Ash – Power-pop trio to receive Oh Yeah Legend Award
What you may need to know…
01. The tight-knit Northern scene continues to honour its trailblazers and forebears with the Oh Yeah Legend award, previously bestowed upon The Undertones, The Divine Comedy, Therapy? and Terri Hooley. This year, it’s the turn of Oh Yeah Music Centre namesakes Ash.
02. Potted story to save time: teenage Iron Maiden tribute band start playing power-pop in the venerated Northern tradition, fetch local management attention, rocket straight to the top after their GCSEs off the back of a genius string of three-minute bijoux; burn out and still make a low-key gem of a difficult second album; return to form and conquers the world; do effectively whatever they please thereafter, including a series of alphabetically-labelled 7″ singles released fortnightly for a year, and setting up a studio in New York.
03. Like there’s anyone left in the country that needs any further info on Oh Yeah (streaming above), or any other of that immortal run of singles in the mid-Nineties-to-early-noughties.
04. The band will be honoured by the music centre named for their globe-straddling single, at a special ceremony before they perform their album 1977 (from start to finish) for its twentieth anniversary, at the Mandela Hall in Belfast on November the 11th. Tickets on sale now.
Verdict: Well-earned.
I never knew the Iron Maiden bit. Cheers.
He’s a Mega guitarist to be fair.
The liner-notes of Intergalactic Sonic 7’s are as entertaining as the music, not least for the ridiculous credits centrefold. :-)
Not really my type of music but I can say the lads are going to do very well for themselves. They are doing extremely well :)
Mike great as always :)
Thank you, sir!
Was it you asking after some house, Fluffy? Might have something of interest in the near future, stay tuned. :-)
Yep “! Cheers :)
Intergalactic Sonic 7’s is an excellent band compilation. If you’re new to the band I recommend giving it a go.
https://youtu.be/MW4QNgq7yGM
Also
https://youtu.be/MLlOdxK1sAQ
Best song. :-)
I loved Ash back in the day and I loved “cosmic debris” which came with intergalactic sonic 7s. It was all their B side (well, not all, it was missing ‘dancing on the moon’) and I was surprised by the quality of some of the B-sides (coasting, No Place to Hide, warmer than fire etc…) they were better than some of Ash’s A-sides!
The plural of “bijou” is “bijoux”.
Gorev mile, Sile!
I love UK news.
13mins after the end of the last song on 1977 they recorded themselves puking up, they had a mate called “Lef” i think and was able to throw up on demand. Sickest and funniest thing ever!
He was (is?) their tour manager.
I saw them play a gig in Fitzroy, Melbourne, Australia, back in their prime. There was a Spinal Tap moment when one of them grabbed a beam above the stage and needed help to get down. Great gig, though.
Tim Wheeler.. best Irish / Northern Irish pop song writer.. EVER?… I’ll go with it..
John O’Neill for me…..