Following a career that has so far yielded 8 acclaimed studio albums – including 1977 and Free All
Angels, both of which reached #1 in the Official UK Album charts, and the recent 2023 Top 15 album
Race The Night – an Ivor Novello Award and a headline performance at Glastonbury Festival, the
legendary ASH have announced details of a mammoth UK and Ireland tour for the autumn and winter of 2025/26. The Ad Astra Tour will begin in September and end in February.
For those of you wondering, Ad Astra is Latin for “to the stars”, the words that came out of a teenaged
Tim Wheeler’s mouth in the summer of 1995, setting up the classic chorus to the band’s first Top 20 hit
Girl From Mars.
Speaking about the tour, the band say:
“You could call it going back to our roots, but that’s only partly true. You could all it something noble and
say we’re supporting the smaller venues upon which the music industry is built, and that’s somewhat true.
But the truth is we’re doing this because tours like this are part of our DNA. Whether that’s cracking the
ceiling in the Jug Of Ale as Girl From Mars climbed the charts, or recording live versions of Meltdown at the
Leadmill or doing Glastonbury warm ups at the Venue, it’s something we’ve always done. And it feels like
the right time to do it again. It’s gonna be a visceral, whites-of-their-eyes experience and sometimes that’s
exactly what you need.”
SEPTEMBER
Tue 09 LONDON Scala
Wed 10 LONDON Scala
NOVEMBER
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
Tickets go on general sale at 10:00 on FRIDAY 23 MAY from: https://ash-official.com/pages/shows
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