Gli Ash non avevano ancora sedici anni quando registrarono i loro primi tre demo tape . Era il 1992 e l'anno successivo radunarono il materiale in "Pipe Smokin' Brick": una sorta di best-of delle loro prime incisioni. Nonostante i concerti e la buona accoglienza ricevuta, per iniziare il grande salto dovettero attendere l'intervento di due personaggi-chiave nella loro carriera. Il primo fu il talent scout e discografico Stephen Taverner che, avendo ascoltato uno dei primi tre demo, decise di investire qualche soldo per far uscire il 7" "Jack Names the Planets". Il secondo fu [...]
Ash will be playing their seminal album 'Free All Angels' in its entirety and their greatest hits on a short tour of England this October. Charlotte Hatherley will be rejoining them for this tour as well. Tickets are on sale now. Thursday 20th October 2011 - Birmingham HMV Institute Sunday 23rd October 2011 - Manchester Ritz Tuesday 25th October 2011 - London HMV Forum
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[Greetings! I'm off on a nearly two week vacation for a family reunion near Rome, Georgia. Normally I let the blog go dark during my vacations, but this time I thought I'd re-post a bunch of good stuff from...

Los Campesinos! Los Campesinos! , Chew Lips , I Blame Coco , Blue Roses , Summer Camp , Charlotte Hatherley , and many more are set to play special outdoor gigs in aid of Teenage Cancer Trust. Throughout the month of June, Topshop will be hosting "Topshop Bandstand Picnics for Teenage Cancer Trust", a series of very special events around the loveliest green spaces in London, Bristol, Liverpool and Birmingham. Jameela Jamil shall be presenting the London and Bristol dates with Miquita Oliver hosting the Liverpool and [...]
I do like it when a band can take the piss out of themselves. It is a rare sight as many musicians depend on a "straight" façade in order to be taken seriously by the general public; although whether they like it or not, this often leaves many artists open to parody or derision.So when Ash released a slasher-parody video for their single "Binary" on Monday, it raised both an eyebrow and a smile.
Russell Lissack is taking some leave from Bloc Party in order to be the all-important fourth member of Ash on their UK tour. There's a press-release gobbet of 'how we met and fell in love': Russell - of Bloc Party and solo project Pin Me Down - is a life-long Ash fan, "I've always loved Ash, my first ever stage performance was part of an Ash covers band, so when they asked me to join them on their forthcoming tour I jumped at the chance!" Ash's Tim Wheeler: "We first met at [...]
There are a few people who, despite our hard-wired atheism, we'd still be quite prepared to get involved with worshipping. Especially if it involved rudeness and touching. Charlotte Hatherley, clearly, has such god-potential. Rounding off our skip through some of 2007's gems, taken from The Deep Blue , here's Charlotte doing Behave. Plus - bonuses, bonuses - you get summer as well. [Part of Decade Null 2007 ]

Well, we seem to have made it to 2010. Amazing! Now if only we can make it past 2012... I thought I might put together a little collection of songs that reflect the feelings a new year often brings up. Excitement, anticipation, sadness, regret, confusion. Songs that just...feel right. Not sure if there's any rhyme or reason really, so if they make sense to you you're probably as emotionally scrambled as I am. Hope you enjoy them, either way. Jeff Buckley - New Year's Prayer Patrick Wolf - [...]
We remember a time when Rolling Stone used to do a wrap-up issue at the end of each year with their critics top ten. Now every website on the planet (including ours!) spews out their own, holier than thou list. But RS used to have the decency to ask the popular artists of the time to submit their own top ten lists, which were either good for a chuckle or a trip to the record store. In the spirit of sending you off to buy some new records, we've asked a few bands/musicians/writers to give us a [...]

MySpace I don't remember if I read somewhere that Charlotte Hatherley has synesthesia (the condition wherein your visual cognition is tied to your aural and, amongst other symptoms, you see colours or shapes when you hear sounds - experienced by the likes of Lightspeed Champion and Ida Maria , amongst others), but even if she doesn't you could be forgiven if you assumed she did. Her first two solo records, Grey Will Fade and The Deep Blue , obviously referenced colours in their [...]

You probably know Charlotte as the guitarist that has played with Bat for Lashes. At least, that's how I know her. And I didn't even know THAT until I saw them live. Either way, I was pretty stoked to find out that she has solo work because I assumed, if she's played for Bat for Lashes - and I love Bat for Lashes - then I should love Charlotte Hatherley. If a+b=c, and a+ ... blah blah blah-I failed to realize that logic doesn't automatically mean you're going to love someone. So what all this brings [...]
When Ash announced they were quitting making albums, people started stroking their chins in interest. Hugh Platt caught up with Ash frontman, Tim Wheeler , to see how it's working out for them. Ash are currently two-thirds of the way through their 'A-Z' tour, a roadtrip taking in 26 off-the-beaten track UK towns, each corresponding with a letter of the alphabet. And why exactly have they adpoted such a ridiculously convoluted tour itinery? It's because [...]

I still remember the fuss when Charlotte Hatherley joined boyish Irish indie-popsters Ash. "What's that girly doing up there playing guitar?" whined all the indie-boys. "Ooh, wish that was me" said all the indie-girls. "Couldn't give a shit, me, as long as she can play guitar like a mean funky devil" said I. And lo, upon seeing Ash at the Reading Festival, it was pretty bleedin' obvious that she could. Watching her lay into the riff from "Walking Barefoot" was wonderful; one of modern rock's great riffs, if flows and twists, all melody [...]

Frank Yang Initial buzz around Florence & The Machine was largely built on a handful of singles, live recordings and performances that positioned Florence Welch as a big-voiced musical eccentric (or as I put it last November , "batshit crazy") surely set for a career of creative left turns and cul-de-sacs that would delight as often as it confounded. But the surprise - in these quarters, at least - came when it was announced that Florence had signed with major label Island for her debut, majors never really being the most adept entities at [...]
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Charlotte Hatherley - "Little Sahara" Charlotte Hatherley's new album New Worlds is obsessed with color, to such an extent that nearly every track describes understanding experiences and emotions via color metaphors rendered in sound and words. The art comes from a synesthetic point-of-view more than it evokes synethesia itself, but in a way the former is more intriguing. At points Hatherley sounds like a crackpot, but in the context of her dynamic, perky pop songs, her thrill in color and fascination with life becomes a visceral sensation. In "Little Sahara," she imagines seeing her lover [...]
Charlotte Hatherley "Little Sahara" Charlotte Hatherley's new album New Worlds is obsessed with color, to such an extent that nearly every track describes understanding experiences and emotions via color metaphors rendered in sound and words. The art comes from a synesthetic point-of-view more than it evokes synethesia itself, but in a way the former is more intriguing. At points Hatherley sounds like a crackpot, but in the context of her dynamic, perky pop songs, her thrill in color and fascination with life becomes a visceral sensation. In "Little Sahara," she imagines seeing her lover [...]

Frank Yang Since the schedule for SxSW was announced way back in March, I had one particular showcase circled and immutable on my schedule - Echo & The Bunnymen at Rusty Spurs on the Saturday night. One of the perks of attending SxSW is the opportunity to see big bands in venues much smaller than they'd normally play, and though the Liverpool legends were playing some bigger shows during the festival, the opportunity to see them for the first time in a tiny Texan gay cowboy bar was too good to pass up. [...]