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Ash, Liquid Rooms, Edinburgh
Ash, Liquid Rooms, Edinburgh
Northern Irish indie-rockers prove that being predictable can still be fun
Thursday, 11 November 2010
Ash, with Tim Wheeler (right): Still providing the soundtrack to the uni disco circa 1995
So, did they play all the singles? Well no, not all of them, given that they’ve released 26 of the buggers in the past year alone, frisbeeing one out every fortnight in the sort of kamikaze experiment contemplated by only the truly inspired or the slightly desperate. Ash, on the evidence of last night's gig, might just be a bit of both.
So, did they play all the singles? Well no, not all of them, given that they’ve released 26 of the buggers in the past year alone, frisbeeing one out every fortnight in the sort of kamikaze experiment contemplated by only the truly inspired or the slightly desperate. Ash, on the evidence of last night's gig, might just be a bit of both.
The default setting was meat-and-potatoes indie rock. Good meat and good potatoes, mind you, more Waitrose organic than Tesco pre-packed
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