Showing posts with label Andy Bell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Andy Bell. Show all posts

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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Andy Bell's 'World Of Echo' Single Is Out Now

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Andy Bell's single 'World of Echo' is out today on Sonic Cathedral. The guitars are a hat tip to Lee Mavers of The La's. It's been an almost 20 year journey from writing the chords of this song to the record seeing the light of day.

The video was filmed by Chris / Innerstrings at The Social last year. 'World of Echo' is the second single from his album Flicker

Also on the new single,is a cover of Arthur Russell's 'Our Last Night Together' (which is from his 1986 opus 'World of Echo') on the B-side.

Charity Auction: Signed Andy Bell GLOK 'Pattern Recognition' Test Pressing

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GLOK is the electronic alter ego of Andy Bell. The item up for auction is a set of white label test pressings for the double album Pattern Recognition. 

It is being sold with Andy’s approval to raise money for the DEC Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal. All profits from the auction will go to the charity.

Click here to check out the eBay auction and description.

Andy Bell To Play An Acoustic Set At A Fundraiser For The DEC Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal

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Andy Bell will be playing an acoustic set at a fundraiser for the DEC Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal at the Shepherd's Bush Empire in London on March 25th,

Tickets go on sale Wednesday from www.ticketmaster.co.uk

Listen Again To Andy Bell's Live Session On Radio X

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Andy Bell played a session for John Kennedy on Radio X over the weekend, click here to listen to it. 

Andy Bell's New Album 'Flicker' Is Out Today

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Andy Bell’s new album 'Flicker' is out today, it’s available to buy/stream from the usual outlets.  

From 20:00 (UK Time) he will be taking part in a #TimsTwitterListeningParty

You can listen to an acoustic session he did a few days ago on 'The Stephen McCauley Show' here.

More Andy Bell 'Space Station' Dates Announced

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Three new dates have been announced for Andy Bell's Space Station, click here for tickets.

Andy Bell's Second Solo Album To Be Released Next Month

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Flicker is the second album from Ride guitarist and songwriter Andy Bell. Written almost as a conversation with his teenage self, it follows the triumphant solo debut that was 2020’s The View From Halfway Down.

This 18-track double album is released on February 11th and finds Andy moving towards classic songwriting, notably on the reflective lead single ‘Something Like Love’, the strident harmonies of ‘World of Echo’, the joyous refracted loops of ‘Jenny Holzer B. Goode’ and the fuzz-laden late-’60s balladeering of ‘Love Is The Frequency’. Stylistically, the four sides of Flicker take in everything from modern psychedelia to fingerpicked folk, whimsical baroque pop, and Byrdsian 12-string beauty. It’s a breathtaking array and makes it even more abundantly clear that Andy has entered a purple patch in his songwriting, hitting a new velocity in contrast to his initial inhibitions about becoming a solo artist. He gradually overcame these after the passing of David Bowie in 2016, with the Thin White Duke’s bountiful 50 years of music providing inspiration from beyond the grave.

Below is the new single Something Like Love

For more details and pre-order options click here.

Andy Bell On Working On A New Ride Album, His Solo Work, Oasis, Beady Eye And More

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Click here to read an interview with Andy Bell, he speaks to VM Music about a new Ride Album, his solo work, Oasis Beady Eye and more.

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