Ash Announce UK & Ireland Headline Tour

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 call 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.”