(c’95-’96) Adam Clark (vocals / guitar), Alex Bowen (bass), Pete Blyth (lead guitar), and Danny Moorhouse (drums)

In ’95, after Redefining Beautiful, Bowen joined Dry Riser. Later that year the band enter Wokingham based No Machine Studios where three Blyth written tracks: Colours, Doing My Head In, and Baby’s Back; with Clark co-credited for Colours. Engineered by Andy Aust, who’d go on to work on Larry Miller‘s recordings, and Neil Sadler, Safehouse Records, Farnham released Dry Riser’s The Bootleg Kylie E.P. [SAFE1CD] as a CD single, pitching it as a double A-side.

Cover of Dry Riser’s The Bootleg Kylie E.P

On 20 January ’96 the band supported Who Moved the Ground? at the West End Centre, Aldershot; and supported WMTG again on 21 March ’96 at The Warehouse, Fleet; along with Skipper. The release of ‘Best Farnborough Groove in the World – Ever!, Vol.6’ came layer in ’96 and carried Dry Riser’s Colours. The band also played at venues in the Camberley area.

The band would later morph into Sonic Blue. Moorhouse sadly passed in the late ’90’s.

Gallery:

Back cover of Dry Riser’s The Bootleg Kylie E.P
Dry Riser’s The Bootleg Kylie E.P CD
The Best Farnborough Groove in the World – Ever! Vol.6 carried Colours by Dry Riser. Image courtesy of Pete Cole
Dry Riser photographed by Lizzie Espinosa