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Here's the first look at the Envy artwork!
Reported on NME.com : "ASH ’s new album will be called ‘MELTDOWN’ and will be preceded by a single next month.
Due out this spring, the band’s fourth full-length album is said to be they’re heaviest yet, and to prove it they’re putting out new track ‘Clones’ as a download single next month.
Tim told XFM: "It’s the heaviest thing we’ve ever done. It’s kinda shock tactics y’know? It’s really in your face."
As previously reported, tracks slated for the album, which was mastered this week, include ‘Go To Hell’, ‘Renegade Cavalcade’, ‘Orpheus’, ‘I Wouldn’t Be Saved’, ‘Evil Eye’, ‘On A Wave’, ‘Cool It Down’, ‘Argument’ and ‘Solace’, as well as ‘Meltdown’ itself.
Wheeler continued: "The album is called ‘Meltdown’. Why? Cos it’s a meltdown. A full-on rock monster. A real face-melter. It’ll tear your face off."
Ash are playing V2003 on August 17th and 18th this year, but do not headline either day.
More official Ash news:
'Feel free to give this documentary a listen.
It's an hour-long special on Downpatrick's finest, Ash, and you can hear it
on BBC Radio Ulster on Sat 4 January 11am -12 midday (GMT) and repeated on Sun 5
January 2 – 3pm (GMT). Radio Ulster can be found at 94.5 FM / 1341 MW / NTL
Channel 871 / Sky Digital 868 in the UK and can also be heard from anywhere in the world at right here
The documentary features interviews with the band themselves, the bands parents, friends, manager, record company and pr company to name but a few !
Happy New Year !'
Official Ash news:
'On december 2nd 2002, the original version of 'jack names the planets' will be made available on cd only.
released originally on 7" only through indie label la la land recordings and limited to 1,000 copies, both 'jack names the planets' and 'don't know' are joined by a very early recording of 'season' as the third track on this cd.'
Ash have a new limited edition 7" out in the new year, called 'I'm On Drugs'. It will be backed by 10 Horsemen's version of Candy. 10 Horsemen won the competition to have a cover of an Ash song put out on a new single. Only 1000 copies of the single shall be available.
Ash appear on Radio 1's Evening Session, talking about music in movies on Monday 18th November 2002.
This month's Q magazine has a question and answer session with Ash.
The NME has given the new Ash singles collection, Intergalactic Sonic 7's 9 out of 10 in a recent review. Remember there will be a free b-sides cd with inital copies of the album!!!
Radio 1 has another Ash feature, with a competition and live tracks from a recent session, news from Reading and Leeds and the Kerrang! awards.
Ash will be on this week's (Sat 24th Aug) CD:UK on ITV1.
A decision will now be made tomorrow morning about Ash's participation at the festivals!!! Rick's doctor has stated that playing drums for more than 10 minutes will cause his injury to deteriorate further, and, in any case, Mark will have to play with a neck brace as a result of his whiplash injuries. See here
Rick is today (21 August) being visited by Ash's manager to determine whether Ash will be playing this weekend at the Reading and Leeds festivals. Rick is still having problems breathing as a result of the bus crash.
According to Radio 6 drummer Rick McMurray will decide in 48 hours (on Thursday) if he is fit enough to play at this weekend's festivals.
The new Ash Official 3D page is looking mighty fine. Use the link on the left hand side to access the 3D preview!!
Read all about the bus crash here. More news about the festivals as soon as we get it.
It now seems Envy is out *next* Monday (23rd). Thanks once again to Ash Official for that news ;o). How come they waste their time giving out updates on Little Hell, but never for Ash themselves?
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.
The new Ash single, 'Envy' shall be released on August 26, 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.
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.
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 inablitly to find a big-name headliner.
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 appeared on this Monday's (9th July) Boxed Set programme, on Scottish and Grampian TV, at 11:30pm.
Here is notification of this week's signings, to promote the new single:
Crewe1pm Friday
NMEIndie.com has the Sometimes video and the Teenage Kicks cover up for your pleasure.
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.
