Three decades after bursting onto the scene with Girl From Mars, Northern Irish trio Ash return this autumn with their ninth studio album, Ad Astra.
Out October 3rd via Fierce Panda Records, it is the eagerly awaited follow up to Race the Night (2023), their highest-charting release in twenty years.
The album features Blur’s Graham Coxon, who appears on two tracks, including the wonderfully chaotic ‘Fun People’.
To celebrate, Ash have announced a string of intimate in-store and out-store shows across the UK.
From Brighton’s Resident Records to Edinburgh’s Liquid Rooms, the gigs promise the kind of sweaty, close-quarters energy that first made the band cult heroes.
Dates are as follows, head to Ash Official Store for more information.
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)
The dates precede the band’s huge UK and Ireland headline tour for the autumn and winter of 2025/26.
Ash will also play several festival performances throughout the EU, and a headline tour of Japan in October.
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
DECEMBER
Fri 05 Listowell Mike The Pies
Sat 06 Dundalk Spirit Store
Sun 07 Galway Roisin Dubh
Tue 09 Cork Cyprus Avenue
Wed 10 Limerick Dolans Warehouse
Thu 11 Dublin The Academy
Sat 13 Belfast Ulster Hall
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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