King Tuts
Glasgow, United Kingdom
Show notes
With Winnebago Deal & X-Tigers.
Set list
- Girl From Mars
- Meltdown
- Orpheus
- A Life Less Ordinary
- Evil Eye
- Clones
- Walking Barefoot
- Starcrossed
- Out of the Blue
- Shining Light
- Renegade Cavalcade
- Detonator
- Goldfinger
- On a Wave
- Won’t Be Saved
- Envy
- Vampire Love
Encore
Review
Ash have grown-up since we last saw them. Tim’s grown a beard and has swapped his Irish accent for an American one; Rick’s has a proper haircut that his mother would be proud of; and Mark’s lost his rebellious streak and realises that maybe it’s better to be seen and not heard. Maybe it’s because Charlotte’s got her feet quite firmly under the Ash table or maybe it’s just that the band are now on their fourth album and we just haven’t noticed the time go by.
Opening with the subliminal “Girl From Mars”, Ash have the crowd flying from all angles into the safe hands of security. The gig’s just started and already half the audience are in the air while the other half dodge stray arms and legs. Being one of only of many ‘classics’ played tonight the band have set the perfect platform for when they decide to launch the new album. “Orpheus” and “A Life Less Ordinary” are played in quick succession which takes us on a tour of the Foo Fighters back catalogue while welcoming us to the pop edge that first introduced us to Ash nearly a decade ago. “Evil Eye” has Tim and Charlotte re-igniting an onstage chemistry so intense it almost has the lighting engineer turning the lights down to make the sparks more visible to the human eye. With a deluge of new material, Ash return to “Goldfinger” to keep the audience happy and with it come the air guitars and a mass of Andrew W.K style head banging. “Walking Barefoot” sees an adrenaline filled mass having a break from all the excitement with the equivalent of a neck and shoulder massage, and with that they leave us.
Review by Seonaid Masson