Ride Live in Session: 6 things you didn't know about the shoegazing pioneers
Reacquaint yourself with the band ahead of their first radio session since 1994.
1) They don't consider themselves 'Shoegazers'
Although they're now hailed as one of the most significant shoegaze bands, Ride always denied falling under the remit of this initially derogatory term. (A termcoined by Sounds journalist Andy Ross (writing as Andy Hurt) who observed the bands tendancy to stare at their effects pedals throughout their gigs)
2) Ride and Lamacq go way back
Lammo was the first to review Ride in the national press in early 1990 with the release of their debut EP, featuring Chelsea Girl, which he described as a “buzzing burst of energy” and “something worth getting excited about.”
3) They borrow knowingly from film
'Cool Your Boots' gets its title from 1987 cult-classic Withnail and I, and opens with a line from the film spoken by Marwood: “Even a stopped clock gives the right time twice a day.”
4) But unknowingly from music
Even though Ride’s third album Carnival of Light is named after an unreleased Beatles piece created for The Million Volt Light and Sound Rave at the Roundhouse Theatre in 1967, they claimed to have never heard it before they made their album.
5) They're not all about the music...
6) But without the music of the Stone Roses there wouldn't be a Ride 'Resurrection'
