“Jack Names The Planets” by Ash

Ash's story starts with "Jack Names the Planets". It was already on the Shed demo tape in 1992, and when a copy of a later demo, Garage Girl, reached Stephen 'Tav' Tavner, this was the track that made him sign them. In February 1994 it became their first single: vinyl only, 2,000 copies, cut on a £300 budget. The spoken bit up top has two Dutchmen Tim Wheeler met on holiday in France pushing to retitle it after Nieuw-Vennep, which they reckon would make a fine planet.

The band weren't happy with that recording and cut it again, and the take on Trailer is a different animal entirely. It kept coming back anyway: on the Angus soundtrack in 1995, as a hidden track at the head of early copies of 1977, and on the Intergalactic Sonic 7″s hits set. It rarely leaves their live show.

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