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Here’s a couple of photos taken by Ash manager Stephen Taverner of the band filming the video for their new single ‘Polaris’.

All the explsions in the video are real, no cgi effects here.

Ash with director Jeff Thomas

Ash have spent a busy few days preparing press photos for their new album. Here’s what the band had to say:

The last week’s been pretty crazy as the wheels have begun turning on set up work for the new album’s promotion.

We each got a fistfull of dollars from our lovely friends Alan and Nadine at Warners and we went out shopping for new clobber so that we don’t look like tramps!

Our friend Karen helped out with sorting us out with clothing deals and basically waving a magic wand over us which really got us looking like a band and tied us all together.

Irish photographer B+ came to town with the ultra cool EC to take pics and we spent two full days with 7am starts taking pics at locations all over NYC and in the studio. B+ must have shot 100′s of rolls of film (none of that digital crap!) so we’re looking forward to seeing the results. The new pics will be posted as soon as they’re all approved, obviously not all at once! Some may be used in artwork etc, etc…

We’re also hoping to secure the rights to using some very cool artwork for the album cover.

There’s a good picture gallery from Ash’s gig at Turin’s Hiroshima Mon Amour Club on November 07th here.

11 photos taken at the bands recent show at the Havana Club in Toulouse, France on November 11th, have been added to the photos section. To view the slideshow click here.

Ash, Elvis Costello, David Holmes, Iggy Pop and The Undertones and are amongst the artists who feature in a photo exhibition opening in Belfast from today (October 20).

‘Shot By Both Sides’ is billed a collection of images that define the ongoing spirit of alternative Ulster and feature big name stars alongside a succession of local bands from the last four decades.

‘We’re hoping that it reflects the excitement, the abrasion and the plurality of the music scene here’, said event curator and former NME writer Stuart Bailie.

‘It’s a scattershot story. Our history’s loaded and the hits keep coming’.

The exhibition – which features many rarely seen pictures – runs at the Belfast Old Museum Art Centre until November 6.