Tim Wheeler

Midnight Meets With Colin Murray

BBC

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Lead singer of Ash, Tim Wheeler, chats to Colin Murray about the band's latest album Chase the Night and their upcoming tour. The pair also get into how the band has survived over two decades with the original members, hiding the struggle when acclimatising to fame, being featured in Kerrang and being a ‘pin up for teen girls’, and what it’s like having a fashion editor mogul for a mother-in-law.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:07.6	Hello everybody and welcome to a brand new Midnight Meet.
0:12.2	This is with someone I've known my entire adult life.
0:17.2	One Ash broke through with their debut album.
0:19.8	They actually had a mini-alcohol trailer before so we knew those tracks but when the debut
0:23.8	album took the UK and beyond by storm, it was such a positive thing for so many people
0:29.1	on quite a small Nordenaris music scene.
0:31.6	I was a teenager back then and it was brilliant you had Ash, Divine Comedy and not much beyond
0:37.5	that therapy doing well too but Ash was just such a joy to watch them just go from strength
0:44.3	to strength, hit after hit.
0:46.8	It's always so nice to reconnect with genuinely one of the most optimistic and respectful rock
0:52.8	and roll stars of all time.
0:54.6	That's true, I'm not even saying that tongue in cheek so we talk about the old times
0:59.0	and the new of course because Ash have their new album Race the Night coming out this
1:03.4	month so it's time to say hello again for the special Midnight Meet with Tim Wheeler
1:08.2	from Ash.
1:29.0	I don't know if you remember the time when you were with my Mars, I don't know if you
1:36.0	met all the seven things caught me into the cigars, but you never told me your name.
1:41.0	I still love you to come for my life as your hair came undying in my hands.
1:51.0	Oh yeah, she was taking it over and oh yeah, it was the start of the summer.
2:01.0	Oh yeah, she was taking it over and oh yeah, it was the start of the summer.
2:12.0	Oh yeah, she was taking it over and oh yeah, it was the start of the summer.
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