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- The band take part in Q magazines 'Cash For Questions', issued October 2002.
"What prompted the vomiting you recorded as the "hidden track" on 1977?
Sender: Paul Greenwood, London
Mark: We were in the middle of recording a noise masterpiece called The Scream and it came at a point where studio madness kicked in. I think we were on acid at the time and I had an upset stomach so we decided to record me vomiting, which we thought was a genius idea. In the end we decided to stick it at the end of the album instead of The Scream."
- Tim talks to R1 after Ash bus crash - August, '02
"I look up and there's like Charlotte lying in the middle of the aisle of the bus - bags everywhere - and then Rick sticks his head out from underneath Charlotte."
- Ash talk to VH1 about FAA, and the current tour of the US - June, '02
"Northern Ireland’s Ash make some truly catchy punk-pop, but they don’t look quite ready to conquer America this afternoon, a situation six-foot-plus bassist Mark Hamilton puts down to jet lag and vodka."
- Rick & Tim have a chat with BBC Radio - June, '02
"Moby and David Bowie are coming up - Charlotte is going to be totally freaked out because Bowie is her ultimate sex god!" -Tim
- Hotpress Q & A - May, 2002
"Tim, do you find your flying V uncomfortable, cos I find mine very uncomfortable?
Sender: Stuart_from_mars
Tim: Only if you’re sitting down. It is not a guitar to be played sitting down. It is one for full-on rock action posing: that is the only way to play it. It’s not the kind of guitar you sit down at home practicing on."
- Ash! Bang! Wallop! Jan, 2002
"I did it to impress my mum, really, ’cos she was a French teacher." -Tim referring to the french version of 'Candy'.
- Early 2002 - Jed Shepherd (writer of 'Slashed') interviews Stephen Taverner (Ash Manager)
"Jed: Honestly. How many Ash groupies have you had? Come on you can tell me Tavvy baby. No one’s listening, I promise I won't tell a soul.
Tav: the groupies look at me and say to the band "does your dad travel with you everywhere ?" to be honest, I've never seen any groupies backstage at an ash gig."
- Jed interviews Mark this time - early 2002 again
"Jed: Ive already booked Darius for my funeral, but which 3 songs would you like played at yours?
Mark: party!!!!!!!!!!!! 1, ding dong the witch is dead, from the wizard of oz. 2, 'the only way is up' by yaz. and 3, bruce springsteens 'I'm on fire' as the cremation begins"
- Dec '01 - Ross McGibbon from 'vanguardonline.com' interviews Charlotte
"I love Japan; it's a completely different culture, it's very interesting and futuristic and the people are really cool. There's something you can learn from spending time in Japan."
- Quick chat before "headlining the main stage at the Staffs Uni Summer Ball".... June, 2001
"Rick: I actually went to university for a year to study History and Politics.
Mark: But you only went for two hours a week!
Rick: I always wanted to be in a band, I was just killing time."
- Sept '01 - Tim and Charlotte get interviewed by the "Stanford Daily" (don't ask me, I've never heard of it either!)
"Tim: We’re just a band of freaks really.
SD: How?
Tim: Well have you seen Rick’s breasts?
SD: He’s got breasts?
Tim: He’s very proud of them."
- Summer '02 - Pretty Young Thing's Aren't Going To Hell
"Interviewer: I read that when you were writing for Nu-Clear Sounds, you were experimenting with your own writing while taking ecstasy. How did you find that experience, did it work for you?
Tim: Yeah, it was really good actually, I wouldn't do it all the time because you get a great idea then you get burned out when you come down. But some good lyrics came out of that."
- Rick & Mark talk about the recording of FAA - June, 2001
"AD: "So can you share with me any of the 'rock'n'Roll' excesses you get up to when you're on the road, or is it a fairly well mannered affair?"
Mark looks across at Rick "Talk about your doll you got the other night." -What doll? read within....
- Interview with Charlotte around the time of BBB - April, 2001
"It’s all about the end of a relationship where neither person wants to admit it. It used to be called "Slow Suicide" but we changed it because they said they won’t let the word "suicide" be played on air" -Regarding Burn Baby Burn
- Tim and Rick chat with dotmusic.com - March 2001
"Mark was there from start to finish making sure they were doing all their moves right..." - Rick talking about the BBB video
- Early 2001 - Charlotte chats about her choice of guitars/amps
"Luckily the boys in the band are great and Rick is the biggest girl of all of us, it's quite comforting to have him around."
- Early 2001 again - Charlotte again, this time chatting about pop music and fashion among other things
"With every single genre there is bad and good and Westlife just happen to be really really awful. Pop rules!!! Britney and Destiny's Child - fucking brilliant!!!!"
- Ricks review of 'Free All Angels' - Late 2000
"Do you have any plans to release a collection of your videos?
It’s been talked about for a while. Hopefully we could release six singles from the album, and those will all have videos. After that, we were thinking of shooting videos for the other songs really cheaply, then releasing the whole lot - a video for every song. That would be cool."
- Mark on FAA, Gigs, and other bits 'n pieces - Late 2000
"That was a nightmare. The audience was pretty much made up of the Kerrang! crowd, and a section of them accepted us and a section of them didn’t like us being there at all. The whole thing was really not an experience we’d want to repeat." -Referring to when Ash had to headline 'The Lost Weekend' because 'Nine Inch Nails' pulled out at the last minute.
- Rick talks festivals - Nov 2000
"We were the first on at this Korean festival. We played the gig and just as we finished the Monsoon set in and the rest of the festival had to be cancelled, so we were the only band that played there."
- After finishing FAA the night before, Rick contemplates how it will be recieved - Nov 2000
"Our new stuff is all about love and sex really as usual."
- Rick was quite chatty this month, here's another one from Nov 2000
"There’s Mark’s semi-legendary fear of fish, utilised on the ‘1977’ tour by Ash’s crew to stop Mark tearing into the onstage equipment by taping fish to it."
- Sept '99 - Rockstars in their underwear
"Apparently we get something like $15,000 worth of free clothes, which will kind of sort me out underwear-wise." -Chaz
- Tim and Rick answer a bunch of unusual questions - Dec 1998
"Do you worry about going bald?
Mark: My Dad is in his late forties and he's got full hair.
Rick: My Dad's in his fifties and he's bald. So I've got no worries about it, I know what's going to happen.."
- Interview/timeline stylee article - Sept '98
"Phase Two, Lesson One, don't be afraid of a little reinvention. 'Nu-Clear Sounds' is easily Ash's best recording to date, from the blasphemous NYC venom of 'Jesus Says' to the subtle balladic majesty of 'Aphrodite', to more Sonic Youth/Iggy/Velvets style seedy dirtballs such as 'Numbskull' and 'Fortune Teller'."
- Tim pre-Hotpress Awards '98
"Terrible. She hasn't made us breakfast in bed or darned our socks once" -Tim's reply after being asked how Chaz had been acquitting herself in the studio.
- Return of the Ash Street Kids - Oct/Nov 1997
"I was influenced by Brian Wilson and Phil Spector on '1977'. All the teenage love stuff. The next album will be a slightly more mature view of everything." -Tim
- Chicago 1996. Downpatrick's finest make their first big pact with America.
"Ash's rider is a large one (several bottles of wine, three cases of beer and a couple of bottles of spirits) but it still doesn't take them long to polish it off. They drink with the reckless abandon of teenagers at a house party, which I suppose isn't all that surprising given that they are teenagers and this dressing room's as much of a home to them as anywhere else at the moment. Rick's really going for it and, blatantly ignoring the sound advice given by tour manager Giggs, mixes so many drinks that within no time at all he's doing a superb imitation of Mr Bendy and finding it very difficult to stand up straight.
One of their American record company executives comes in to invite the band to a special screening of Star Wars (Ash's all-time favourite film) the next day, telling them to call him in the morning.
"I don't think I'll be up in the morning," Rick mutters.
"Hey, I won't either," beams the exec, "like, when I say 'morning' I really mean 10.30.""
- The Intergalactic Adventures Of Ash - Nov, 1995
"There is much conferring taking place on the other side of the table. Ash are deciding amongst themselves whether to tell their "How Rick Joined The Band Story"."
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Punks - May, 1995
"We’d go on a 1991 World Tour of Friends’ Parties and pretend that the garage or the bedroom or whatever was Madison Square Gardens. It was sad!" -Tim
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