Ash Reunite With Charlotte Hatherley To Take 'Free All Angels' On UK Tour & Tickets
Tuesday, 09 August 2011
Written by Jon Stickler
Ash have announced a run of special UK shows to celebrate the ten year anniversary of their fourth album 'Free All Angels'. The shows will see the album played in its entirety with former member Charlotte Hatherley rejoining the band!
In addition to the new live shows, Ash celebrate a career that has encompassed two Number One albums and eighteen Top Forty hits with the release of ‘The Best of Ash’ on October 17th. ‘The Best of Ash’ documents the band’s biggest hits and most loved songs to date. Opening with their breakthrough hit ‘Girl From Mars’, the album also includes such defining Ash songs as the Ivor Novello-winning single ‘Shining Light’, their highest charting single ‘Goldfinger’, the enduringly popular ‘Burn Baby Burn’ and live staple ‘Kung Fu’.
In addition to the hits, ‘The Best of Ash’ also presents three of the band’s less discovered gems with the progressive title track from the band’s 2007 album ‘Twilight of the Innocents’ and two songs (‘Arcadia’ and ‘Return of White Rabbit’) from their ground-breaking A-Z singles series. The album is completed with a brand new recording of ‘Jack Names The Planets’ which originally featured on their debut EP ‘Trailer’.
‘The Best of Ash’ tracklisting:
1. Girl From Mars
2. Kung Fu
3. Angel Interceptor
4. Goldfinger
5. Oh Yeah
6. A Life Less Ordinary
7. Wild Surf
8. Shining Light
9. Burn Baby Burn
10. Walking Barefoot
11. Sometimes
12. Clones
13. Orpheus
14. Star-Crossed
15. You Can't Have It All
16. Twilight Of The Innocents
17. Return Of White Rabbit
18. Arcadia
19. Jack Names The Planets (2011 re-recording)
In addition, a special CD/DVD format of the album will feature the first ever release of the previously unseen tour documentary ‘Teenage Wildlife’. Entirely self-funded, it depicts the band’s rise from local school heroes to the band that topped the charts with their debut album ‘1977’.
“It was hard for me to watch it for a while as we were going through complete nervous breakdowns trying to deal with it all as we were so young,” says vocalist/guitarist Tim Wheeler. “But it’s a really cool document of that whole time especially as it was a lot harder to make documentaries on the road back then and there was a lot of craziness.”
In addition, it features all of the band’s music videos on DVD for the very first time, including the rampaging energy of the cheerleader and basketball ‘Burn Baby Burn’ video and the Hammer & Tongs-directed video for ‘A Life Less Ordinary’.
Ash will be playing some special live shows to mark the release of the album and Charlotte will be performing with the band once more for the UK tour. The shows will include the four piece playing the seminal 'Free All Angels' album in its entirety and a 'Best Of' set.
Oct 20th - HMV Institute Birmingham
Oct 21st - O2 Bristol Academy
Oct 22nd - O2 ABC Glasgow Academy
Oct 23rd - HMV Ritz Manchester
Oct 25th - HMV London Forum
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