Ride

How Good Are They LIVE?

Live Rating

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LAST 12 MONTHS RATING

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Critic Consensus

Based on 89 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Ride is rated as an enjoyable live performer, with some notable strengths. Ride concert reviews describe live shows and performances as incredible, exciting, hypnotic, polished, fierce, psychedelic, and seamless.

ON TOUR

Rough Trade, Nottingham, United Kingdom (April 2); The Drake, Amherst, MA, United States (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); La Masia d’en Cabanyes, Vilanova i la Geltrú, Spain (July 4); Naeba Ski Resort, Yuzawa-machi, Niigata, Japan (July 26)

FESTIVALS IN 2024

Vida Festival 2024

July 4 - 6, 2024

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Latest release

Только С Тобой - Single (July 24, 2023)

artist info

GENRE

experimental

ORIGIN

Oxford, United Kingdom (1988 - present) (1988 – present)

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

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

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Chicago Concert Reviews (USA)

February 7, 2023

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

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The Music (Australia)

December 1, 2022

"Melbourne is always the best show of the Australian run."

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Scenestr (Australia)

December 1, 2022

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.

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Scenestr (Australia)

November 30, 2022

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."

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Under the Radar (USA)

June 9, 2022

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.

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