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Ride reunite, announce 2015 tour

By | Published on Wednesday 19 November 2014

Ride

I don’t think there can be a person among us who didn’t think, upon hearing the news of Beady Eye’s split, ‘Well that leaves things clear for a Ride reunion’. That was the reunion you were all thinking of, right? Good.

Anyway, Ride have reformed and they’re going on tour. The first hint of an impending announcement came when a picture of the word ‘RIDE’ emblazoned on the side of a building was posted to the Creation Records Facebook page yesterday. An official announcement then followed on Shaun Keaveny’s 6 Music show this morning.

The band’s last live performance was at the Benacassim Festival in Spain in 1995, and their last UK show was supporting Oasis at the Brighton Centre in December 1994. Since then guitarist Andy Bell went on to play with Oasis (and Beady Eye), drummer Laurence Colbert performed with various bands, including Supergrass, frontman Mark Gardener went solo, and bassist Steve Queralt retired from music altogether.

And now they’re back. Back for good. Or at least until next year’s Field Day festival, which they will headline on 7 Jun. Ahead of that, they will play some other shows in the UK, and in Amsterdam, Paris, Barcelona, Toronto and New York. The UK shows are these:

22 May: Glasgow, Barrowlands
23 May: Manchester, Albert Hall
24 May: London, The Roundhouse

Tickets will be on sale this Friday from 9am via the Ride site.



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