41-574: Walton Street may refer to: Walton Street, Oxford Walton Street, London Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Walton Street . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Walton_Street&oldid=1052015326 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
82-659: A Safe Place (2019) and Interplay (2024). Andy Bell and Mark Gardener had been to Cheney School in Oxford, appearing in the school's musical theatre productions, and in October 1988, they moved to Banbury to do Foundation Studies in Art & Design at North Oxfordshire College and the Oxfordshire School of Art & Design. There they met Laurence Colbert and Steve Queralt. Queralt, who also went to Cheney School ,
123-403: A group, for Carnival of Light Bell and Gardener would arrive in the studio with their songs more or less fully formed. Opening with the riff-heavy "Moonlight Medicine", tracks also include "From Time to Time", "Birdman" and a cover of The Creation 's "How Does It Feel to Feel?", which was released as a single. The album was not well received by critics, Bell explaining "These were good times but
164-773: A lot of influence on us in the early days as they were great gigs". Spacemen 3 , Loop , Dinosaur Jr. , the Fall , Pixies , the Beatles , the Rolling Stones , the Velvet Underground , the Stooges , Ultra Vivid Scene , and the Byrds also proved influential. The band recorded two sessions for John Peel 's BBC Radio 1 show in 1990, and their popularity with the show's listeners saw them with three tracks in
205-680: A tour stop in Bell's then home of Stockholm. On 19 November 2014, it was announced that Ride had reunited again for a series of tour dates in Europe and North America, in May and June 2015. On 10 and 17 April 2015, Ride performed at Coachella , following a live performance broadcast by KCRW on 8 April 2015. The band played many European festivals such as Primavera Sound , Best Kept Secret , Melt! Festival , Field Day , Pukkelpop and Øyafestivalen . They also toured America with DIIV opening. The reunion
246-491: A wider lack of interest in the shoegazing scene. Their third album, Carnival of Light , was released in June 1994, at a time when Britpop was the focus of the music press. Produced by John Leckie and partly engineered by Nigel Godrich (future Radiohead producer) – except "How Does it Feel to Feel?" by Black Crowes producer George Drakoulias – and featuring a guest appearance on keyboards from Jon Lord of Deep Purple ,
287-487: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Walton Street, Oxford Walton Street is on the eastern edge of the Jericho district of central Oxford , England . The street runs north from the western end of Beaumont Street and the northern end of Worcester Street by the main entrance of Worcester College . The Clarendon Institute building, which houses
328-683: The Festive Fifty that year, with "Dreams Burn Down" and "Like a Daydream" at numbers 3 and 4 respectively, and "Taste" at number 25. Nowhere was a critical and commercial success, reaching No. 11 in the UK. Demand for new material was high, and the band recorded another EP, Today Forever , released in March 1991. The EP marked a change in direction for the group away from the noisier early style. Ride made their first international tour to Japan, Australia and France later on that year. Tickets for
369-526: The Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies , is on the east side of the street. Somerville College , one of the former women-only colleges, also backs onto the street. The Oxford University Press (just south of the junction with Great Clarendon Street ) and the original location of Ruskin College are on the west side of the street, the former Church of England parish church of Saint Paul on
410-539: The UK Singles Chart . Both Going Blank Again and its 1994 follow-up, Carnival of Light , peaked at No. 5 on the UK Albums Chart . Ride broke up in 1996 prior to the release of their fourth album Tarantula , which received negative reviews. Bell joined Oasis in 1999 as their bassist. The band reunited in 2014 to tour again, and also put out the albums Weather Diaries (2017), This Is Not
451-715: The UK top 75 , with Play and Fall reaching the top 40. Ride' s top-75 placing was a first for Creation Records . The first two EPs were released together as Smile in the USA in July 1990 (and later released in the UK in 1992), while the Fall EP was incorporated into the CD version of their first album, Nowhere , released in October 1990. Bell said that the band kept putting out new material to remain fresh in listeners' minds, comparing it to
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#1732773385360492-416: The apse in 1853 and F. C. Eden remodelled the interior in 1908. In the 20th century St Paul's became a redundant church and, after deconsecration , became a theatre and arts centre. In 1988 the building was acquired by Secession Ltd. to prevent its demolition and opened as Freud café-bar. The Jericho Tavern is a public house and music venue at 56 Walton Street. In the late 1980s and early 1990s it
533-465: The 30th anniversary of Nowhere from 2022 to 2024, including a co-headlining "Between Nowhere" tour with The Charlatans (who played Between 10th and 11th in full) in North America. In November 2022, Ride announced that the band had been working on a seventh album, set for release in 2023 or 2024. On 11 January 2024, Ride announced their seventh album, Interplay , with the release of
574-591: The Animalhouse. As BMG signings, they were successful in Japan. The band was, however, short lived and split in 2002. On 16 October 2001, all four members of Ride agreed to be filmed by Channel 4 . The footage was used for the show Pioneers , a documentary on Sonic Youth , and featured a thirty-minute improvised jam . The recording of this song, plus two short sound checks, were released in 2002 as Coming up for Air . The interest in this limited release CD caused
615-761: The Infirmary from the street has been punctuated by a new pedestrian route to Woodstock Road and a health centre. In 2015, a new controversial building for the Blavatnik School of Government of Oxford University on the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter site, designed by Herzog & de Meuron , was opened immediately opposite the Oxford University Press building, dominating the location with its height (taller than Carfax Tower ), and resulting in further removal of
656-401: The album was split between songwriters Gardener and Bell, with the former's songs making up the first half of the album and the latter's the second. Not only did the album's sound eschew the band's earlier influences in favour of inspiration from classic rock , but the band's approach to songwriting also changed: whereas earlier material had mostly been developed by the band in jam sessions as
697-464: The band announced that their upcoming sixth studio album had already been finished, with the same producer as their previous album, Erol Alkan . The new album, called This Is Not a Safe Place , was released on 16 August 2019. Ride played the 2022 edition of the Primavera Sound festival, performing Going Blank Again and Nowhere in full on two separate days. The band also toured for
738-455: The band to consider future releases. In late 2002, Ride released a 3-CD box set which is made up of OX4_ The Best of Ride , Firing Blanks (Unreleased tracks) and Live_Reading Festival 1992 . In 2003 they released Waves, a collection of tracks from five radio sessions recorded for the BBC . Mark Gardener then pursued a solo career. From 2003 to 2005, Gardener toured extensively, sometimes with
779-403: The band was already apparent, Bell stating "By the time the second album came out we were touring too much. We were tired. We then took time off, but it was too much time off". Ride were able to see out 1993 riding on the success of Going Blank Again and a third album was keenly anticipated. A double weekend of gigs with The Charlatans that year ('Daytripper') kept them in the public eye amid
820-468: The band, however, were previously explicitly denied by Bell, with the reasoning that it would not live up to expectations. However, band members, Bell included, had stated that they would not mind working with each other again. Since then, Bell and Colbert have made an appearance at one of Gardener's early shows; Bell later shared two nights of acoustic sets with Gardener in November 2003 when Gardener made
861-602: The break-up, both Bell and Gardener have been more reflective about the group's disintegration, with Bell especially admitting his own part in the process. After the split, Andy Bell formed a new band called Hurricane No. 1 but this project was permanently dissolved when he was asked to play bass for Oasis after having turned down the opportunity to join Gay Dad . He lived in Stockholm during this period. Mark Gardener and Laurence Colbert joined with Sam Williams to form
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#1732773385360902-497: The chef Raymond Blanc ) and The Standard Tandoori. Oxford's main independent art house cinema, the Phoenix Picturehouse , is on the west side of the street. A number of cocktail bars and pubs can be found on Walton Street. Other shops include the speciality florist Daisies and Branca Delicatessen. Northwards the street continues as Kingston Road through Walton Manor , at a junction with Walton Well Road to
943-468: The east side is almost opposite the OUP and St Sepulchre's Cemetery is off the street to the west. The Oxford University Press is a neoclassical building erected 1826–30. The central part was designed by Daniel Robertson and the north and west wings by Edward Blore . Modern extensions were added in 1960–61 and early in the 1970s. The Freud café-bar stands opposite the Oxford University Press, and at
984-424: The group. Gardener walked out during the album's mixing sessions, and the band announced their break-up shortly before its release in March 1996. The album was released and remained on sale for one week before being withdrawn. Critics and fans alike had panned the album (although the first single off the album, " Black Nite Crash ", was awarded "single of the week" by weekly music magazine Melody Maker ). The album
1025-590: The head of Great Clarendon Street. The bar, which was opened in 1988, is housed in a grand neoclassical building with an Ionic portico. This building was constructed as the Church of St Paul, the first Anglican parish church to be constructed in Oxford after the Reformation. The new church and parish was created to serve the growing community of Jericho. The building was designed by the architect H. J. Underwood and built in 1836. The architect E. G. Bruton added
1066-665: The help of Oxford friends Goldrush , in order to personally fund a full-length studio album. During the tour, a three-track EP with Goldrush ( Falling Out into the Night ) and a live album (the acoustic solo Live @ the Knitting Factory, New York City ) were released. He also spent part of 2005 working with the French duo rinôçérôse . In late 2005, Gardener's album These Beautiful Ghosts was released in North America on United For Opportunity. Any thoughts of permanently re-forming
1107-484: The high stone wall behind the old Infirmary site. Exeter College has developed the former Ruskin College site opposite to the south for college accommodation as its Cohen Quad. Little Clarendon Street , a shopping street, links Walton Street with Saint Giles . There are numerous restaurants on Walton Street, often used by Oxford University students because of its central position, such as Branca, Loch Fyne , The Jericho Cafe, Arzoo, Brasserie Blanc (associated with
1148-491: The key pioneers of shoegaze , an alternative rock subgenre that emerged to prominence in the United Kingdom during the early 1990s. The band's first two albums, Nowhere (1990) and Going Blank Again (1992), have been critically acclaimed as two of the greatest shoegaze albums of all time. The latter's lead single, " Leave Them All Behind ", was the band's most commercially successful song, reaching No. 9 on
1189-504: The last half by Bell, who refused to let his songs be interspersed with Gardener's. By the time Tarantula appeared, the band was beginning to self-destruct. Bell penned most of the songs while Gardener provided only one - the tension within the band leading to an inability to write meaningful musical pieces. Castle on the Hill , written by Bell, was a lament for the band's situation and contains references to Gardener's self-imposed exile from
1230-483: The music took second place. When we recorded the Carnival of Light album we got indulgent". By the end of 1994 even the band themselves were critical of the album, referring to it within the group as " Carnival of Shite ". 1995 saw the dissolution of the band while recording Tarantula . Gardener and Bell had led the band away from their shoegazing roots to become more contemporary, hoping to change their style with
1271-627: The northwest towards Port Meadow and St Bernard's Road to the east, linking with Woodstock Road . Near the northern end of Walton Street, Observatory Street also links Woodstock Road to the east. 51°45′32″N 1°15′51″W / 51.75889°N 1.26417°W / 51.75889; -1.26417 Ride (band) Ride are an English rock band formed in Oxford in 1988. The band consists of vocalists and guitarists Andy Bell and Mark Gardener , drummer Laurence "Loz" Colbert and bassist Steve Queralt. They have been recognised as one of
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1312-473: The performances in Japan sold out within minutes. In February 1992 the band broke into the UK top 10 with " Leave Them All Behind ", and the following month saw the release of the band's second album Going Blank Again . However, its followup, " Twisterella ", disappointed and barely scraped the top 40 despite extremely high expectations, and Creation stopped promoting the album as a result. The band then embarked on an ill-fated American tour. The strain within
1353-534: The release schedules of the Beatles and the Jam . The band were often labelled as part of the "shoegaze" scene, but the band rejected this, Bell stating "my first reaction was like, this is another boring tag. These days...that's pretty much still my reaction". Gardener said of the band's influences "We liked the noisy bands of the time. When we were at art college we went to see My Bloody Valentine , House of Love , Stone Roses and Sonic Youth . I think these all had
1394-465: The summer of 1988 and played their first gig as Ride for the College's Christmas Party towards the end of the year. While still at Banbury, the band produced a demo tape, recorded in Queralt's bedroom and hallway, including the tracks "Chelsea Girl" and "Drive Blind". Queralt and his record shop boss and future Ride manager Dave Newton had started a live music night in Oxford called Local Support , and it
1435-440: The times. Queralt has remarked that the band had two future directions open to them, and they chose the wrong option. Gardener had become interested in dance music , and wanted Ride to incorporate that into their style, while Bell disagreed. 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 Mark Gardener and
1476-561: Was an important part of the music scene in Oxford, spawning the groups Ride , Radiohead and Supergrass . The central part of Walton Street has changed significantly as more areas are developed by the University of Oxford . The former Radcliffe Infirmary site on the east side will become the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter , a large campus for humanities research and administration. The long wall separating
1517-418: Was described by AllMusic as "an abomination of '70s/ Lenny Kravitz clichés, full of third- and fourth-rate tunes and, ultimately, bad blood", going on to say "the words are just plain awful throughout, not even worth printing". Rolling Stone were more complimentary, stating "the album is saved from maudlin self-obsession because it's rawer and rocks harder than anything else Ride have recorded". Since
1558-707: Was due to a cancellation by another band that Ride got their first proper gig at one of these nights. Jim Reid of the Jesus and Mary Chain heard a copy of the demo that was in the possession of the DJ Gary Crowley , and this led to interest from former Mary Chain manager Alan McGee . After the band supported the Soup Dragons in 1989, McGee signed them to his Creation Records label. Ride released three EPs between January and September 1990, entitled Ride , Play and Fall . All three EPs made it into
1599-431: Was originally meant for touring only, but after playing shows together again, the band decided that the experience should also lead to the recording of a new album. On 21 February 2017, the band premiered "Charm Assault", their first new song in 21 years. The next day, the band released another single, "Home Is a Feeling". On 23 March, Ride announced their first new studio album in 21 years, Weather Diaries . The album
1640-477: Was recruited from the local Our Price record shop where he worked as a singles buyer (although Bell and Queralt had already played together in an obscure reggae/pop band called "Big Spiderback"). After considering various names, the band settled for 'Ride', with its evocation of travel, and after the ride cymbal . Bell has cited a performance by the Smiths as the inspiration for forming a band. The band formed in
1681-479: Was released on 16 June 2017. It made number 11 in the UK album charts and gained critical and fan approval upon its release, supported by a tour of Europe and North America across the summer and autumn of 2017. On 27 May 2018 they played a hometown gig, as first support to James , in Oxford's South Parks, as part of the two-day "Common People" festival (the previous day had been in Southampton ). In March 2019,