Watch video of Ride’s Andy Bell and Mark Gardener perform first show in 20 years
Legendary shoegaze band Ride are playing a series of reunion shows this year, including both weekends of Coachella. However, as the band works up to playing on tour, the band’s Andy Bell and Mark Gardener played a recent acoustic show in London, which included several hits from their catalog, including a pretty sizable chunk of their iconic debut album, Nowhere. It was their first show together in two decades.
BrooklynVegan posted video of the entire show (each song with its own individual video), in case you weren’t lucky enough to see the show firsthand. Check out a handful of the highlights below, and watch the rest at BrooklynVegan.
“Polar Bear”
“In a Different Place”
“Vapour Trail”
Mark Gardener/Andy Bell setlist:
1 “Polar Bear”
2 “In A Different Place”
3 “Like A Daydream”
4 “Twisterella”
5 “Tongue Tied”
6 “Chrome Waves”
7 “From Time To Time”
8 “Only Now”
9 “Paralysed”
10 “Dreams Burn Down”
11 “Taste”
12 “Vapour Trail”
Encore:
13 “Drive Blind”
14 “Chelsea Girl”
Ride tour dates:
4/10 Coachella Festival – Indio, CA
4/13 The Warfield – San Francisco, CA
4/14 Fox Theater – Pomona, CA
4/17 Coachella Festival – Indio, CA
5/10 Shaky Knees Festival – Atlanta, GA
5/22 Barrowland Ballroom – Glasgow, UK
5/23 Albert Hall – Manchester, UK
5/24 Roundhouse – London, UK
5/26 Paradiso – Amsterdam, Holland
5/27 Olympia – Paris, France
5/29 Primavera Festival – Barcelona, Spain
6/2 DanForth Music Hall – Toronto, Canada
6/4 Terminal 5 – New York City
6/6 Primavera Festival – Porto, Portugal
6/7 Field Day Festival – London, UK
7/24-26 Fuji Rock Festival – Japan
Jeff Terich is the founder and editor of Treble. He's been writing about music for 20 years and has been published at American Songwriter, Bandcamp Daily, Reverb, Spin, Stereogum, uDiscoverMusic, VinylMePlease and some others that he's forgetting right now. He's still not tired of it.