Ride

http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~torsten/Music/Slowdive/

My challop = Ride are BETTER than MBV!

=D

yeah yeahhhhh stirring the pot with a heavy spoooooon

props to you for finding a thread on ILX about ANY BAND whatsoever with < a dozen posts

thanks, dell

people must really not care about RIDE

and despite my newfound love for 'loveless', i'd still say that swervedriver is better that either of them.

that's the spirit! =D

I disagree but admire your transgressive spunk

you have skewere my preconceptions like so much lamb on a BBQ

that may be so, but hopefully we can both agree on the fact that 18 wheeler were shyte.

in whatever guise they tried out, : fey indie, grunge'd up guitars, william orbit sanctioned dance beats

I seem to recall having an 18 wheeler 10" of the fey indie variety

where did all my records go?

i think one of my worst and possibly most embarrassing life decisions occurred around the turn of the millennium when i took the british music press at face value and bought a bunch of shitty records that came out on alan mcgee's label

I did something like that, I was young and didn't need the money

ha, me too, but i'm still bitter obv!

like, cosmic rough riders were akin to country-era byrds in precisely the same way that the narrator of "horse with no name" had ingested real acid.

and montgolfier brothers were the new felt/durutti column just as the alarm were the u2 done right

my brother loved the montgolfier brothers. Are you in your very early 30s/perhaps just turned 30? I was already slightly too cynical for that period of UK hype.

erm uh

uh

i turned 30 in 2002

gulp

hahaaaaa

good for you, old man

you're only as old as you feel, eh

anyways, ride were a weird band, their whole career trajectory

i remember reading in the creation records book about how whatshisname was on a plane embarking on a tour in japan or u.s. or something and he came up with the idea for "leave them all behind", like they were so glad to be washing their hands of all the shitty indie bands that they had been automatically lumped in with

that being said, i kinda like "going blank again" better than their previous ep's which might not be an entirely challenging opinion, but...

I mean, I am 28 in ILX years, obv

but all of the shoegaze bands were great singles acts-- there are amazing pale saints, lush, etc. songs.

somehow mbv managed to put together a couple of reasonably coherent lps which the also-rans for whatever reason couldn't seem to do

but leave them all behind is pretty solid as far as a statement from an also-ran. unless i'm completely mistaken and people are jamming down "whirlpool" by chapterhouse while they are shooting up cough syrup

It is funny that Spiritualized are no longer really lumped in with "shoegaze", otherwise LGM or Pure Phase would own all of these, for me

I feel like they were part of this at the time but in retrospect they exist outside of it, maybe because they kept going and now we kind of have a Spiritualized 2.0, or even 2.5

probably our unconscious minds over time accumulate a list of things we would never have thunk would happen during our lifetimes

dude, spiritualized were on letterman a couple of weeks ago. jason spaceman. the heroin addict from rugby or whatever. i mean, it just seems so unlikely. something like if next week the misfits announce that jason alexander of seinfeld fame is their new lead singer.

haha

i totally like "if i were with her now", when he indulged his uh, 'perfect prescription' of beach boys/krautrock synergy moments

but then i lost interest after seeing him live around the time of "ladies and gentlemen" which was for me anyhow a total yawner

but now with his new record he is back into some jonathan richman vibe? or something? break it down for me you heads

I need to listen to the new one again

so, anyone admitting to listening to the heavy stereo album recently ?

or, the diggers ?

some folks say good stuff re that january album, but i've yet to make it all the way through it before boredom kicks in.

xps That's supposed to be a challop?!

man. ok

when i was nineteen i would listen to my college's radio station idly in the background

i almost wish i were joking but hearing "polar bear" and "kennedy" by the wedding presesents was some kind of life revolution to me. prior to that i had been so immersed in the punk world i scarcely realized there was a world of indie music apart from screaming and breakneck tempos. it was a revelation. like i patiently waited for the dj to announce what he had been playing and then scrawled it down and took it with me the next time i went to the local record store

I loved Ride more than life itself at some points in the early 80s but jesus christ their transformation into a classic rock band was one of the more disappointing career trajectories they could have taken. And I say that as someone who actually likes about half of Carnival Of Wife.

But I should really know better than to talk shoegaze on ILX.

xpost

dunno, just thought ppl rated the early ep's over "leave them all behind". i remember it being received as a disappointment by my friends at the time

The best thing that Ride ever did was the Today Forever EP. I mean, the first couple of EPs were nice and I loved Nowhere, but Today Forever was the one that changed everything for me.

see i somehow don't even know that record or at least don't remember it. if you are american you miss out on so many things

You probably got it tacked on the end of Nowhere instead, though.

ah... that makes sense

y'know if you grew up in america you were sold "the smithereens" as being a viable "college rock" band so, just saying...

the fact i can use the word "ride" in conversations not involving a tilt-a-whirl is maybe impressive in itself

I loved Ride more than life itself at some points in the early 80s

Truly before your time (and theirs).

xps That's supposed to be a challop?!

how dare you see thru my cunning plan ...

when i was nineteen i would listen to my college's radio station idly in the background ...patiently waited for the dj to announce what he had been playing and then scrawled it down and took it with me the next time i went to the local record store

pre-internet, and outside of friends lending me stuff, this often was mostly how i found out about new stuff. in the early 90s it was usually WPRB in Princeton, and sometimes Drexel or Temple or U Penn would play indie/punk. I would even let a 100 min tape roll on a show that sounded good when heading to bed and then would skim through it the next day in the car to find new stuff.

The best thing that Ride ever did was the Today Forever EP. I mean, the first couple of EPs were nice and I loved Nowhere, but Today Forever was the one that changed everything for me.

― They have fangs, They have teeth! (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Friday, May 18, 2012 2:20 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

see i somehow don't even know that record or at least don't remember it. if you are american you miss out on so many things

― dell (del), Friday, May 18, 2012 4:34 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You probably got it tacked on the end of Nowhere instead, though.

― Ismael Klata, Friday, May 18, 2012 4:40 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

Three of the tracks got tacked on a CD EP for Vapour Trail. I never realized they were a part of something else until Sire put "Today" on one of those Just Say ____ comps.

yeah, totally! if a dj was playing a bunch of songs that appealed to me i would hurriedly search around for a blank tape and also would be scribbling down the names of the artists. i'm guessing that kind of thing has been talked about here before but it was so real and fun to discover new artists in that way.

...except when there was no back-announce, or you had to leave your car before you could hear it.

I prefer pulling up a station playlist on my phone now.

Less mystery, more clarity.

And don't overlook Ride's BBC sessions!

Truly before your time (and theirs).

― Pacific Trash Vortex (Nasty, Brutish & Short),

Actually my personal musical memory and state of being obsessed with music started in about 1981, though thanks for the compliment of thinking I'm younger than I am...

But anyway, it was a typo. Stupid iPhone typing on the bus. Early 90s obviously.

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.

haha, it could almost be...

stunned that i got Manchester tickets; a Sold Out alert from the venue flashed up on facebook mere seconds after i got a confirmation.

I've bought tickets for the Field Day festival they're headlining. I hate festivals.

so it looks like they are going to have a date in Los Angeles and San Francisco in-between the Coachella dates.

Monday 13 April 2015
The Warfield, San Francisco, CA, US

Tuesday 14 April 2015
Fox Theater, Pomona, CA, US

so i have to go to this Pomona date, tix go on sale next Thursday.

Enjoy it! (Will be up in the Pacific NW during that whole week so I'm out.)

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-lht4B3LMJQw/VPUigiGvDDI/AAAAAAAAAsc/VBkDoW9B1KA/w1097-h823-no/Ride.jpg

jealous

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-coachella-2015-ride-announces-roxy-gig-talks-influence-guitar-pedals-20150401-column.html

by: Randall Roberts

Though the British guitar band Ride called it quits in 1996, the thick guitar layers and washes of melodies it made during its mid-1990s prime are likely still echoing somewhere in the galaxy.

Until a few months ago, those reverberations were all fans had to sustain themselves. The band, which rose as part of essential English label Creation Records' roster, has lain dormant for nearly two decades but is returning for round two when it hits the Coachella Music and Arts Festival next weekend.

Area fans not making a trek to the desert, though, will have a chance to see them early at the Roxy. The band has announced a pre-fest set for Wednesday, April 8, at the same venue where it made its Los Angeles debut in the early '90s.

In the band's absence, Ride's sound has endured. Like those lucky few artists whose work becomes a signpost, Ride helped create its own genre, the unfortunately named "shoegaze" movement. Along with fellow Creation band My Bloody Valentine, Ride and its peers have spawned a legion of admirers and imitators.

That's encouraging for Mark Gardener, who cofounded Ride with fellow guitarist-singer Andy Bell in 1988. Gardener is blunt, and humbled, about his impressions of today's guitar music.

"I think [we] would have had to live in a hole in the ground ... not to have realized that Ride and the influence of our music has been growing and growing in our absence," he told The Times. "That's extremely heartening."

Born in Oxford, England, during a particularly ripe time for melodic, feedback-happy guitar bands, Ride never achieved the status of My Bloody Valentine, but the quartet crafted a sound that at its best channeled the spirit of British guitar pop and post-punk and merged it with the harmonic vibe of Los Angeles in the 1960s. The band released four albums between 1990 and 1996.

Though their 1996 split wasn't without its drama, Gardener recalls sitting with his bandmates around a table in 2014 after they had decided to commit to the reunion.

"It was such a warm feeling. Like, we really did something right," he said. "That we're even having this conversation, or even talking about the offers that we're talking about, that we can go out and tour the world again and play Ride music for people, is an incredible feeling."

The band's biggest concern was one of sound. Guitar texture was paramount in Ride's work, and the group found those tones through use of myriad effects pedals and electronic units. Gardener said he had to undertake a little sonic archaeology to uncover the buried tones and settings.

"I became like a white-coat lab technician," he said. "They weren't all pedals. There were units like the Roland GP-16 and stuff, which we used a lot in the early days. I had kept all of the Ride sounds in the machine. I guess I maybe thought one day, or if we ever did play again, I should keep all these sounds in there."

A few months ago he went digging, "looking at every sound that I used, every effect that I used on every song. Then I went out and found amazing pedals to augment those presets, to make it a whole lot deeper and a whole lot wider and a whole lot better. That's been a big part of what I've been doing over the past few months."

To fans of the band, the notion of a deeper, wider and better Ride surpasses even the loftiest expectations.

Tickets for the Roxy show April 8 go on sale at 3 p.m. Pacific time today.

$46?

His hat is wrong, isn't it?

goes with the neckbeard

http://s90.photobucket.com/user/ian_hutchinson/media/Capture_zps41f499b5.png.html

on my way to this show, should be fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNgTljZ3Fus&list=PLiQMs-HTKFzSCtgvZnXaTfW8aiFDc7dMr

Don't suppose you can remember the entire set list?

Polar Bear
Seagull
Twisterella
Unfamiliar
Cool Your Boots
Perfect Time
Black Nite Crash
OX4
Dreams Burn Down
Time of Her Time
Chrome Waves
Paralysed
Taste
Vapour Trail
Drive Blind

Encore:
Leave Them All Behind

Encore 2:
Like a Daydream
Chelsea Girl

the show was good, not great. of course they were much better back in the day. the sound was amazing though and not too loud.

I'd be happy with that

Hmm. Good set list I think, nothing off the third album. No Today or Nowhere. If the sound is good I would have loved to see if they could capture Close My Eyes but I'm looking forward to dusting down my hooped t-shirt anyway!

Close My Eyes is absolutely fantastic on record, but for some reason they never seemed to play it live (apart from very early gigs - I had it on some bootleg cassettes of gigs from Oxford in 89, but it didn't really sound like the version eventually released).

Yeah, I always suspected as much. A real one-off studio based treat - the feedback running through the first minute or so is incredibly brilliant.

Annnnd here's my interview with Andy:

http://www.factmag.com/2015/05/09/ride-interview/

while bassist Steve Quercio left professional music to focus on interests and work elsewhere

Steve who???

Ha THAT was a weird glitch. I'll get it fixed.

seeing them in sept... would prefer they'd avoid stuff of third album but ehh

enjoying this a lot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1322&v=Vy4dItfxZis

Some more tickets available for the Roundhouse on Sunday:

https://www.wegottickets.com/event/320476

Gah. I needn't have forked out for expensive tickets for that Field Day festival after all.

Listening to Hunter's link and not liking how Mark's got this strange pretend American pronunciation on Like A Daydream now (and possibly other tracks, I haven't got that far yet)

Yeah thought the same thing upon hearing Dreams Burn Down

manchester was beyond words tonight. album tracks greeted like they were Bridge Over Troubled Water. longest set so far on the tour.

They were fantastic in Amsterdam yesterday. Had to leave before the encore so sadly missed Tomorrow Never Knows...

Leave Them All Behind
Like a Daydream
Polar Bear
Seagull
Sennen
Cool Your Boots
Black Nite Crash
Twisterella
OX4
Dreams Burn Down
Time of Her Time
Chrome Waves
Paralysed
Taste
Vapour Trail
Drive Blind

Encore:
Tomorrow Never Knows (The Beatles cover)
Mouse Trap
Chelsea Girl

totally jealous

Ah, wow, that was fucking great. I've got to say, I genuinely hadn't been feeling it leading up to this gig - I bought the tickets because I felt like I'd kick myself if I missed it, but I haven't had any real enthusiasm as the day approached. And then finally tonight, six months after I bought the tickets and more than 23 years since I last saw them, I saw the gigantic 'RIDE' backdrop go up at the back of the stage and I finally started to feel excited. Started off a fair way back but when they started up 'Seagull' I just forced my way right to the front where it was mayhem. Great gig (though it dipped a little in the middle, not performance-wise, just songs I'm less keen on), from what I can remember the set list was pretty similar to the Amsterdam one above (but we didn't have Twisterella, Paralysed or Tomorrow Never Knows).

https://youtu.be/mS8x5ltXQpc

x-post setlist for Amsterdam has been corrected, it was "Nowhere", not "Tomorrow Never Knows".

By the way, I don't know if this is news, but last night Andy Bell said something like "this is the last of the gigs we planned six months ago and we thought we'd see how it went before deciding what to do next...and now we've decided we're going to continue." He also said (after Drive Blind's 'You Made Me Realise' interlude) "That one was for the Valentines. We might not have invented it, but we were the first to rip it off." Or something.

Hope they start adding "Unfamiliar" to the list.

Good call. I was quite surprised that was missing, actually.

It's one of their four or five greatest songs, I think.

they played it in LA, see my above post with the set list.

http://concert.arte.tv/fr/ride-au-primavera-sound

awesome

I was expecting this show to be nice in that it was a band that I liked playing the songs that I liked, but I was not expecting the actual performance to be anywhere near as great as it was. Hearing "Chelsea Girl" without the layers of sludge was like hearing it for the first time, and the vocals were mixed perfectly. I guess I never quite realized how big of a component vocal harmonies are to their sound?

Definitely. Not super complex like the Byrds (to whom they were sometimes compared). But they did it well.

By the way, new UK tour announced for October. Tickets go on sale officially tomorrow morning, but if you're with O2 you could buy advance tickets yesterday. I am with O2, but annoyingly the London gig is a date that I absolutely have to work in the evening. I'm hoping they addd an extra London gig the night before (it can't be the night after as they'll be in Liverpool then).

It's worth buying this fanzine: http://www.ride.network/

In-depth interviews with each band member individually. I used to buy this way back in 91/92 - this is the first issue in over 20 years.

Rhino has a remaster of Nowhere currently on offer with the Today Forever EP and a live set: http://www.rhino.com/product/nowhere-20th-anniversary-edition

The price is exorbitant but if there's one CD I own that would benefit from a remaster, it's Nowhere

Nice - is this distributed in Europe by any chance?

I dunno. It would be wise of them to do it, but the Rhino Handmade is usually a limited-run deal. I listened to the clips on the site and it sounds as if the remaster is a huge improvement.

Just listened to (the remastered) Nowhere for the first time in 20+ years. I remember it being thought of as a misstep at the time, failing to match up to the promise of the EPs. But it's beautiful from start to finish. Also, so many little bits that I forgot influenced me - a rush of melody parts that I would adapt for myself.

More West Coast dates announced for November

https://twitter.com/rideox4/status/620640031221354496

Live at Melt festival, Ferropolis, Germany, July 19th

http://concert.arte.tv/fr/ride-melt-2015

I think I prefer the Primavera show tbh. Maybe because it's longer or mixed slightly differently.

And another full show: La Route Du Rock, Aug 15

http://concert.arte.tv/fr/ride-la-route-du-rock

Even though it's the same festival setlist, I think it's fascinating to be able to compare these shows - here it's like they're the most energetic of the three

Or am I comparing sound mixes and video directors?

really fukkin good live in dc damn. dunno about the fedora tho, other guitarist had a neu! trucker hat

yeah I laughed out loud when I saw him come out with a muscle tee and a fedora. Andy looked a bit like a hip Mike Love in that hat.

I was on the fence about the show... the analog tracks were great as was their overall sound. On the other hand the overdubbing was very obvious and distracting, and they sometimes had trouble keeping to the beat.

The hat is a key part of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG6jlkOkw8E

LOL.

what was overdubbed, vox? didn't notice but i was far away

The first three songs all used a backing track. The first two were pretty well done but the whooshy guitar on Polar Bear was the one that set me off. Presumably the third vocal and third guitar on Leave Them All Behind were tracked. It's not clear what they needed for Like a Daydream.

I had to leave early and am sad to have missed Dreams Burn Down > Taste > Vapour Trail > Blind.

OX4 seems to be the new opening theme tune on Football Focus? Huh.

intrigued/disappointed by this 'overdubbing' theory.

christ is genuinely 'live music' a thing of the past? when did this become common practice i wonder.

There was not much overdubbing. On Like a Daydream it's just that backward cymbal crash. In NYC they also put in the string quartet at the end of Vapour Trail, but they nailed it. Not sure Polar Bear was backing track; might have just been a pedal out of sync with the beat.

The hat sounded amazing.

Going see 'em tonight & totally stoked - last saw 'em in the UK in 1990.

Saw themtwice back in the 90's and can't see why they'd need to use backing tracks nowadays unless they've just become lame.

christ is genuinely 'live music' a thing of the past? when did this become common practice i wonder.

A friend in her 20s saw Lana Del Rey a few years ago and enjoyed the show but complained that she didn't hit some of the notes properly. "If you can't sing a certain part live, you use a backing track. It's just what you do. Taylor Swift does it, so you can't say it's not legitimate."

https://youtu.be/O3ZSFj_A0KE

The Field Day Festival that I saw them at in June

Taylor Swift does it, so you can't say it's not legitimate.

words that chill the bones

(I'm actually in that video for about three seconds after Chelsea Girl - fame at last)

From Andy on the upcoming RIDE UK tour -

I’m so excited about playing 'Nowhere' in full. We are going with the 11 track CD track listing, not just the 8 tracks from the original vinyl, so the set will end with the title track on every gig of the UK tour, which is going to sound epic. I didn’t realise how few times we’d actually played most of the songs. And of course we have never played the album in its original track order before.

We have been throwing in versions of some of the songs at our US dates but the majority of the preparation for these shows was done during rehearsals in London in-between our festival shows this summer. I’m especially buzzing about how 'Kaleidoscope' is sounding. It’s going to be amazing playing it for the first time.

All in all, it’s a big deal to us, and we haven’t been certain we could pull it off until now. We, as a band, are so proud of the album and we are aware that fans have been campaigning for us to perform it in full on this tour but it’s only now that we are sure we can do the album justice.

oh my. Really? I enjoyed the Field Day set a lot but really missed not hearing Decay and Paralysed because they're some of my favourite songs they did. I didn't know this was happening!?

In A Different Place. I love this as well. This has made my day, as sad as that sounds.

Yeah, I'm really excited about it too. To the best of my knowledge, they've never played Kaleidoscope live. No idea why.

yay Nowhere. Paralysed was easily the stand out in Manchester IMO.

Apparently last night in Leeds they did a first set of LTAB, Like A Daydream, Unfamiliar, Time Machine, Twisterella, Cool Your Boots, Black Nite Crash, Today, Mouse Trap, then a breather, then the whole of 'Nowhere' (inc. the Fall EP trakcs tacked on the end) and then Chelsea Girl and Drive Blind.

it was news to me that they had *never* done Kaleidoscope live before until last night?? like.. ever?

It wasn't news to me (the first time I saw them live was the month that 'Nowhere' came out, and they didn't play it then, or the five other times I saw them over the next 18 months, and it seemed unlikely they would have suddenly decided to play it after that), but I never understood why they didn't play it - it's a great little tune.

Hmmmm. Just realised I've more or less already said this four post ago.

Did I mention that I don't think they've played Kaleidoscope live before? And that I don't know the reason for this?

Brilliant gig last night. I managed to get right to the front. Ride supported by Ride. Here's some bits a pieces from the first set, will upload and stitch together the Nowhere set later: https://youtu.be/lI4I7Vki4Pc

The rest: https://youtu.be/5ICGVNC1C2k

New album forthcoming -- Erol Alkan producing. Hmm.

http://pitchfork.com/news/70148-ride-releasing-first-new-album-in-over-20-years/

coming up for air was well dece tbf

shit though, it was AGES ago

Saw them tonight in Shoreditch. Very good. A mixture of stuff off the album which will be released later this week and the old classics: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1355747341147758.1073741848.100001375168495&type=1&l=e3495272bc

glad that you were finally able to see them Nasty Brutish & Short. How are the new songs? should i be looking forward to hearing new Ride this week?

It's awful.

Of the two tracks they released a couple of months or so ago, Charm Assault is good. Home Is A Feeling is a bit boring (though a bit more 'shoegaze'). The other two they've released I only got a few days ago and don't know them well, but All I Want is also good, Lannoy Point not so sure about. They did one last night called Cali which I liked.

Video: https://youtu.be/wDjhf9-UmDM

Pre-ordered this on the strength of Charm Assault. Disappointed to hear all the negative feedback.

Annoy Point morelike

Annoy Pointless even

This is really good, based on one (pretty involved, headphones-on-the-walk-to-work) listen. Lyrics are still v 6th form, but the big grindy bass, massive drums, and wistful melodies are all there, and the combination of synths and guitars works really well as a development from just shoegazey guitars. Easily in their top 3 albums!

Interesting!

Consensus is mainly positive apart from you, it seems!

http://www.metacritic.com/music/weather-diaries/ride/critic-reviews

I admit I haven't had any interest in listening. I mean, I interviewed Andy for the reunion and all as well, but this seems...unneeded, I guess the word is.

I'm with Alfred - this is kinda shitty dad rock.

What can I say? I'm a shitty dad.

And actually it feels really adolescent to me; overly idealistic, gauche, lyrically clumsy. All of which are things I associate with Ride anyway and I kind of like how familiar these failings are. And the feelings they inspire too. I didn't think / know I wanted a Ride album in 2017 but I'm glad I've got one right now.

Three listens in and I'm finding this absolutely tremendous. A loving tribute to their early sound, updated. Not knocking the first two records off the perch quite yet, but solidly their their best and one of the best reunion records I can recall.

*third best

Nice. I have high expectations after Slowdive's homerun on their last album.

Gonna have to buck the ILM trend of half-listening to something then denouncing it as the worst shit ever made and say it's pretty good

Listening now. They've lost the single thing that made them great (squalling guitars) but some of the songwriting is quite nice, I suppose (Home Is A Feeling). Opening track is a dreadful dirge

Title track an even more dreadful dirge omg come on lads

Squally bit at the end of the title track is how the album should have begun - and taken it from there

Caught Nora having a proper dance to Lannoy Point in the living room this morning = trust her instinct more than LJ's.

Also if you think the squalling guitars are the 'single' thing that made them great then you've missed the point(s).

Ooh, Cali is pretty good

Worked out my beef with Lannoy Point - that Cure riff comes in once too often. Tips it from enjoyable jam into dirge. It's growing on me a little though

Cali is by far the best track though

was never really a big fan so slept on this, guess I'll give it a listen today but you aren't all filling me with confidence.

Verse of Charm Assault keeps getting stuck in my head now

I like what I've heard of this. Not quite the breathtaker that the new Slowdive is, but definitely cool. Hard not to be down with new Ride.

I really like Cali. Trying to work out what it reminds me of...I'm thinking late-era Pixies (but not vocally).

It's stuck in my head permanently now. Not sure - maybe it shares DNA with Catherine Wheel at their most American? Blur? Sonic Youth? Really it just feels like Ride perfecting themselves again

Melodically bits of Cali remind me of Beulah. Which is odd.

I think it's Letter to Memphis that it reminds me of

Their Glastonbury set is on iplayer now (and is good)

Yeah. Basically all my favourite Ride songs.

my god, I've been putting off the new Ride album bcz I was worried it wouldn't be great and it is... very not great. Depressingly unremarkable and mediocre and completely generic; I'm not getting Ride from this at all

it's not _actually offensive_ to me other than being associated with the name ride. its completely unspecial, not actually good.

Erol producing too, which used to mean something.

Surely the best Ride LP in 25 years?

nah that'd be Three Fact Fader

;)

why do they suddenly fade the drums at the end of 'leave it all behind'? fairly jarring. the live version is way better

So new one coming out. Mildly excited since I really liked the stop-gap EP they put out a year ago. New single however is pretty slight (reminds me of a 2nd tier Real Estate track).

https://open.spotify.com/album/6h5jv9bwnNkYPyfOQMEA0p?si=2DMmQoGJSOG6O4vSuZkCGg

I really like this

"Jump Jet" should be a single

I'm seeing these guys in two months but had no idea there was also a new album. Thanks for letting me know.

Jump Jet definitely seems to be the Cali of this album (deep cut that was so great it became a single well after the album cycle)

I'm seeing them today (an acoustic set and CD signing at Rough Trade).

Their lyrics are SO bad.

that...has never not been a thing

Twisterella lyrics are sublime

Enjoying this new album. “Eternal Recurrence” is the standout for me so far.

Early on the lyrics were acceptably adolescent because they basically were adolescent, and so was I. Now I'm 40 and they're pushing 50 and the lyrics are STILL adolescent, I'm not quite as tolerant...

Yeah the lyrics, i mean even as a kid i realised it had been A Bad Idea to print them on the sleeve of the 2nd album, as opposed to REM style '1 line from each song' like they had on the first. They were a classic 'nothing to say' band but i never really wanted that from them anyway.

i mean even as a kid i realised it had been A Bad Idea to print them on the sleeve of the 2nd album, as opposed to REM style '1 line from each song' like they had on the first

Absolutely OTM, especially 'Not Fazed' and 'Making Judy Smile'.

I am digging this album although there is very little to it that tells me it was made in 2019. I think they could’ve made this exact album 10 or even 20 years ago. That’s not a slight, just noting that it feels like it time traveled to my ears.

last week i bought Bauhaus ticket, today i bought Ride tickets. i hope i warm up to the new album. this band has always been great live and have seen them around 15 times now.

Listening to the new album 'cos I found out I can see them live tonight... Jump Jet and Future Love sound pretty great!

Jump Jet and Fifteen Minutes probably my favourites.

Fun show last night, sound was amazing. Such beautiful guitars. Mostly stuff from the new album (Repetition sounded like 80s Wire live) and some classics - Leave Them All Behind and Seagull sounded pretty fantastic - would liked to have heard Chrome Waves, and I guess Carnival of Light and Tarantula have been stricken from the live record? Hope I can catch them again.

Did they ever do Black Nite Crash live i wonder? Love that one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78uYU-u3pVI

xp they played Black Nite Crash 4 days ago according to setlist.fm

Nice to hear Fyt by This Mortal Coil as Ride's intro music from the 1990 gig. (I assume the INXS playing before that was not their choice).

xp Oh!? I had no idea that it was back in their sets, great news, i always thought they hated it.

They've played it a lot since they reformed. Check this out: http://ride.band/songography/

Nice to hear Fyt by This Mortal Coil as Ride's intro music from the 1990 gig

That was one of the great things about the 2015 reunion gigs, that they used that same track to come on stage to as they had back in 1990. (Not that I remembered it from the gigs, I remembered it from the bootlegs of the gigs)

last song that played before they went on last night was Reward by the Teardrop Explodes, tape intro was the first song from the new album I think?

glad you had fun last night, makes me look forward to the show in two weeks.

on my way, pretty excited for this as Ride are one of my favorites from back in the day. also the reviews, from their live shows, here are encouraging. i even sort of like a few songs from the new album.

enjoy! hope you get to hear Chrome Waves!

Ride killed it at Desert Daze this weekend. Added last minute.

hey bee, how was the show? i didn't even know they were playing, but i drive past the observatory pretty much everyday, as i live about a mile from there. saw the marquee on my way home yesterday and just kind of had one of those, "welp (shrug)" moments.

i feel sorry for Ride. i saw MBV just last year and the place was gigantic and it felt overbooked. when i saw Slowdive two years ago they also played a fairly big place. Ride played in LA on Monday night and then in the OC on Wednesday night. in this Observatory venue they have a small room and a bigger room. they sold these Ride tickets for the bigger room but they didn't draw enough fans so they switched it to the smaller room. the problem was, besides not being able to sell out the bigger room, is that there were too many people for the smaller room. by the time we realized that Ride was actually on stage we could not get into the space, it was way over packed. so the beginning of the show sucked because the five of us could not see a damn thing. we eventually made our way in to see the band.

Ride were amazing though. one thing that struck me last night was that they are Mark Gardener's band. i remember thinking, back in the 90s, that it felt like it was 50% Andy Bell and then 50% Mark. that is not reality as it seems like Mark is m ore like 80% of Ride and Andy is just sort of there. no wonder Andy was able to take a back seat to Oasis so easily. Ride played like 12 songs from the last two albums and they sounded great live. i have not been the biggest fan of the newer stuff but it sounds great live. they did play "Chrome Waves" and opened with "Cali." "Seagull" was the highlight, as they closed with that song and was beyond stunning. if you get a chance to see Ride and are on the fence i say go, you wont be disappointed in the least.

Built to Spill is playing there next month and do really like the venue. i hope to catch that show but i am seeing Bauhaus that same week so it is a toss up right now.

Austin that is funny about where you live, i work right across the street!

well that sucks about the venue. sounds like it was good once you actually got in the damn place.

also one of the offices of the program i work for is right off warner a few blocks up so i'm in and out of that area daily haha.

Increasingly convinced that Cali is in their all-time top 5 songs, glad they're opening with it

The Ride EP came out 30 years ago today.

So it would have been 30 years ago when I saw this, most of my mates rushed out and bought it the following Saturday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1FZjgggSFE

Has anyone worked out the lineup order for the various US dates?

Isn't it a double header with the Charlatans?

Yup so early rejecter is asking who headlines what night.

Ah. No idea.

"headliner to change each night" - 50/50 then

(I read that here, btw - https://spillmagazine.com/spill-news-the-charlatans-uk-ride-unite-for-north-american-co-headline-tour/ )

https://static.stereogum.com/uploads/2024/01/Ride-Interplay-Packshot-1704569025-1000x1000.jpg

Interplay

1. “Peace Sign”
2. “Last Frontier”
3. “Light In A Quiet Room”
4. “Monaco”
5. “I Came To See The Wreck”
6. “Stay Free”
7. “Last Night I Came”
8. “Sunrise Chaser”
9. “Midnight Rider”
10. “Portland Rocks”
11. “Essaouira”
12. “Yesterday Is Just A Song”

Out March 29, 2024 on Wichita Recordings/PIAS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGnClWTNQRQ

saw them last week playing all of Nowhere and a few new songs, all of it sounded GREAT. i don't think I've ever heard such a great sound out of a Rickenbacker! I think the tour is basically just starting, if you're thinking of going- go fer it!

I saw them last night here in Austin... they indeed sound fantastic. Mark Gardener needs to learn some dance moves from Tim Burgess though, liven things up a little.

saw them in l.a. and co-sign all of the above

I've seen them a ridiculous number of times now, it's almost a compulsive thing

Smoked weed with them out of an apple once, A+ would do again

I have seen Ride countless times too. Last time was in 2019, saw the Charlatans around that time too. Couldn't make it this last week tho

Funny, no one is saying anything about this new song. It does sound 80s influence but not sure that is what I want from Ride.

Take that back, majorairbro did say something...

they played Peace Sign last night, it was fine... I'm not a nu-Ride hater, Lannoy Point kicked off the encore and sounded great!

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.