Recorded Garage Girl demo tape

In 1993 the band recorded the Garage Girl demo tape, which featured “Jack Names the Planets” and “Intense Thing”, taken from Shed , and new tracks, including “Petrol”. Following Garage Girl , Ash released a compilation demo tape, Pipe Smokin’ Brick later that year, which featured an assortment of songs from the other tapes. Downpatrick musician Ray Valentine recorded Ash’s demos at his studio, Cosmic Rays. At that time, the band was known as “Genuine Real Teenagers”, because they were so young when recording their early material. The demo tapes did not gain much attention at that time and the band was still playing small shows at local clubs but, in early 1994, Stephen Taverner came across the Garage Girl demo tape. Taverner put up the money to press 1,000 7-inch copies of “Jack Names the Planets” on his own LaLaLand record label. Taverner subsequently became the band’s full-time manager.