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02/05/2007
Ash return to Spring & Airbrake
Downpatrick based local lads Ash will be back to rock Belfast’s Spring & Airbrake, after 2005’s riotous sell-out show.
Touring with a brand new album, and minus guitarist Charlotte Hatherley, the band expect another quick sell-out concert.
Ash, who are currently promoting their fifth album ‘Twilight of the Innocents’, formed fifteen years ago at school in Downpatrick.
The journey that led to this remarkable album began on July 23 2005. That was the day Ash opened for U2 at Rome's 70,000-capacity Olympic Stadium. It was Ash's fifth show with Bono's boys that summer and the very last engagement of the campaign for Meltdown, the hard-rockin' fourth album they'd released 14 tour-filled months earlier. Now, for the first time in a long time, the band's diary was completely blank.
“I realised we needed some big changes," says Ash frontman Tim Wheeler. "We needed to shake things up. Not just in the band, but in our lives. In everything."
After five top ten albums, 16 top ten singles and countless storming gigs, Northern Ireland’s premier power-popsters had reached something of a cross-roads.
Bass-player Mark Hamilton moved to New York and drummer Rick McMurray moved to Scotland from Belfast.
Frontman Wheeler also decided to relocate from London to New York.
"It's always seemed the most vibrant, exciting and creative place that you can be,” he says. "So I just thought, why the hell not?"
Ash are currently enjoying renewed success on the back of new single ‘You Can’t Have It All’ from their new album ‘Twilight of the Innocents’.
Tickets are currently on sale from Katy Daly’s, Virgin and all Ticketmaster outlets and cost £16.50. Doors open at 9pm.
(JM/SP)
Touring with a brand new album, and minus guitarist Charlotte Hatherley, the band expect another quick sell-out concert.
Ash, who are currently promoting their fifth album ‘Twilight of the Innocents’, formed fifteen years ago at school in Downpatrick.
The journey that led to this remarkable album began on July 23 2005. That was the day Ash opened for U2 at Rome's 70,000-capacity Olympic Stadium. It was Ash's fifth show with Bono's boys that summer and the very last engagement of the campaign for Meltdown, the hard-rockin' fourth album they'd released 14 tour-filled months earlier. Now, for the first time in a long time, the band's diary was completely blank.
“I realised we needed some big changes," says Ash frontman Tim Wheeler. "We needed to shake things up. Not just in the band, but in our lives. In everything."
After five top ten albums, 16 top ten singles and countless storming gigs, Northern Ireland’s premier power-popsters had reached something of a cross-roads.
Bass-player Mark Hamilton moved to New York and drummer Rick McMurray moved to Scotland from Belfast.
Frontman Wheeler also decided to relocate from London to New York.
"It's always seemed the most vibrant, exciting and creative place that you can be,” he says. "So I just thought, why the hell not?"
Ash are currently enjoying renewed success on the back of new single ‘You Can’t Have It All’ from their new album ‘Twilight of the Innocents’.
Tickets are currently on sale from Katy Daly’s, Virgin and all Ticketmaster outlets and cost £16.50. Doors open at 9pm.
(JM/SP)
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