Ride announce East Coast US tour dates 

Today, Ride have announced they will be returning to the US later this year for an East Coast tour following their currently scheduled international tour. Tickets go on sale this Friday, May 8 at 10am EST.

East Coast tour dates:
Sep 17 – Washington, DC – 9:30 Club (tickets)
Sep 19 – Philadelphia, PA – TLA (tickets)
Sep 21 – New York, NY – Irving Plaza (tickets)
Sep 22 – New York, NY – Irving Plaza (tickets)
Sep 25 – Cincinnati, OH – MidPoint Festival (tickets)
Sep 26 – Chicago, IL – Riviera (tickets)
Sep 27 – Champaign, IL – Pygmalion Festival (tickets)
Sep 29 – Minneapolis, MN – Mill City (tickets)
Oct 01 – Detroit, MI – St Andrews (tickets)
Oct 02 – Cleveland, OH – House of Blues (tickets)
Oct 03 – Boston, MA – Paradise (tickets)

To get you in the mood, watch Ride perform Vapour Trail live at Coachella below via YouTube.

…and watch Ride perform Leave Them All Behind live in San Francisco below via YouTube.

In addition to the new U.S. shows, Ride has also added international festival shows including Ansan Valley Rock Festival (South Korea) and Flow Festival (Finland). All tour dates are below.

2015 tour dates:
May 08 – Atlanta, GA – Terminal West
May 10 – Atlanta, GA – Shaky Knees Festival
May 22 – Glasgow, UK – Barrowland Ballroom
May 23 – Manchester, UK – Albert Hall
May 24 – London, UK – Roundhouse
May 26 – Amsterdam, NL – Paradiso
May 27 – Paris, FR – Olympia
May 29 – Barcelona, ES – Primavera Sound
Jun 01 – Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg
Jun 02 – Toronto, ON – Danforth Music Hall
Jun 04 – New York, NY – Terminal 5
Jun 06 – Porto, PT – NOS Primavera Sound
Jun 07 – London, UK – Field Day (Headlining)
Jun 19 – 21 – Hilvarenbeek, NL – Best Kept Secret Festival
Jul 17-19 – Gräfenhainichen, DE – Melt! Festival
Jul 24 – South Korea – Ansan Valley Rock Festival
Jul 24 – 26 – Niigata Prefecture, JP – Fuji Rock Festival
Aug 07 – 09 – Katowice, PL – OFF Festival
Aug 13 – Oslo, Norway – Øya Festival<
Aug 14 – Finland – Flow Festival
Sep 04 – Stradbally, Ireland – Electric Picnic Festival
Sep 17 – Washington, DC – 9:30 Club<
Sep 19 – Philadelphia, PA – TLA
Sep 21 – New York, NY – Irving Plaza
Sep 22 – New York, NY – Irving Plaza
Sep 25 – Cincinnati, OH – Midpoint Festival
Sep 26 – Chicago, IL – Riviera
Sep 27 – Champaign, IL – Pygmalion Festival
Sep 29 – Minneapolis, MN – Mill City
Oct 01 – Detroit, MI – St Andrews
Oct 02 – Cleveland, OH – House of Blues
Oct 03 – Boston, MA – Paradise

Ride 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’s Creation Records 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’s legendary Sire Records.

The band’s 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 aligned and Ride are finally back.

For more information on Ride, visit ridemusic.net.