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1992

Ash officially formed. They created three demo tapes this year, "Solar Happy" in June, "Shed" in September, and the "Home Demo Tape" in November. These tapes featured their earliest material and the first recordings of some songs that would later be on their 1995 release, "Trailer", including "Intense Thing", "Get Out", "Obscure Thing," and their future single, "Jack names the Planets".=== 1993 ===
In 1993, Ash made the demo tape, "Garage Girl", which featured "Jack names the Planets" and "Intense Thing" taken from Shed, as well as some new tracks including "Petrol". They released their compilation demo tape, "Pipe Smokin' Brick" later this year, which featured an assortment of their best demo songs from the other 4 demo tapes. The demo tapes had not gained much attention yet and Ash was still playing small shows at local clubs.=== 1994 ===
In early 1994, Stephen Taverner came across "Garage Girl", the band's demo tape. Suitably impressed Steve put up the money so that they could press 2000 7a copies of "Jack names the Planets" a (February 1994) on Steve's own LaLaLand record label. The band was on its way.Ash released their first album, ''Trailer'', in October of this year, which only included seven songs. This album would later be released in the United States in 1995 with four bonus tracks, making it have 11 songs total.They received some priceless airplay from DJ Steve Lamacq on BBC Radio 1 and so followed up their debut single with "Petrol", (August 5 1994), and "Uncle Pat" a (October 17 1994) on their new label Infectious Records.=== 1995


This is the year Ash left school and released their breakthrough singles "Kung Fu", "Girl from Mars" and "Angel Interceptor".

1996 ===
1996 saw them release the singles "Goldfinger" and "Oh Yeah" either side of ''1977''.=== 1997 ===
February 17 had them release ''Live at the Wireless'', as the title suggests a live album, recorded at the Triple J Studios in Australia. The UK fans could buy a limited edition CD of it on the band's own Deathstar label. The lads then recruited Charlotte Hatherley who had previously been with the band Nightnurse and she made her gig debut at a few small gigs a week before appearing at the V97 festival. The first single that she appeared on, "A Life Less Ordinary" was the soundtrack to the Ewan McGregor / Cameron Diaz film of the same name.=== 1998 ===
In September 1998, Ash released "Jesus Says" the following month the second album proper, ''Nu-Clear Sounds'', and in November "Wildsurf".=== 2001 ===
The single "Shining Light" is released in January 2001, followed by the number one album ''Free All Angels'' in April. Subsequent singles released from ''Free All Angels'' were "Burn Baby Burn" (April), "Sometimes" (July), "Candy" (October) and "There's a Star" (December).=== 2002 ===
The single 'Shining Light' wins the 'Best Contemporary Song' award at the 2002 Ivor Novello awards.
A new single "Envy" is released, followed shortly afterwards by the singles collection ''Intergalactic Sonic 7as''.=== 2004 ===
On June 29, Ash released ''Meltdown''. It goes top ten in the UK. The band teams up with Lucasarts for a new Star Wars game entitled ''Republic Commando''. "Clones", taken from the album "Meltdown" is the first music to be used in anything Star Wars related that hasn't been composed by John Williams.=== 2005 === Category:Northern Ireland musical groups