Andy Bell (bass player)

Andy Bell (2001)

Andy Bell (born August 11, 1970 in Cardiff ) is a Welsh musician. He writes songs , sings and plays guitar , bass and keyboard .

Career

With one of the main formations of the shoegazing era, Ride , Andy Bell made a name for himself on the British music scene in the late 1980s and early 1990s . Together with Mark Gardener, as a singer, songwriter and guitarist, he formed the creative center of this band, which set a milestone in British music history with the album Nowhere in particular .

After Gardener's exit in 1995 and the associated end of Ride, Andy Bell founded the Britpop band Hurricane # 1 , for which he was the sole songwriter and lead guitarist . The band's first album, Hurricane # 1 , was released in 1997, included singles such as Just Another Illusion and Mother Superior, and received rave reviews from the music press; the second album, Only the Strongest Will Survive from 1999, was less convincing to critics. The band break that was called in as a result became a final breakup, so that Bell finally moved to Stockholm with his wife and children .

Later in 1999, Bell was hired by the Gallagher brothers as bassist for Oasis after founding member Paul McGuigan left the band. Bell, who had never played bass before, had to learn both the instrument and many older Oasis songs within a very short time before he went on an American tour with the band in December 1999. Later he also contributed his own songs for the band from Manchester .

After the breakup of Oasis and the departure of Noel Gallagher, Andy Bell was part of the group Beady Eye founded by the remaining four band members . Bell no longer played the role of bass player, but played the guitar parts together with Gem Archer. His successor on bass was the former gorillaz tour bassist Jeff Wootton.

Bell has been an integral part of the Ride band again since 2014.

Personal

Bell was with the Swedish singer Idha Övelius . married. They have two children, a daughter and a son. Bell stated in an interview that his left ear was numb from standing too close to Alan White's drum kit during the first Oasis tour.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Beady Eye
2. ^ Q Magazine, October 2008
3. ↑ The Gibson Video Interview: Beady Eye's Andy Bell . Gibson.com. Archived from the original on September 12, 2011. Retrieved November 28, 2015.

Web links

• Official website of Oasis