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Showing posts with label Ride. Show all posts
Amy Winehouse
Bastille
Duran Duran
Elbow
Ride
The Cure
Ride, Bastille and Duran Duran will play intimate shows to benefit the international charity in the tenth year of its fundraising Passport:Back To The Bars shows.
Acts like The Cure, Amy Winehouse and Elbow have played War Child's Passport:Back To The Bars shows in the past, and now the first acts of the 2015 line-up have been announced.
Andy Bell and Mark Gardener from reunited shoegaze band Ride will play an acoustic set for a small group of fans, in the run-up to the group's sold-out series of shows in the summer.
Bastille have also been confirmed for the bill, while 1980s popstars Duran Duran will also do a show in the capital in aid of the charity.
The shows will take place in Manchester and London, in small venues of no more than 300 people. Further acts and details will be announced early in January.
Duran Duran’s John Taylor said: “Thousands of children...are often being denied education and other basic human rights. We are looking forward to performing an exclusive event in London this coming February, in support of War Child and the important work they do in the regions where these children are suffering."
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Source: www.xfm.co.uk
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Andy Bell's Ride To Play Intimate Show For War Child
Ride, Bastille and Duran Duran will play intimate shows to benefit the international charity in the tenth year of its fundraising Passport:Back To The Bars shows.
Acts like The Cure, Amy Winehouse and Elbow have played War Child's Passport:Back To The Bars shows in the past, and now the first acts of the 2015 line-up have been announced.
Andy Bell and Mark Gardener from reunited shoegaze band Ride will play an acoustic set for a small group of fans, in the run-up to the group's sold-out series of shows in the summer.
Bastille have also been confirmed for the bill, while 1980s popstars Duran Duran will also do a show in the capital in aid of the charity.
The shows will take place in Manchester and London, in small venues of no more than 300 people. Further acts and details will be announced early in January.
Duran Duran’s John Taylor said: “Thousands of children...are often being denied education and other basic human rights. We are looking forward to performing an exclusive event in London this coming February, in support of War Child and the important work they do in the regions where these children are suffering."
You can register for information here .
Source: www.xfm.co.uk
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Andy Bell
Laurence Colbert
Mark Gardener
Ride
Steve Queralt
Tickets are now on sale for a number of live shows, in Europe and North America.
The original line-up of Andy Bell, singer Mark Gardener, bassist Steve Queralt and drummer Laurence Colbert will play shows including a gig at the Roundhouse before the tour ends with a headline show at the Field Day festival.
Friday 22 May 2015: Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow, UK
www.seetickets.com/artist/ride/591829
Saturday 23 May 2015: Albert Hall, Manchester, UK
www.seetickets.com/Event/ride/albert-hall/830815
Sunday 24 May 2015: Roundhouse, London, UK
www.roundhouse.org.uk/whats-on/2015/ride/
Tuesday 26 May 2015: Paradiso, Amsterdam, Holland
www.ticketmaster.nl/event/139811
Wednesday 27 May 2015: Olympia, Paris, France
www.avosbillets.com
Friday 29 May 2015: Primavera Festival, Barcelona, Spain
www.primaverasound.es/entradas?lang=en
Tuesday 2 June 2015: DanForth Music Hall, Toronto, Canada
www.ticketmaster.ca/event/10004D72C55A9892
Thursday 4 June 2015: Terminal 5, New York, US
[ticket link to be confirmed]
Sunday 7 June 2015: Field Day (headlining), London, UK
www.fielddayfestivals.com/tickets/
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Ride Tickets On Sale Now For European And North American Tour Dates
Tickets are now on sale for a number of live shows, in Europe and North America.
The original line-up of Andy Bell, singer Mark Gardener, bassist Steve Queralt and drummer Laurence Colbert will play shows including a gig at the Roundhouse before the tour ends with a headline show at the Field Day festival.
Friday 22 May 2015: Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow, UK
www.seetickets.com/artist/ride/591829
Saturday 23 May 2015: Albert Hall, Manchester, UK
www.seetickets.com/Event/ride/albert-hall/830815
Sunday 24 May 2015: Roundhouse, London, UK
www.roundhouse.org.uk/whats-on/2015/ride/
Tuesday 26 May 2015: Paradiso, Amsterdam, Holland
www.ticketmaster.nl/event/139811
Wednesday 27 May 2015: Olympia, Paris, France
www.avosbillets.com
Friday 29 May 2015: Primavera Festival, Barcelona, Spain
www.primaverasound.es/entradas?lang=en
Tuesday 2 June 2015: DanForth Music Hall, Toronto, Canada
www.ticketmaster.ca/event/10004D72C55A9892
Thursday 4 June 2015: Terminal 5, New York, US
[ticket link to be confirmed]
Sunday 7 June 2015: Field Day (headlining), London, UK
www.fielddayfestivals.com/tickets/
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Andy Bell
Beady Eye
Liam Gallagher
Ride
Guitarist Andy Bell, formerly of Oasis and Beady Eye, now of the newly reunited Ride, has opened up about the recent Beady Eye split in a new interview with NME.
Frontman Liam Gallagher announced the group's split on October 24, when he stated that the band were "no longer" and thanked fans for their support.
In this week's issue of NME, on newsstands and available digitally now, Bell said: "[Beady Eye] just sort of ran its course really. Liam had been pretty quiet for a while, and them he just let us know that his heart wasn't really in it any more".
Bell added that the band split on good terms, and the split did not come as much of a surprise. "It's been a long fade, really," he said.
Liam Gallagher last week (November 11) appeared at London's Shepherd's Bush Empire as part of the The Who Hits 50 tribute night for Teenage Cancer Trust, singing 'My Generation' backed by The Who's band.
Meanwhile, Bell's band Ride will play a series of dates in May 2015, including shows in London, Manchester and Glasgow and overseas gigs in Paris, Amsterdam, Toronto and New York. Ride will also make festival appearances at Primavera Sound in Barcelona on May 29 and London's Field Day on June 7.
Ride formed in Oxford in 1988, releasing four albums – 'Nowhere' (1990), 'Going Blank Again' (1992), 'Carnival Of Light' (1994) and 'Tarantula' (1996) – before splitting in 1996. They reformed briefly in 2001 for a Channel 4 documentary and 'Best Of' release.
Ride's tour dates in full:
Glasgow Barrowland (May 22)
Manchester Albert Hall (23)
London Roundhouse (24)
Amsterdam Paradiso (26)
Paris Olympia (27)
Barcelona Primavera Festival (29)
Toronto DanForth Music Hall (June 2)
New York Terminal 5 (4)
London Field Day (7)
Source: www.nme.com
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Andy Bell Says Liam Gallagher's Heart Wasn't In Beady Eye Any More
Guitarist Andy Bell, formerly of Oasis and Beady Eye, now of the newly reunited Ride, has opened up about the recent Beady Eye split in a new interview with NME.
Frontman Liam Gallagher announced the group's split on October 24, when he stated that the band were "no longer" and thanked fans for their support.
In this week's issue of NME, on newsstands and available digitally now, Bell said: "[Beady Eye] just sort of ran its course really. Liam had been pretty quiet for a while, and them he just let us know that his heart wasn't really in it any more".
Bell added that the band split on good terms, and the split did not come as much of a surprise. "It's been a long fade, really," he said.
Liam Gallagher last week (November 11) appeared at London's Shepherd's Bush Empire as part of the The Who Hits 50 tribute night for Teenage Cancer Trust, singing 'My Generation' backed by The Who's band.
Meanwhile, Bell's band Ride will play a series of dates in May 2015, including shows in London, Manchester and Glasgow and overseas gigs in Paris, Amsterdam, Toronto and New York. Ride will also make festival appearances at Primavera Sound in Barcelona on May 29 and London's Field Day on June 7.
Ride formed in Oxford in 1988, releasing four albums – 'Nowhere' (1990), 'Going Blank Again' (1992), 'Carnival Of Light' (1994) and 'Tarantula' (1996) – before splitting in 1996. They reformed briefly in 2001 for a Channel 4 documentary and 'Best Of' release.
Ride's tour dates in full:
Glasgow Barrowland (May 22)
Manchester Albert Hall (23)
London Roundhouse (24)
Amsterdam Paradiso (26)
Paris Olympia (27)
Barcelona Primavera Festival (29)
Toronto DanForth Music Hall (June 2)
New York Terminal 5 (4)
London Field Day (7)
Source: www.nme.com
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Andy Bell
Laurence Colbert
Mark Gardener
Ride
Steve Queralt
The band, including Andy Bell of Beady Eye/Oasis, will play shows in UK, Europe and America.
After rumours of a reunion reached fever pitch yesterday, iconic Oxford shoegaze band Ride have confirmed they're reuniting for a series of live shows.
The original line-up of Andy Bell, singer Mark Gardener, bassist Steve Queralt and drummer Laurence Colbert will play shows including a gig at the Roundhouse before the tour ends with a headline show at the Field Day festival.
The tour kicks off in Glasgow in May 2015 and will also hit Manchester's Albert Hall before European shows in Paris and at the Primavera festival.
The band split in 1996 after falling out after last album Tarantula, having hit the heights with classics like Leave Them All Behind and Vapour Trail.
RIDE 2015 TOUR DATES:
22 MAY 2015 BARROWLANDS, GLASGOW
23 MAY 2015 ALBERT HALL, MANCHESTER
24 MAY 2015 ROUNDHOUSE, LONDON
26 MAY 2015 PARADISO, AMSTERDAM
27 MAY 2015 OLYMPIA, PARIS
29 MAY 2015 PRIMAVERA, BARCELONA
2 JUNE 2015 DANFORTH MUSIC HALL, TORONTO
4 JUNE 2015 TERMINAL 5, NEW YORK
7 JUNE 2015 FIELD DAY, LONDON
Tickets are on sale Friday 21 November at 9am from www.RideMusic.net
Source: www.xfm.co.uk
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Ride Including Andy Bell Will Play Shows In UK, Europe and America Next Year
The band, including Andy Bell of Beady Eye/Oasis, will play shows in UK, Europe and America.
After rumours of a reunion reached fever pitch yesterday, iconic Oxford shoegaze band Ride have confirmed they're reuniting for a series of live shows.
The original line-up of Andy Bell, singer Mark Gardener, bassist Steve Queralt and drummer Laurence Colbert will play shows including a gig at the Roundhouse before the tour ends with a headline show at the Field Day festival.
The tour kicks off in Glasgow in May 2015 and will also hit Manchester's Albert Hall before European shows in Paris and at the Primavera festival.
The band split in 1996 after falling out after last album Tarantula, having hit the heights with classics like Leave Them All Behind and Vapour Trail.
RIDE 2015 TOUR DATES:
22 MAY 2015 BARROWLANDS, GLASGOW
23 MAY 2015 ALBERT HALL, MANCHESTER
24 MAY 2015 ROUNDHOUSE, LONDON
26 MAY 2015 PARADISO, AMSTERDAM
27 MAY 2015 OLYMPIA, PARIS
29 MAY 2015 PRIMAVERA, BARCELONA
2 JUNE 2015 DANFORTH MUSIC HALL, TORONTO
4 JUNE 2015 TERMINAL 5, NEW YORK
7 JUNE 2015 FIELD DAY, LONDON
Tickets are on sale Friday 21 November at 9am from www.RideMusic.net
Source: www.xfm.co.uk
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Andy Bell
Beady Eye
chris Sharrock
Dave Sitek
Gem Archer
Liam Gallagher
Noel Gallagher
Oasis
Ride
“The spin on Noel versus Liam is basically the hook that brings people in to read about the band.” Guitarist Andy Bell reassures Kitt Di Camillo that Beady Eye welcome Oasis comparisons if it means more sets of ears hear their music.
On its release in early 2011, the debut album by Beady Eye was met with mixed reviews from critics but peaked at number three in the UK charts. A roaring success for most rock bands, it was a slightly underwhelming result for a group born from the demise of the British rock institution that was Oasis. In the aftermath of the Gallagher brothers’ suitably explosive bust-up, it was Liam who took the first step towards a new musical beginning in 2009, joining forces with fellow Oasis members Gem Archer, Andy Bell and Chris Sharrock to create Beady Eye. Different Gear, Still Speeding was released 18 months later, a debut album that not so much dominated the airwaves as provided a gentle reminder that they were still around.
Which made its follow-up all the more important. Teaming up with TV On The Radio member and renowned indie-rock producer Dave Sitek, the whimsical pop and ‘60s rock’n’roll of their debut was moved aside for darker psychedelia and a penchant for experimentation. Despite various quotes from Gallagher suggesting he’d quit music altogether if it failed, there were hints of self-doubt seeping from the Beady Eye camp.
A founding member of Oxford shoegazers Ride, Bell didn’t feel any pressure. “I just was excited about the prospect of going into the studio with Dave Sitek,” assures the laidback guitarist. “That was a massive incentive for me just to be in the studio: that for me is like a reward in itself. So I don’t feel any pressure in the studio, especially when you have such a good session. Pressure is the enemy of good music.”
With second album BE released to solid reviews in June last year, Bell’s enthusiasm was clearly warranted. Songs such as Soul Love and Don’t Brother Me should be Oasis-aping anthems, but instead tread a darker, cosmic place. Flick Of The Finger is the best song they’ve written, but doesn’t contain a chorus and is dominated by a horn section. Sitek’s touch can be felt all over it, and takes the ‘60s-obsessed rockers into much-needed new territory.
“I still think it’s pop music. It’s still listenable, but it’s just more interesting and more different sonically than we would’ve done if we had gone and done it ourselves. They’re very visual sounds; they really help. Guitarists especially, ‘cause you can get stuck in a guitar thing where everything is just two guitars, bass, drums – you rehearse it, it sounds great, it kinda rocks on that level of things rocking, and if you stop there and record it and put it out, you end up with something pretty good like our first album.
“[But] if at that point you take a left turn or a right turn and just start going, ‘Well let’s throw all that out, we all know that we can play, we all know that we can do this down-a-sort-of-route one. But let’s take a detour’. That’s something that we haven’t done. We didn’t do it much in Oasis and we haven’t done it much in Beady Eye until this point. So it’s a good thing to do.”
Since the day they formed, Beady Eye have been dogged by comparisons to Oasis. Outside of the diehard fans, the general public tend to side with one Gallagher brother over the other, most often the well-spoken Noel over the paparazzi-punching Liam. The upcoming Big Day Out tour will be the first time Liam and co have visited our shores since Oasis’ 2005 Don’t Believe The Truth tour. With former Kasabian bassist Jay Mehler now a permanent member, the five-piece are in peak form.
“I feel lucky to be in a band,” enthuses Bell. “Making music, signed to a label, doing gigs, and if you’re lucky enough to be in that position you’re not allowed to complain, you’ve just gotta keep plugging away and hope that if people have these preconceptions that’s really their issue to deal with. They’re gonna have to learn at some point that maybe we’re worth a listen.
“We’re comfortable with ourselves, and the only time when you ever come up against that [negative] side of it is probably when you’re being asked in interviews what you think of it. And then you have to come up with an answer, you have to quickly form an opinion on it in five seconds. But I don’t think there’s a negative side to this. The spin on Noel versus Liam is basically the hook that brings people in to read about the band, and then if they read about it maybe a few of them go, ‘I’m gonna go and check out that album’ and maybe they like it. So great!”
Kitt Di Camillo
Source: themusic.com.au
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Why Beady Eye Welcome The Oasis Comparisons
“The spin on Noel versus Liam is basically the hook that brings people in to read about the band.” Guitarist Andy Bell reassures Kitt Di Camillo that Beady Eye welcome Oasis comparisons if it means more sets of ears hear their music.
On its release in early 2011, the debut album by Beady Eye was met with mixed reviews from critics but peaked at number three in the UK charts. A roaring success for most rock bands, it was a slightly underwhelming result for a group born from the demise of the British rock institution that was Oasis. In the aftermath of the Gallagher brothers’ suitably explosive bust-up, it was Liam who took the first step towards a new musical beginning in 2009, joining forces with fellow Oasis members Gem Archer, Andy Bell and Chris Sharrock to create Beady Eye. Different Gear, Still Speeding was released 18 months later, a debut album that not so much dominated the airwaves as provided a gentle reminder that they were still around.
Which made its follow-up all the more important. Teaming up with TV On The Radio member and renowned indie-rock producer Dave Sitek, the whimsical pop and ‘60s rock’n’roll of their debut was moved aside for darker psychedelia and a penchant for experimentation. Despite various quotes from Gallagher suggesting he’d quit music altogether if it failed, there were hints of self-doubt seeping from the Beady Eye camp.
A founding member of Oxford shoegazers Ride, Bell didn’t feel any pressure. “I just was excited about the prospect of going into the studio with Dave Sitek,” assures the laidback guitarist. “That was a massive incentive for me just to be in the studio: that for me is like a reward in itself. So I don’t feel any pressure in the studio, especially when you have such a good session. Pressure is the enemy of good music.”
With second album BE released to solid reviews in June last year, Bell’s enthusiasm was clearly warranted. Songs such as Soul Love and Don’t Brother Me should be Oasis-aping anthems, but instead tread a darker, cosmic place. Flick Of The Finger is the best song they’ve written, but doesn’t contain a chorus and is dominated by a horn section. Sitek’s touch can be felt all over it, and takes the ‘60s-obsessed rockers into much-needed new territory.
“I still think it’s pop music. It’s still listenable, but it’s just more interesting and more different sonically than we would’ve done if we had gone and done it ourselves. They’re very visual sounds; they really help. Guitarists especially, ‘cause you can get stuck in a guitar thing where everything is just two guitars, bass, drums – you rehearse it, it sounds great, it kinda rocks on that level of things rocking, and if you stop there and record it and put it out, you end up with something pretty good like our first album.
“[But] if at that point you take a left turn or a right turn and just start going, ‘Well let’s throw all that out, we all know that we can play, we all know that we can do this down-a-sort-of-route one. But let’s take a detour’. That’s something that we haven’t done. We didn’t do it much in Oasis and we haven’t done it much in Beady Eye until this point. So it’s a good thing to do.”
Since the day they formed, Beady Eye have been dogged by comparisons to Oasis. Outside of the diehard fans, the general public tend to side with one Gallagher brother over the other, most often the well-spoken Noel over the paparazzi-punching Liam. The upcoming Big Day Out tour will be the first time Liam and co have visited our shores since Oasis’ 2005 Don’t Believe The Truth tour. With former Kasabian bassist Jay Mehler now a permanent member, the five-piece are in peak form.
“I feel lucky to be in a band,” enthuses Bell. “Making music, signed to a label, doing gigs, and if you’re lucky enough to be in that position you’re not allowed to complain, you’ve just gotta keep plugging away and hope that if people have these preconceptions that’s really their issue to deal with. They’re gonna have to learn at some point that maybe we’re worth a listen.
“We’re comfortable with ourselves, and the only time when you ever come up against that [negative] side of it is probably when you’re being asked in interviews what you think of it. And then you have to come up with an answer, you have to quickly form an opinion on it in five seconds. But I don’t think there’s a negative side to this. The spin on Noel versus Liam is basically the hook that brings people in to read about the band, and then if they read about it maybe a few of them go, ‘I’m gonna go and check out that album’ and maybe they like it. So great!”
Kitt Di Camillo
Source: themusic.com.au
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Andy Bell
Beady Eye
Gem Archer
Liam Gallagher
Oasis
Ride
The Beady Eye guitarist reveals all about the band's difficult summer and rumours of a possible reformation for Ride ahead of their Dublin gigs
To say that it’s been a turbulent time for Beady Eye over the last few months is a bit of an understatement.
While the world was busy focusing on the break up of Liam Gallagher’s marriage amid a love-child scandal, the band members were hoping that Gem Archer would survive.
After falling down the stairs at home Archer then managed to break his leg just by standing on it.
Just this week Archer was well enough to set foot back in the rehearsal studio, hopefully putting an end to Beady Eye’s bad times just before their two Dublin gigs at the Olympia on Thursday and Friday.
And Andy Bell for one is glad to be back concentrating on the music.
He said: “Yesterday was his first day and he is actually very heartwarming thing to see the guy playing his guitar again.
“He’s really missed it and we have missed him playing and rehearsing. It’s briolliant to have him back, it has been a weird summer, you know?”
“I have never had someone close to me to go through head trauma and a broken leg too - you learn a lot because you are constantly asking questions and finding out the progress. You become like a mini doctor or something.
“Everything is great and he has grown a proper beard while he has been out of action. He looks cool.”
Andy said that being in Oasis meant the Beady Eye band members have already been well prepared to expect the unexpected.
He revealed: “Everything seemed to go mental for a while for Liam and Gem but we’re all pretty used to drama - the Oasis years gave us a bit of an immunity to drama in a way.
“In the middle of one of those times you do tend to go into yourself and hunker down, get through it and come out the other side.
“Gem had his accident on August 1 when we were all still on holiday. We all scooted back from our holidays to London to see him as at that time it seemed pretty serious. I was really scared so I wanted to get straight down there.
“Since then we have been day by day, week by week and then before we knew it two or three months had gone by. We started thinking about band things two or three weeks ago as we had dropped everything to concentrate on what’s really important.
“But yesterday it felt like things were back to normal, everyone is on good form and doing great.
“It’s a good time to be in the band.”
Some of Andy’s fans might be a bit disappointed to hear that as the regular rumours of a Ride reunion have not yet proved fruitful.
But he insists that some day he and Mark Gardener, Steve Queralt and Loz Tolbert will reform - not just now though.
Andy said: “It’s not something I am planning to do in the next while because I like to do one thing at a time. That’s how I work as a person - I kind of do one thing and move onto the next when its done.”
In fact, the Ride lads do go for the odd pint together as everything that happened way back when is water under the bridge.
Andy said: “We are all pals - the argument that broke the band up, if you compare that to an Oasis scale it’s like they had three of them a day! But that was a different time, a whole lifetime ago and all those disagreements are all patched up now.
“They are all my oldest friends, me, Mark and Steve were all at school together. I met Mark when he was 12 or 13 in the playground when he was body-popping on a bit of lino. I was really small kid with glasses and a guitar.
“And then the Smiths came out and then suddenly the speccy kid with the guitar became the cool guy. Mark wanted to learn guitar and I taught him and that’s how we became mates. And when you’re friends for that long you stay friends.”
So does this apply to Noel Gallagher too then?
Andy said: “It definitely applies to Noel - I’ve got a lot of affection for the guy, he is so talented and brilliant to be in a band with.
“Anything that went down between me and Noel was never anything serious. His problem was with Liam and Liam’s problem was with him. I have seen Noel since and the two of us are cool. I am completely cool with him and hopefully he is cool with me.”
Andy Bell recently married a Dublin girl and spends a lot of time here so as a special treat there are two Beady Eye aftershows going on in Dublin.
Paul Gallagher and Andy’s brother-in-law Arveene will be the DJs for the nights - the Thursday will be at the Grand Social and the second is at an undisclosed venue which will be announced next week. And Andy reckons the band will be in attendance.
He said: “I do a bit of DJing myself so you never know - I love Dublin, I spend a lot of time there and from a band point of view we played the Olympia last time and we were really good gigs.
“We’re looking forward to coming back.”
Source: www.irishmirror.ie
Andy Bell Reveals All About Beady Eye's Difficult Summer
The Beady Eye guitarist reveals all about the band's difficult summer and rumours of a possible reformation for Ride ahead of their Dublin gigs
To say that it’s been a turbulent time for Beady Eye over the last few months is a bit of an understatement.
While the world was busy focusing on the break up of Liam Gallagher’s marriage amid a love-child scandal, the band members were hoping that Gem Archer would survive.
After falling down the stairs at home Archer then managed to break his leg just by standing on it.
Just this week Archer was well enough to set foot back in the rehearsal studio, hopefully putting an end to Beady Eye’s bad times just before their two Dublin gigs at the Olympia on Thursday and Friday.
And Andy Bell for one is glad to be back concentrating on the music.
He said: “Yesterday was his first day and he is actually very heartwarming thing to see the guy playing his guitar again.
“He’s really missed it and we have missed him playing and rehearsing. It’s briolliant to have him back, it has been a weird summer, you know?”
“I have never had someone close to me to go through head trauma and a broken leg too - you learn a lot because you are constantly asking questions and finding out the progress. You become like a mini doctor or something.
“Everything is great and he has grown a proper beard while he has been out of action. He looks cool.”
Andy said that being in Oasis meant the Beady Eye band members have already been well prepared to expect the unexpected.
He revealed: “Everything seemed to go mental for a while for Liam and Gem but we’re all pretty used to drama - the Oasis years gave us a bit of an immunity to drama in a way.
“In the middle of one of those times you do tend to go into yourself and hunker down, get through it and come out the other side.
“Gem had his accident on August 1 when we were all still on holiday. We all scooted back from our holidays to London to see him as at that time it seemed pretty serious. I was really scared so I wanted to get straight down there.
“Since then we have been day by day, week by week and then before we knew it two or three months had gone by. We started thinking about band things two or three weeks ago as we had dropped everything to concentrate on what’s really important.
“But yesterday it felt like things were back to normal, everyone is on good form and doing great.
“It’s a good time to be in the band.”
Some of Andy’s fans might be a bit disappointed to hear that as the regular rumours of a Ride reunion have not yet proved fruitful.
But he insists that some day he and Mark Gardener, Steve Queralt and Loz Tolbert will reform - not just now though.
Andy said: “It’s not something I am planning to do in the next while because I like to do one thing at a time. That’s how I work as a person - I kind of do one thing and move onto the next when its done.”
In fact, the Ride lads do go for the odd pint together as everything that happened way back when is water under the bridge.
Andy said: “We are all pals - the argument that broke the band up, if you compare that to an Oasis scale it’s like they had three of them a day! But that was a different time, a whole lifetime ago and all those disagreements are all patched up now.
“They are all my oldest friends, me, Mark and Steve were all at school together. I met Mark when he was 12 or 13 in the playground when he was body-popping on a bit of lino. I was really small kid with glasses and a guitar.
“And then the Smiths came out and then suddenly the speccy kid with the guitar became the cool guy. Mark wanted to learn guitar and I taught him and that’s how we became mates. And when you’re friends for that long you stay friends.”
So does this apply to Noel Gallagher too then?
Andy said: “It definitely applies to Noel - I’ve got a lot of affection for the guy, he is so talented and brilliant to be in a band with.
“Anything that went down between me and Noel was never anything serious. His problem was with Liam and Liam’s problem was with him. I have seen Noel since and the two of us are cool. I am completely cool with him and hopefully he is cool with me.”
Andy Bell recently married a Dublin girl and spends a lot of time here so as a special treat there are two Beady Eye aftershows going on in Dublin.
Paul Gallagher and Andy’s brother-in-law Arveene will be the DJs for the nights - the Thursday will be at the Grand Social and the second is at an undisclosed venue which will be announced next week. And Andy reckons the band will be in attendance.
He said: “I do a bit of DJing myself so you never know - I love Dublin, I spend a lot of time there and from a band point of view we played the Olympia last time and we were really good gigs.
“We’re looking forward to coming back.”
Source: www.irishmirror.ie
Andy Bell
Beady Eye
Oasis
Ride
Ride, Oasis and now Beady Eye main man Andy Bell (foreground) is celebrating getting out of the studio by staging a mini DJ tour. The guitarist will be behind the decks - along with fellow DJ Arveene - at the This Feeling club night at London's Queen Of Hoxton this Saturday (9 March), before packing up his records and playing the night's date at Manchester's FAC251 on 23 March.
As a little preview of what he plans to play, he's compiled this exclusive Playlist just for Q.
Listen To Andy Bell's Playlist For Q
Ride, Oasis and now Beady Eye main man Andy Bell (foreground) is celebrating getting out of the studio by staging a mini DJ tour. The guitarist will be behind the decks - along with fellow DJ Arveene - at the This Feeling club night at London's Queen Of Hoxton this Saturday (9 March), before packing up his records and playing the night's date at Manchester's FAC251 on 23 March.
As a little preview of what he plans to play, he's compiled this exclusive Playlist just for Q.
Andy Bell
Loz Colbert
Mark Gardner
Ride
Steve Queralt
Twenty years ago, Ride released Going Blank Again, the record that saw them emerge from Nowhere's swirls into more pop territory.
Joe Clay speaks to Andy Bell, Loz Colbert, Mark Gardner and Steve Queralt about the lost classic.
Click here to read the full article.
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds' new single 'Everybody's On The Run' is available now digitally and in stores more details can be found here.
Ride Discuss Going Blank Again, 20 Years On
Twenty years ago, Ride released Going Blank Again, the record that saw them emerge from Nowhere's swirls into more pop territory.
Joe Clay speaks to Andy Bell, Loz Colbert, Mark Gardner and Steve Queralt about the lost classic.
Click here to read the full article.
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds' new single 'Everybody's On The Run' is available now digitally and in stores more details can be found here.
Alan McGee
Andy Bell
Bonehead
Noel Gallagher
Oasis
Primal Scream
Ride
Upside Down
Fans in the UK can watch the documentary chronicling the highs and lows of the UK's most inspired and dissolute independent record label - Creation Records, founded by the maverick Glaswegian, Alan McGee.
It contains some great early footage of Oasis and features interviews with Andy Bell, Bonehead and Noel Gallagher.
Click here to watch it on the BBC iPlayer.
You can also watch Creation At The BBC
Performances by Creation Records artists including the Jesus and Mary Chain, the Loft, My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Primal Scream, Oasis, Ride, Boo Radleys and Teenage Fanclub.
Click here to watch it on the BBC iPlayer.
Watch Upside Down: The Creation Story Now!
Fans in the UK can watch the documentary chronicling the highs and lows of the UK's most inspired and dissolute independent record label - Creation Records, founded by the maverick Glaswegian, Alan McGee.
It contains some great early footage of Oasis and features interviews with Andy Bell, Bonehead and Noel Gallagher.
Click here to watch it on the BBC iPlayer.
You can also watch Creation At The BBC
Performances by Creation Records artists including the Jesus and Mary Chain, the Loft, My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Primal Scream, Oasis, Ride, Boo Radleys and Teenage Fanclub.
Click here to watch it on the BBC iPlayer.
Alan McGee
Oasis
Primal Scream
Ride
Super Furry Animals
On October 28th 20011, BBC 4 is having a night devoted to Creation Records.
Upside Down: The Creation Story
On: BBC 4
Date: Friday 28th October 2011
Time: 9:00 pm to 10:40 pm (1 hour and 40 minutes long) (UK Only)
Millions of sales on both sides of the Atlantic, near bankruptcy, pills, thrills, spats, prats, successes, excesses, pick-me-ups and breakdowns - all spiralled together to create some of the most defining music of the 20th century. This is the definitive and fully-authorised documentary of the highs and lows of the UK's most inspired and dissolute independent record label - Creation Records. Over 25 years after Creation's first records, it follows the story from the days of the Jesus and Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine, Ride, Primal Scream and Teenage Fanclub to the Boo Radleys, the Super Furry Animals and of course Oasis, among many, many more. The label's enigmatic founder Alan McGee talks candidly of the trail which led from humble beginnings in Glasgow, via drink and drug dependency to being wined and dined at No 10 Downing Street by Tony Blair.
Creation at the BBC
On: BBC 4
Date: Friday 28th October 2011
Time: 10:40 pm to 11:40 pm (1 hour long) (UK Only)
A trip through the BBC archives from programmes such as Whistle Test, the Oxford Road Show, Top of the Pops and Later with Jools Holland to find some rare and some familiar footage of the bands who were on one of the UK's most seminal and important record labels, Creation Records. There's footage of the Jesus and Mary Chain on Whistle Test in 1985, and from the same year comes The Loft on the Oxford Road Show. The Loft morphed into Pete Astor's next project, the Weather Prophets, who performed on the Whistle Test later that year. My Bloody Valentine nearly bankrupted Creation but produced one of the label's flagship albums, Isn't Anything, while Slowdive were front runners in the 'shoegazing' scene. The 1990s heralded the halcyon days of Creation with the release of Primal Scream's Screamadelica and Oasis signing to the label in 1993. Thus followed a string of chart successes for Creation with Ride, the Boo Radleys, Super Furry Animals, Teenage Fanclub and, of course, Oasis.
Omnibus
On: BBC 4
Date: Friday 28th October 2011
Time: 11:40 pm to 12:30 am (50 minutes long) (UK Only)
Alan Mcgee - The Man Who Discovered Oasis.
A rollercoaster ride through the life and times of the man who has lived the rock 'n' roll dream. Alan McGee almost burned himself out with drugs and drink before finding the biggest band of the 90s, Oasis, and making a million in the process. Abrasive and honest, this is a no-holds-barred portrait of one of the most influential figures in popular music.
Thanks to Mr Monobrow
Creation Night On BBC 4 October 28th
On October 28th 20011, BBC 4 is having a night devoted to Creation Records.
Upside Down: The Creation Story
On: BBC 4
Date: Friday 28th October 2011
Time: 9:00 pm to 10:40 pm (1 hour and 40 minutes long) (UK Only)
Millions of sales on both sides of the Atlantic, near bankruptcy, pills, thrills, spats, prats, successes, excesses, pick-me-ups and breakdowns - all spiralled together to create some of the most defining music of the 20th century. This is the definitive and fully-authorised documentary of the highs and lows of the UK's most inspired and dissolute independent record label - Creation Records. Over 25 years after Creation's first records, it follows the story from the days of the Jesus and Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine, Ride, Primal Scream and Teenage Fanclub to the Boo Radleys, the Super Furry Animals and of course Oasis, among many, many more. The label's enigmatic founder Alan McGee talks candidly of the trail which led from humble beginnings in Glasgow, via drink and drug dependency to being wined and dined at No 10 Downing Street by Tony Blair.
Creation at the BBC
On: BBC 4
Date: Friday 28th October 2011
Time: 10:40 pm to 11:40 pm (1 hour long) (UK Only)
A trip through the BBC archives from programmes such as Whistle Test, the Oxford Road Show, Top of the Pops and Later with Jools Holland to find some rare and some familiar footage of the bands who were on one of the UK's most seminal and important record labels, Creation Records. There's footage of the Jesus and Mary Chain on Whistle Test in 1985, and from the same year comes The Loft on the Oxford Road Show. The Loft morphed into Pete Astor's next project, the Weather Prophets, who performed on the Whistle Test later that year. My Bloody Valentine nearly bankrupted Creation but produced one of the label's flagship albums, Isn't Anything, while Slowdive were front runners in the 'shoegazing' scene. The 1990s heralded the halcyon days of Creation with the release of Primal Scream's Screamadelica and Oasis signing to the label in 1993. Thus followed a string of chart successes for Creation with Ride, the Boo Radleys, Super Furry Animals, Teenage Fanclub and, of course, Oasis.
Omnibus
On: BBC 4
Date: Friday 28th October 2011
Time: 11:40 pm to 12:30 am (50 minutes long) (UK Only)
Alan Mcgee - The Man Who Discovered Oasis.
A rollercoaster ride through the life and times of the man who has lived the rock 'n' roll dream. Alan McGee almost burned himself out with drugs and drink before finding the biggest band of the 90s, Oasis, and making a million in the process. Abrasive and honest, this is a no-holds-barred portrait of one of the most influential figures in popular music.
Thanks to Mr Monobrow
Ride
Upside Down
‘Upside Down’ presents a special one-off event in London’s legendary 100 Club on Wednesday June 8th. After screening the film, we’ll be joined for a live set by ‘The Loft’. Mark Gardener will close the evening on the decks. A night not to be missed, in an iconic venue. Tickets are on sale here. now.
Meanwhile a couple of days later, on Friday June 10th, there’s a screening in Oxford, home of Ride and Swervedriver. Messrs. O’Connor and Gardener will attend what will be our most intimate screening to date. A very limited amount of tickets are still available here.
‘Upside Down’ And Special Guests At The 100 Club
‘Upside Down’ presents a special one-off event in London’s legendary 100 Club on Wednesday June 8th. After screening the film, we’ll be joined for a live set by ‘The Loft’. Mark Gardener will close the evening on the decks. A night not to be missed, in an iconic venue. Tickets are on sale here. now.
Meanwhile a couple of days later, on Friday June 10th, there’s a screening in Oxford, home of Ride and Swervedriver. Messrs. O’Connor and Gardener will attend what will be our most intimate screening to date. A very limited amount of tickets are still available here.
Alan McGee
Liam Gallagher
My Bloody Valentine
Noel Gallagher
Oasis
Primal Scream
Ride
Shaun Ryder
The Charlatons
The Clash
The House Of Love
The Jesus And Mary Chain
The Libertines
The story of Creation really is one of the greatest ever told - Creation Records that is.
Maverick boss Alan McGee, who signed Oasis and Primal Scream, started the label with a £1,000 loan in 1983 and sold it to Sony for £30million in 1999.
The self-dubbed President Of Pop ran his business fuelled by a cocktail of drugs until a major health scare panicked him into going clean.
He admitted: "I was on one continuous bender from 1987 until 1994. Until Oasis came along the Creation staff were more rock and roll than the bands we signed. Then Oasis came along and things got even crazier.
"I was permanently off my head on cocaine, ecstasy, acid and speed. We'd be awake for three days.
"We went one further than having dealers hanging around. We just employed them instead.
"But they were different times. If you behaved now like we used to people would phone the police."
Alan's label is up there with Factory Records from Manchester and America's Motown and Sub Pop as the great music independents of the past century.
He gave us (What's The Story) Morning Glory? by Oasis and Screamadelica from Primal Scream and dominated Nineties music in the Britpop era.
Alan's love of music was forged in his hometown of Glasgow, where he grew up with Primal Scream frontman Bobby Gillespie.
They went to see The Clash in 1977 and vowed to make something of themselves through music.
A new documentary, Upside Down: The Creation Records Story, captures the spirit of the label on film for the first time. It is now being shown in cinemas and will be released on DVD next Monday.
Alan, 50, said: "No one has ever managed to successfully convey what it was like in the eye of the storm. This film really captures it."
Creation are mainly associated with Oasis, the band McGee signed on a handshake with Noel Gallagher in 1993 after catching them at King Tut's Wah Wah Hut in Glasgow.
But it had all begun in the Eighties when McGee moved to London to start club night The Living Room.
He ploughed any cash not spent on drinking into the fledgling Creation Records and enjoyed his first hits with The Jesus And Mary Chain, The House Of Love, My Bloody Valentine and Ride.
A major turning point came in the late Eighties, when McGee heard acid house and persuaded Gillespie to take notice. Primal Scream were inspired to make their album Screamadelica.
Alan moved Creation into new premises in Hackney, east London, which became their operations centre for their most hedonistic years.
Alan recalled: "I went to the Hacienda club in Manchester one night and dance music suddenly made sense. Shaun Ryder was off his head leading 600 wild-eyed ravers on the dance floor."
The next few years were the busiest, with McGee signing bands and releasing records weekly.
He said: "During our creative peak in about 1991 I was motoring in all senses. I was banging records out but I was out of my mind too."
The year saw a run of Creation albums that are regarded as classics, including Screamadelica and Loveless by My Bloody Valentine.
But with Alan's industrial consumption of narcotics his attention to the business side of things was not as good as his ear for music.
He said: "Things got so out of hand I went to America and signed a deal for Shane MacGowan worth £300k. It wasn't until I got back home someone pointed out he wasn't even one of our acts."
It seemed the Creation rollercoaster was coming off the rails when Alan saw a new band called Oasis. It would change his life.
Alan said: "I was up in Glasgow seeing my dad and I wasn't sure I'd even go to the gig. I got there early by mistake. Oasis were on first, before most people arrived. There was this amazing young version of Paul Weller sat there in a light blue Adidas tracksuit. I assumed he was the drug dealer and that Bonehead, the guitarist, was the singer.
"It was only when they went on stage I realised it was the lead singer Liam Gallagher. I knew I had to sign them.
"Noel and I talked after the show and just said 'done' and he turned out to be a man of his word.
"I was lucky to be there. We didn't send out scouts. Most of my signings were because I happened to see new bands. That couldn't happen any more. If a new band as much as farts it's all over the internet."
During the early Oasis years Alan joined in the partying, which became wilder than ever.
He said: "We would jump on a private jet on a whim and fly to Brazil or LA for a party."
It all came crashing down on a visit to Los Angeles in 1994. Alan was staying at the Mondrian hotel when he felt so ill he called the reception desk for help. Soon he was being taken to hospital in a wheelchair and wearing an oxygen mask. He checked into a clinic and disappeared from the music scene for nine months.
Alan returned to watch the rest of the Britpop era from a clean perspective. He said: "The joy of running a record label had left me but there was a new feeling of having the biggest group in the world. It was a great two or three years."
The scene reached its biggest in 1996, when Oasis played back-to-back gigs in the grounds of stately Knebworth House, in Hertfordshire. By the end of the decade Alan had sold his remaining Creation shares to Sony for £30million - having already let 49 per cent go in 1992 for £3.5million to avoid bankruptcy.
Later he ran another label, Poptones, club night Death Disco and managed The Charlatans and The Libertines.
In 2008 he bowed out of the industry and moved to rural Wales with wife Kate Holmes and daughter Charlotte.
He says he hates everything about the modern music industry.
He explains: "I'd have to be doing sponsorship deals with coffee companies just to put a gig on. It's all about brands now and dealing with accountants."
Source: www.thesun.co.uk
Alan McGee Talks Creation, Oasis And More
The story of Creation really is one of the greatest ever told - Creation Records that is.
Maverick boss Alan McGee, who signed Oasis and Primal Scream, started the label with a £1,000 loan in 1983 and sold it to Sony for £30million in 1999.
The self-dubbed President Of Pop ran his business fuelled by a cocktail of drugs until a major health scare panicked him into going clean.
He admitted: "I was on one continuous bender from 1987 until 1994. Until Oasis came along the Creation staff were more rock and roll than the bands we signed. Then Oasis came along and things got even crazier.
"I was permanently off my head on cocaine, ecstasy, acid and speed. We'd be awake for three days.
"We went one further than having dealers hanging around. We just employed them instead.
"But they were different times. If you behaved now like we used to people would phone the police."
Alan's label is up there with Factory Records from Manchester and America's Motown and Sub Pop as the great music independents of the past century.
He gave us (What's The Story) Morning Glory? by Oasis and Screamadelica from Primal Scream and dominated Nineties music in the Britpop era.
Alan's love of music was forged in his hometown of Glasgow, where he grew up with Primal Scream frontman Bobby Gillespie.
They went to see The Clash in 1977 and vowed to make something of themselves through music.
A new documentary, Upside Down: The Creation Records Story, captures the spirit of the label on film for the first time. It is now being shown in cinemas and will be released on DVD next Monday.
Alan, 50, said: "No one has ever managed to successfully convey what it was like in the eye of the storm. This film really captures it."
Creation are mainly associated with Oasis, the band McGee signed on a handshake with Noel Gallagher in 1993 after catching them at King Tut's Wah Wah Hut in Glasgow.
But it had all begun in the Eighties when McGee moved to London to start club night The Living Room.
He ploughed any cash not spent on drinking into the fledgling Creation Records and enjoyed his first hits with The Jesus And Mary Chain, The House Of Love, My Bloody Valentine and Ride.
A major turning point came in the late Eighties, when McGee heard acid house and persuaded Gillespie to take notice. Primal Scream were inspired to make their album Screamadelica.
Alan moved Creation into new premises in Hackney, east London, which became their operations centre for their most hedonistic years.
Alan recalled: "I went to the Hacienda club in Manchester one night and dance music suddenly made sense. Shaun Ryder was off his head leading 600 wild-eyed ravers on the dance floor."
The next few years were the busiest, with McGee signing bands and releasing records weekly.
He said: "During our creative peak in about 1991 I was motoring in all senses. I was banging records out but I was out of my mind too."
The year saw a run of Creation albums that are regarded as classics, including Screamadelica and Loveless by My Bloody Valentine.
But with Alan's industrial consumption of narcotics his attention to the business side of things was not as good as his ear for music.
He said: "Things got so out of hand I went to America and signed a deal for Shane MacGowan worth £300k. It wasn't until I got back home someone pointed out he wasn't even one of our acts."
It seemed the Creation rollercoaster was coming off the rails when Alan saw a new band called Oasis. It would change his life.
Alan said: "I was up in Glasgow seeing my dad and I wasn't sure I'd even go to the gig. I got there early by mistake. Oasis were on first, before most people arrived. There was this amazing young version of Paul Weller sat there in a light blue Adidas tracksuit. I assumed he was the drug dealer and that Bonehead, the guitarist, was the singer.
"It was only when they went on stage I realised it was the lead singer Liam Gallagher. I knew I had to sign them.
"Noel and I talked after the show and just said 'done' and he turned out to be a man of his word.
"I was lucky to be there. We didn't send out scouts. Most of my signings were because I happened to see new bands. That couldn't happen any more. If a new band as much as farts it's all over the internet."
During the early Oasis years Alan joined in the partying, which became wilder than ever.
He said: "We would jump on a private jet on a whim and fly to Brazil or LA for a party."
It all came crashing down on a visit to Los Angeles in 1994. Alan was staying at the Mondrian hotel when he felt so ill he called the reception desk for help. Soon he was being taken to hospital in a wheelchair and wearing an oxygen mask. He checked into a clinic and disappeared from the music scene for nine months.
Alan returned to watch the rest of the Britpop era from a clean perspective. He said: "The joy of running a record label had left me but there was a new feeling of having the biggest group in the world. It was a great two or three years."
The scene reached its biggest in 1996, when Oasis played back-to-back gigs in the grounds of stately Knebworth House, in Hertfordshire. By the end of the decade Alan had sold his remaining Creation shares to Sony for £30million - having already let 49 per cent go in 1992 for £3.5million to avoid bankruptcy.
Later he ran another label, Poptones, club night Death Disco and managed The Charlatans and The Libertines.
In 2008 he bowed out of the industry and moved to rural Wales with wife Kate Holmes and daughter Charlotte.
He says he hates everything about the modern music industry.
He explains: "I'd have to be doing sponsorship deals with coffee companies just to put a gig on. It's all about brands now and dealing with accountants."
Source: www.thesun.co.uk
Alan McGee
My Bloody Valentine
Noel Gallagher
Oasis
Primal Scream
Ride
Super Furry Animals
The Jazz Butcher
The Pastels
Upside Down
Despite the absence of several notable characters, this documentary gives an interesting glimpse into the history of Creation Records
There's one great stroke of genius to Upside Down, Danny O'Connor's chronicle of the birth, glory years and demise of mouthy mogul Alan McGee's iconic record label. It's the lack of a voiceover: O'Connor eschews traditional narration in favour of nuggets of rock'n'roll wisdom, spoken by ageing Irish DJ, music guru and McGee's Death Disco co-conspirator BP Fallon ("purple-browed beep" in T Rex's Telegram Sam). Fallon is shot in monochrome and beamed onto a grainy 50s TV set – a move that ensures the film stays in tune with the vibe of the bands Creation championed: amongst others Primal Scream, My Bloody Valentine, The Pastels, The Jazz Butcher, Felt, Ride, Super Furry Animals, and most lucratively, Oasis.
The main players tell the story themselves in interviews spliced with archive footage from throughout Creation's 20-odd year history. There are some noticeable absentees - Lawrence from Felt, producer Andrew Weatherall, the Jesus and Mary Chain's William Reid and Liam Gallagher – and almost no points of contention between any of the talking heads.
At the end of the US premiere at SXSW, O'Connor explained the difficulties involved in getting all parties involved to appear – Jim Reid agrees, William Reid declines as a result, and so on. Lawrence (surely the biggest loss) was apparently very ill for much of the shoot. It's clear O'Connor takes his subject matter pretty seriously, and, as a result, this is a much straighter take on a label than that offered on Factory, Creation's contemporaries, by Michael Winterbottom's 24 Hour Party People.
For those already familiar with the story, there's little new to learn, but there are enough fresh interviews, plus plenty of airtime given to some of the lesser-known players (unsung hero Dick Green especially), to keep Upside Down interesting.
Obviously, the Creation back catalogue provides the soundtrack, including the Jesus and Mary Chain single from which O'Connor takes his title. It was the band's debut, the label's 12th release, and the one which really launched it; whose messy, exhilarating sound somehow sums up what Creation was all about. Upside Down indeed.
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Visit my newly launched Beady Eye fan site www.standingontheedgeofthenoise.com by clicking here.
Upside Down: The Story Of Creation Records - Review
Despite the absence of several notable characters, this documentary gives an interesting glimpse into the history of Creation Records
There's one great stroke of genius to Upside Down, Danny O'Connor's chronicle of the birth, glory years and demise of mouthy mogul Alan McGee's iconic record label. It's the lack of a voiceover: O'Connor eschews traditional narration in favour of nuggets of rock'n'roll wisdom, spoken by ageing Irish DJ, music guru and McGee's Death Disco co-conspirator BP Fallon ("purple-browed beep" in T Rex's Telegram Sam). Fallon is shot in monochrome and beamed onto a grainy 50s TV set – a move that ensures the film stays in tune with the vibe of the bands Creation championed: amongst others Primal Scream, My Bloody Valentine, The Pastels, The Jazz Butcher, Felt, Ride, Super Furry Animals, and most lucratively, Oasis.
The main players tell the story themselves in interviews spliced with archive footage from throughout Creation's 20-odd year history. There are some noticeable absentees - Lawrence from Felt, producer Andrew Weatherall, the Jesus and Mary Chain's William Reid and Liam Gallagher – and almost no points of contention between any of the talking heads.
At the end of the US premiere at SXSW, O'Connor explained the difficulties involved in getting all parties involved to appear – Jim Reid agrees, William Reid declines as a result, and so on. Lawrence (surely the biggest loss) was apparently very ill for much of the shoot. It's clear O'Connor takes his subject matter pretty seriously, and, as a result, this is a much straighter take on a label than that offered on Factory, Creation's contemporaries, by Michael Winterbottom's 24 Hour Party People.
For those already familiar with the story, there's little new to learn, but there are enough fresh interviews, plus plenty of airtime given to some of the lesser-known players (unsung hero Dick Green especially), to keep Upside Down interesting.
Obviously, the Creation back catalogue provides the soundtrack, including the Jesus and Mary Chain single from which O'Connor takes his title. It was the band's debut, the label's 12th release, and the one which really launched it; whose messy, exhilarating sound somehow sums up what Creation was all about. Upside Down indeed.
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Visit my newly launched Beady Eye fan site www.standingontheedgeofthenoise.com by clicking here.
Andy Bell
Ride
The Oxford music magazine Nightshift has an interview with Andy Bell and the other members of Ride in their Jan 2010 issue marking 20 years since Rides first recordings.
It can be downloaded for free by clicking here.
Source nightshift.oxfordmusic.net
New Interview With Ride For Nightshift Magazine
The Oxford music magazine Nightshift has an interview with Andy Bell and the other members of Ride in their Jan 2010 issue marking 20 years since Rides first recordings.
It can be downloaded for free by clicking here.
Source nightshift.oxfordmusic.net
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