I can highly recommend the solo disc by Charlotte Hatherley the
guitarist from Ash. It came out last year and it's called Grey To
Fade. Has two or three of my favourite songs of the last few months,
bit poppier than the recent Ash stuff, especially liking Summer and
Bastardo if you want to check something out.

Her site has links to her videos, I can recommend the Bastardo video.
It's directed by Edgar Wright who directed Shaun Of The Dead and the
UK series Spaced and it stars a whole bunch of well known faces from
some of the best UK comedy from recent times...Little Britain, Nighty
Night, The Office as well as Lauren Laverne from the sadly missed
Kenickie.

A surprising thumbs up.
Mark


On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 16:01:09 -0800, Randall J Paske <rpaske@kc.rr.com> wrote:
> At 11:37 PM 2/18/2005, AssociationWorks wrote:
> 
> >Just got an advance of "Meltdown"...the latest full-length from
> >Ash...due in stores in March. All I can say is that I'm floored!
> >Full-throttle, gorgeously melodic, heavy, rockin' power pop.
> >Definitely for fans of the Wildhearts, Silver Sun, etc. This band
> >has shed the fluff of their last record and found their rock mantra
> >and songwriting prowess that hold most to shame.
> >For more info....http://www.ash-official.com/
> 
> "Shed the fluff"?  I like the last record a lot better.  "Meltdown" gets a
> little too carried away with heaviness (in a metal way) for my
> tastes.  It's kind of a disappointing entry in the Ash catalog.  I do like
> the Buzzcocks cover on the "Orpheus" single, though.
> 
> Randy
> 
>