Ash: Civic Hall, Guildford

GOING BY the number of teenage lovelies in the Civic Hall ladies' loo, Ash are hot with the girls of Guildford. Maybe it's just that it's Monday and there's not much else to do, but the town's entire young damselhood seem to have turned out for the first date of the Anglo-Irish band's tour. No reason immediately presents itself. Singer Tim Wheeler is passably comely and boasts a ripe Ulster accent, but is not in himself the reason girls are pressing up toward the stage, past furiously moshing packs of dripping-wet boys.