ASH announce new album Ad Astra for release on October 3rd via Fierce Panda

**ASH announce new album Ad Astra for release on October 3rd via Fierce Panda**

Ad Astra features Graham Coxon

Watch the video for lead single
‘Give Me Back My World’ HERE

UK and Ireland tour dates on sale now

Ash are today announcing their ninth studio album Ad Astra for release on October 3rd via Fierce Panda, and sharing its lead single ‘Give Me Back My World’.

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-fuelled form.

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

Lead singer and guitarist Tim Wheeler comments on 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 be just a memory from the stand point 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’s no longer yours? I think we’ve all had those moments. I think you can all 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 new album Ad Astra HERE.

Hear new single ‘Give Me Back My World’ on streaming services here and watch the video below.

More about new album Ad Astra

By focussing 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 absolutely classic Ash power-pop-rocking action with the blistering purity of ‘Hallion’, the crunchy chuggings of ‘Keep Dreaming’, the furious sonic lunges of ‘Dehumansied’. But 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’ is all 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 at Independent Venue Week, toured Down Under, headlined the 100 Club for BRITsweek, and played a rammed Other Stage tent at Latitude.

Already in 2025 they’ve amassed the masses at Glastonbury for the eighth time – equalling the multi-performance Tor-ring record of Van Morrison – and toured the UK 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 show 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 30 years of experience, if you look to the stars you might still feel a glimmer. Of hope.”

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Ash – Upcoming live dates 2025

Tickets are available here

2nd August – Audley End House, Essex, UK (with Manic Street Preachers)
7th August – Sonorama, Aranda del Duero, Spain
9th August – Custom House Square, Belfast, UK (with The Darkness)
22nd August – Victorious Festival, Portsmouth, UK
23rd August – Live at Scorrier House, Redruth, UK (Supp. to Richard Ashcroft)
9th September – Scala, London, UK
10th September – Scala, London, UK
26th September – Visor Festival, Valencia, Spain
14th October – Zepp, Fukuoka, Japan
16th October – Zepp, Osaka, Japan
17th October – Zepp, Nagoya, Japan
20th October – Gigs, Sendai, Japan
21st October – KT Zepp, Yokohama, Japan
14th November – Shiiine On Weekender, Minehead, UK
16th November – Sin City, Swansea, UK
18th November – Boiler Shop, Newcastle, UK
19th November – New Century Hall, Manchester, UK
20th November – SWG3 Galvanizers, Glasgow, UK
22nd November – Bootleg Social, Blackpool, UK
23rd November – The Foundry, Sheffield, UK
25th November – O2 Academy, Oxford, UK
5th December – Mike The Pies, Listowel, Ireland
6th December – Spirit Store, Dundalk, Ireland
7th December – Róisín Dubh, Galway, Ireland
9th December – Cyprus Avenue, Cork, Ireland
10th December – Dolans Warehouse, Limerick, Ireland
11th December – The Academy, Dublin, Ireland
13th December – Ulster Hall, Belfast, UK

Ash – Upcoming live dates 2026

Ash – Ad Astra album artwork

Ash – Ad Astra album tracklisting

1. Zarathustra
2. Which One Do You Want?
3. Fun People (feat Graham Coxon)
4. Give Me Back My World
5. Hallion
6. Deadly Love
7. My Favourite Ghost
8. Jump In The Line
9. Keep Dreaming
10. Dehumanised
11. Ghosting
12. Ad Astra (feat Graham Coxon)