Ash biography
With the return to their original three-piece line-up, the band had been mainly performing material from albums 1977 and Twilight of the Innocents, this led to the band performing at London Roundhouse on Friday September 5 and Saturday September 6, 2008, which saw the band perform 1977 in its entirety. Both shows sold out and the band went on to release a 3-disc special edition version of the album, featuring remastered and re-edited versions of the tracks, as well as tracks from Trailer and live performances from the time of its release.
In late 2008, the band stated they had been writing and recording new tracks, bassist Mark Hamilton stated, "we're just taking track at a time and seeing what happens, no limits to where or what it'll sound like. A few of the songs are barely recognisable as Ash which is pretty exciting to see how people react when they hear them." A number of track titles were also revealed including "Neon, part 2".
On 16 April 2009, Ash announced they were to play a one-off gig at Bloomsbury Ballroom, London, to preview new tracks and start promoting their new material. An additional date was also added at the same venue a few days later, along with a handful of warm-up shows. each of which will be available to win in different competitions being run through the band's website. On May 18th it was announced that the band would be releasing 26 singles, one every fortnight for the rest of 2009, known as the A to Z singles series.
Line-up
The band set out as a three piece originally, later recruiting Charlotte Hatherley as a second guitarist. After nine years in the band, Charlotte was asked to leave so that the band could once again return to a three piece. Without a second guitarist some of the material from Meltdown, Free All Angels and Nu-Clear Sounds has not since been played, while various singles and material from the albums Twilight of the Innocents and 1977 have made up the majority of material performed recently. Rick, after the departure of Charlotte has taken over a lot of her backing vocal duties, whilst Mark provides backing vocals occasionally in studio, but not live. The band have stated that whilst their are no immediate plans to tour with the material written and recorded with Charlotte still in the band,
"never say never", and that their was a possibility they may at some point tour with Charlotte again.
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