{"id":737254,"date":"2026-08-14T01:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T01:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/737254\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T01:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T01:20:08","slug":"ash-and-pale-waves-set-to-headline-alternative-shetland-music-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/737254\/","title":{"rendered":"Ash and Pale Waves set to headline alternative Shetland music festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tim Wheeler, the lead singer of Ash, said he would be visiting Shetland for the first time and loved the variety of festivals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;You never quite know what it&#8217;s going to be like. There&#8217;s an element of surprise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve played small marquees and huge outdoor stages. We&#8217;re very adaptable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While Rising North may be a &#8220;a bit of a trek&#8221; from his London home, Wheeler said he was looking forward to taking to the stage on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Part of that journey will see the band&#8217;s equipment take the 12-hour long overnight ferry from Aberdeen. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ash enjoyed early success during the 90s Britpop era, with hit songs including Girl from Mars and Shining Light. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The band are celebrating the 30th anniversary of their debut album 1977, with plans to tour Australia, New Zealand and Japan later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tim Wheeler, the lead singer of Ash, said he would be visiting Shetland for the first time and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":737255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-737254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}