THE BEATNIKS  ![]() As told on Mal Ryder’s website, www.mal.it, he first began playing with an Oxford band called the Meteors, but he jumped ship when asked to become the lead singer for a better local band, the Spirits (formerly known as the Beatniks).  At that point, he began using his stage name, and the band became Mal Ryder and the Spirits.   (May 2015)  |