The reunion of shoegaze legends Ride continues in full force. The British band waltzed through Boston nearly a year ago for a gig at the Paradise, part of a successful North American tour, and continue their sonic assault on the United Kingdom next month, with a pair of sold-out gigs at Concorde 2 in Brighton before playing British fest Bestival on the Isle of Wight on September 10, alongside the Cure, Major Lazer, Hot Chip, Wolf Alice, Wiz Khalifa, and several others
Tying in to those Brighton gigs, The Quietus has shared a previously unseen promo video from the 1993 Daytripper concerts, a pair of gigs in Brighton and Blackpool in March of that year, which Ride co-headlined with The Charlatans.
The video was shot by filmmaker Giles Borg as a promo visual for Carnival of Light-era b-side “Let’s Get Lost”, which, at the time, was considered as a single in the United States. Plans were shelved, and the video was mothballed.
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The video cuts footage of the band — Mark Gardener, Andy Bell, Steve Queralt and Loz Colbert — hanging out in Brighton and Blackpool prior to the gigs, with footage of them performing. Although RIDE didn’t play “Let’s Get Lost” at the Daytripper shows, the colour footage is taken from a gig at the Stodola Club in Poland on May 28th, 1993, which featured the song in the setlist.
There are hours of unseen footage going right up to the recording of the band’s final album, Tarantula. When the band split in 1996, the film was shelved. It is unclear whether any more footage will surface as the bulk of it is on Beta SP (16mm), but Borg has fond memories of his time with the band. “Sadly the film never got finished, but we had some great fun along the way,” he recalls. “The day after the gig in Poland, we went to see England play Poland [in a World Cup Qualifier], which ended with us all being chased down the road by the police.”
Watch it below.