Ride, w/ Besnard Lakes at Mill City Nights, Minneapolis (29 Sep 15)
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Tour Dates
10/01 St Andrews Hall Detroit
Detroit, MI 10/02 House of Blues Cleveland Cleveland, OH 10/03 Paradise Rock Club Boston, MA 10/11 O2 Academy Leeds 10/12 University of East Anglia Norwich 10/14 O2 Academy Brixton 10/15 O2 Academy Liverpool 10/17 Anson Rooms Bristol 10/18 O2 Academy Newcastle 10/19 Edinburgh Corn Exchange 10/21 Rock City Nottingham 10/22 Institute Birmingham 11/06 Saturn Birmingham 11/07 Fun Fun Fun Festival 11/09 Crescent Ballroom Phoenix, AZ 11/10 House of Blues Las Vegas, NV 11/12 The Wiltern Los Angeles, CA 11/14 Catalyst Club Santa Cruz, CA 11/15 Crystal Ballroom Portland, OR 11/16 Neptune Theatre Seattle, WA 11/17 Commodore Ballroom Vancouver 11/19 Republik Honolulu, HI 11/24 Namba Hatch Osaka 11/25 Zepp DiverCity Tokyo Koto-ku, Japan 11/27 Clockenflap Music & Arts Festival 11/28 Neon Lights Singapore Read More
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The Besnard Lakes
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Montreal’s The Besnard Lakes opened up the show.
Before the band took the stage, we’re treated to hearing astronomer and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carl Sagan reading an excerpt of his Cosmos book, then, in darkness, the band emerged playing a layered, atmospheric, psychedelic, shoegazing music that went over well with the audience.
We previously caught the band when they headlined the Triple Rock Social Club in November 2013, and wrote they were “space rock”.
As with their previous appearance, the fog machine and piercing colorful lights played a huge role in creating a beautiful spacey atmosphere (see photo).
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Jace Lasek
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While the first half of the set mostly featured Jace Lasek singing, his wife Olga Goreas would take over singing duties starting with “People Of The Sticks” in the middle of their 45-minute set. The song was taken from their latest, and fourth studio album Until in Excess, Imperceptible UFO, available on Jagjaguwar.
They ended their set with “And You Lied to Me”, with Lasek and Goreas jamming together to an explosive end.
Setlist
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The last time shoegazing band Ride was in Minneapolis, it was October 5, 1992. After the breakup of Beady Eye, guitarist Andy Bell (bassist for Oasis/Beady Eye) got back with original band members singer/guitarist Mark Gardener, bassist Steve Queralt, and drummer Laurence Colbert, for a Ride reunion.
Reunions are special, not only do the band get back to doing what they loved, but they are also reuniting their fans to come together in one place. Personally speaking, we met and saw so many old shoegazing fans and friends. Some of these fans have not been seen at other shows… but for Ride, of course, they’ll come out. Many believed that this is perhaps the last time Ride will play here. Also, plenty of local bands (who were inspired by Ride and the music they help pioneer) came out to the show – in particular Ed Ackerson (of BNLX; Polara) and Two Harbors were spotted at the show.
Right before “Dreams Burn Down”, Mark Gardener noted that it’s been a long time since they were in Minneapolis, playing First Avenue. Of course, there were plenty of fans in the audience from that 1992 show, so Gardener dedicated the song to those fans and First Avenue.
After two hours of solid music, the show finally ended at nearly 12:30am, to a very happy audience.
Ride’s reunion tour will extend to their UK tour as Nowhere25, playing all eleven songs from the record. They confessed that due to different tuning and effects, that the set will be challenging (and not exactly sure if they can even pull it off)… but the show should “sound epic.”
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Ride at Mill City Nights, Minneapolis (29 September 2015) |