RIDE announce national tour with Mercury Rev

English shoegaze legends RIDE have announced an Australian tour with Mercury Rev.

Armed with new material from their seventh studio album Interplay, the four-piece play Metropolis Fremantle on Friday, August 16.

Following on from 2017’s Weather Diaries and 2019’s This Is Not A Safe Place, Interplay is RIDE’s third album since reforming in 2014, having now been together longer in their current second phase than their original iteration as ’90s shoegaze pioneers.

Joining RIDE are beloved indie-psych rock group Mercury Rev. Led by Jonathan Donahue and Sean ‘Grasshopper’ Mackowiak, Mercury Rev have continued to reinvent and celebrate their classic sound that has been unafraid to explore new forms throughout the ‘90s, ‘00s and into present day.

Mercury Rev’s last studio record, a reimagining of Bobbie Gentry’s seminal album, The Delta Sweete, saw Mercury Rev collaborate with a number of artists including Norah Jones, Phoebe Bridgers, Beth Orton and Margo Price.

RIDE and Mercury Rev hit Metropolis Fremantle on Friday, August 16, 2024. Tickets are on sale Friday, May 17 from destroyalllines.com