EVEN for a city with a musical heritage as strong as Oxford, Ride are a very special band. For a start, Laurence ‘Loz’ Colbert, Mark Gardener, Andy Bell and Steve Queralt, are proper down-to-earth Oxfordshire lads, forming not at a posh private school but at college in Banbury – and picking up Steve at the Oxford branch of Our Price Records. Staying close to their roots, they played their first shows at the college and the city’s Jericho Tavern and Oxford Polytechnic – now Oxford Brookes University. Fame came knocking when a demo tape they had recorded in Steve’s bedroom was heard by Jim Reid of The Jesus and Mary Chain, who recommended the band to manager Alan McGee who snapped them up to his Creation Records label.
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This is also a company which makes snowboards and bindings I have a ride board and ride bindings, and so far they have worked well. A minor component fell off of my bindings, becuase i screwed it in wrong. But other than that, they are nice. The bindings are the strap-in kind, which although slower to strap in than the click-in variety, are much more supportive and don t get filled with snow. My board is a mountainier style, extra long and extra wide, and it kicks ass. I don t really have anything bad to say about my snowboard.
Ride’s Loz Colbert & Steve Queralt rework “Chrome Waves” & more as ID (stream their EP)
As singer/guitarists, Andy Bell and Mark Gardener get most of the attention in
Ride, but the shoegaze greats would be nowhere (pun intended) without the band s great rhythm section, made up of drummer
Loz Colbert and bassist
Steve Queralt. During quarantine, Loz and Steve began reworking a few Ride classics as a way to combat boredom, taking half the name and calling themselves
Their versions, originally uploaded to YouTube, include Chrome Waves, OX4 and Pulsar, done as dreamy, dubby (mostly) instrumentals. Those, plus Dub Jet, have now been turned into an ID EP titled