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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’s cover of The Rentals ‘Please Let That Be You’ is now available to download from the US iTunes Music store and Amazon.com. The song is lifted from the album ‘Friends of P - The Rentals Tribute’.

The track costs $0.99 and can be previewed on both Amazon and iTunes. The Rentals frontman Matt Sharp was the original bassist of the band Weezer and is also credited in the Meltdown sleeve notes for band photography and lending a bass amp.

Ash’s latest single ‘End of the World’ charted at a very disappointed number 62 in the UK singles chart last night. Apparently this was partly due to a packaging error. On Friday with physical and download sales the single was on the edge of the top 30, but because neither 7-inch vinyl’s had the correct bar codes, they were not scanned at the point of purchase and so did not count towards the singles chart position. The second vinyl should also have come with poster packaging, rather than just being in a clear sleeve.

The song is now likely to be the last single lifted from ‘Twilight of the Innocents’, though the band still plan to release the title track as an EP which will include four new B-Sides, to coincide with autumn UK tour. The recording of the B-Sides is near completion, with Tim laying down the lyrics when the band return to New York after their upcoming tour with Sportfreunde Stiller in Germany this month.

Ash have today released the iTunes Festival: London EP. The seven track live EP is available exclusively through iTunes as a digital download. The seven tracks are taken from the bands exclusive iTunes show at the ICA in London, England on July 08.

Track Listing
01. I Started A Fire
02. You Can’t Have It All
03. Orpheus
04. A Life Less Ordinary
05. Kung Fu
06. Twilight Of The Innocents
07. Burn Baby Burn

The bands new single ‘End Of The World’ is out now on CD and two 7-inch vinyl’s, you can also purchase demo and acoustic version of ‘End Of The World’ through the iTunes music store for £1.49, as well as the music video for £1.89.

Ash are making four of the tracks from from their intimate gig at the Water Rats available exclusively through Xfm.

Recorded on Tuesday September 14th the Ash ‘Live EP’ is available exlusively through Xfm. The EP costs only £2.99 or individual tracks can be bought for 99p each. The four tracks are:

‘End Of The World’
‘Girl From Mars’
‘Burn Baby Burn’
‘Twilight Of The Innocents’

It’s not on sale until Monday 10th September but you can pre-order the Ash Live EP now.

For a set list and reviews of the bands show at the Water Rats check the tour archive

Ash have confirmed full details of new single ‘End Of The World’ which will be released on Monday 10th September in the UK. It will be released on the following formats.

CD Single (Cat. No: ASH07CD)
01. End Of The World (Album Version)
02. Seventh Circle
03. Wasted On You
04. Statis In Darkness

7-inch #1 Gatefold (Cat. No: ASH07)
Side A - End Of The World (Album Version)
Side B - Shattered Glass (Demo)

7-inch #2 Poster Bag (Cat. No: ASH07X)
Side A - End Of The World (Album Version)
Side B - Suicide Girls (Demo)

Ash have confirmed that the much requested ‘Singapore Song’ has been renamed ‘Seventh Circle’ and will appear on the CD single, the version that appears is the the full studio version which never made the ‘Meltdown’ album. ‘Statis In Darkness’ is an old ‘Free All Angels’ era outtake while ‘Wasted On You’ was one of the 27 demos the band recorded for current album ‘Twilight Of The Innocents’.

The 7 inch singles meanwhile are backed with the early ‘Twilight Of The Innocents’ demo recordings of ‘Suicide Girls’ which later became ‘Palace Of Excess’ and ‘Shattered Glass’

Ash will release their new single ‘End Of The World’ on Monday 10th September in the UK. It will be released on the following formats.

CD Single
01. End Of The World (Album Version)
02. Seventh Circle
03. Wasted On You
04. Statis In Darkness

7-inch #1 Gatefold
Side A - End Of The World (Album Version)
Side B - Shattered Glass

7-inch #2 Poster Bag
Side A - End Of The World (Album Version)
Side B - Suicide Girls

‘Statis In Darkness’ is an old ‘Free All Angels’ era outtake while ‘Wasted On You’ was one of the 27 demos the band recorded for their current album ‘Twilight Of The Innocents’.

Ash have delayed the release of their new single ‘End Of The World’ from Monday 27th August to September 10th. The video for the single, which will be the third from the bands ‘final’ album ‘Twilight Of The Innocents’, was recorded in Japan earlier this month. Stay tunned for confirmation of the release date and B-sides.

The single got it’s first radio play last week on Colin Murray’s Radio 1 Show.

Ash’s final album ‘Twilight of the Innocents’ today entered the UK album chart at a rather disappointing number 32. The album unfortunately dropped a few places from it’s mid week position of number 28, and is the first time an Ash album has not entered the top 10.

You may remember back in May Ash bassist Mark Hamilton revealed that legendary lost track ‘Singapore Song’ would soon be set for an iTunes exclusive release.

When ‘New Tattoo’ was announced as an exclusive iTunes pre-order track for the new album there was speculation it was a new title for the lost track. However, Mark has now confirmed that the release of the song has been held up again and that ‘New Tattoo’ is a completely new track, only available, along with a two part documentary, via iTunes when you pre-order the new Ash album ‘Twilight of the Innocents’ - released this coming Monday (2nd July).