Joyrider were a rock

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 band

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 from Portadown

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, Northern Ireland

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. The band consisted of Phil Woolsey (guitar, vocals), Cliff Mitchell (guitar), Simon Haddock (bass) and Buc Hamill / Carl Alty (drums). Joyrider initially signed to Andy Cairns

Andy Cairns

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' Blunt record label

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, but after releasing their first two EPs

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 signed a recording contract

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 with Paradox Records.

The band's biggest hit

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 was a cover

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 of the Jane Wiedlin

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 song

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, "Rush Hour

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". They supported Terrorvision

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 on their May 1995 United Kingdom

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 tour.

Woolsey later played in the bands Ninebar International and Roque Junior.

Discography

• "Dweeb King" (EP, 1994)
• "Getting That Joke Now" (EP, 1994)
• "Seven Sisters" (EP, 1995)
• "It Moved" (EP, 1995)
• "Self Infliction" (Single, 1995)
• "Fabulae" (Single, 1995)
• Be Special (Album, 1996)
• "Vegetable Animal Mineral" (Single, 1996)
• "Another Skunk Song" (Single, 1996)
• "Rush Hour
  Rush Hour (song)
  "Rush Hour" is a pop song by Go Go's guitarist Jane Wiedlin, taken from her second album Fur. It was backed by a fellow album track, the percussive, melancholy "End of Love". The 12-inch single featured an extended remix by Rusty Garner and an instrumental version."Rush Hour" was Wiedlin's most...
  
  " (Single, July 1996, UK
  UK Singles Chart
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  #22)
• "All Gone Away" (Single, September 1996, UK #54)