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 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.”

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

Channel 4’s morning show T4 will be broadcasting a recorded performance of ‘End Of The World’ this Sunday, September 9th at 12.45pm (GMT).

Colin Murray has made Ash’s new single ‘End Of The World’ the Single Of The Week on his Radio 1 show.

Colin is on air Monday-Thursday at 10pm until midnight. This means the bands new single will now get played every night this week on Radio 1 (97-99 FM).

If you miss Colin’s show live on air you can listen again online.

So here it finally is, the new video for Ash’s upcoming single End Of The World which will be released on September 10th.

The band shot the video when they were out in Japan playing the Fuji Rock Festival. The video is a tounge in cheek look at the last day on Earth through Death’s eyes before he gathers the other three horsemen of the apocalypse to bring everything to an end. Look out for the Lost In Translation references. The video was shot by Irish directors Daddy.

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’