Tag: Ride

  • Listen to live recordings

    Listen to live recordings

    A few years ago I posted some live recordings on the website recorded in London between 1987 and 1992. The owner of these recordings has now started uploading lots and lots of full sets recorded during the era including many Creation acts. You can view the YouTube page here and there’s a subscribe button below.…

  • It was 20 years ago today!

    It was 20 years ago today!

    26th November 2000 was the date I first launched this website, twenty years ago!   The month before two books and a compilation album on the subject of Creation Records were released but there was still very little information about the music online. I had no plans other than to fill that gap. The legacy…

  • Ride announce new album ‘This Is Not A Safe Place’

    Ride announce new album ‘This Is Not A Safe Place’

    Ride have announced details of the sixth album due in August. Following their hugely successful comeback album Weather Diaries, Ride are to release a follow-up album via Dick Green’s Wichita label. This Is Not A Safe Place is released on August 16th and will be available as a colour vinyl alongside the standard vinyl and…

  • Goodbye NME, thanks for the good times…

    Goodbye NME, thanks for the good times…

    After 66 years the print edition of the New Music Express is coming to an end. For many decades it was the leading weekly music paper. It championed Punk, Acid House, Hip-Hop, Madchester, Grunge and Beatlemania. Sadly around the turn of the century it seemed to drop much of the music analysis to try and…

  • Ride announce new album Weather Diaries

    Ride announce new album Weather Diaries

    Ride will release their fifth studio ‘Weather Diaries’ on the 16th June via Dick Green’s Witchita label.

  • Watch Creation as specialist subject on Mastermind

    Watch Creation as specialist subject on Mastermind

    Mastermind is a British game show and on Friday contestant Emma McAllister chose Creation Records as her specialist subject.

  • Listen to Creation Records live 1987-1990 Vol. 2

    Listen to Creation Records live 1987-1990 Vol. 2

    After last year’s hugely popular Live In London compilation, it seemed only right to follow it up with another compilation of live recordings.

  • 1991 – The Year Creation Broke

    1991 – The Year Creation Broke

    Every Creation fan has their favourite era, but for many 1991 was year the label peaked musically. 1991 is often talked about in similar terms to 1967 for being a year of classic albums.

  • Listen to the Andy Bell remix of Spectres

    Listen to the Andy Bell remix of Spectres

    Andy Bell of Ride has been showing off his remixing skills by contributing a really excellent track to the new Spectres remix album ‘Dead’.

  • The Creation Records Spotify playlist

    The Creation Records Spotify playlist

    At over 3.5 hours long, the Creation Records Spotify playlist covers most of the 17 years of Creation releases. Featuring early favourites like Biff Bang Pow! Phil Wilson, Revolving Paint Dream and The Jasmine Minks. Then there’s the later years with Super Furry Animals, Bernard Butler and Sugar. Sandwiched between those are most of the…