Ride
Second time seeing Ride - brilliant gig in a brilliant venue.
'Back in 1990, Ride were the pin up band of the indie scene. Pioneers of shoegaze. Chin length mops of hair. Rickenbacker guitars. Elongated vowels that sounded exotic to anyone who lived outside the M25 ring road.
Over four albums from 1990 to 1996 they burned bright and then (perhaps inevitably) out, their last album Tarantula - a bit like their big heroes, The Smiths - being released after they'd started to split.
In part because their division was acrimonious and in another because co-frontman and guitarist Andy Bell went on to join Manchester lads Oasis, Ride became one of those bands on the dream reunion list, but no one imagined a rebirth would actually happen.
Twenty years later, though, and it seems miracles really can happen. A lot of things have changed, right enough; those curtain fringes have gone (replaced in second frontman Mark Gardener's case with a fedora), and the banks of effects pedals to stir up that wild shoegaze wah-wah and howling feedback have got even bigger.
Watching countless comebacks before them means Ride pitch this set just right. They hammer the timeless old favourites from the off: Leave Them All Behind, Like A Daydream, Polar Bear, then Seagull, which sprints to an exhilarating 100mph finish.
Bell takes the lead for Cool Your Boots, the curious trot-canter-trot of its rowdy outro still stuffed with energy, later single Black Nite Crash roaring past like a rock 'n' roll thunder storm - the ultimate contrast to Twisterella's skipping pop melody'. http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/music-nightlife-news/review-ride--albert-hall-9320199
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