Ash is back after eight years with sixth album KABLAMMO! (Edel/earMusic). The Northern Ireland trio—vocalist/guitarist Tim Wheeler, bassist Mark Hamilton and drummer Rick McMurray—will be on tour supporting the LP in the U.K. starting later this month. Ash will also be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week.
McMurray: Of all the surrealists I love, he comes out top. I love the hyper reality of his work. He makes his images almost photographic in their quality despite the impossibility of the images. He’s not like a huge inspiration to my life or anything like that, but I want to get a couple of prints for my house. It’d be good to see that stuff every day. He’s a very unique painter. I think I might have read a biography on him. To be honest, I don’t remember a single thing about it. I love reading, but books don’t really stay in my head that well. It’s kind of like the way I feel about the Pixies. To me, The Pixies were always this band that felt completely faceless, because their videos are just complete crap. I got into them and got obsessed with them but I never read any interviews, so it was purely about the music. It’s kind of the same with Dali. I just love his imagery, and it’s as simple as that.
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