To celebrate today’s release of Interplay – Ride’s seventh studio album and third since reuniting – let’s go back to that first reunion tour in 2015, which we fondly call “the fedora era”. the band’s all-classics set from the Best Kept Secret festival at Hilvarenbeek in The Netherlands, professionally shot by 3voor12, just four months into their return to active duty.
And back in the present, Rough Trade just posted a nice interview with Andy Bell that covers both the new record, and runs through a bunch of records that either have deep personal significance to him… or that he just likes.
Where I Am Now: Andy Bell @ Rough Trade
Q, meanwhile, checked in with Mark Gardner about the new record and balancing their status as a heritage act with remaining creatively active and vital:
