Photos: Ash in Bristol during October UK tour

Jessica Bartolini’s latest gallery for Live4ever presents Ash live at the Bristol SWX during their October tour of the UK.

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The band wrap up the tour at the O2 Forum in London tonight after gigs in Sheffield, Glasgow, Birmingham, Norwich and Manchester as well as this Bristol stop promoting the 2018 album Islands. Ash announced the album in February with lead single Buzzkill, a track featuring other Northern Ireland luminaries Damien O’Neill and Mickey Bradley of The Undertones.

“The day I wrote Buzzkill, it took me a while to stop laughing cos it’s so fun, dumb and full of unnecessary swearing,” Tim Wheeler remembered.

“We used to know a band called Buzzkill in Belfast in the 90s and I think their name has been in my mind for all that time wanting to get into a song. Having seen The Undertones playing a couple of times recently I was guiltily thinking how much the backing vocals I’d written for Buzzkill were mimicking their style.”