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Along with acts such as My Bloody Valentine, Cocteau Twins, and Slowdive, the British experimental pop group Ride helped lay the framework for the shoegaze genre. They are noted for layering sounds into complicated and lush mosaics, while maintaining a strong presence of pop sensibilities.
Ride formed in Oxford, England in 1988 and consisted of members Andy Bell, Laurence Colbert, Mark Gardener, and Steve Queralt. Before the group’s formation Bell and Garderner were involved in musical theatre at Cheney School in Oxford, but eventually went on to study art and design at North Oxfordshire located in Banbury. They met fellow student Colbert there and recruited him to be the band’s drummer. Queralt (who was in the reggae/pop band the Spiderbacks with Bell) became the group’s bassist. The members shared a love for 60s psychedelic rock bands like the Velvet Underground, Pink Floyd and the Byrds as well as 80s noise-pop acts such as Spaceman 3 and Sonic Youth; however, Ride reportedly owes it’s existence to The Smiths (one of their performances was a life-altering experience for Bell).
Ride recorded their first demo in 1988, which consisted of the songs “Chelsea Girls” and “Drive Blind”. Jim Reid, the lead singer of the Jesus & Mary Chain heard the demo and impressed by the group’s sound past it on to his manager Alan McGee. Less than a year later McGee signed the band to Creation Records. Ride proved to be one of the labels most promising acts. Within 9 months the band had recorded and released 3 EPs “Ride”, “Play”, and “Fall” all which entered the UK Top 75.
On 15 October 1990, Ride released their studio debut “Nowhere”. The album included all of tracks on their “Fall” EP as well as an additional 4 newly recorded songs. It was a commercial and critical landmark for the group, going silver in the UK and rising to No. 11 on the charts. The album has been recognized as an essential record of the shoegaze genre (a label the band often rejects) and likewise one of the greatest albums of the 90s. One of the album’s songs “Vapour Trail” has left a strong impression on popular culture as well. It appeared at No.145 on Pitchfork’s Top 200 Tracks and was also mentioned in the book “Perks of Being a Wallflower”.
Due to the hype created from their studio debut, fans were eager to hear a new recording form the band. Ride answered their audience’s demand with their 1991 EP “Today Forever”. As “Nowhere” established the group as noise-rock heroes “Today Forever” acted as an erasure for that title and saw the group headed towards a more pop oriented direction. Despite the change in sound the EP did well commercially and critically and was followed by a near-instantly sold out tour of Japan.
The band toured excessively around this time and the strain it placed on the members started to show; however, they returned with another ecstatically reviewed and commercially accepted album “Going Blank Again”. This was followed by more touring, this time alongside the brit-pop group the Charlatans.
Around the time of the recording of their 3rd album “Carnival of Light” the band was self-reportedly delving into extreme indulgence and treated their music on a secondary level. Inevitably the album received harsh reactions from both critics and the band themselves. Their next album “Tarantula” did not do much better. The band was starting to implode at this point, stemmed largely by disagreements between Bell and Gardner. The writing on the album was split between the 2 musicians, with Bell accounting for most of the material. The album struggled on the charts and was dismissed by critics, eventually being dropped by its label within 1 week of sales.
Roughly 6 years after the band’s demise they appeared in a Sonic Youth documentary and played a 20 minute jam session for the film, which was later released in 2002 as “Coming up for Air”. In November of 2014 the band announced that they would be reuniting and released a string of tour dates including gigs in Glasgow, Manchester, Paris, Amsterdam, Barcelona, and New York.
Read moreBack together and ready to perform Nowhere in full Ride split this effectively acting as their own support. The first set opens with an epic Leave Them All Behind lasting close on 15 minutes. The sound is superb and they sound like a band who have played together continuously for 25 years not one who have had a hiatus. Gardener and Bell play off each other while Colbert's drumming sets the pace with Queralt's bass. From this it's straight into Like A Daydream and a trawl through the non Nowhere backcatalogue, which sounds surprisingly fresh and actually better than I remember it sounding on record - making me want to go back and revisit it a bit more. Gardener's voice is strong and the guitar work, as you would expect, superb.
A brief intermission and change of backdrop to the iconic cover and it's straight to Nowhere. What we get is a stunning interpretation of the album. Given there's not a weak track on the album it makes for a blissful 45 to 50 minutes. Nowhere finished we cut into Taste, Here And Now and Nowhere before a blistering encore of the classics Drive Blind and Chelsea Girl. Drive Blind featuring an extraordinary breakdown in the middle in a squall of guitars and feedback with dramatic lighting - it sounds and feels like the soundtrack to the end of the world.
This sounds and feels like a band relaxed and at the top of their game.
While it was common in the day to lump Ride in with other members of the pre-Oasis Britpop scene like The Stone Roses or Slowdive, this Oxford quartet seemed happy to do their own thing. Embracing a less-immediate, more sprawling art rock sound that gave them more in common with 4AD bands, Ride were just as likely to kick into 15 minutes of swirling, psychedelic guitars as anything.
Seeing Ride live is to realize that guitarist Mark Gardener and bassist Andy Bell are not only gifted musicians, but also able to blend their voices in deceptively smooth harmonies. The band plays louder than one might expect from their airier sound on record, although for fans of shoegaze that's nothing unexpected. The best part of seeing Ride in concert is hearing how songs like “Seagull”, “Vapour Trail”, or especially “Leave Them All Behind” lend themselves to extended jams and sprawling, acid-drenched guitar workouts. In fact, at times they almost edge into the hippest prog rock ever played.
There's really no frills to how Ride present themselves on stage; the band makes it clear that their performance is all about the music. Don't expect drama, don't expect fog machines or pyrotechnics. When you're as great as Ride, the music and performance stands on its own merit.
British shoe gazing pioneers Ride have delighted fans by announcing a reformation to collate their classic four albums into a 'greatest hits' setlist of sorts. They were always known as pioneers of their time and they weren't afraid to take their sound in a different direction to the Britpop boom that became synonymous with the 90's.
The comeback gigs have been attended by a huge range of fans, those who have eagerly awaited the return after supporting the group during their heyday and those who are late arrivals to the band's music. Either way, the reaction is one of universal adoration as the group step onstage and begin a psychedelic setlist featuring classics including 'Twisterella' and 'Leave Them All Behind'. The band thanks the audience for their support and explains they were an integral part of the reformation. By the final tones of 'Like A Daydream' and 'Chelsea Girl' everybody inside is incredibly glad to have Ride back together and feeling as though a decade had been lost waiting for the reform.
When i heard Ride was coming to Minneapolis, I was skeptical, why flyover country? When I heard which venue I knew I had to go. Mill City Nights is a small, but the sound is great. The opening band Canadian's Besnard Lakes was an atmospheric wandering which used lots of fog and harmonies to wash into the crowd.
If Besnard Lakes made the crowd smile while rocking back and forth, Ride blew those smiles to the back of the hall. Digging into all of their music history Ride, played a little something from every release.
Ride let a wall of sound blast into everyone on the floor where you could not only hear the excellent songs but feel them.
I figured it would be good, I left feeling it was great, a top 5 concert.
Such an amazing show, loved hearing Vapour Trail, and Today live. Like a Daydream, Sennen, Chelsea Girl, and Dreams Burn Down were also highlights for me, really the whole concert. Seagull may have been the best song of the show, I like the song, but it was a different level live. One final note, Drive Blind was the single loudest song I have ever heard, it was so loud and there was so much sound with feedback and reverberations, it was almost like it was silent, crazy. Highly, highly recommend getting to see Ride live whenever you can!!
Absolutely brilliant gig shame about the bar.
I was not sure what to expect but they nailed it. More than once I was transported else where on a wall noise that shimmered and dazzled with beautiful textures and tones.
The only downside was that I missed the first couple of songs of the second set due to the bar not being able to cope with the volume of customers.
It was worth the the 300 mile round trip!
Opened with Leave Them All Behind and continued with mostly all their strong songs from their EPs and first two albums. Loz drumming was spot on and Andy and Mark showed their guitar work has never been better. Sound was boomy upstairs but better view. No one should miss this tour.
Small personal venue - it was awesome seeing Ride in such an intimate setting. Hadn't seen them in over 25 years but unlike most bands that reunite, they don't seem to have missed a beat. Great mixture of classics with the new stuff.
Fantastic show from start to finish. Great energy and they just sounded tight throughout. Highly recommend seeing them.
They can get very heavy at times, so bring earplugs and you'll be fine.
I cannot wait to see them again
Fantastic gig, I've been a huge fan of theirs from way back in the 90's, brilliant set listthe sound was incredible,had a lot of fun.danced all night,RIDE are amazing live band,I've been privileged to see them many times in concert.
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