
When high school students get together to form a band, it’s usually awful. But sometimes it’s half-decent, and sometimes, well, one time, it’s Ash.
Coming of age in the middle of mid-'90s Britpop and grunge, a group of schoolboys from Downpatrick, Northern Ireland, took the very best from both sides of the Atlantic and mixed it with a healthy dose of teenage romanticism to glorious effect.