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16 February 2025
Artist: ANDY BELL
Who: Veteran musician best known as a member
of British shoegaze old-timers Ride and temporary
bassist for Oasis.
Track: APPLE GREEN UFO
Piece from his 5th solo longplayer,
named ‘Pinball Wanderer’, out on Feb 28.
Bell: “I had this riff on an acoustic and it was kind of like one of those Led Zeppelin folk bangers, but I brought it into the Serge Gainsbourg world and gave it a glass of absinthe.
The lyrics imagine if I met an alien and had to show them around Earth, what would I want
to show them? It also references The Simpsons’ Mr Burns (“I bring you love”) and ET (“If you’re lonely, phone home”).
I would like to highlight the ‘ring modulated’ fuzz guitar solo, which I couldn’t have made without an effect pedal called Randy’s Revenge’ by Fairfield Circuitry – my favourite company. This is not an ad!”
New Stone Roses track? No, actually
an old one, their 1989 cracker Fools Gold
Interpreted by the sound and vision of Andy Bell.
Similar tune, similar groove, similar swagger.