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Post by webm@ster on Jun 19, 2003 11:20:37 GMT -5
These excerpts are from an UNDERTHERADAR Magazine Interview with Andy Bell . Topics Hurricane #1 and Oasis
Marcus Kagler: I wanted to ask you about Hurricane #1. How was being in Hurricane #1 different from being in Ride and Oasis?
Andy Bell: Well that was a strange kind of time. I had a really good time for those two years. It was only two years and we worked really hard. What I wanted really was to have my own little Oasis. It wasn’t something that I wanted when I first left Ride. You know it wasn’t like ‘Ride is finished so I’m going to go make a band straight away.’ It was just something that kind of happened. You know I fell into it and I loved Oasis anyway. That’s probably the reason why. Alan McGee was very much into proving he good do the Oasis thing again. So when I was looking about he was like, “Well, you’ve got all these demos you’ve done since Ride finished” because I’d come into Creation and played him so music. He said, “These are really good songs and you should put a band around yourself.” Because at the time I was doing the solo thing. I was recording and almost playing everything myself and I was doing the lead vocals. Alan McGee said, “Well, you could do this yourself, but why don’t you get a band yourself and get a fresh start and you can be the songwriter and the guitar player and you can relax a bit more.” In a way he was trying to say, “You can’t sing, you know. In the post Gallagher world.” Which is true.
Marcus Kagler: Are you satisfied with the material you did with Hurricane #1?
Andy Bell: Yeah. Looking back on it...of all the songs we released, which was two albums and B-sides I think we could’ve put together a really good album out of that. I don’t think that every track on the albums are good. I think about half the tracks on the each album are good. I think a few of the B-sides are really good and I think a few of the remixes are as well. So there is some good stuff there, but it was a weird old time.
Marcus Kagler: So were Noel and Liam big Ride fans when they asked you to join the band? Didn’t they tour with you at one point?
Andy Bell: Yeah, kind of. In the beginning Oasis or quite early on we did a last minute support slot with them which is one of the last gigs we did in England. There was kind of a cross over you know. When they first signed to Creation, me and Ida, my wife, used to see Noel and Liam around quite a lot in London because we were spending a lot of time in London. Either at Creation or going to Creation gigs. So we saw Oasis very early on a few times, and saw them at parties and got along really well with the guys we met which was Noel and Liam basically. Then Ride ended up supporting Oasis about two years later when Oasis was just breaking it really big. End of 95 or end of 94 or something like that, but anyway, we did a tour with them.
Marcus Kagler: So were you surprised when they asked you to join the band?
Andy Bell: Oh yeah. They were kind of Ride fans, but they knew me. They knew me about and they knew I had good taste in music and I think they thought Ride was kind of O.K. but someone that is in Oasis is not going to be a huge Ride fan because the elements in Oasis that are good are like opposite to the elements of Ride that are good. In a way they’ve got this really strident vocalist that just belts it out. It’s all about the attitude and there was no attitude in the Ride vocals whatsoever. We were all about the submergence of people. Or at least the sound of people. The sound of space.
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