Mark Stephen Gardener (born 6 December 1969, in Oxford, England) is an English rock musician, and former singer and guitarist with the popular shoegazing band, Ride.
Gardener formed Ride with Andy Bell (guitar), who he met at Cheney School in Oxford, and Laurence Colbert (drummer) and Steve Queralt (bass guitarist), who he met doing Foundation Studies in Art and Design at Banbury in 1988. While still at Banbury the band produced a tape demo inclu...
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Mark Stephen Gardener (born 6 December 1969, in Oxford, England) is an English rock musician, and former singer and guitarist with the popular shoegazing band, Ride.
Gardener formed Ride with Andy Bell (guitar), who he met at Cheney School in Oxford, and Laurence Colbert (drummer) and Steve Queralt (bass guitarist), who he met doing Foundation Studies in Art and Design at Banbury in 1988. While still at Banbury the band produced a tape demo including the tracks "Chelsea Girl" and "Drive Blind". In February 1989 "Ride" were asked to stand in for a cancelled student union gig at Oxford Polytechnic that brought them to the attention of Alan McGee. After supporting The Soup Dragons in 1989, McGee signed them to Creation Records.
With Ride, Gardener released three EPs between January and September 1990, entitled Ride, Play and Fall. While the EPs were not a chart successes, enough critical praise was received to make Ride the "darlings" of the UK music press. The first two EPs were...
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