X-clusive: Ash Prepare New Acoustic Album
Ash bassist Mark Hamilton has been talking exclusively to Xfm Online about his band’s upcoming Darkness support tour and possible plans to release an acoustic album next year.
Since the release of ‘Meltdown’ earlier in the year, Ash have been touring non-stop, and although they’re currently enjoying a brief sabbatical the band will be hitting the road again next month.
“We’re taking September off cos we’ve been on the road since February,” Hamilton explained, “And then we’re back out doing an eight week tour of Europe and then a UK tour of arenas with The Darkness, an that takes us up to Christmas.
“It should be fun, we haven’t really done a proper arena tour – we’ve done big shows but it’s the first proper area tour we’ve ever done, and they’re a fun bunch and we get on well with them. It should be a laugh. And we’ll play in front of a hell of a lot of people.”
It seems that the band are already thinking about recording a new album, but it may well be radically different to the heavy rock sound of ‘Meltdown'.
“We actually are thinking of going into the studio in February and recording again.” Hamilton admitted, “And we might do something like an acoustic album, just to have something out there next year while we’re out touring - and we’re probably gonna be touring around America all next year, from springtime through to the end of the year maybe - so we might just get that out to give the fans something to keep them interested and look at doing the next proper album maybe after the summer.
“We’ve got a load of songs that we haven’t recorded, which is more acoustic-y stuff, that wouldn’t have fit on ‘Meltdown’ as we tried to keep that a more rocking album. But we might do that just to get them out there. Just one for the fans.”
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