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Andrew Piran Bell (Born 11 August 1970, in Cardiff, Wales) is a British musician formerly of Ride, a 1980s and 90s British shoegazing band, and Hurricane #1. He currently plays Bass guitar and is a songwriter for Oasis, following the departure of Paul McGuigan in 1999. However, on latest albums, the band have taken less clearly defined roles and Bell was able to contribute guitar on his tunes. Image File history File links Andy_bell. ...
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1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ...
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Cardiff (English: Welsh: ) is the capital, largest and core city of Wales. ...
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A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ...
Shoegazing (also known as shoegaze) is a style of alternative rock that emerged in southern England in the late 1980s. ...
Britpop was a British alternative rock genre and movement that was at its most popular in Great Britain in the mid 1990s. ...
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At least two different record labels called Creation Records have existed. ...
Big Brother Recordings is a record label that has released records, singles, and DVDs by the band Oasis in the UK and Ireland since 2000. ...
Oasis are an English rock band, formed in Manchester in 1991. ...
Ride is a 1980s and 90s British shoegazing band. ...
Hurricane #1 were a UK indie band formed in 1997 by former Ride guitarist Andy Bell along with vocalist/guitarist Alex Lowe, bassist Will Pepper and drummer Gareth Farmer. ...
August 11 is the 223rd day of the year (224th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ...
Cardiff (English: Welsh: ) is the capital, largest and core city of Wales. ...
This article is about the country. ...
Ride is a 1980s and 90s British shoegazing band. ...
For the band, see 1990s (band). ...
Shoegazing (also known as shoegaze) is a style of alternative rock that emerged in southern England in the late 1980s. ...
Hurricane #1 were a UK indie band formed in 1997 by former Ride guitarist Andy Bell along with vocalist/guitarist Alex Lowe, bassist Will Pepper and drummer Gareth Farmer. ...
Oasis are an English rock band, formed in Manchester in 1991. ...
Paul McGuigan (born 9 May 1971 in Manchester), better known by his nickname, Guigsy (pronounced Gwigzee), was one of the four founding members of British rock group Oasis. ...
Ride Bell formed Ride with Mark Gardener (Guitar), who he met at Cheney School in Oxford and Laurence Colbert (Drums) and Steve Queralt (Bass), who he met doing Foundation Studies in Art and Design at Banbury in 1988. While still at Banbury the band produced a tape demo including the tracks "Chelsea Girl" and "Drive Blind". In February 1989 "Ride" were asked to stand in for a cancelled student union gig at Oxford Poly that brought them to the attention of Alan McGee. After supporting The Soup Dragons in 1989 McGee signed them to Creation Records. Ride is a 1980s and 90s British shoegazing band. ...
Mark Gardener (born Mark Stephen Gardener, on 6 December 1969, in Oxford, England) is an English rock musician, and former singer and guitarist with the popular shoegazing band Ride. ...
A display of international flags at Cheney School Cheney School is a UK secondary school located in Headington, Oxford. ...
Oxford is a city and local government district in Oxfordshire, England, with a population of 134,248 (2001 census). ...
Alan McGee is a British music industry mogul and musician famed for founding the independent Creation Records label which ran from 1983 to 2000. ...
At least two different record labels called Creation Records have existed. ...
With Ride, Bell released three EPs between January and September 1990, entitled "Ride", "Play" and "Fall". While the EP's were not chart successes, enough critical praise was received to make Ride the "darlings" of music journalists. The first two EPs were eventually released together as Smile in 1992, while the "Fall" EP was incorporated into their first LP, Nowhere, released in October 1990, which was hailed as a critical success and the media dubbed Ride "The brightest hope" for 1991. This was followed in March 1992 with Going Blank Again. The twin rhythm guitars of Bell and Gardener, both distorted, both using Wah-wah pedals and both feeding back on each other was seen as the highlight of the album's critical and chart success. Extended play (EP) is the name typically given to vinyl records or CDs which contain more than one single, but are too short to qualify as albums. ...
Despite having a solid fanbase and some mainstream success, the lack of a breakthrough contributed to inter-band tension, especially between Gardener and Bell. Their third LP, Carnival of Light, was released in 1994, after shoegazing had given way to Britpop. Carnival of Light was oriented towards this new sound, but sales were sluggish and the shift in musical tastes devastated much of their original audience. The band were joined at Creation Records by Oasis, who shot to fame in 1994 with their groundbreaking debut Definitely Maybe. As label mates, Bell came to know the bands Gallagher brothers quite well and often shared in their partying, if not their success. See also: 1993 in music, other events of 1994, 1995 in music, 1990s in music and the list of years in music. // Events January 29 - The Supremes Mary Wilson is injured when her jeep hits a freeway median and flips over just outside of Los Angeles, California. ...
Britpop was a British alternative rock genre and movement that was at its most popular in Great Britain in the mid 1990s. ...
Definitely Maybe is the highly acclaimed debut album of Britpop band Oasis, first released in 1994 on Creation Records. ...
1995 saw the dissolution of the band while recording fourth album Tarantula due to creative and personal tensions between Gardener and Bell. The track listing of Carnival of Light gives an indication of the tension that was mounting between the two guitarists, with the first half of the album being songs written by Gardener and the last half of the album being songs written by Bell - one or both had refused to let their songs be interspersed with pieces written by the other. Bell penned most of the songs for Tarantula, one of which - "Castle on the Hill" - was a lament for the band's situation and contains references to Gardener's self imposed exile from the group. The album was withdrawn from sales one week after release. See also: 1994 in music, other events of 1995, 1996 in music, 1990s in music and the list of years in music // January 18 - Jerry Garcia wrecks his rented BMW into a guard rail near Mill Valley, California. ...
Since the break-up, both Bell and Gardener have been able to be more reflective on the reasons why the group disintegrated, with Bell especially admitting his own part in the process. It appears that they had just been too young and too stubborn and had no real idea of where the band was heading when they changed their style.
Hurricane #1 Bell returned in 1997 with Hurricane #1, another Creation signing. Aware of his own vocal fragility, Bell had drafted in a more gutsy singer, Alex Lowe, who would sing the songs Bell wrote for him. The same year, they released their first album, also called Hurricane #1. Their first single, "Step Into My World", number 29 in the UK charts (a re-mix of reached number 19 that year), and other less successful singles "Just Another Illusion" and "Chain Reaction". Stuart Alexander Alex Lowe (1958-1999), was widely considered his generations finest all-around mountaineer prior to his October 5, 1999 death in a massive slab avalanche on Shishapangma in Tibet[]. The event also claimed the life of talented high-altitude cameraman David Bridges, 29, and injured climber — and...
Their second album, Only The Strongest Will Survive, was released in 1998 and the title track was released as a single reaching number 19.
Hurricane #1 drew criticism, bordering on ridicule, for their similarity to Oasis. Bell himself said "Hurricane #1 is not so much influenced by Oasis, it's inspired by Oasis". Ill-advisedly, they let one of their songs be used on a TV ad campaign for The Sun. Their albums did not sell well and in 1999 Bell took time out to tour as guitarist with the band Gay Dad. Look up sun in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
The Walking Man logo designed by Peter Saville for the cover of Leisure Noise Gay Dad were one of the last UK Brit rock bands to be launched in the late 1990s. ...
Oasis Around the same time as Bell was touring with Gay Dad, Oasis were looking for replacements for founding members Bonehead and Guigsy. Bonehead was quickly replaced with fellow Creation signing and former Heavy Stereo frontman Gem Archer. Guigsy proved harder to replace and the video for "Go Let It Out" had to be filmed with Noel on bass, Archer in Noel's role as lead guitarist and Liam in Archers role as rhythm guitarist. Whilst unsuccessfully testing other bass players (such as David Potts), Liam Gallagher read in Melody Maker thet Bell had left Hurricane #1 to join Gay Dad. Noel pointed out that Bell didn't play the bass, but Liam convinced him that Bell would make a suitable replacement for Guigsy. Bell jumped on the opportunity to join Oasis but was obliged to learn playing bass and the entire Oasis catalogue before his first Oasis gig at the last minute. As he had no part in performing on Oasis' 2000 album Standing on the Shoulder of Giants, he was originally payed the wage of a touring musician – about £85 a night. The Walking Man logo designed by Peter Saville for the cover of Leisure Noise Gay Dad were one of the last UK Brit rock bands to be launched in the late 1990s. ...
Paul Arthurs, (born on 23 June 1965, Manchester) is one of the founding members of British rock group Oasis and rhythm guitar player from 1991-1999. ...
Paul McGuigan (born 9 May 1971 in Manchester), better known by his nickname, Guigsy (pronounced Gwigzee), was one of the four founding members of British rock group Oasis. ...
A band that Gem Archer of Oasis used to play in, before he joined them as the replacement for Bonehead as a lead and rythym guitarist. ...
Gem Archer Colin Murray Archer (b. ...
Go Let It Out is a song by Rock group Oasis, written by the bands lead guitarist Noel Gallagher. ...
For other persons named David Potts, see David Potts (disambiguation). ...
Melody Maker, published in the United Kingdom, was (until its closure) the worlds oldest weekly music newspaper. ...
This article is about the year 2000. ...
Standing on the Shoulder of Giants is the fourth studio album by the British rock band Oasis, first released on February 28, 2000. ...
Bell is also a member of Oasis' songwriting team, contributing Heathen Chemistry's instrumental "A Quick Peep", Don't Believe the Truth's the snarling "Turn Up The Sun", and the uplifting "Keep the Dream Alive", as well as b-side "Thank You for the Good Times", which appeared on the "Stop Crying Your Heart Out"-single. Heathen Chemistry is the fifth studio album by English rock band Oasis, first released in summer 2002 (see 2002 in music). ...
Dont Believe the Truth is the critically acclaimed sixth studio album by Oasis, released on May 30, 2005 internationally and a day later in the United States. ...
Keep The Dream Alive is a song from British band Oasis sixth album Dont Believe the Truth, released in May 2005. ...
In recorded music, the terms A-side and B-side refer to the two sides of 7 inch vinyl records on which singles have been released since the 1950s. ...
Stop Crying Your Heart Out is a song by British rock group Oasis, written by guitarist Noel Gallagher. ...
As the token southerner, Bell is the butt of many jokes. On stage, during the Familiar to Millions album, in response to the arguing chants of "Noel" and "Liam", Noel Gallagher appealed for the crowds to "fuck all that "Noel" and "Liam" shit. Can I have everybody singing Who the fuck is Andy Bell?". Familiar to Millions is a live album by Oasis from their July 21, 2000 concert at Wembley Stadium. ...
Noel Thomas David Gallagher (born May 29, 1967 in Burnage, Manchester, England) is the lead songwriter, guitarist and occasional vocalist with the English rock band Oasis. ...
Liam Gallagher (born William John Paul Gallagher on September 21, 1972, Longsight, Manchester, England) is the lead vocalist for the band Oasis. ...
Bell is married to Swedish singer Idha. Together, they have a daughter named Leia and a son named Leon. He splits his time between Sweden and London. This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...
He claims to have written the song "Turn Up The Sun" in a forest near his Swedish home, on his own and high on drugs in the middle of the night. The song was the first track on 2005's Don't Believe the Truth and is now used to open their live shows. 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Dont Believe the Truth is the critically acclaimed sixth studio album by Oasis, released on May 30, 2005 internationally and a day later in the United States. ...
Swedish Projects Andy has been good friends with Magnus Carlson, the lead singer in Swedish band Weeping Willows. Together they have embarked on some musical projects. The two run and DJ at the club Bangers’n’Mash. During the fall of ’06 Magnus and Andy teamed up (with Swedish guitar legend Janne Schaffer) and performed at an event dedicated to late 70’s singer songwriter Ted Gärdestad. The Weeping Willows are currently in the studio working on their fifth studio album with Andy as producer and additional musician. A single is out in January followed by an album the following month.
In 2003 Andy collaborated with Stockholm based Irish-Swedish electronica/acid house duo DK7 on the tracks “Heart Like a Demon” and “White Shadow” for the “Disarmed” album.
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