Ride

Also, I was living in the States when the Today Forever EP came out! If I could find it, other people could find it!

(That said, I was kinda working at or involved with two college radio stations around the late 80s/early 90s)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Original-Album-Ride/dp/B00DDVPXW8/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1378297865&sr=1-1&keywords=original+album+series

Mark and Andy from last night. All of a sudden I feel very, VERY old.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/t1.0-9/p526x296/10532369_801204939899115_5382768225245488502_n.jpg

Where was that, The Social? I thought about going to that Lord Tarquin thing, but wasn't sure I could handle a geriatric scene celebrating itself. :-/

the scene that wets itself

Was just about to post this elsewhere:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6fEJ7q_MsE&feature=youtu.be

(Mark on new Telepopmusik track)

Now that the Year Of Slowdive is nearing completion, here comes the year of Ride.

It appears UK shoegaze outfit Ride is on the brink of a reunion. This morning, the band’s one-time label, Creation Records, posted a photograph of a Ride poster along with caption, “Ride Reunion 2015 photo from Primavera this morning,” and a #RideReunion hashtag. While the image has since been re-uploaded with one sans the caption and hashtag, the cat is already out of the bag: Ride appear set to reunite for the first time in over a decade for an appearance at this year’s Primavera Sound Music Festival in Barcelona, Spain.

over a decade?? that's selling it a bit short. they haven't played live together in almost 2! great news though either way.

acquaintance of mine saw Mark Gardner at some tiny solo thing a month or so ago and she said something like this was in the works.

Never understood why the Sonic Youth thing was worthy of being the sole occasion they previously reformed

Reunion officially on:

http://m.pitchfork.com/news/57511-ride-reunite-announce-world-tour/

what's Mark gonna do without the fringe?

just kidding. this will be cool

OH MY GOODDDDDD they better announce more dates

this is amazing news! have seen Ride around nine times.

Swervedriver are touring soon, too, I think.

live on BBC6 RIGHT NOW

http://www.roundhouse.org.uk/whats-on/2015/ride/
"RIDE are the band who slammed the door firmly shut on the (by then) flailing 80s pop movement and paved the way for bands like Primal Scream and Oasis to shine in the Britpop era."

Eh?

Someone is claiming tickets start at £27.50 for London on another forum. Anyone know what they are to be for the rest of the tour? Already got a Primavera ticket but thinking about Glasgow too.... hmmm

25 quid in Manc

That Roundhouse blurb is all sorts of wrong:

They helped Alan McGee’s label achieve its first UK chart breakthrough

I thought Primal Scream already had a top 20 hit with Loaded before Ride really got going?

http://i.imgur.com/nJME4H1.jpg

$35 for New York, not awful but wish it was cheaper. Oh well.

I also wish it wasn't at T5 but whatever

haha assumed nakhchivan photoshopped that hat in but no

a mix between The Stone Roses and Primal Scream with the swagger of Oasis (now with added fedora)

theres something about the 20 degree head tilt and the glum middle distance stare thats just asking for a roguish at director to gently lower a fedora onto it

*art director*

i was confused cos i thought dave gilmour had replaced mark gardener

but no, it's his whole thing now.

http://pearlsnapdiscount.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/upsidedownalandannyandmark.jpg

I thought Primal Scream already had a top 20 hit with Loaded before Ride really got going?

i think it might have been p close - ride's second ep went top 40 in either april or may '90, not sure when loaded charted specifically but it came out in feb iirc

I think the Play EP scraped into the top 40 for a week, but I'd say Loaded was earlier and got much more airplay.

Yeah, Everyhit confirms it. Primal Scream went top 20 in March 1990, Ride went top 40 (very briefly) in April 1990.

lol Hurricane #1 are back with a new line up as well.

well that's the support acts for noel g's gigs next year sorted.

although did i not read somewhere that noel had an issue with swervedriver, or was that just a creation styled myth ?

Hurricane #1 without Andy Bell obviously. They are probably still annoyed that he ditched them for Gay Dad anyway.

Hurricane One Pound - call them by their name.

Swervedriver / Ride double bill would be epic.

Saw Ride with Lush (Ride opening) in Detroit 1991 and it was epic. Also very loud.

agree, it would be a great double bill.

i saw ride in the sheffield octagon in autumn '90.

having listened to acid house/hip hop for years they totally kicked my head about.

i think the support was bleach.

^ it probably was, because Bleach were the support when I saw them in Kentish Town in Oct 90 (plus Slowdive, third on the bill)

no idea if there was a 3rd band as me and the gang had travelled down from leeds in a friends 'turd mobile' (i.e. a dirty brown austin allegro), and so, arrived later than we would have been had the gig been in leeds.

i do recall not being that keen on bleach though, but ride were immense.

Bollocks.

Meh. Went to the Roundhouse website and refreshed constantly until tickets went on sale. Even mere seconds after 9am I was 1,363rd in the queue. After 20 minutes I'm up to 200th. Not holding out much hope of getting a ticket at the moment.

it already sold out a few minutes ago

I was 689 at 9am

OH but maybe NOT bollocks, friend got through and has a spare. Just the 1 though so I'm still out a ticket for my wife and other friend who wanted to go.

xp - Yep, just discovered. Ah well. I'm sure they'll put more dates on.

remembered who that ride photo reminded me of...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v472/birdnestsoup/ride.jpg

For a horrible second, I actually thought that was Interpol.

I saw them in SF. The new song sounded pretty lame, and 1 or 2 of the oldies/goodies had audio mixing that didn't quite come together. Overall it was a great show though.