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Richard Ashcroft to play Hop Farm Festival

Music Gossip

17 Apr 2012

Richard Ashcroft will play his only UK show at Hop Farm Festival in Kent. The 'Break the Night with Colour' hitmaker - formerly lead singer of The Verve - is among a large number of acts to be confirmed for the three-day event, with Kool and the…

Richard Ashcroft energised by LP

Music Gossip

22 Mar 2011

Richard Ashcroft had an "immense" amount of energy while recording his new album. The former Verve frontman - who releases his fourth solo studio album 'United Nations of Sound' in the US today (22.03.11) - explained laying down tracks for the record…

Richard Ashcroft's jailed collaborators

Music Gossip

15 Aug 2010

Richard Ashcroft couldn't collaborate with the people he wanted to because many of them were in prison. The former Verve frontman is currently working on a new venture, United Nations of Sound - in which he goes by his initials, RPA - and admits he…

Verve won't return

Music Gossip

8 Jul 2010

Richard Ashcroft doesn't think The Verve will ever get back together. The band's former frontman - who since splitting from the group last summer has formed new group United Nations of Sound - believes there is little point in the band reuniting because…

RPA and the United Nations of Sound - United Nations of Sound

RPA and the United Nations of Sound - United Nations of Sound

(3 stars)7 Jul 2010

(Parlophone) ‘I wanna put you in my arms,’ warns sometime Verve shaman Richard Ashcroft, for the RPA of the title is he, on ‘Are You Ready?’, ‘and give you a love embrace.’ Following his old band’s only modestly successful comeback, Ashcroft remains…

Richard Ashcroft's unknowing band

Music Gossip

30 Apr 2010

Richard Ashcroft's new band didn't know who we was until an hour before he met them. The former Verve frontman is launching a new hip-hop influenced project, United Nations Of Sound, and admits the musicians he recruited in New York for the band had…

The Verve - Forth

The Verve - Forth

(3 stars)14 Aug 2008

PSYCH-ROCK (Parlophone) Even their most evangelical of fans – of which there are still plenty – might have doubted The Verve’s reformation. Much of the solo material of the previously unimpeachable Richard Ashcroft flattered to deceive, and none of it…

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