Ash // Ad Astra LP - 3 October // Give Me Back My World Single - Out Now

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AD ASTRA LP // 3 OCTOBER [featuring Graham Coxon]

GIVE ME BACK MY WORLD SINGLE // OUT NOW

UK & IRELAND TOUR DATES // ON SALE NOW

ASH have announced that their ninth studio album Ad Astra will be released via Fierce Panda Records on 3 October and have shared the lead single Give Me Back My World. Watch the video below

Containing eleven brand new tracks, including their raucous take on surprise single and Beetlejuice staple Jump In The Line, Ad Astra sees Graham Coxon appear on two particularly sassy songs and catches the perennial power pop kings in especially rocket-fueled form.

Ad Astra follows hot on the heels of Race The Night – the band’s highest charting album for 20 years – and is being released two years and one month later, which is no coincidence. Ever the band who live for live music, Ash vowed that the fierce pandemic-induced five year chasm between 2018’s Islands and Race The Night would never happen again.

Lead singer and guitarist Tim Wheeler comments on the new single Give Me Back My World: “If I told you this song dates back to 2020, you’d hardly need a degree from the School of Marple, Holmes and Poirot to figure out what it’s getting at. And although those sentiments may just be a memory from the standpoint of 2025, the song’s heart still feels relevant. In a time of chaos, disruption and angst there’s still a beautiful world out there and it’s worth fighting for”.

Continuing, he says: “Have you ever had one of those moments where you feel the rug has been pulled from under you? Everything you took for granted goes up in smoke and you are no longer in control, and you can only look back in hindsight at a life that is no longer yours? I think we’ve all had those moments, and I think everyone can relate to this song. But, luckily for you it: a) rails against this loss of control and b) is a total banger. So, fire it up and rage with us against the dying of the light”.

Pre-order Ad Astra HERE

AD ASTRA TRACKLIST

· Zarathustra

· Which One Do You Want?

· Fun People (feat Graham Coxon)

· Give Me Back My World

· Hallion

· Deadly Love

· My Favourite Ghost

· Jump In The Line

· Keep Dreaming

· Dehumanised

· Ghosting

· Ad Astra (feat Graham Coxon)

By focusing on the endless horizon of galaxies far, far away and staring into an endless black hole Ash have somehow ended up creating a cohesive whole. There is absolute classic Ash power-pop-rocking action with the blistering purity of Hallion, the crunchy chuggings of Keep Dreaming and the furious sonic lunges of Dehumanised. But equally you can’t fail to succumb to the glorious swooping jangles on Which One Do You Want? – a whirl from Marr’s canon for sure; My Favourite Ghost and its acoustic elegance, floating on strings of desire; and Fun People (feat Graham Coxon) is quite simply one of the maddest, punchiest songs they have ever recorded.

As if creating this lovingly optimistic opus wasn’t enough to be cracking on with, they’ve kept themselves busy elsewhere. Since Race The Night raced out, they’ve run riot at SXSW in Austin, played Belfast for Steve Lamacq during Independent Venue Week, toured Australia and headlined the 100 Club in London for BRITS week. Already in 2025, they’ve amassed the masses at Glastonbury for the eighth time – equaling the multi performance record of Van Morrison – and toured the UK with The Darkness.

In short, three decades into a career peppered with timeless indie-punk nuggets and wildly inventive gigging and releasing concepts, the thunderous threesome shows no sign of slowing down. To infinity and beyond indeed. Or, as Rick McMurray gently muses …

“The title Ad Astra, the worst kept secret of the last month, points to ideas that became a big identifier back in 1995, but they’re updated with 30 years life experience. I’ll leave you to compare the differences, and with the thought that while the optimistic innocence of 1995 might have been tempered with those 30 years of experience, if you look to the stars, you might still feel a glimmer. Of hope.”

And 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.

AUGUST

Sat 02 ESSEX Audley End House (with Manic Street Preachers)

Thu 07 ARANDA DEL DUERO, SPAIN Sonorama Festival

Sat 09 BELFAST Custom House Square (with The Darkness)

Fri 22 PORTSMOUTH Victorious Festival

Sat 23 REDRUTH Live at Scorrier House (with Richard Ashcroft)

SEPTEMBER

Tue 09 LONDON Scala

Wed 10 LONDON Scala

Fri 26 VALENCIA, SPAIN Visor Festival

OCTOBER

Tue 14 FUKUOKA, JAPAN Zepp

Thu 16 OSAKA, JAPAN Zepp

Fri 17 NAGOYA, JAPAN Zepp

Mon 20 SENDAI, JAPAN Gigs

Tue 21 YOKOHAMA. JAPAN KT Zepp

NOVEMBER

Fri 14 MINEHEAD Shiiine On Weekender Festival

Sun 16 SWANSEA Sin City

Tue 18 NEWCASTLE Boiler Shop

Wed 19 MANCHESTER New Century Hall

Thu 20 GLASGOW SWG3 Galvanizers

Sat 22 BLACKPOOL Bootleg Social

Sun 23 SHEFFIELD The Foundry

Tue 25 OXFORD O2 Academy

DECEMBER

Fri 05 LISTOWELL Mike The Pies

Sat 06 DUNDALK Spirit Store

Sun 07 GALWAY Roisin Dubh

Tue 09 CORK Cyprus Avenue

Wed 10 LIMERICK Dolans Warehouse

Thu 11 DUBLIN The Academy

Sat 13 BELFAST Ulster Hall

FEBRUARY

Fri 06 TUNBRIDGE WELLS Forum

Sat 07 CAMBRIDGE Junction

Sun 08 MILTON KEYNES Craufurd Arms

Tue 10 EXETER Phoenix

Wed 11 BRISTOL The Trinity Centre

Fri 13 LIVERPOOL Grand Central Dome

Sat 14 STOKE ON TRENT Sugarmill

Sun 15 HULL The Welly

Tue 17 NORWICH Epic Studios

Thu 19 BIRMINGHAM O2 Academy