Ride live in concert.
ON TOUR

Ride

93
critic concert reviews
experimental

How Good Are They LIVE?

Live Rating  

79
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Based on 
93
critic concert
reviews
Last 12 Months Rating  
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Real Live Certified  

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Critic Consensus

Based on 93 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Ride is rated as an impressive live performer, with worthwhile shows overall. Ride concert reviews describe live shows and performances as incredible, exciting, hypnotic, polished, fierce, psychedelic, and seamless.

ON TOUR

The Fonda Theatre; The Drake, Los Angeles, United States; Amherst, MA, United States (December 19; May 9); Big Night Live, Boston, MA, United States (May 11); Théâtre Fairmount, Montréal, Canada (May 13); The Concert Hall, Toronto, Canada (May 14); Majestic Theatre, Detroit, MI, United States (May 15); The Gothic Theatre, Denver, CO, United States (May 19); Mission Theater, Portland, United States (May 23); Výstaviště, Praha, Czech Republic (June 20); La Masia d’en Cabanyes, Vilanova i la Geltrú, Spain (July 4); Naeba Ski Resort, Yuzawa-machi, Niigata, Japan (July 26);

Latest Release

Только С Тобой - Single (July 24, 2023)

Artist Info

Genre
experimental
Origin
Oxford, United Kingdom (1988 - present) (1988 – present) (1988 Рpresent)
Bio
Ride is a shoegaze / alternative rock band that formed in 1988 in Oxford, England, consisting of Andy Bell, Mark Gardener, Laurence Colbert, and Steve Queralt. The band were initially part of the shoegaze scene that emerged in England during the early 1990s.
Has Performed With
Lo Moon, DIIV

Critic Concert Reviews

Parklife DC (USA)

January 23, 2024
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Ride perform at The Fillmore Silver Spring on Jan. 17, 2024.

Soundcheck SF (USA)

February 21, 2023
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Ride Live In Concert

Chicago Concert Reviews (USA)

February 7, 2023
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The Charlatans UK, Ride treat Vic Theatre to a pair of prominent Britpop/alt-rock albums

Scenestr (Australia)

December 1, 2022
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British shoegaze icons Ride last toured Australia in 2019, playing Melbourne in September that year; so a return trip three years later – on paper – doesn't seem all that remarkable.

The Music (Australia)

December 1, 2022
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"Melbourne is always the best show of the Australian run."

Scenestr (Australia)

November 30, 2022
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As the members of Ride take up their positions to open the show at The Gov (29 November), Mark Gardener (singer, guitarist and co-frontman) comments: "It's been a long time Adelaide."

Under the Radar (USA)

June 9, 2022
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Ahead of performing the album at Primavera Sound, this intimate show within a stone’s throw from Brighton beach gives the band the chance to kick the tyres and blow the cobwebs off some tracks possibly not played live since their triumphant return in 2014.

Past critic reviews published in

Backseat Mafia, musicOMH (UK), Louder Than War (UK), Bearded Magazine (UK), QRO Magazine and more

Image Credit

Solly Darling [CC BY-SA 2.0] via Wikimedia Commons