Mark Gardener
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Mark Stephen Gardener is an English rock
musician
, and former singer and guitarist
with the shoegazing
band, 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 eventually 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 debut album, Nowhere
, released in October 1990. Nowhere was hailed as a critical success and the media dubbed Ride "The brightest hope" for 1991. This was followed in March 1992 by the band's second album Going Blank Again
.
Despite having a solid fanbase and some mainstream success, the lack of a breakthrough contributed to inter-band tension, especially between Gardener and Bell. Their third album, Carnival of Light
, was released in 1994, after shoegazing had given way to Britpop
. Carnival of Light was oriented towards this new sound, but sales were sluggish and the shift in musical tastes devastated much of their original audience and critics alike.
1995 saw the dissolution of the band while recording their fourth album, Tarantula, due to creative and personal tensions between Gardener and Bell. The track listing of Carnival of Light gives some indication of the tension that was mounting between the two guitarists, with the first half of the album being songs written by Gardener and the last half of the album being songs written by Bell - one or both had refused to let their songs be interspersed with pieces written by the other. Bell penned most of the songs for Tarantula, one of which - Castle on the Hill - was a lament for the band's situation and contains references to Gardener's self imposed exile from the group. Gardener contributed only the song Deep Inside My Pocket, a bitter illustration of Gardener's view of Bell at the time. The album was deleted
from sales one week after release, but was re-released in 2001 along with the other Ride albums. Critics were almost universally negative regarding the album and almost seemed to view the split with relief.
" on the Shifty Disco
label in June 1997. This was part of the label's Single of the Month club, and was limited to 1000 copies only. It featured a rare B-side "Can't Let It Die (Home Demo In The Attic)". "Magdalen Sky" was featured on the year-end single compilation It's a Shifty Disco Thing Vol. 1. In April of that same year, Supergrass
producer Sam Williams released a Shifty Disco
single of the month Blah Na Na. Gardener and Williams played this song at a Gardener solo show in May, an event that led to the founding of The Animalhouse.
In late 1997, Gardener and Ride drummer (and budding songwriter) Loz Colbert joined with Williams and bassist Hari T to form The Animalhouse. The band began playing live shows, and received a good bit of attention from the music press as well as fans for its unique fusion of 60's style psychedelica, Britrock, and electronics.
Unfortunately, due to a variety of reasons legal and label related, the band did not release material until April 2000's Small EP. The album Ready To Receive followed in September, to great success in Japan, but limited success elsewhere. The long start up time, combined with label distribution and marketing issues, contributed to the disappointing sales, and the band soon disbanded afterward.
tribute television show. This reunion resulted in the 2002 release of a limited edition instrumental EP entitled Coming Up For Air. Gardener began playing solo shows in 2002, both in the United States and in the UK, supporting the Ride releases as well as his own newly written material.
Gardener toured extensively in the two years preceding the release of his first solo studio album, including many stops in New York City
. The tours ranged from shows featuring Gardener and a 12-string acoustic guitar to a full-backing band featuring members of Goldrush
. An early EP was released in late 2003 as a Mark Gardener/Goldrush collaboration called Falling Out into the Night
, which featured a Gardener song ("Snow In Mexico") backed by Goldrush, a Goldrush song ("Out Of Reach"), and a Ride cover ("Dreams Burn Down") featuring the two together. An acoustic solo show in April 2003 at The Knitting Factory in New York City
was released on CD entitled Live at the Knitting Factory, NYC. This release was a limited edition and was intended to help finance the recording of Gardener's first studio album.
Finally, Gardener completed his debut solo album in 2005, titled These Beautiful Ghosts, a collaboration with fellow Oxford musicians Goldrush
. In addition to Goldrush, other performers on the album include: Grasshopper and Suzanne Thorpe from Mercury Rev
, Gene Park, Cat Martino, Kaye Phillips, Clive Poole, and Sacha from The Morning After Girls. http://www.thewhitenoiserevisited.co.uk/2006/12/return-of-choir-boy-on-acid.html A limited edition version of These Beautiful Ghosts, featuring a bonus DVD with tour footage and other materials, was made available to anyone who pre-ordered the album from www.oxfordmusic.net. Due to unforeseen issues, this DVD was delayed for over three years, finally being finished and sent out to those who had pre-ordered the album in January 2009.
The album was produced and mixed by Bill Racine and Gardener. It was initially released in North America
on US indie label United For Opportunity, and in 2006 was also made available in Belgium
, The Netherlands, and Japan
. Further Europe
an, Australian, and South-East Asia releases of the album were scheduled in late 2006. A single for the album, "The Story Of The Eye", featuring a remix by Ulrich Schnauss
, was released on 7-inch in November 2006 by Sonic Cathedral, to rave reviews.
The tours and collaborative EP were what led to Goldrush's extensive participation on These Beautiful Ghosts. Sometime after the release of the album, Gardener and Goldrush had a falling-out, and Goldrush no longer accompanies Gardener to shows. He has continued touring, playing solo and with different performers, most notably Cat Martino, who appeared on the album, and since late 2006, a new backing band.
Gardener has also worked with a variety of artists, performing live, recording instruments and/or vocals, and producing during his post-Ride career. He has collaborated with neo-psychedelic rock band The Brian Jonestown Massacre
's 13th studio album, My Bloody Underground
, co-writing the song "Monkey Powder" with Anton Newcombe
, and contributing to and appearing on other songs on the album. Gardener and Newcombe recorded the BJM album predominately in Iceland
.
Gardener has also worked with alternative rock
band The Morning After Girls
(from Melbourne
, Australia
). He contributes vocals on the song "Fall Before Walking", on the group's debut album, Shadows Evolve
.
During touring for the album, Gardener has appeared on stage with both Andy Bell
and Loz Colbert, although hopeful talk of a Ride reunion has been dismissed by Bell, for now, saying that it "would not live up to expectations."
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
musician
Musician
A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....
, and former singer and guitarist
Guitarist
A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :The guitarist controls an extremely...
with the shoegazing
Shoegazing
Shoegazing is a subgenre of alternative rock that emerged from the United Kingdom in the late 1980s. It lasted there until the mid 1990s, with a critical zenith reached in 1990 and 1991...
band, Ride
Ride (band)
Ride were a British alternative rock band that formed in 1988 in Oxford, England, consisting of Andy Bell, Mark Gardener, Laurence "Loz" Colbert, and Steve Queralt. The band were initially part of the "shoegazing" scene. Following the break-up of the band in 1996, members moved on to various other...
.
Ride
Gardener formed RideRide (band)
Ride were a British alternative rock band that formed in 1988 in Oxford, England, consisting of Andy Bell, Mark Gardener, Laurence "Loz" Colbert, and Steve Queralt. The band were initially part of the "shoegazing" scene. Following the break-up of the band in 1996, members moved on to various other...
with Andy Bell
Andy Bell (musician)
Andrew Piran "Andy" Bell is a Welsh musician, currently playing guitar in the band Beady Eye. He is a songwriter, singer, producer, DJ and former member of the early 1990s shoegazing band, Ride, and later, Hurricane #1...
(guitar
Guitar
The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
), who he met at Cheney School
Cheney School
Cheney School is a secondary school located in Headington, Oxford, England.-Current:Cheney is currently one of the largest comprehensive schools in Oxford, serving the Headington and East Oxford area. It is the destination for students from numerous primary schools across the city...
in Oxford
Oxford
The city of Oxford is the county town of Oxfordshire, England. The city, made prominent by its medieval university, has a population of just under 165,000, with 153,900 living within the district boundary. It lies about 50 miles north-west of London. The rivers Cherwell and Thames run through...
, and Laurence Colbert (drummer
Drummer
A drummer is a musician who is capable of playing drums, which includes but is not limited to a drum kit and accessory based hardware which includes an assortment of pedals and standing support mechanisms, marching percussion and/or any musical instrument that is struck within the context of a...
) and Steve Queralt (bass guitarist), who he met doing Foundation Studies in Art
Art
Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....
and Design
Design
Design as a noun informally refers to a plan or convention for the construction of an object or a system while “to design” refers to making this plan...
at Banbury
Banbury
Banbury is a market town and civil parish on the River Cherwell in the Cherwell District of Oxfordshire. It is northwest of London, southeast of Birmingham, south of Coventry and north northwest of the county town of Oxford...
in 1988. While still at Banbury
Banbury
Banbury is a market town and civil parish on the River Cherwell in the Cherwell District of Oxfordshire. It is northwest of London, southeast of Birmingham, south of Coventry and north northwest of the county town of Oxford...
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
Alan McGee
Alan McGee has been a record label owner, musician, manager, and music blogger for The Guardian.McGee is best-known for co-forming and running the independent Creation Records label from 1983–1999, and then Poptones from 1999-2007...
. After supporting The Soup Dragons
The Soup Dragons
The Soup Dragons were a Scottish alternative rock band of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Named after a character in the 1970s children's television show Clangers, the group is best known for its cover of the Rolling Stones' song "I'm Free."-History:...
in 1989, McGee signed them to Creation Records
Creation Records
Creation Records was a British independent record label headed by Alan McGee. Along with Dick Green and Joe Foster, McGee founded Creation in 1983. The label lasted until its demise in 1999. The name came from the 1960s band The Creation , whom McGee greatly admired. McGee, Green and Foster were...
.
With Ride, Gardener released three EPs between January and September 1990, entitled Ride
Ride (EP)
Ride is an extended player by British band Ride. Their first official release, the EP came out in 1990 on the Creation Records label.The EP was combined with its follow-up Play to form the Smile mini-album for the US market in July, 1990...
, Play
Play (EP)
Play is the second extended player by British band Ride.The EP was combined with its predecessor Ride to form the Smile mini-album for the US market in July, 1990...
and Fall. While the EPs were not a chart successes, enough critical praise was received to make Ride
Ride (band)
Ride were a British alternative rock band that formed in 1988 in Oxford, England, consisting of Andy Bell, Mark Gardener, Laurence "Loz" Colbert, and Steve Queralt. The band were initially part of the "shoegazing" scene. Following the break-up of the band in 1996, members moved on to various other...
the "darlings" of the UK music press
Music journalism
Music journalism is criticism and reportage about music. It began in the eighteenth century as comment on what is now thought of as 'classical music'. This aspect of music journalism, today often referred to as music criticism , comprises the study, discussion, evaluation, and interpretation of...
. The first two EPs were eventually released together as Smile
Smile (Ride album)
Smile is an album by British shoegazing band Ride. It is a compilation of Ride's first two EPs, Ride and Play, both of which were originally released in the first half of 1990. The album was first released by Sire Records, in July, 1990, for the North American market, in lieu of the two original...
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 debut album, Nowhere
Nowhere (album)
Nowhere is the debut album by British shoegazing band Ride. The album was released by Creation Records on 15 October 1990. Allmusic has cited the album as one of the greatest albums of the shoegazing genre, second only to My Bloody Valentine's Loveless...
, released in October 1990. Nowhere was hailed as a critical success and the media dubbed Ride "The brightest hope" for 1991. This was followed in March 1992 by the band's second album Going Blank Again
Going Blank Again
Going Blank Again is the second studio album by British alternative rock band Ride, released in March 1992 on Creation Records. It was produced by Alan Moulder, and peaked at #5 in the UK Albums Chart...
.
Despite having a solid fanbase and some mainstream success, the lack of a breakthrough contributed to inter-band tension, especially between Gardener and Bell. Their third album, Carnival of Light
Carnival of Light (album)
Carnival of Light is the third studio album by British alternative rock band Ride, released in June 1994 via Creation Records. "How Does It Feel to Feel?" is a cover of a song by The Creation...
, was released in 1994, after shoegazing had given way to Britpop
Britpop
Britpop is a subgenre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom. Britpop emerged from the British independent music scene of the early 1990s and was characterised by bands influenced by British guitar pop music of the 1960s and 1970s...
. Carnival of Light was oriented towards this new sound, but sales were sluggish and the shift in musical tastes devastated much of their original audience and critics alike.
1995 saw the dissolution of the band while recording their fourth album, Tarantula, due to creative and personal tensions between Gardener and Bell. The track listing of Carnival of Light gives some indication of the tension that was mounting between the two guitarists, with the first half of the album being songs written by Gardener and the last half of the album being songs written by Bell - one or both had refused to let their songs be interspersed with pieces written by the other. Bell penned most of the songs for Tarantula, one of which - Castle on the Hill - was a lament for the band's situation and contains references to Gardener's self imposed exile from the group. Gardener contributed only the song Deep Inside My Pocket, a bitter illustration of Gardener's view of Bell at the time. The album was deleted
Deletion (music industry)
Deletion is a music industry term referring to the removal of a record or records from a label's official catalog, so that it is out of print, but usually at a record artist's request....
from sales one week after release, but was re-released in 2001 along with the other Ride albums. Critics were almost universally negative regarding the album and almost seemed to view the split with relief.
The Animalhouse
After leaving Ride, Gardener released the limited edition single "Magdalen SkyMagdalen Sky
"Magdalen Sky" is a song written by Mark Gardener and Kaye Denham. The song was released as Gardener's debut solo single in June 1997 by Shifty Disco Records, following the 1996 break-up of Gardener's previous band Ride. The single was part of Shifty Disco's "Single of the Month" club and had a...
" on the Shifty Disco
Shifty Disco
Shifty Disco is a British independent record label based in Oxford, England.The label was started by local enthusiasts in January 1997 and their early releases were often featured by John Peel on his BBC Radio 1 show...
label in June 1997. This was part of the label's Single of the Month club, and was limited to 1000 copies only. It featured a rare B-side "Can't Let It Die (Home Demo In The Attic)". "Magdalen Sky" was featured on the year-end single compilation It's a Shifty Disco Thing Vol. 1. In April of that same year, Supergrass
Supergrass
Supergrass was an English alternative rock band from Oxford. The band consisted of brothers Gaz and Rob Coombes , Mick Quinn and Danny Goffey ....
producer Sam Williams released a Shifty Disco
Shifty Disco
Shifty Disco is a British independent record label based in Oxford, England.The label was started by local enthusiasts in January 1997 and their early releases were often featured by John Peel on his BBC Radio 1 show...
single of the month Blah Na Na. Gardener and Williams played this song at a Gardener solo show in May, an event that led to the founding of The Animalhouse.
In late 1997, Gardener and Ride drummer (and budding songwriter) Loz Colbert joined with Williams and bassist Hari T to form The Animalhouse. The band began playing live shows, and received a good bit of attention from the music press as well as fans for its unique fusion of 60's style psychedelica, Britrock, and electronics.
Unfortunately, due to a variety of reasons legal and label related, the band did not release material until April 2000's Small EP. The album Ready To Receive followed in September, to great success in Japan, but limited success elsewhere. The long start up time, combined with label distribution and marketing issues, contributed to the disappointing sales, and the band soon disbanded afterward.
Solo
After the demise of The Animalhouse, Gardener moved to France and retreated from the music business. But it was not to last; while visiting his sister he began playing an acoustic guitar, re-learning old songs and writing new ones. Meanwhile, interest in Ride increased upon the release of a greatest hits record which Gardener and his former bandmates participated in selecting the songs for. This was followed by a box set, remastered re-issues of all of Ride's albums and a one-off "reunion" recorded for a Sonic YouthSonic Youth
Sonic Youth is an American alternative rock band from New York City, formed in 1981. The current lineup consists of Thurston Moore , Kim Gordon , Lee Ranaldo , Steve Shelley , and Mark Ibold .In their early career, Sonic Youth was associated with the No Wave art and music scene in New York City...
tribute television show. This reunion resulted in the 2002 release of a limited edition instrumental EP entitled Coming Up For Air. Gardener began playing solo shows in 2002, both in the United States and in the UK, supporting the Ride releases as well as his own newly written material.
Gardener toured extensively in the two years preceding the release of his first solo studio album, including many stops in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
. The tours ranged from shows featuring Gardener and a 12-string acoustic guitar to a full-backing band featuring members of Goldrush
Goldrush (band)
Goldrush are a rock band from Oxfordshire, England. Their music has been compared to Nick Drake, The Byrds, The Flaming Lips and Grandaddy. The band centres around brothers Robin and Joe Bennett. The other members are Garo , Growler and Graham Roby...
. An early EP was released in late 2003 as a Mark Gardener/Goldrush collaboration called Falling Out into the Night
Falling Out Into The Night
Falling Out into the Night is an EP by Mark Gardener and Goldrush, released in November 2003 on Truck Records. The EP followed on the heels of a number of live performances that featured the members of Goldrush as Mark Gardener's backing band. The EP includes the Gardener-penned song "Snow in...
, which featured a Gardener song ("Snow In Mexico") backed by Goldrush, a Goldrush song ("Out Of Reach"), and a Ride cover ("Dreams Burn Down") featuring the two together. An acoustic solo show in April 2003 at The Knitting Factory in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
was released on CD entitled Live at the Knitting Factory, NYC. This release was a limited edition and was intended to help finance the recording of Gardener's first studio album.
Finally, Gardener completed his debut solo album in 2005, titled These Beautiful Ghosts, a collaboration with fellow Oxford musicians Goldrush
Goldrush (band)
Goldrush are a rock band from Oxfordshire, England. Their music has been compared to Nick Drake, The Byrds, The Flaming Lips and Grandaddy. The band centres around brothers Robin and Joe Bennett. The other members are Garo , Growler and Graham Roby...
. In addition to Goldrush, other performers on the album include: Grasshopper and Suzanne Thorpe from Mercury Rev
Mercury Rev
Mercury Rev is an American alternative rock group, that formed in the late 1980s in Buffalo, New York. Original personnel were David Baker , Jonathan Donahue , Sean Mackowiak, a.k.a...
, Gene Park, Cat Martino, Kaye Phillips, Clive Poole, and Sacha from The Morning After Girls. http://www.thewhitenoiserevisited.co.uk/2006/12/return-of-choir-boy-on-acid.html A limited edition version of These Beautiful Ghosts, featuring a bonus DVD with tour footage and other materials, was made available to anyone who pre-ordered the album from www.oxfordmusic.net. Due to unforeseen issues, this DVD was delayed for over three years, finally being finished and sent out to those who had pre-ordered the album in January 2009.
The album was produced and mixed by Bill Racine and Gardener. It was initially released in North America
North America
North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...
on US indie label United For Opportunity, and in 2006 was also made available in Belgium
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
, The Netherlands, and Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
. Further Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
an, Australian, and South-East Asia releases of the album were scheduled in late 2006. A single for the album, "The Story Of The Eye", featuring a remix by Ulrich Schnauss
Ulrich Schnauss
-Biography:Ulrich Schnauss was born in the northern German seaport of Kiel in 1977. He became interested in a range of music: My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Tangerine Dream, Chapterhouse, and early bleep & breakbeat tracks...
, was released on 7-inch in November 2006 by Sonic Cathedral, to rave reviews.
The tours and collaborative EP were what led to Goldrush's extensive participation on These Beautiful Ghosts. Sometime after the release of the album, Gardener and Goldrush had a falling-out, and Goldrush no longer accompanies Gardener to shows. He has continued touring, playing solo and with different performers, most notably Cat Martino, who appeared on the album, and since late 2006, a new backing band.
Gardener has also worked with a variety of artists, performing live, recording instruments and/or vocals, and producing during his post-Ride career. He has collaborated with neo-psychedelic rock band The Brian Jonestown Massacre
The Brian Jonestown Massacre
The Brian Jonestown Massacre is an American eclectic musical group led by Anton Newcombe, whose music spans multiple genres including psychedelia, electronica, folk music, blues, experimental music, and many others....
's 13th studio album, My Bloody Underground
My Bloody Underground
My Bloody Underground is the eleventh studio album by The Brian Jonestown Massacre, released on April 15, 2008 on A Records, a label set up by the band's leader, Anton Newcombe.-Background:...
, co-writing the song "Monkey Powder" with Anton Newcombe
Anton Newcombe
Anton Alfred Newcombe is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and leader of the music group, The Brian Jonestown Massacre.-Music:...
, and contributing to and appearing on other songs on the album. Gardener and Newcombe recorded the BJM album predominately in Iceland
Iceland
Iceland , described as the Republic of Iceland, is a Nordic and European island country in the North Atlantic Ocean, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Iceland also refers to the main island of the country, which contains almost all the population and almost all the land area. The country has a population...
.
Gardener has also worked with alternative rock
Alternative rock
Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...
band The Morning After Girls
The Morning After Girls
The Morning After Girls are an Australian neo-psychedelia band. The group was originally formed in Melbourne, Victoria around 2003 by founding members Sacha Lucashenko and Martin B. Sleeman , who relocated the group to New York City in 2008...
(from Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
). He contributes vocals on the song "Fall Before Walking", on the group's debut album, Shadows Evolve
Shadows Evolve
Shadows Evolve is the debut studio album by Australian neo-psychedelia band The Morning After Girls, released in 2005.-Track listing:...
.
During touring for the album, Gardener has appeared on stage with both Andy Bell
Andy Bell (musician)
Andrew Piran "Andy" Bell is a Welsh musician, currently playing guitar in the band Beady Eye. He is a songwriter, singer, producer, DJ and former member of the early 1990s shoegazing band, Ride, and later, Hurricane #1...
and Loz Colbert, although hopeful talk of a Ride reunion has been dismissed by Bell, for now, saying that it "would not live up to expectations."
Albums
- Live at the Knitting Factory, NYC (2004)
- These Beautiful Ghosts (11 October 2005)
Singles/EPs
- Magdalen SkyMagdalen Sky"Magdalen Sky" is a song written by Mark Gardener and Kaye Denham. The song was released as Gardener's debut solo single in June 1997 by Shifty Disco Records, following the 1996 break-up of Gardener's previous band Ride. The single was part of Shifty Disco's "Single of the Month" club and had a...
(30 June 1997) - Falling Out into the NightFalling Out Into The NightFalling Out into the Night is an EP by Mark Gardener and Goldrush, released in November 2003 on Truck Records. The EP followed on the heels of a number of live performances that featured the members of Goldrush as Mark Gardener's backing band. The EP includes the Gardener-penned song "Snow in...
EP (4 November 2003) - The Story Of The Eye (Ulrich Schnauss Mix) (20 November 2006)
Compilation Appearances
- It's A Shifty Disco Thing Vol. 1 (December 1997) - Magdalen Sky
- 0-60 In Five Years (2002) - Magdalen Sky
- Flirt (August 6, 2003) - See What You Get (acoustic)
- Sunsets and Silhouettes (2004) - Snow In Mexico
Guest Spots and Collaborations
- Man With No NameMan with No NameThe man with no name is a stock character in Western films, but the term usually applies specifically to the character played by Clint Eastwood in Sergio Leone's "Dollars Trilogy."...
- The First Day single (1998) - Vocals/Co-Writer - MeisterMeisterMeister means master in German . The word is akin to maestro. Many modern day German police forces use the title Meister. During the Second World War, Meister was the highest enlisted rank of the Ordnungspolizei.Meister has been borrowed into English slang, where it is used in compound nouns...
- Above The Clouds (Single) ~ BECK O.S.T (2004) - Vocals - Jam & SpoonJam & SpoonJam & Spoon was an electronic dance duo from Frankfurt, Germany, that consisted of composers and producers Rolf Ellmer and Markus Löffel . They also worked under the pseudonyms Tokyo Ghetto Pussy, Storm and Big Room...
- Mary Jane (2004) - Vocals - The Morning After GirlsThe Morning After GirlsThe Morning After Girls are an Australian neo-psychedelia band. The group was originally formed in Melbourne, Victoria around 2003 by founding members Sacha Lucashenko and Martin B. Sleeman , who relocated the group to New York City in 2008...
- Morning After Girls (2005) - Vocals - The Morning After GirlsThe Morning After GirlsThe Morning After Girls are an Australian neo-psychedelia band. The group was originally formed in Melbourne, Victoria around 2003 by founding members Sacha Lucashenko and Martin B. Sleeman , who relocated the group to New York City in 2008...
- Shadows Evolve (2005) - Vocals - RinoceroseRinôçérôseRinôçérôse is a French band founded by Jean-Philippe Freu and Patrice Carrié that mixes rock music and electronic dance music. The duo of musicians also work as psychologists, calling themselves, "Psychologists by day, musicians by night". They compose music in English, French, and German...
- Schizophrenia (2005) - Vocals - RinoceroseRinôçérôseRinôçérôse is a French band founded by Jean-Philippe Freu and Patrice Carrié that mixes rock music and electronic dance music. The duo of musicians also work as psychologists, calling themselves, "Psychologists by day, musicians by night". They compose music in English, French, and German...
- Rinocerose (2006) - Vocals/Co-Writer - The Tamborines - Sally O'Gannon (2006) - Backing Vocals
- Brian Jonestown Massacre - Monkey Powder (2008) - Vocals/Co-Writer