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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

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.

Ash played another triumphant UK show at Loughborough University last night. The setlist ran as follows:

Lose Control, Orpheus, You Can’t Have It All, A Life Less Ordinary, Shining Light, Angel Interceptor, Walking Barefoot, Goldfinger, Ritual, Kung Fu, Ichiban, Sometimes, Renegade Cavalcade, Blacklisted, Oh Yeah, Girl From Mars, Twilight Of The Innocents

Encore
Meltdown, End Of The World, Burn Baby Burn

Many thanks to Charlie for sending this in.

Ash made their debut appearance at the Download Festival yesterday (June 14). The band took to the Tuborg Stage at 19.30 (BST), and played a selection of songs spanning their entire career, from ‘Kung Fu’ to ‘You Can’t Have It All’.

Tim and Mark spoke to NME before the gig and you can see the video below.

The full setlist ran as follows
Orpheus, Burn Baby, Burn, You Can’t Have It All, A Life Less Ordinary, Shining Light, Clones, Kung Fu, Renegade Cavalcade, Blacklisted, Girl From Mars, Twilight Of The Innocents.

Ash rocked into Middlesbrough last night, headlining the Middlesbrough Music Live event. The band performed a shorter set than the previous night which ran as follows: Lose Control, You Can’t Have It All, Orpheus, A Life Less Ordinary, Shining Light, Walking Barefoot, Goldfinger, Ichiban, Kung Fu, Oh Yeah, Burn Baby Burn, Renegade Cavalcade, Blacklisted, Girl From Mars, Twilight of the Innocents.

The band will now head back to New York to spend the next two weeks working on and recording more new material.

Ash debuted a new song last night as the band returned to live action in Bradford at St George’s Hall. The new song ‘Ichiban’ (formerly ‘Survivor’) featured in a greatest hits set. You can see a video of the song below.

The full set ran as follows: Lose Control, You Can’t Have It All, Orpheus, A Life Less Ordinary, Shining Light, Angel Interceptor, Walking Barefoot, Goldfinger, Kung Fu, Ichiban, Oh Yeah, Renegade Cavalcade, Blacklisted, Jack Names the Planets, Twilight of the Innocents, Girl from Mars

Encore: Meltdown, End of the World, Burn Baby Burn.

Ash performed covers of ‘Teenage Kicks’ and ‘Whiskey In The Jar’, the irish traditional tune made famous by Thin Lizzy, in New York on March 17th. The trio played an intimate show in honour of St. Patrick’s Day at the Music Hall Of Williamsburgin Brooklyn, making their way through a lengthy set comprising of a selection of material from their back catalogue as well as their latest album ‘Twilight Of The Innocents’, which Tim Wheeler said he hoped will come out on in North America soon.

“We’re just back from Japan and are totally jet-lagged and tripping,” cheery frontman Wheeler told the crowd “but that seems appropriate for St. Patrick’s Day. “Acknowledging the vast Irish contingent in the crowd, Wheeler said “It’s nice to be among our own today.” Returning for a five-song encore, he told the crowd “We’re from a town called Downpatrick in Northern Ireland where Saint Patrick is buried,” before playing ‘Uncle Pat’.

Ash played:
Lose Control
Orpheus
A Life Less Ordinary
Ritual
Shining Light
Kung Fu
Renegade Cavalcade
Vampire Love
Goldfinger
You Can’t Have It All
Walking Barefoot
Evil Eye
Blacklisted
Oh Yeah
Girl From Mars
Twilight Of The Innocents

Meltdown
Uncle Pat
Whiskey In The Jar
Teenage Kicks
Burn Baby Burn

Ash kicked off their Japanese tour on Tuesday night and played a 22 song set spanning their entire career including a rare outing for ‘Wild Surf’ at their second night at the Shiuya-O-East, Tokyo last night. The set list ran as follows:

Lose Control
Orpheus
A Life Less Ordinary
Wild Surf
Ritual
Polaris
Kung Fu
Renegade Calvacade
Shining Light
Vampire Love
Walking Barefoot
You Can’t Have It All
Evil Eye
Oh Yeah
Petrol
Blacklisted
Girl From Mars
Twilight Of The Innocents

Meltdown
End Of The World
Angel Interceptor
Burn Baby Burn

Ash finished their final show of 2007 in ephantic style in Belfast on Friday night, playing a 24 song set in front of a home crowd packed with their friends and families. The band were joined on stage for the encore by friend Barry Peak, frontman of Laser Gun Nun and more recently Backwater, for a cover of their anthem, and ‘Sometimes’ B-side, ‘Melon Farmer’.

They ended the night with Nathan Connelly from Snow Patrol on guitar for ‘Goldfinger’ and ‘Burn Baby Burn’. The set list ran as follows:

Meltdown
Orpheus
You Can’t Have It All
A Life Less Ordinary
Shining Light
Clones
Ritual
Angel Interceptor
There’s A Star
Walking Barefoot
Evil Eye
Polaris
Kung Fu
Renegade Cavalcade
Blacklisted
Oh Yeah
Girl From Mars
Twilight Of The Innocents

End Of The World
Jack Names The Planets
Uncle Pat
Melon Farmer (With Barry Peak on Guitar and lead vocals)
Goldfinger (With Nathan Connelly on Guitar)
Burn Baby Burn (With Nathan Connelly on Guitar)

Now that Ash’s UK tour has finished Walking Barefoot has compiled a complete statistical guide to all the songs played on the tour. The list is compiled from various set lists found around the web, as we were not at all the shows we may have missed a few. This list was knocked together very quickly so if you spot any mistakes please feel free to send them to us. All percentage figures are rounded up or down.