Biography
Tim Wheeler, frontman of Ash, had already amassed an extraordinary array of achievements by the point he committed his first solo album to tape in 2014, having burst onto the global stage during his teenage years. Born January 4, 1977, in Downpatrick, Northern Ireland, he encountered music early through his father George, who would sit at the piano to relax once the workday ended. Wheeler began on piano himself before moving to guitar, then assembled Ash alongside schoolmates Mark Hamilton and Rick McMurray.
Ash secured a U.K. number-one album with the band’s debut long-player 1977 prior to Wheeler’s twenty-first birthday and became the youngest act ever to top the bill at Glastonbury. The group subsequently earned three additional U.K. Top Ten albums, one of which reached the summit: 2001’s Free All Angels. In the same year Wheeler received the Ivor Novello Award for Best Contemporary Pop Song for “Shining Light.” He subsequently composed or co-composed multiple film and television scores, among them the music for the mini-series Fleming, which chronicled the life of the creator of James Bond.
Wheeler’s inaugural solo outing, Lost Domain, drew its impetus from the devastating loss of his father to Alzheimer’s disease in 2011. Almost entirely self-performed with only modest assistance from close associates, the candid and deeply intimate album traversed an expansive range of sonic approaches and contained some of his most opulent, richly textured work. It appeared in November 2014.
Ash secured a U.K. number-one album with the band’s debut long-player 1977 prior to Wheeler’s twenty-first birthday and became the youngest act ever to top the bill at Glastonbury. The group subsequently earned three additional U.K. Top Ten albums, one of which reached the summit: 2001’s Free All Angels. In the same year Wheeler received the Ivor Novello Award for Best Contemporary Pop Song for “Shining Light.” He subsequently composed or co-composed multiple film and television scores, among them the music for the mini-series Fleming, which chronicled the life of the creator of James Bond.
Wheeler’s inaugural solo outing, Lost Domain, drew its impetus from the devastating loss of his father to Alzheimer’s disease in 2011. Almost entirely self-performed with only modest assistance from close associates, the candid and deeply intimate album traversed an expansive range of sonic approaches and contained some of his most opulent, richly textured work. It appeared in November 2014.
Albums
Singles
