Ash have announced that they will be playing two additional dates in Dublin and Belfast this December following on from their October tour. The band will be hitting the road on the 16th of October in Sheffield and were set to conclude the tour on the 24th of October in London. However, the additional gigs will see the trio perform at The Academy in Dublin on the 19th of December and Limelight 1 in Belfast on the 20th of December.
Speaking about the bands headline October tour, Tim Wheeler, said: “It’s nice because normally we do a headline tour close to the album’s release but this time it’s three or four months later. The fans will know the album well and we’ll also have a good idea of what the fan’s favourite songs are. We’re going to play a bunch from the record and a lot of old hits as well. I think this album is going to be really good live. We played six songs from it last night at our launch gig and they’re really fun to play, that’s even before we start adding stuff like Incoming Wave, which is one of my favourites. There’s a bunch of songs we haven’t even played yet live that I’m really excited about.”
The Irish alternative-rock trio, who have been together for nearly three decades, released their seventh studio album ‘Islands’ on the 18th of May via Infectious Music, to critical acclaim and are touring the UK and Ireland in support of its release.
“That’s wicked! I guess we’re following on the momentum from Kablammo! We finished that tour and got straight into the writing and recording. It just took a bit longer to come out than we would have hoped because we were sorting out the new record deal. We’re following what we started with Kablammo, which was our first album in quite a few years and that was our return to the album. It gave us a really good feeling of confidence. We felt a lot of pressure coming back with Kablammo! because we said we’d never make another album so this one has to be really good. With this album we felt we’d answered that. We just needed to get a collection of great songs and make it so it would sound great as a three piece played live. That was our starting point really,” says Wheeler, speaking about the bands seventh studio album ‘Islands’.
16/10/2018 – Leadmill – Sheffield
17/10 – O2 Institute – Glasgow
19/10 – Bristol SWX – Bristol
20/10 – O2 Institute – Birmingham
21/10 – Norwich Waterfront – Norwich
23/10 – O2 Ritz – Manchester
24/10 – The O2 Forum – London
19/12 – The Academy – Dublin
20/12 – Limelight 1 – Belfast
