Ride

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.