ANDY BELL – The Grounding Process – 10″ EP – Frosted Clear w/ Green Splatter Vinyl

10″ EP – Limited Edition Frosted Clear Vinyl with Green Splatter. Stripped down Acoustic versions of tracks from Flicker. Only 1,000 copies pressed in this edition.

On my debut solo album The View From Halfway Down I did all of my promotion via Zoom and pre-recorded interviews and acoustic sessions, explains Andy Bellof the EP. I enjoyed making the acoustic versions and decided to do some more for this album.

Something Like Love is the most popular song from Flicker and one of the oldest, starting life in the 90s. Its probably the only one that dates back to the Ride era.

“The riffs for World Of Echo were written while I was on tour with Oasis, at the height of my Las obsession. It went through a few iterations from then onwards, but never had a final melody until last year.

“She Calls The Tune was the first song I wrote after I joined Oasis, ending a period of writers block which I had started going through some time in 1999. The very first performance of it was to an audience of Liam Gallagher, Gem Archer and Richard Ashcroft in a Milan hotel room. No pressure! I dont think I ever saw this as an Oasis song, but I have them to thank for the fact that I was able to write songs again at all.

Lifeline was another riff I came up with while on tour with Oasis. I remember being on a UK tour with Shack, and sitting around backstage on acoustics with Mick and John Head jamming around the Simon & Garfunkel version of Scarborough Fair. The riff for Lifeline followed soon after. It was always called Lifeline but I never found the right lyric for it until recently.” – Andy Bell.

Tracklist:

A1. Something Like Love(Acoustic Version)
A2. World Of Echo(Acoustic Version)

B1. She Calls The Tune(Acoustic Version)
B2. Lifeline(Acoustic Version)