• Mailing List – TV Appearance November 2001

    Mailing List – TV Appearance November 2001

    Below is an email sent out to all subscribers of the band’s mailing list following the band’s brief reunion in 2001 for a Sonic Youth tv show. tv news Just had a note from Channel 4 this morning that the Sonic Youth Pioneers thing that Ride reunited for last month is going to be shown…

  • Mailing List – Reunion October 2001

    Mailing List – Reunion October 2001

    Below is an email sent out to all subscribers of the band’s mailing list when the band briefly reunited in 2001 for a tv show. yesterday’s moment of surreality So yesterday at the John Henry rehearsal complex in North London, Andy, Mark, Steve and Loz all turned up, set-up, plugged-in and put together about an…

  • Pioneers Documentary

    Pioneers Documentary

    Channel 4 broadcast a show dedicated to Sonic Youth on December 12th 2001 in the UK. The show was part of a series of 10 minute documentaries about pioneering artists. Ride reunited just for the recording of the show on October 16th 2001. Prior to the recording of the show NME ran a news story…

  • Mailing List – Ox4 release October 2001

    Mailing List – Ox4 release October 2001

    Below is an email sent out to all subscribers of the band’s mailing list following the release of OX4. hello this is just a quick note to say that the web shop that sits next to my office here in Oxford has just had it’s stock in of the Box Set, the CD and Vinyl…

  • Mailing List – Ox4 release September 2001

    Mailing List – Ox4 release September 2001

    Below is an email sent out to all subscribers of the band’s mailing list to celebrate the release of OX4. today’s the day… …and so after three years of maybes and maybe-nots, the Best Of and accompanying Box Set finally make their way into the stores today. we have been overwhelmed by the reaction so…

  • Steve Queralt’s guide to Firing Blanks

    Steve Queralt’s guide to Firing Blanks

    Back in 2001 when I was running the Creation Records fansite I interviewed Steve Queralt upon the release of the OX4 Best of_ boxset. Below is the accompanying guide Steve wrote about the Firing Blanks album which has been lost in cyberspace for many years, until now…. What’s your favourite track? Tongue Tied or Something’s…

  • Live_Reading Festival 1992

    Live_Reading Festival 1992

    Ignition Records CD – IGN CD13C (available as part of box set only) Leave Them All Behind Taste Not Fazed Sennen Like A Daydream Twisterella Time Of Her Time Nowhere Vapour Trail Seagull Close My Eyes Mouse Trap All songs Ride Recorded live at Reading Festival 29.8.92 by Fleetwood Mobiles Mixed at Konk Studios, London…

  • Firing Blanks_Unreleased Ride Recordings 1988-95

    Firing Blanks_Unreleased Ride Recordings 1988-95

    Ignition Records CD – IGN CD13B (available as part of box set only) Something’s Burning Chelsea Girl (4 track demo) Blue Dreams Burn Down Dub She’s So Fine New Age Tongue Tied Everybody Knows I’m Fine Thanks Xmas Song King Bullshit Smile (4 track demo) Welcome To Paradise In A Different Place (differently) BarneyS All…

  • OX4_The Best Of Ride

    OX4_The Best Of Ride

    Ignition Records CD – IGN CD13A (available as part of box set only) CD – IGN CD14 LP – IGN LP14 Chelsea Girl Drive Blind Like A Daydream Taste Dreams Burn Down Vapour Trail Unfamiliar Leave Them All Behind Twisterella OX4 Birdman From Time To Time How Does It Feel To Feel? I Don’t Know…

  • The Box Set

    The Box Set

    Ignition Records 3 x CD (Box Set) (IGN CD13) CD1 OX4_The Best Of Ride (IGN CD13A) CD2 Firing Blanks_Unreleased Ride Recordings 1988-95 (IGN CD13B) CD3 Live_Reading Festival 1992 (IGN CD13C) Mastered at Abbey Road, London by Nick Webb. Distributed by 3MV/Pinnacle. Design & Art Direction by Tourist and Laurence Colbert 3 digi-pack CDs, with booklet,…

  • Mailing list September 2001

    Mailing list September 2001

    Below is an email that was sent to all subscribers of the maling list following the launch of the new RIDE website to promote the OX4 Box Set. “Well you lot have been busy. There are loads of you now on the re-vamped mailing list and here’s a little bit of news to keep you…

  • ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’ #23

    ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’ #23