Ride

Ride were formed in 1988 in Oxford by school friends Andy Bell and Mark Gardener, before recruiting drummer Loz Colbert at the Oxfordshire School of Art & Design and local bassist Steve Queralt. Like many young bands in the UK’s indie music boom of the 1980s, it was a shared passion for The Smiths and the incendiary aggression of The Jesus and Mary Chain that shaped their musical ideals, as well as the staggering progression of their fellow contemporary noise based bands My Bloody Valentine and Sonic Youth.