ash Anraí-Jones (she/her/ash/aer) is a musician, writer and performer based in Belfast, Ireland. She is the frontperson of queerpunk band Strange New Places, who released their debut EP ‘Uncomfortable’ in 2019. In 2020 aer took part in Outburst Arts’ inaugural ‘Transforming Stages’ programme, for which she wrote ‘Good Morning Human’ for a rehearsed reading in the Black Box, Belfast. The next year, she was accepted onto the NIO’s ’21 Artists for the 21st Century’ artist development programme, writing anti-establishment play ‘How Do You Bleed?’ for a production directed by Emily Foran. In 2022, she wrote, produced and starred in ‘Save Our Games!’ a fiction podcast about video games criticism released in March with the support of the Arts Council Northern Ireland.

She splits her time between aer music work, writing and acting, and her mischiefs of pet rats.