Due to other commitments this website will have limited updates in
the next few months. For up-to-the-minute news, please visit the friendly forum.....
Recent site updates:
COMPLETE LYRICS FOR ALL "UNITED NATIONS OF SOUND" TRACKS ARE NOW
AVAILABLE IN THE LYRICS SECTION.
THE GIGOGRAPHY HAS NOW
BEEN UPDATED, WITH SETLISTS NOW AVAILABLE FOR 2010 (SETLISTS FOR PREVIOUS
YEARS WILL BE ADDED ASAP).
RPA
AND THE UNITED NATIONS OF SOUND
The European tour kicked off in Ancona, Italy Sat 5 June and
fan reviews called it "AMAZING" - with 10 songs aired
from their new album and two encores, one of which was an acoustic solo set
of 3 songs. The tour continued in Paris, Berlin, Cologne, Amsterdam,
Manchester and finished off at Shepherd's Bush in London on 16 June. Songs
old and new went down well with fans, with solo favourites aired such as
Brave New World, Science Of Silence, C'Mon People, Lonely Soul, So Sister,
Check The Meaning, Music Is Power, A Song For The Lovers and Break The Night
With Colour as well as plenty of Verve classics such as History, The Drugs
Don't Work, Sonnet, Lucky Man and Bitter Sweet Symphony.
After various radio interviews and beautiful acoustic
performances of new songs such as This Thing Called Life and She Brings Me
The Music, the tour continued to Australia in Melbourne and Sydney. It
wasn't all plain sailing down under, with Richard having voice problems at
the Splendour In The Grass festival on 1 August and having to leave the
stage after only 1 song. Then 3 days later Perth had to be cancelled due to
commitments in Japan.
The summer tour wrapped up with gigs in Tokyo and Osaka on 7
and 8 August respectively.
This Thing Called Life
Debut album 'United Nations of Sound' released 19 July 2010 on Parlophone
[Charted Number 20 on 25 July 2010 in UK Charts]
Album Tracklisting
Are You Ready?
Born Again
America
This Thing Called Life
Beatitude
Good Loving
How Deep Is Your Man
She Brings Me The Music
Royal Highness
Glory
Life Can Be So Beautiful
Let My Soul Rest
Captain Rock [iTunes only]
THIRD EYE
(COLOMBUS CIRCLE)
Download track
available FREE when you join the RPA Club (plus 3 further tracks throughout
the year - and other benefits such as exclusive club members only shows,
presale tickets and exclusive t-shirt...)
join here
Are you Ready?
is the exciting new song from Richard Ashcroft's comeback album (working title 'Redemption'). Richard is back with a new band - United
Nations of Sound and you can watch the video
[here]
[lyrics]
Welcome to Richard Ashcroft Online. This unofficial website was created
in January 2007 and is dedicated to Richard Ashcroft's amazing solo work. It
originally incorporated a Verve section, but when The Verve reformed mid 2007
I split the two sites to make navigation easier. A link to The Verve
site can be found on the top left-hand side of this page.
Please feel free to browse the various sections, and if you have some time to
spare, you'll receive a warm welcome in the
Friendly Forum
which has discussions on both Richard Ashcroft and The Verve.
I intend to regularly update the site, so please check back from time to time.
No I.D.
is to produce the album as Richard Ashcroft was impressed with his production of
Jay-Z's 'D.O.A.' and an interview where No. I.D. spoke of how some producers
destroy albums just for the sales. They went in and recorded between 20-30
songs in New York, Los Angeles and London.
Talking to Yahoo! Music, No. I.D. said the album is not a
traditional Rock record. "It's like a gumbo fusion, it's stuff on there
like the Blues. There is a little more aggressive drums than your average
rock album", he said.
'The Journey'
(released 18 Dec. 2009 as a download only from iTunes) is the theme music
for a short film of the same name by Richard Jobson and Emma Thompson about
the realities of sex trafficking. The song can be downloaded from iTunes
here and all proceeds go to the
Helen Bamber Foundation for human
rights.
Watch the video
on Richard Ashcroft's website
here
Richard unquestionably stole
the show at this event!
Sonnet
A Song For The Lovers
Check The Meaning
The Drugs Don't Work
Bitter Sweet Symphony
Break The Night With Colour
Lucky Man
You On My Mind In My Sleep
On Your Own
See You In The Next One
Although Richard's
performance was followed by Athlete and then headliners Supergrass, Richard
was undeniably the star of the show!
Performed in the grounds of
one of the most expensive private schools in England Richard joked about his
old school, Upholland High, using shiny toilet paper for tracing paper... and sung his own
short version of Working Class Hero.
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Ashcroft, Virgin or EMI. I hope that any infringement of copyright
will be forgiven in the interests of the fans, and trust that any
unintended breach of copyright will be notified to me by the copyright holder
so that due acknowledgement can be made or the copyright material removed.
