Ride live in concert.
ON TOUR

Ride

100
critic concert reviews
experimental

How Good Are They LIVE?

Live Rating  

80
%
Based on 
100
critic concert
reviews
Last 12 Months Rating  
79
%
Based on 
8
critic concert
reviews

Real Live Certified  

Real Live Certified badge for artists with consistent, high quality live performances and broad critical acclaim.

Critic Consensus

Based on 100 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Ride is rated as a remarkable 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

St John-at-Hackney Church, London, United Kingdom (October 12); Space Ballroom, Hamden, CT, United States (December 4); 9:30 Club, Washington DC, United States (December 5); Warsaw, Brooklyn, NY, United States (December 6); Union Transfer, Philadelphia, United States (December 7); Cat's Cradle, Carrboro, United States (December 9); Variety Playhouse, Atlanta, GA, United States (December 10); White Oak Music Hall, Houston, United States (December 12); The Studio at the Factory, Dallas, TX, United States (December 13); Crescent Ballroom, Phoenix, AZ, United States (December 16); 191 Toole, Tucson, United States (December 17); The Fonda Theatre, Los Angeles, United States (December 19); The Fillmore, San Francisco, United States (December 20)

Latest Release

Rejuvenated (7 August 2024)

Artist Info

Genre
experimental
Origin
Oxford, United Kingdom (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

The Telegraph (UK)

September 7, 2024
80
%
Ride’s Andy Bell reunited with his sparring partner Mark Gardener to play a satisfying mix of old bangers and introspective fresh material

Music-News.com (UK)

August 30, 2024
100
%
The first time I saw Ride was as a young lad, at what has now become a legendary performance, Reading Festival 1992. The wall of sound and mesmerising melodies blew me away back then and all these years later we're hoping for more of the same.

The 13th Floor (New Zealand)

August 19, 2024
%
Shoegaze vets Ride powered their way through a set at Auckland’s Powerstation last night, unfortunately they were not supported by Mercury Rev as originally advertised.

The Music (Australia)

August 12, 2024
%
"Tonight's double bill delivers a nostalgic sojourn in ‘90s indie rock in shades of psychedelia and dreamy shoegaze..."

Backseat Mafia

August 10, 2024
%
Ride Captivate Sydney’s Enmore Theatre with Their Shoegaze Mastery 09.08.2024

Scenestr (Australia)

August 9, 2024
%
After taking 30 years to return to Adelaide on their last tour in late 2022, it has been a relatively quick turn around for RIDE to return.

Soundcheck SF (USA)

February 21, 2023
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Ride Live In Concert

Past critic reviews published in

The Independent (UK), The Orange County Register (USA), Mercury News (USA), The Aquarian Weekly (USA), Riff Magazine (USA) and more

Image Credit

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