RAIN PARADE : UK & European tour June 2024 | first tour since 1985 to promote new album 'Last Rays Of A Dying Sun'
RAIN PARADE
REUNION TOUR 2024
FIRST UK & EUROPEAN DATES SINCE 1985
TO PROMOTE LAST RAYS OF A DYING SUN
NEW ALBUM OUT NOW
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“There’s little rain on their new parade ****”
MOJO
“Loyal to psychedelic tropes and muscular melodies. An unexpected afterglow 7/10”
UNCUT
“Full of what made you love them in the first place ****”
SHINDIG!
“The most influential and certainly most psychedelic of the paisley underground cohort stunningly reappear *****”
RNR
Rain Parade were one of the key US guitar-based acts in the fabled LA Paisley Underground scene in the early 1980s and a huge influence on the UK indie scene that emerged later that decade. Having recently issued a well received new album entitled ‘Last Rays Of A Dying Sun’ (their first in 38 years and only their third full-length studio recording), and with their much admired back catalogue soon to be reactivated, they will tour the UK and mainland European in June 2024 on what will be their first visit to this side of the pond since 1985. The trip culminates in an appearance at the Azkena Festival (near Bilbao), their first ever show in Spain.
The full list of dates is:
06.06.24 OSLO (NO) John Dee Club tickets
07.06.24 STOCKHOLM (SE) Kafé Himlavalvet tickets
08.06.24 MALMO (SE) Medley tickets
09.06.24 COPENHAGEN (DK) Loppen tickets
11.06.24 HAMBURG (DE) Nochtspeicher tickets
12.06.24 AMSTERDAM (NL) Paradiso Zonnehuis tickets
13.06.24 ANTWERP (BE) Djingel Djangel tickets
14.06.24 BRISTOL Strange Brew tickets
15.06.24 LEEDS Brudenell Social Club tickets
16.06.24 MANCHESTER Night & Day tickets
18.06.24 NOTTINGHAM Metronome tickets
19.06.24 LONDON 229 tickets
21.06.24 VITORIA-GASTEIZ (ES) Azkena Festival tickets
Both records were a direct influence on subsequent UK outfits such as My Bloody Valentine, Ride, The Stone Roses, Teenage Fanclub, The Charlatans and Creation Records boss Alan McGee, while the mid-‘80s had seen the band tour the UK and Europe extensively and make multiple TV appearances on the BBC’s Whistle Test. Andy Bell of Ride recalls that “Rain Parade was the one that changed me like an explosion in my mind. I saw them perform ‘No Easy Way Down’ on TV and it was like, ‘Here is something I can fully get behind.’ It’s just incredible, and I have to say would have been pretty influential on the early Ride sound for sure.”
Guitarist John Thoman joined Piucci and Steven Roback in 1984 to record the album ‘Crashing Dream’ and Japanese live set ‘Beyond The Sunset’ (both released on Island in 1985) before Rain Parade broke up the following year. Their reputation and diehard following has continued to grow ever since and their songs have been covered by The Bluetones, Buffalo Tom, Bangles and a host of others not beginning with ‘B’. They eventually reunited for a handful of one-off shows in their home territory and recorded three new songs for the ‘3x4’ compilation (Yep Roc, 2018) along with their friends The Bangles, The Dream Syndicate and The Three O’Clock.