More Big Names Announced For Rip Curl Boardmasters Festival
Surf Newquay
The countdown to Europe’s biggest surf, skate and music festival is officially on and organiser’s are thrilled to announce that British Rock Band
ASH are set to headline Friday10thAugust at Unleashed!
Following the recent announcement of
Paolo Nutini,
Ash complete Unleashed’s two-night headline line-up however, some huge support acts are still to be announced. This year’s music offering at the Rip Curl Boardmasters will be held over two sites in Newquay; Unleashed at Watergate Bay and Beach Sessions on Fistral Beach, and promises more music than ever before as over 35 bands and a number of DJ’s have been lined up to play at the week-long festival, now in it’s 26th year.
Music Phenomena
Enter Shikari will kick-start the first of music in the Foster’s Beach Bar for Beach Sessions on Monday 6th August.
After a couple of years break, the mighty ASH returned last month with the hard hitting “You Can’t Have It All’’ their first single to be taken from the forthcoming fifth (!) album “Twilight of The Innocents” (due for release 2nd July).
Having recently completed their first UK shows since Glastonbury 2005, the band celebrated their return with a countrywide tour of universities, where they road tested several new tracks scheduled to be on the new album…
“I realised we needed some big changes,” says ASH front man Tim Wheeler. “We needed to shake things up. Not just in the band, but in our lives, in everything.” After five Top 10 albums, including their 2002 singles collection, 16 Top 40 singles and countless storming gigs, Northern Ireland’s premier power-popsters had reached something of a crossroads. Or, as Wheeler's bass-touting school friend Mark Hamilton puts it, “We needed a kick up the arse”.
In late 2005, Tim and Mark relocated to New York and immediately began searching out a suitable recording space. Once found, they embarked on fitting out the space and decided that, rather than using a producer, Tim would wield the stick with the assistance of an engineer and basically self produce the LP.
Historically, ASH tend to unleash a poppier LP followed by a harder-edged collection. This time the band have thrown a curveball into the mix with what could be described as their most ‘complete’ LP to date. Their slimming down has led to a rejuvenated trio returning with some of the best songs in their fourteen year career - yeah, count ‘em …
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