First Live Shows in 20 Years

 UK, European and North American Dates in 2015

 Including Field Day and Primavera Festival

 Headliner Performances

Wednesday 19 November 2014: One of Creation Records¡Ç first global success stories, Ride, are getting back together for live dates next year to the delight of their loyal fans, including London¡Çs Roundhouse, New York¡Çs Terminal 5 and the Olympia in Paris.

They are the band who slammed the door firmly shut on the (by then) flailing 80s pop movement and paved the way for bands like Primal Scream and Oasis to shine in the Britpop era. They helped Alan McGee¡Çs label achieve its first UK chart breakthrough as well as enjoying a successful career in the US, Europe and Japan while many of their peers struggled to break out of the UK scene, as well as having an international record deal with Seymour Stein¡Çs legendary Sire Records.

Ride will play a UK tour that will kick off at Glasgow Barrowland Ballroom on Friday 22 May 2015 and will also include Manchester¡Çs Albert Hall and The Roundhouse in London, before heading to Europe to play Amsterdam, Paris and Barcelona¡Çs Primavera Festival on 29 May. The band will then head across the Atlantic to play Toronto and New York – and then back to the UK to headline Field Day on Sunday 7 June.

Tickets are on sale Friday 21 November from www.RideMusic.net (for the UK shows, tickets on sale from 9.00am).

 Laurence Colbert, Andy Bell, Steve Queralt, Mark Gardener (Ride)¡Çs statement arrives as the following two quotes:

 ¡ÈYour first band is like your first love; you never forget it, and you never feel quite the same way about any other band.¡É – (David Crosby)

 ¡ÈIn noise can be read the codes of life, the relations among men. Clamor, Melody, Dissonance, Harmony; when it is fashioned by man with specific tools, when it invades man¡Çs time, when it becomes sound, noise is the source of the purpose and power, of the dream – Music.¡É – (Jacques Attali)

The Oxford four piece: Andy Bell, Mark Gardener, Laurence ¡ÆLoz¡Ç Colbert and Steve Queralt last took to the stage in the UK as special guests to Oasis at the Brighton Centre in December 1994, with Benacassim Festival in 1995 marking their last live performance – until now. It has taken twenty years for an official reunion to materialise, and fans have been pining for Ride to get back together ever since.

In the meantime Andy Bell played with Hurricane #1, Oasis and then Beady Eye, and Mark Gardener and Loz Colbert worked and played together for an album with The Animalhouse. Gardener then went on to write a solo album, with various touring and collaboration commitments in addition to his ongoing Ox-4-Sound mixing/production and soundtrack work. Colbert continued to play music, with acts such as diverse as Supergrass, Damo Suzuki and The Jesus and Mary Chain as well as Gaz Coombes¡Ç solo project, and Steve Queralt retired from a musical career altogether.

The band¡Çs name started to get thrown around during a brief nu-gaze movement around 2006 with bands like Animal Collective, Deerhunter and Panda Bear all citing Ride as heavy influences. Even Radiohead tried to persuade them to reform by requesting them as support for their South Park Oxford show in 2001, but to no avail. The planets have now aligned and Ride will finally hit the road again.