Ride in London (Alberto Pezzali / Live4ever)
Ride will play some UK acoustic shows from the end of next month to celebrate their 30th anniversary.
Gigs start on November 29th at St. George’s Church in Brighton, and end on December 4th in Manchester after stops in Margate, Bristol and London.
The band have been making up for lost time since their live reunion for the 2015 Primavera Sound festival, going on to tour the world on numerous occasions, and release a brand new studio album and EP.
“Given that it was smothered by grunge and then shattered by Britpop, it was always likely that the introverted, noise-for-noise sake Shoegaze movement would take a longer period than most to recover from near extinction,” our Weather Diaries review opens.
“Eventually (inevitably) green shoots of recovery arrived – scene progenitors My Bloody Valentine blazing a fresh trail of tinnitus causing mayhem – but also resurrection came through the effervescence of a small but fiercely dedicated set of grass roots activists, many of whom weren’t even born when MBV’s definitive Loveless album was released in 1991.”
Tour dates:
November
29 – Brighton, St George’s Church
30 – Margate, Dreamland
December
2 – Bristol, Trinity
3 – London, Earth
4 – Manchester, RNCM
