Ride

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.