Drummer Rick McMurray joined the pair in June 1992; Wheeler had approached him during a school play and invited him to his house for a jam session. With the line-up finalised, they christened themselves Ash after spotting the word in a dictionary. Over the course of a year, the band recorded four demos tapes: "Solar Happy" in June 1992, "Shed" in September, "Home Demo" in November, and "Garage Girl" in February 1993. A friend of the band had sent one of the demos to Paddy Davis of the public relations company, Bad Moon. He played it for four months, before passing it to Steve Tavener, who had plans to start a record label. Tavener and Davis subsequently went to Belfast to watch the band perform.