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Japan Tour Video (Part 1)

Thursday, August 14th, 2008 | Posted in: Audio/Video | Add a comment »

Ash have posted a video tour diary from their appearances at the Nano-Mugen Festival in Japan. You can view the video below:

Singapore Festival Confirmed

Monday, August 11th, 2008 | Posted in: Tour News | Add a comment »

Ash have today announced that 10 years after their last eventful trip to Singapore, they will return on October 2nd to headline an outdoor event at Fort Canning Park during the Singapore Beer Festival.

Singapore was the inspiration behind Singapore Song which Tim wrote while there on the Nu-Clear Sounds tour. It was later renamedSeventh Circle and released as a B-Side to last years single End Of The World.

Ash will also play at Festival Alaquas, a free festival in Spain on Saturday 30th August.

Roundhouse & Astoria Support Acts Announced

Thursday, August 7th, 2008 | Posted in: Tour News | Add a comment »

Ash have today announced that their two upcoming London ‘1977′ shows are going to be an all Northern Irish, trio affair. Derry’s Fighting With Wire have been confirmed to join the band on September 5th at The Roundhouse. While the following night, In Case Of Fire open at the Astoria on September 6th.

1977 Deluxe Edition Track Listing

Monday, August 4th, 2008 | Posted in: New Releases | Add a comment »

Ash have revealed more details on the deluxe edition re-release of their classic number one debut album ‘1977′. The album will be released by Rhino records and the band reveal that Tim is currently remastering the whole collection while Mark is overseeing the artwork.

The band have also mixed their classic performance at the Reading Festival in 1996 and will be including long lost rare track ’The Scream’,  which is being mixed later this week. There will be three CDs in the set and the track listing is planned to be as follows:

Disc 1: ‘1977′
1. Lose Control
2. Goldfinger
3. Girl From Mars
4. I’d Give You Anything
5. Gone The Dream
6. Kung Fu
7. Oh Yeah
8. Let It Flow
9. Innocent Smile
10. Angel Interceptor
11. Lost In You
12. Darkside Lightside

‘Trailer’ Mini Album
13. Season
14. Jack Names The Planets
15. Intense Thing
16. Uncle Pat
17. Get Out
18. Petrol
19. Obscure Thing

Disc 2: ‘Live At The Wireless’
1. A Clear Invitation To The Dance (Part 1)
2. Darkside Lightside
3. Girl From Mars
4. Oh Yeah
5. T Rex
6. I’d Give You Everything
7. Kung Fu
8. What Deaner Was Talking About
9. Goldfinger
10. Petrol
11. A Clear Invitation To The Dance Part 2

‘Live At Reading 1996′
12. Lose Control
13. Jack Names The Planets
14. T Rex
15. Goldfinger
16. Angel Interceptor
17. Darkside Lightside
18. Oh Yeah
19. Innocent Smile
20. Lost In You
21. Petrol
22. Gone The Dream
23. Girl From Mars
24. Kung Fu

Disc 3: Rarities & B-Sides
1. Girl From Mars (4 track demo)
2. Jack Names The Planets (La La Land Records 7″ version)
3. Don’t Know (La La Land Records 7″ version)
4. Silver Surfer (John Peel session in ‘94)
5. Punk Boy
6. Different Today
7. Hulk Hogan Bubblebath
8. Day Of The Triffids
9. Luther Ingo’s Star Cruiser
10. Astral Conversations With Toulouse Lautrec
11. Cantina Band
12. 5am Eternal
13. Gimme Some Truth
14. I Need Somebody
15. Sneaker
16. Get Ready
17. T Rex
18. Everywhere Is All Around
19. Does Your Mother Know
20. I Only Want To Be With You
21. A Life Less Ordinary (Original Tim Simenon recording)
22. Sick Party
23. The Scream

The album is expected towards the end of September or early october.

Ash Relaunch Official Website

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008 | Posted in: Misc | Add a comment »

Ash relaunched their official website on Friday 1st August. The site is currently only in it’s early stages but the plans for it are huge. As well as regular news and video updates, the band have also added a blog which will be updated by various members of the band and their crew including:

Tim - Tim Wheeler (guitar / vocals)
dmh - Mark Hamilton (bass)
Rick - Rick McMurray (drums)
Claudius - Claudius Mittendorfer (studio engineer)
Tav - Stephen Taverner (manager)
Lance - Lance Reynolds (soundman)
Jedisteve - Steve Timmis (ash-official webmaster)

Deluxe Edition Of ‘1977′ & Future Plans

Monday, July 28th, 2008 | Posted in: Interviews | Add a comment »

Ash have been speaking to BBC Radio 1’s Newsbeat about their plans for the rest of this year and early next year. The band confirm that they remain committed to a promise not to release any more albums, despite having more than enough new songs, instead they will concentrate on single track releases because as frontman Tim Wheeler explains “the way people listen to music has changed”.

Tim adds that “It’s been very freeing being away from the album format and not thinking, ‘Oh, this track has to fit with that track’. We’re just trying all sorts of crazy stuff. We’ve got one album worth so far but we want to get a double album worth of stuff.”  Drummer Rick McMurray also spoke of this new freedom suggesting “I think we have to go for it. You don’t have to ignore some songs because they don’t fit in with overall picture.”.

The band gave the example of a new currently untitled song “We’ve also got a great disco song that Mark wrote, we’re not sure what it’s called yet but it’s really different for us.”

Tim Wheeler also explain the meaning behind the title of the new song the band have playing live all summer called ‘Ichiban’. “It’s Japanese for number one, it’s just a fun upbeat kind of song and its great to play live so we’ve been playing it at all the festivals so far”.

The new songs should start to emerge around Spring next year.

Also in the interview it is mentioned that Ash’s former label is about to re-release a deluxe edition of their debut album ‘1977′ in September, this will coincide with the two gigs the band are playing in London where they play the entire album in full. Wheeler said: “It’s a bit of nostalgia, we released it nearly 12 and a half years ago.”

Glasgowbury Set List

Sunday, July 27th, 2008 | Posted in: Set Lists | Add a comment »

Ash played a storming set at Glasgowbury yesterday (26th July). The full set list ran as follows:

Meltdown, Burn Baby Burn, You Can’t Have It All, A Life Less Ordinary, Shining Light, Kung Fu, Ichiban, Orpheus, Renegade Cavalcade, Teenage Kicks, End of the World, Blacklisted, Oh Yeah, Girl From Mars, Twilight Of The Innocents. Encore: Lose Control, Jack Names The Planets

Z008 Hit By Problems

Monday, July 7th, 2008 | Posted in: Set Lists | Add a comment »

Ash performed at a trouble hit Z008 festival on Saturday despite problems with promoters and bands canceling. Dizzee Rascal, Athlete, The Rascals and Wiley were among the bands who scrapped sets at the Zoo8 event. Mark Ronson, The Cribs, The Hives and Ash were among the acts who did appear. There were also issues with the facilities, while the second stage was closed for much of the festival after its tent became unstable.

Ash’s performance was also in doubt with bassist Mark Hamilton quoted as saying “We didn’t know if it was going to go ahead earlier on. There were a lot of issues with the promoters.”

it is understood the band were meant to be paid half of their fee before the performance and half after. When this wasn’t the case the park’s managing director Bob O’ Connor had to step in to pay the band and their performance went ahead as planned.

The band did eventually play a 12 song set, which ran as follows: Meltdown, Burn Baby Burn, A Life Less Ordinary, Orpheus, Shining Light. , Ichiban, Kung Fu, You Can’t Have It All, Orpheus, Oh Yeah, Girl From Mars, Twilight Of The Innocents.

Walking Barefoot Feeds Get Burnt

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 | Posted in: Site News | Add a comment »

We are currently a couple of months into a total redesign of Walking Barefoot. It is over two years since we launched version 9 and we are planing a whole host of cool new features and enhancements for version 10, we will have more on these changes in a few months time when the site launches.

In the meantime as a result of the redesign we are in the process of making a few changes to the backend of the site, some of which you may already have noticed. One change we have made is to move all our RSS feeds over to feedburner.

While this will offer many benefits in the long term, in the short term it will mean that the url of all our feeds has changed.  If you used our feeds before you will need to update your links to point to our new feeds which are listed below. If you haven’t used our feeds before be sure to grab them and add them to your RSS reader of choice. All the current feeds are listed below:

• Walking Barefoot News
• Walking Barefoot Comments
• News Snippets
• Flickr Group

Ash To Play Ricoh Arena

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008 | Posted in: Tour News | Add a comment »

Ash have today confirm that they will be playing a show at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry. The support for this show will include The Gentlemen, The Vintones and Aunty Doubles. Radio 1’s Collin Murray will be hosting the night too.

Tickets are on sale from ticketmaster on Monday (23rd June) at 9:00AM. For more info on the event and other bands playing visit Jammin Productions

Many thanks to Alex for sending this in.