Ad Astra tour of UK and Ireland
Ash have announced a mammoth UK and Ireland tour for the autumn and winter of 2025/26.
The “Ad Astra” tour kicks off with two September dates in London then resumes in Swansea in November, running all the way through to February 2026.
“Ad Astra” is Latin for “to the stars”, the words that came out of a teenaged Tim Wheeler’s mouth in the summer of 1995, setting up the classic chorus to the band’s first Top 20 hit, “Girl From Mars”. Speaking of the tour, the band added:
“You could call it going back to our roots, but that’s only partly true. You could all it something noble and say we’re supporting the smaller venues upon which the music industry is built, and that’s somewhat true. But the truth is we’re doing this because tours like this are part of our DNA.”
“Whether that’s cracking the ceiling in the Jug Of Ale as “Girl From Mars” climbed the charts, or recording live versions of Meltdown at the Leadmill or doing Glastonbury warm ups at the Venue, it’s something we’ve always done. And it feels like the right time to do it again. It’s gonna be a visceral, whites-of-their-eyes experience and sometimes that’s exactly what you need.”
Tickets for the “Ad Astra” tour go on general sale at 10am on Friday 23 May. The full list of shows is as follows:
September
- September 9 – Scala, London, UK
- September 10 – Scala, London, UK
November
- November 15 – Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth, UK
- November 16 – Sin City, Swansea, UK
- November 18 – Boiler Shop, Newcastle Upon Tune, UK
- November 19 – New Century Hall, Manchester, UK
- November 20 – Galvanizers Yard, Glasgow, UK
- November 22 – Bootleg Social, Blackpool, UK
- November 23 – The Foundry, Sheffield, UK
- November 25 – O2 Academy, Oxford, UK
December
- December 3 – Set Theatre, Kilkenny, Ireland
- December 5 – Mike the Pies, Listowel, Ireland
- December 6 – Spirit Store, Dundalk, Ireland
- December 7 – Roisin Dubh, Galway, Ireland
- December 9 – Cyprus Avenue, Cork, Ireland
- December 10 – Dolans, Limerick, Ireland
- December 11 – Academy, Dublin, Ireland
- December 13 – Ulster Hall, Belfast, UK
February
- February 3 – Scala, London, UK
- February 4 – The Crescent, York, UK
- February 6 – Forum, Tunbridge Wells, UK
- February 7 – Junction, Cambridge, UK
- February 8 – Crawford Arms, Milton Keynes, UK
- February 10 – Phoenix, Exeter, UK
- February 11 – Trinity, Bristol, UK
- February 13 – Grand Central Dome, Liverpool, UK
- February 14 – Sugarmill, Stoke, UK
- February 15 – Welly, Hull, UK
- February 17 – Epic Studio, Norwich, UK
- February 18 – Chinnerys, Southend On Sea, UK
- February 19 – O2 Institute 2, Birmingham, UK