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------ Ash Latest Heres the first look at the Envy artwork! More new news!! You can be on a future Ash b-side! All you have to do is record your cover version of any Ash single, and send it to the following address on any of these formats; Minidisc, DAT or CD-R. Ash Covers Competition, PO Box 4226, London. SW6 2XG. We can't remember the closing date! It should be in about the middle of August. Ash will be starring in their own horror film, which will be part of the DVD release of Envy, the new single. It's being recorded during breaks on their current US tour. The title of the film is Slashed. Ash return to the US for another tour at the end of the year. Enter the following free Ash competition to win some top goodies, courtesy of Synthesis . The new Ash single, 'Envy' shall be released on August 05, as a taster for the singles package, Intergalactic Sonic Sevens. The album is out on September 9. In addition, Tim Wheeler and Rick McMurray appear on the debut album by Josh Mills, Love is True, out on August 19. Josh Mills is a friend of the chaps from their school days in Downpatrick. Read NME's review of Isle of Wight festival Ash will be playing the sold-out Glastonbury festival this year, and a new single and singles compilation will be released this year. Free All Angels will be released on Kinetic Records in the USA on June 25th. Tim has scooped the Ivor Novello award for best contemprary single for Shining Light Ash are to play Reading on 24th August and Leeds on 25th August. Unfortunateley not on the same bill as The Strokes, Pulp, Weezer, Dandy Warhols. However, sharing the bill with Ash will be The Hives, Foo Fighters and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. Phone from London: 020 7344 0044, or Nationwide on: 08701 500 044, 24 hours a day. The NME have today stated that Tim Wheeler has been nominated for an Ivor Novello award for 'Shining Light'. Ash have been confirmed as playing at the one-day Isle of Wight festival, on June 3, in Newport. See NME news page for more details. Ash's very own Tim Wheeler sings on a track from Arthur Baker's forthcoming solo album. Baker is notable for having produced New Order's Blue Monday. Ash's Burn Baby Burn has won NME's single of the year. See Official Ash page for latest French and U.S. dates. Highlights of Ash from the Carling Weekend Reading Festival will be shown on Channel 4, on Thursday 13th February, at 1:15 am. Hear preview of new single and B-sides. Ash will be appearing on Jools Holland's tiresome Hootenanny on December 31, BBC2, for UK residents. NME have a review of Ash's recent Birmingham Academy gig. The new single, 'There's A Star' is out on December 31 2001, on 2 x CD, and DVD. It will, apparently, only be available for 1 week. Ash and Hundred Reasons are playing The Oasis Centre, in Swindon, Wiltshire on 03 February 2002, doors open at 6.30pm, tickets cost £12.50. Still tickets available for the second Brixton Academy date (13 Dec) on the forth-coming tour. The new DVD, Tokyo Blitz is out on Monday, with plenty of live footage, interviews and multiple camera angles. The radio 1 site has a quiz and competition to win signed copies of the dvd or video. The new Ash single, the fifth from the album, shall be There's A Star, with the last installment of the Road Movie. Ash shall be appearing live on next Sunday's (25 November) T4 programme, on Channel 4. Ash have announced a second Brixton Academy show as the first date (11th December) has now sold out. The second show will be on Thursday December 13th. Tickets are available from the Academy box office: 020 7771 2000 and from usual agents. Support for the Ash UK tour, excluding the second Academy show, will be Seafood. Support for the second Academy show will be Little Hell. Candy has been released on CD and DVD. Full details of the October 8th releases are as follows : CD1 : Candy (remix) Waterfall Nocturne Plus Promo Video CD2 : Candy (Album Version) Stay In Love Forever The Sweetness of Death By The Obsidian Knife Ash Video Mixer 1.2 Update DVD : Road Movie Episode 3 : We're Sorry Miss Jackson Stills Gallery Discography Lyrics The Alternator has today learned that the charity concert Farm Aid has now been cancelled. According to organiser, Michael Eavis the cancellation is due to the an inablitlyto find a big-name headliner. Apologies for lack of updates. Ash are to play Farm Aid in the Millenium Stadium, Cardiff, organised by Michael Eavis. This takes place on October 27, other bands include Coldplay . A full tour has also been announced, see press for latest details. Ash are taking part in a webchat tonight (22/08/01) on the Radio One Website. Get your questions in here The rocking Boxed Set performance screened on Scottish and Grampian on 09/07/01. The Alternator Team were of course in attendance for the tapings back in April. Screencaps are now available in the Gallery Section. Monday 9th of July was a great day for all things Ash. Radio 1 played the T in the Park set, a one-hour Boxed Set special screened in Scotland and, of course, Sometimes was released in the UK on CD and DVD Single. Buy buy buy ! The Alternator Team are back from a stonking T in the Park set by Ash. By all means, the lads (and lass) stole the show on the mud-laden Sunday in Balado, near Kinross. NME.com agrees : "MTV-friendly Beck now seems almost resigned to his position as a redundant spokesman for the slacker generation. He cuts a lonely figure on stage, wearing a black vest and sliding around while his band jam for Sexx Laws. Quit the Prince impersonations. Amazingly, now it seems that Ash could teach Beck a few things about being back in fashion. Thanks to their massively popular take on guitar rock - most notably tonight on songs like Cherry Bomb and Sometimes - Tim Wheeler's the biggest gay icon here today." The Alternator should have exclusive photographs from the set in the Gallery section shortly. Ash appear on this Monday's (9th July) Boxed Set programme, on Scottish and Grampian TV, at 11:30pm. Check listings for other regions. Saturday tickets only for T in the Park have now sold out. At time of writing, tickets for Sunday and weekend tickets are still available. Here is advance notification of next week's signing, to promote the new single: Southampton, Salisbury Monday 9th Harlow 1pm Tuesday Milton Keynes, Northampton Wednesday Crawley 12 noon Thursday Crewe 1pm Friday Ash will be part of the Napster resurrection this summer. The band's record label, Infectious, is part of AIM, the Association Of Independent Music, in addition to inferior acts like the 'Phonics. AIM has just signed over it's entire roster of artists and their material in a licensing deal with Napster. The band have always been supportive of the Napster cause, releasing the Free All Angels LP online weeks before the record hit the highstreet stores. Ash repeated their support for Napster, stating it "helped create awareness of new songs... it is one of the best promotional devices in the world." Napster will be re-launched this summer, with a new member-based set up. As the Alternator first revealed weeks before anywhere else, the next Ash single is Sometimes. Official word is that the single will be released on July 9th, the day after Ash play the NME tent at T in the Park in Balado, Scotland. The single will be backed on CD with new previously unreleased tracks, including their cover of Teenage Kicks. The DVD version will contain Back From the Edge, another installment of the hilarious Road Movie. CD2 of the single will include more stills and video footage for use with the Free All Angels enhanced video mixer. A double 7" is also planned for release one week later. Full details of the July 9th releases are as follows : CD1 : Sometimes Skullfull of Sulphur So the Story Goes Plus Promo Video CD2 : Sometimes (Album Version) Teenage kicks (with Damian O'Neill) Melon Farmer (Live From John Peel Session) Ash Video Mixer 1.1 Update DVD : Road Movie Episode 2 : Back From the Edge Sometimes (Audio Track) Stills Gallery Discography Lyrics Ash played live on Radio 1's John Peel programme on 06/06/01. The Radio 1 site has the following interviews and reviews: Tour Review Interview with Tim Welsh Evening Session audio interview Sometimes will indeed be the next single from Free All Angels, as we revealed weeks ago. It will be released on June 9, and the DVD format contains the next installment of the Road Movie. Ash will also be playing the Welsh Party in the Park, more details to come. Ash are ambassadors for The Sun and Coca Cola's Music 4 You promotion. More details in the News section. Infectious are/were offering 1977 and Nu-Clear Sounds for five pounds each. Please note: No-one at The Alternator benefits from this in any way. We are fans, representing the fans. An Ash cover version of Abba's Mamma Mia at the London Ocean gig had to be abandoned on the 11th May as drummer McMurray appeared to be having some problems. More hot news from The Alternator : During an incredible gig at the Glasgow Barrowlands Ballroom, Tim announced to the masses that Sometimes will be the new Ash single. "We're celebrating our last night at number one," Tim laughed, as the band launched into a set packed with a healthy mix of Ash new and old, opening with Girl From Mars and including Goldfinger, Jack Names the Planets, Submission ( "Is anyone feeling horny ? Rick wrote this one..." ) and Jesus Says. Highlight of the evening was Tim wading waist-high in fans, crooning the excellent Candy like some sort of rock messiah. "Anyone going to T in the Park ?" he asks. "We are...". The summer, of course, starts here. Congratulations to Ash for scoring another UK No.1 album with Free All Angels Ash are to play a set of Abba covers at the weekly GAY Night at London Astoria on May 12, where they appear with Bjorn Again as part of a themed Eurovision night. The show follows Ash's regular gig at the venue on the same evening. Exclusive vidcaps from the Later performance have been added to the Gallery section. The three songs Ash recorded earlier this week were screened on last night's Later With Jools Holland, broadcast on BBC 2 in the UK. Ash performed current single Burn Baby Burn, Shining Light and a cracking cover of John Peel's favourite song of all time: The Undertones' Teenage Kicks. They were joined by on the latter by the Undertones Damian O'Neill on guitar. Ash have been announced as headliners for the Evening Session stage on Friday, 24th of August at the Reading Festival. The band will also headline the same tent at the Leeds leg of the festival, the next day. Noel Gallagher has expressed interest in recording a collaboration with Ash's very own Tim Wheeler. Gallagher, the songwriter behind such Oasis hits as Wonderwall, Supersonic and Some Might Say acknowledged that Wheeler "knows how to write a good pop tune." Another Alternator Exclusive : Camden club The Undersolo gave away Ash promo CDs on 24/04/01, as part of their 8 Ball night. The CD included a collection of songs such as Warmer Than Fire, Goldfinger and various Butch Vig remixes. Stereophonics have confirmed their gig at Chepstow Racecourse on July 21 has been moved to Cardiff Millennium Stadium on the same day, due to thr foot-and-mouth crisis. Tickets can be exchanged until Friday for the new 60,000-capacity venue, with fresh tickets on sale from Saturday. Teletext have reviewed Free All Angels, giving the album 8/10, and saying '13 songs, 13 potential singles. A near faultless display of pop-rock dynamics, with hooks leaping out from every angle.' See the news page for the full review. The Alternator exclusively reveals the following forthcoming Ash appearances: 22nd April - Midnight PA at Virgin Megastore, Oxford Street, London (Full gig) 23rd April - Reading (signing)5pm 25th April - Portsmouth (signing) 5pm 27th April - Bristol (signing)5pm Virgin are going to give wristbands away on a first come first served basis from the customer service desk at the Virgin Megastore, 14-16 Oxford Street (Tottenham Court Road end) from 9.30am on Thursday 19th April. 10 pairs of tickets for next tuesday's Later With Jool's Holland programme are avilable from ash-official.com. E-mail the ashparty@hotmail.com email address. The first 10 emails that supply the following will get the tickets: 1. must be over 18 years of age (studio regulations) - state your age. 2. your full name and address (the winners are sent a letter by registered post letting them know where to go etc.) guests for the show will be musiq soulchild, anastacia, ash, omara portundo, cachaito. The show will record on tuesday 24th April in London. comp winners should be at the audience service gate at Television Centre by 7:30pm - the gate closes at 8:30pm. On 18 April, Ash perfored a live one hour set for Scottish Television's Boxed Set programme, in Glasgow at 8pm. The Alternator Team were present, and witnessed a set including Only in Dreams, Girl From Mars, Kung Fu, Goldfinger, Submission, Shining Light, Burn Baby Burn and Numbskull. There was a temporary halt called while a replacement snare drum was utilised after succumbing to sticksman McMurray's abuse. The show is expected to air in July. The Radio 1 website has an interview with Tim and Rick at the moment. Catch Ash on Top of the Pops on BBC1 on Sunday 15th at 2:30am. NME gives Free All Angels 8 marks out of 10. Please also see the latest tour dates information below, as some have recently been changed. Burn Baby Burn entered the UK singles chart at number 13, crucially one place above the distinctly mediocre Feeder. Remember, Burn Baby Burn is now out, on 2 CD's and a DVD, which you should be able to buy for £9 max, with a £1.47 discount in certain places. Here is the official lowdown on the enhanced CD version of Free All Angels: "Ash fans get the most interactive Enhanced CD yet available on the market with the release of the Irish band's third album, Free All Angels. The Ash Video Mixer is an interactive computer program which enables the purchaser to "mix" their own videos to the album audio tracks from a gallery containing almost 200 video clips and still images compiled by the group. Ash have trained their video camera on all sorts of activity from the past 12 months collected the clips onto the Video Mixer. The program enables fans to choose and edit clips from a gallery of footage from the album recording session, live and backstage scenes from recent tours, plus assorted horsing around including band members' American road trip and video out-takes from the recent singles, "Warmer Than Fire", "Shining Light" & "Burn Baby Burn". Fans use the Video Mixer to compile the video and still footage into videos for each song on the album. They can save their video mixes to their own computer hard drive or go online to a specially-created website where they can share video mixes with other Ash fans. The Big Breakfast want 10-12 Ash fans to be in the studio tomorrow for their live perfomance. If you can be in London from 7am to 9am e-mail ash_enguiries@hotmail.com now!!!! Another Ash date for your diaries! Steve Lamacq talks to the band about the new album on April 3rd, then it is reviewed on air on the 4th on Radio 1's Evening Session. See Radio 1 site for webcast and info. Also in the Alternative section, you can listen to 2 acoustic tracks. The Alternator brings you the dates and times for Ash's Off The Beaten Track Tour at Virgin Records, for in-stores and signing of Burn Baby Burn. April 2: Taunton (1pm), Exeter (6:30pm). April 4: Peterborough (1pm), Norwich (6:30pm) April 5: Grimsby (5pm) April 6: Falkirk (1pm), Perth (6:30pm) April 7: Belfast (7pm) Ash will be on, in some form, the following British tv shows: 29 March: Pepsi Chart Show, The Base (video) 30 March: Big Breakfast 31 March: Live & Kicking 1 April: Popworld (interview and video) 2 April: Showbiz Weekly (video) 3 April: The Priory The Alternator team can EXCLUSIVELY reveal that Ash's support on their forthcoming tour will be provided by Snow Patrol. On 18 April, Ash will be performing a live one hour set for Scottish Television's Boxed Set programme, to be recorded in Glasgow at 8pm. We're currently looking for fans who are in Scotland, or can get to Glasgow, and would like to be part of the studio audience of 200 people. If anyone would like free tickets, please contact Ian on 0141 300 3721. (For health and safety reasons the lower age limit for applications is 16yrs old). The Alternator can reveal ASH are to support the Stereophonics at their two A Day @ The Races gigs in July. The welsh group unveiled the current line-up for both their open-air gigs at a press conference on March 19 at Donington Race Track, where the first gig will take place on July 14. The second gig takes place at Chepstow Race Course July 21. An additional DVD single of 'Burn Baby Burn' will be released featuring Ash-filmed footage from the US of A. Ash have been confirmed to play this summer's T In The Park festival, at Balado, near Kinross. Ash will headline the second stage. Joining the band on the Sunday (July 8th) will be JJ72, whilst Beck plays the Saturday. Tickets for the day are £35. Weekend tickets go on sale at £59 til May 31st, then get pumped up to £64. Tickets are available via the NME or via the ticket hotline on 0870 1 663663. Calls charged at national standard rate. News updated as of 14/03/01. The new Ash single, 'Burn Baby Burn', will be released on April 2, with the new album following three weeks later, on the 23rd. Ash have recorded a session for Radio 1, transmitted in the week of 11th February. Included was a cover of Weezer's Only In Dreams which had proven to be a live favourite. Burn Baby Burn is backed with new tracks including Only In Dreams (recorded for their recent Lamacq Session), two new Wheeler compositions, 13th Floor (recorded for Lamacq) and Thinking About You, alongside a remix of Submission courtesy of Arthur Baker. CD1 - Infect 99cds Burn Baby Burn (radio version) 13th Floor (Evening Session version) Only In Dreams (Evening Session version) CD2 - Infect 99cdsx Burn Baby Burn (album version) Thinking About You Submission (Arthur Baker remix) Ash have released the first single from their upcoming LP, Free All Angels. The single, Shining Light, is available now on Infectious Records. Ash have announced a tour of the UK in April / May 2001. The dates and venues are as follows : April: 25th PORTSMOUTH Pyramids (Sold out) 27th BRISTOL Anson Rooms (Sold out) 28th WOLVERHAMPTON Wulfrun Hall (Sold out) 30th MANCHESTER Academy (Note change of venue, original tickets still valid) May: 1st LEEDS Metropolitan University 2nd LIVERPOOL University 3rd NEWCASTLE University (Sold out) 5th GLASGOW Barrowlands (Sold out, venue also changed, original tickets still valid) 6th SHEFFIELD University 7th LEICESTER University 8th IPSWICH Corn Exchange 10th CARDIFF University 11th LONDON Ocean (Sold out) 12th LONDON Astoria (Extra Date) 13th OXFORD Brookes University (Re-scheduled date, original tickets still valid. Sold out) A few updates as of 09/07/00 : News page updated and the Gallery has been digitally remastered, with a few more pics. Ash played the London Astoria on the 31st of January, as part of the NME Premier shows. As part of the set, they performed three new songs, Shining Light , Walking Barefoot and an untitled number, which Tim refered to in interview with Steve Lamacq as Singapore Song . Stay tuned !! Back to the Main Page © 2002 The Altenator. All rights reserved