To coincide with the release of their forthcoming ninth studio album Ad Astra via Fierce Panda Records on 3 October, ASH have unveiled details of seven intimate Instore and Outstore shows. Tickets available here: https://ash-official.com/pages/shows
Containing eleven brand new tracks, including their raucous take on surprise single and Beetlejuice staple Jump In The Line and the most recent single Give Me Back My World, the Ad Astra album sees Graham Coxon appear on two particularly sassy songs and catches the perennial power pop kings in typically rocket-fueled form.
INSTORES & OUTSTORES // OCTOBER
Fri 03 BRIGHTON Resident Records (Instore)
Sat 04 LONDON Rough Trade East Records (Instore)
Sun 05 LEICESTER 2 Funky Café (Truck Records Outstore)
Tue 07 NOTTINGHAM Rough Trade Records (Instore)
Wed 08 KINGSTON Circuit (Banquet Records Outstore)
Thu 09 LIVERPOOL Baltic Jacaranda Records (Instore)
Fri 10 EDINBURGH Liquid Rooms (Assai Records Outstore)
Ad Astra follows hot on the heels of Race The Night – the band’s highest charting album for 20 years – and is being released two years and one month later, which is no coincidence. Always a band that lives for live music, Ash vowed that the fierce pandemic-induced five-year chasm between 2018’s Islands and 2023’s Race The Night would never happen again.
Pre-order Ad Astra HERE
By focusing on the endless horizon of galaxies far, far away and staring into an endless black hole Ash have somehow ended up creating a cohesive whole. There is classic Ash power-pop rocking action with the blistering purity of Hallion, the crunchy chuggings of Keep Dreaming and the furious sonic lunges of Dehumanised. But equally you can’t fail to succumb to the glorious swooping jangles on Which One Do You Want? – a whirl from Marr’s canon for sure; My Favourite Ghost and its acoustic elegance, floating on strings of desire; and Fun People (feat Graham Coxon) is quite simply one of the maddest, punchiest songs they have ever recorded.
UK TOUR DATES
SEPTEMBER
Tue 09 London Scala
Wed 10 London Scala
NOVEMBER
Fri 14 Minehead Shiiine On Weekender Festival
Sun 16 Swansea Sin City
Tue 18 Newcastle Boiler Shop
Wed 19 Manchester New Century Hall
Thu 20 Glasgow SWG3 Galvanizers
Sat 22 Blackpool Bootleg Social
Sun 23 Sheffield The Foundry
Tue 25 Oxford O2 Academy
FEBRUARY
Fri 06 Tunbridge Wells Forum
Sat 07 Cambridge Junction
Sun 08 Milton Keynes Craufurd Arms
Tue 10 Exeter Phoenix
Wed 11 Bristol The Trinity Centre
Fri 13 Liverpool Grand Central Dome
Sat 14 Stoke On Trent Sugarmill
Sun 15 Hull The Welly
Tue 17 Norwich Epic Studios
Thu 19 Birmingham O2 Academy
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