer and Insult to Injury label boss Timothy Clerkin have joined forces for Alliance, a brand new seven-track album released by Bytes on November 8. The collaboration finds Andy and Tim with their freak flags flying, working in a freewheeling environment where nothing was off limits, with influences ranging from Death in Vegas and Boards of Canada to James Holden and New Order.

They already knew there was chemistry — Andy and Tim were introduced by Bytes when the label suggested Tim as a participant for the Dissident Remixed album, which was put together in 2019. Tim delivered a killer rework of ‘Projected Sounds’, turning the Neu!-meets-Steve Reich original into a tripped-out, slo-mo acid house wonder; ‘Voodoo Ray’ for the shoegaze generation. They later met in person at the funeral of Andrew Weatherall (whose influence can be heard in every groove of the album) and kept in touch.

The catalyst for the album was Tim finding an old Les Paul in a case that hadn’t been touched for years. It was still in tune (albeit a rather odd tuning) and Tim posted a short film of himself playing it on Instagram. Andy was into what he heard “and said I should make it into a song,” Tim explains. “I asked if he’d like to do it as a collab and it snowballed from there.”

“We didn’t discuss much in the way of direction,” says Andy. “I was having quite a creative spell at the time, to me it felt like making music was keeping me sane but when I think back, it was actually making me more insane, just in a different way.”

“It was all done remotely,” Tim continues, “firing ideas back and forth between 2020 and 2021 while I was in Amsterdam and Andy in London. I think people will probably think that I did the synths and Andy did the guitars, but we actually played a pretty equal amount of both! That’s one of the reasons I love it, it’s a proper collaboration, where we both tried new things and nothing was off limits.”

“I handed control over to Tim for the production side,” Andy reveals. “My role was coming up with, and recording, musical ideas — and playing on his ideas. I’m not entirely sure who played what on what tracks, it all goes into the Clerkin blender and amazing music comes out!”

Amazing is an understatement. The woozy ‘Empyrean’, which combines the analogue-decayed production of Boards of Canada and the ethereal vocals of ‘Xtal’ from Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works 85-92 with a fizzing behemoth of a synth line, is a fitting way to open the album as it was the first track they worked on together. “It’s basically a Timothy Clerkin remix of a demo I sent him,” Andy explains. “I can’t get enough of it. To me, it’s one of the best tracks I’ve ever been involved with since I started making music.”

Of ‘AmigA’, Andy says, “A few of the tracks led me into a kind of Pagan, pre-Christian headspace. ‘AmigA’ is kind of like an ancient prehistoric rave at a Stone Circle — I’m just gutted Tim took off all of my grunting noises!” This is proper head music, a thick swirl of pastoral acoustic guitars, Ghost Box-style vintage synths and angelic harmonies.

Tim got his friend Beth Jeans Houghton, aka Du Blonde, to provide vocals for ‘Nothing Ever’, which is a hit single in waiting. It’s a fuzzed-up, scuzzed-up, dazzling indie-dance banger, with Beth’s lip-curling vocal a perfect fit for Andy and Tim’s music.

There are echoes of Death in Vegas in tracks like ‘Scattered’ and ‘The Witching Hour’, where 1960s counter-culture rock mixes with psychedelic electronics. Fans of baggy will be at one with both of these tracks, where the sweat, throb and frenzy is reminiscent of live at the G-Mex-era Happy Mondays (circa-1990), with Weatherall and Oakenfold at the controls. Of the vocals on ‘Scattered’, Andy says: “I was just talking, I genuinely felt very scattered. I don’t know what to do when asked to provide vocals, I don’t see myself as a singer at all, so I thought I’d chat instead. It was very free and open, our freak flags were flying!”

And RIDE fans will be delighted as the future Balaeric classic ‘E-Theme’ opens with a guitar riff not a million miles away from ‘Vapour Trail’, underpinned by the laidback breakbeat that adorned many an indie-dance track in the early-90s, smeared rave synths and swooning vocals. It’s a moment of pure bliss and one for the 3am dancefloor.

The artwork is by the Nottingham-based illustrator Nick Taylor, with the geometric yet soulful cover image influenced by the record sleeves of the abstract artist Josef Albers, as well as Andy’s request that it should be “the opposite of AI”. 

The album is out now on various streaming sites and available in store.

GLOK/Timothy Clerkin 'Nothing Ever' Is Out Now

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Nothing Ever, featuring vocals from Beth Jean Houghton, is the second single to be taken from Alliance, the album by GLOK and Timothy Clerkin.

Alliance LP vinyl has sold out on Bandcamp, but you can still purchase it from indie shops.

Tickets For Ride's North American Tour Are On Sale Now

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Tickets can be purchased via the bands Official website www.thebandride.com.

Musta Always Been A Thing (Andy Bell GLOK Remix) Is Out Now

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Andy Bell has remixed 'Musta Always Been A Thing' by The Dandy Warhols listen to it below on Spotify.

GLOK is the electronic alter ego of Andy.

GLOK / Timothy Clerkin - Alliance

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RIDE’s Andy Bell, recording under his electronic alter ego GLOK, and the producer and Insult to Injury label boss Timothy Clerkin have joined forces for Alliance, a brand new seven-track album released by Bytes on November 8. The collaboration finds Andy and Tim with their freak flags flying, working in a freewheeling environment where nothing was off limits, with influences ranging from Death in Vegas and Boards of Canada to James Holden and New Order.

The woozy ‘Empyrean’, which combines the analogue-decayed production of Boards of Canada and the ethereal vocals of ‘Xtal’ from Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works 85-92 with a fizzing behemoth of a synth line, is a fitting way to launch the album as it was the first track they worked on together. “It’s basically a Timothy Clerkin remix of a demo I sent him,” Andy explains. “I can’t get enough of it. To me, it’s one of the best tracks I’ve ever been involved with since I started making music.


New Music From Ride

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Ride's new album ‘Interplay’ will be released on March 29th, you can pre-order it here.

New single 'Peace Sign' is available to listen to everywhere now!

Andy Bell On Joining Oasis, Signing To Creation With Ride And More

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 Below is an in-depth interview with Andy Bell with These Little Victories that covers his entire career.

Happy Birthday Andy Bell

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GLOK Announce UK Tour

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Andy Bells' 'Strange Loops & Outer Psych' Available To Pre-Order Now!

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CD compiling tracks from Andy Bell’s three EPs of remixes, acoustic versions and covers of songs that inspired his second solo album ‘Flicker’. Includes four tracks not on the vinyl versions. Housed in a mini-LP style card sleeve.

Includes digital pre-order of Strange Loops & Outer Psych. You get 1 track now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.

Shipping out on or around February 10th, 2023. More details can be found here.

Andy Bell On Ride, His Album Flicker, Remixes And More

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Despite today’s world of pro-tools, curated playlists and music camps (no, we didn’t know they were a thing either until Stormzy brought them up), there’s still no scientific formula to writing a classic.

Songs can emerge in an instant as if from thin air in the studio; some can be years in the making. Recording sessions can be tortuous ones with no discernable end in sight; others over in just days and a series of nailed one-takes.

Flicker – the 2022 solo LP from Andy Bell and Live4ever’s newly crowned album of the year – sits in a different, less distinct category, with songs direct from the here-and-now flowing along side half-forgotten sketches which stretch back years. A ‘dual reality’, as the Ride and Oasis guitarist describes it, ‘existing in the past and existing now’.

“Some of it is truly brand new but it’s all woven around this skeleton of backbeats and chord structures that I’ve been working on for years and years,” Bell explains during an exclusive interview with Live4ever.

Read the interview in full here and to enter a competition to win a signed copy of Flicker.

Andy Bell Interview And New EP Details

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Part of an interview with The Guardian.

What was the first pinch-yourself moment while playing live with Oasis? 

Waiting to go on stage at Wembley. You’re hearing the excitement of the people that are waiting to hear you, which feels brilliant.

I always felt that a guitarist and songwriter of your talent was wasted playing bass in Oasis. Did it ever feel like that? 

That’s rude to bass players. Not at all. I learned so much about music as a guitarist playing bass. The bassist and the drummer are the backbone. I took it very seriously. Plus, it was lovely to be asked to join in with songwriting. My song Turn Up the Sun was the opening number for a whole tour. It even broke a barrier in the Manchester City stadium, when the crowd rushed forward. Luckily I don’t think anyone was injured badly.

Read the interview in full here.

Andy has a new EP out today details can be found here.

Andy Bell On Ride, His Solo Music, Oasis And More

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In episode 110 of The XS Noize Podcast, Mark Millar catches up with Ride guitarist and songwriter Andy Bell who has released a series of EPs featuring remixes, acoustic versions and covers of songs that inspired his second solo album, Flicker, released on Sonic Cathedral to great acclaim.

In this interview, Andy Bell talks about all of the above and the recent reissues from Ride, recording Going Blank Again, his time with Hurricane #1, Oasis and lots more.

Happy Birthday Andy Bell

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Andy Bell's New Single 'Lifeline' Is Out Now

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Andy Bell On Space Station, Ride And More

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