“I hadn’t played bass to any great degree before I tried out for Oasis. When I was invited to come out and got on the plane, I didn’t have a bass”: Andy Bell looks back on crafting Ride’s mind-expanding shoegaze sound and playing in Britpop’s biggest band

The ‘90s were good to Bell. With Ride, there were the classic albums Nowhere and Going Black Again. Then there was Oasis. He looks back on a decade that changed everything – and the advice Blur’s Graham Coxon gave him about string bending