Ash will be returning to the Isle of Wight festival this summer and will be playing the Big Top stage just before it’s closed by The Darkness on Sunday 24th June. Other artists already confirmed include Enter Shikari, Pulled Apart By Horses and Switchfoot.
Tickets are available now. See the Isle of Wight festival website for full details and pricing.
Setlist
01. Girl From Mars
02. A Life Less Ordinary
03. Arcadia
04. Shining Lght
05. Walking Barefoot
06. Oh Yeah
07. Kung Fu
08. Orpheus
09. Return Of White Rabbit
10. Burn Baby Burn
Emmy The Great & Tim Wheeler have released a music video for ‘Home For The Holidays’. The album ‘This Is Christmas’ is released on November 21st.
Ash will headline a special show at The Garage on December 3rd, 2011. This landmark gig will also be the final instalment of 2011′s Energy Sessions, sponsored by Relentless Energy Drink, and will be curated by acclaimed music mag, The Fly.
Doors open at 7pm, tickets are priced at £5 and available from www.thegarage.co.uk.
Ash have also announced some UK warm up shows in the UK preceding the show, check the tour news for full details.
Ash have announced they will be doing signings in both Birmingham and Bristol this week before the Free All Angels/Best Of gigs. No tickets/wristbands are required. Details below:
Thursday 20 October, 6.00pm
HMV Birmingham High St. – 38 High Street, Birmingham, B4 7SL- tel: 01216 433 884
Friday 21 October, 6.00pm
Fopp Bristol – 27-29 College Green, Bristol, BS1 5TD – tel: 01179 377 110
Ash release their new album ‘The Best Of Ash’ today. The album also comes with a DVD which includes the first ever release of the previously unseen tour documentary ‘Teenage Wildlife’.
Entirely self-funded, it depicts the band’s rise from local school heroes to the all-conquering band that topped the charts with their debut album ’1977′. Yet underneath the surface of the band’s success, we see the three young musicians struggling to adapt to their new-found fame and the insane workload that a global tour of a hit album necessitates. Narrated by Ewan McGregor to a brilliantly acerbic script by the late Stephen Wells, ‘Teenage Wildlife’ shows the highs, lows and debauchery of the band’s initial breakthrough.
In addition, ‘The Best of Ash’ features the band’s music videos on DVD for the very first time.
You can purchase the album now at HMV, Amazon, iTunes, Recordstore, and play.com.
Ash frontman Tim Wheeler has suggested that the band may reconsider their decision to no longer record studio albums. The band had previously said that their 2007 fifth album ‘Twilight Of The Innocents’ would be their last studio album and they would only be releasing singles from then on. They followed this in 2009 by undertaking a prolific spell of releasing tracks, with one song released every two weeks for a year as part of their A-Z series.
But the band’s frontman has now relented and has told BBC 6Music that he may have been wrong to pronounce that the album format was dead as it was very tough to continually market singles.
I think the album is probably still the best medium because in a way it’s almost the most economic one when there’s so little money coming in to make music. This probably offers the best way of doing it because you don’t have to market it for very long whereas a year of doing a singles campaign is quite challenging
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