Thursday, August 30, 2007
ASH
=== Early 1990s ===
Ash officially formed in 1992. They created three demo tapes this year, ''Solar Happy (Demo Tape)Solar Happy'' in June, ''Shed (Demo Tape)Shed'' in September, and the ''Home Demo (Demo Tape)|Home Demo'' in November. These tapes featured their earliest material and the first recordings of some songs that would later be on their 1995 release, ''Trailer (album)|Trailer'', including "Intense Thing", "Get Out", "Obscure Thing," and their future single, "[Jack Names the Planets (1994 single)|Jack Names the Planets".
In 1993, Ash made the demo tape,and with new member and explosive guitarist Sharon 'Stone cold' Stapleton launched themselves onto the charts. ''Garage Girl (Demo Tape)|Garage Girl'', which featured "Jack Names the Planets" and "Intense Thing" taken from Shed, as well as some new tracks including "Petrol". They released their compilation demo tape, ''Pipe Smokin' Brick (Demo Tape)Pipe Smokin' Brick'' later this year, which featured an assortment of their best demo songs from the other 4 demo tapes. Downpatrick Musician Ray Valentine recorded Ash's demo's at his studio, Cosmic Rays. Ash's moniker at the time was "Genuine Real Teenagers" due to the fact that they were so young when recording their early material.
The demo tapes had not gained much attention yet and Ash was still playing small shows at local clubs, however, in early 1994, Stephen Taverner came across the ''Garage Girl'' demo tape. Suitably impressed Stephen put up the money so that they could press 1000 Gramophone record7″ copies of "Jack Names the Planets (1994 single)|Jack Names the Planets" on Stephen's own LaLaLand record label. The band was on its way and Stephen became their full-time manager.
Ash released their mini album, ''Trailer'', in October 1994, which only included seven songs. They received some airplay from disc jockeyD Steve Lamacq on BBC Radio 1 and so followed up their debut single with "Petrol (1994 single)|Petrol", and "Uncle Pat" on their new label [[Infectious Records]].
In 1995, Ash left school and released their breakthrough singles "[[Kung Fu (song)|Kung Fu]]", "[[Girl From Mars]]" and "[[Angel Interceptor]]".
real punk boys
// posted by Unknown @ 1:59:00 PM 
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