Ride to perform live streamed London gig next month


Andy Bell live with Ride in London (Alberto Pezzali / Live4ever)

Andy Bell live with Ride in London (Alberto Pezzali / Live4ever)




Ride will be performing a live streamed show at an as-yet-undisclosed London location for DICE.fm on Thursday, August 6th.

It’ll give the band an opportunity to perform live after they were one of many to find their plans behind a new album release curtailed by the coronavirus pandemic; “Talking about reunited bands who’ve been away for a while usually ends up as a series of dead ends around the reasons why, as opposed to the music they’re actually making,” our This Is Not A Safe Place album review begins.

“In the case of Ride things are slightly different (not that their reformation didn’t involve enough buried hatchets to open a small DIY store), due mainly to them once being at the forefront of a shoegaze movement which has undergone a surprising renaissance in the last decade.”

“This brings about an obvious dilemma: when hundreds of kids from around the world are creating faithful reproductions of the stuff you began making 30 years ago, how do you react? The correct answer is not to give a damn and, following 2017’s Weather Diaries which at times felt like it’d been sequenced by a BBC 6Music focus group, the Oxford foursome have made the record they wanted to make.”


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