{"id":158107,"date":"2025-11-02T02:52:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T02:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/158107\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T02:52:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T02:52:12","slug":"tim-wheeler-on-early-fame-i-got-hammered-during-the-gig-the-next-day-we-were-doing-mtv-interviews-but-i-woke-up-in-my-own-vomit-management-were-really-upset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/158107\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Wheeler on early fame: \u2018I got hammered during the gig. The next day we were doing MTV interviews but I woke up in my own vomit. Management were really upset\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nThe Ash frontman tells Pat Carty how he now feels he suffered a burnout after their first album\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tim Wheeler, of the band Ash, performing during the 2025 Heritage Live music festival in Essex. Photo: via Getty Images\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/85185b68-8b28-4857-b5d2-b9c2af85c531.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Tim Wheeler, of the band Ash, performing during the 2025 Heritage Live music festival in Essex. Photo: via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Anyone with any sense joins a band as a teenager and dreams big. Once reality lashes out a few kicks, the majority get on with their lives but that\u2019s not how it panned out for Downpatrick native Tim Wheeler.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Having served time with the poorly-named Vietnam (\u201cthe worst band in Co Down\u201d), he formed Ash in 1992 with school pals Mark Hamilton and Rick McMurray at the ripe old age of 15. It was Wheeler\u2019s blistering punk pop song writing that set them apart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ash frontman tells Pat Carty how he now feels he suffered a burnout after their first album&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[33778,18,117,19,17,1004,23942],"class_list":{"0":"post-158107","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-ash","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-oasis","14":"tag-people-culture-magazine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115477842801141691","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}