Ash
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Interview by Gavin Martin, Rock's Backpages audio, 2004
Ash's Tim Wheeler and Rick McMurray talk about Meltdown, the struggles around Nu-Clear Sounds, Northern Ireland and the Good Friday Agreement... and magic mushrooms!
File format: mp3; file size: 49.2mb, interview length: 51' 16" sound quality: ***
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Crowded House, The Cranberries, et al: Fleadh '94, Finsbury Park, London
Live Review by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 18 June 1994
BLARNEY ARMY! ...
Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 25 March 1995
ASH may be fresh-faced teens but they're hardly naïve kids. The Irish striplings are currently the coveted prize in a US bidding war involving such ...
Better Cremate Than Ever?: Ash: LA2, London
Live Review by Neil Kulkarni, Melody Maker, 2 September 1995
IT'S POURING OFF ME. Pure f***ing rage. See, the enemy isn't hoary rockers. It isn't Britpoppers, soul-sincerity dullards or synthetic chart popsters, although they all ...
Profile and Interview by Martin Aston, Q, November 1995
Downpatrick punk-popsters collide with the charts, avoid university and begin diligent career-building ...
Ash: Turn Up, Check In, Rock Out!
Report by Steven Wells, Vox, December 1995
These days, most teenagers leave school and sign on. But not ASH – they play loud punk rock, trash hotels and party till they puke. ...
Interview by Susan Corrigan, i-D, April 1996
ASH MADE THEIR NAME PLAYING THE SPACEPOP GAME, ROCKETING UP THE CHARTS WITH 'GIRL FROM MARS'. NOW THESE BOYS JUST WANNA MAKE NOISE. MEET THE ...
Live Review by David Sinclair, The Times, 29 May 1996
Never mind the Pistols... ...
Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 3 March 1997
Boys enjoy early night ...
Ash: TFI Friday, Saturday, Sunday...
Report and Interview by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 8 March 1997
They've been on the rock'n'roller coaster since they were bagging off school to play gigs but there's just the little matter of five sell-out shows ...
Ash: Staying Out Of It For The Summer
Report and Interview by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 28 June 1997
As the world prepares to get ripped to the tits on cheap cider and mung bean noodle bake at GLASTONBURY, NME indulges in a series ...
U2 and Ash: I was there, helping to make history. (I just wish I hadn't been scratching my chin)
Report and Interview by Sean O'Hagan, The Observer, 24 May 1998
THE PHONE rings at 10.30 on a Monday night. It is Bono. "We're going to Belfast tomorrow night," he says, "and we're trying to come ...
Interview by Ian Fortnam, Kerrang!, September 1998
TUCKED AWAY behind a careworn inner city church on a quiet residential street in Highbury, North London, lies an outwardly unremarkable red brick building. This ...
Report and Interview by Paul Mathur, Melody Maker, 12 September 1998
The original Bratpoppers, ASH, are back! We meet them in Sweden and hear about Ian Paisley, the nuclear-tastic new album and Charlotte's death-threats ...
Interview by Ian Fortnam, Kerrang!, 19 September 1998
Six months in the making, ASH's eagerly-awaited second album, Nu-Clear Sounds, is finally upon us. Today, the band look back on 16 weeks of tap-dancing ...
Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 14 October 1998
GOING BY the number of teenage lovelies in the Civic Hall ladies' loo, Ash are hot with the girls of Guildford. Maybe it's just that ...
Interview by Neil Mason, Melody Maker, 28 November 1998
Did you know Tim's nickname at the scouts was "Timmy Testicle" or that Charlotte guzzles Vodka? We make each member of Ash leave the room ...
Ash, Feeder and Gay Dad: Indie Hard IV — With a Vengeance
Report and Interview by Robin Bresnark, Melody Maker, 25 September 1999
Well, Bruce Willis might have spanked Jeremy Irons' butt in the end, but this time the Yanks face a far more serious threat. We join ...
Ash: Free All Angels (Infectious)
Review by Peter Murphy, Hot Press, 12 April 2001
SIXTEEN IS A state of mind that, like that summer feeling, haunts you the rest of your life. It's a quickening of stirrings into one ...
Review by Bill Holdship, Dallas Observer, 5 July 2002
FREE ALL ANGELS finally hits the United States a full year after its release in the U.K., where it's been a huge hit. And fortunately, ...
Live Review by Dorian Lynskey, The Guardian, 11 August 2003
IT'S A GOOD TIME TO BE ASH. After the failure of 1998's leathery, unconvincing Nu-Clear Sounds, they were facing bankruptcy, destined to be remembered as ...
Review by Nick Southall, Stylus, 1 September 2003
AH, TEENAGE KICKS. Tim Wheeler may be 25 now, but he still knows that first love, while maybe not the deepest or longest-lasting, is always ...
Ash/The Darkness: Metro Radio Arena, Newcastle
Live Review by Rahul Shrivastava, bbc.co.uk, 30 November 2004
The Darkness rolled into Newcastle as part of their UK tour. Running out of hairspray: Rahul Shrivastava ...
Report and Interview by Bill Holdship, Seattle Weekly, 9 October 2006
Irish rockers plug into the electronica-powered Area 2 tour ...
Review by John Aizlewood, bbc.co.uk, 7 October 2011
A study of what might have been, and what was, which packs plenty of walloping choruses. ...
Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 2013
ASH HAVE BEEN rock stars for 12 years and four albums, yet, as singer Tim Wheeler has noted, they're still younger than some of the ...
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