NEWS ARCHIVES


 

09-04-10  RPA Club launched 
09-04-10  Third Eye (Columbus Circle) available for download
RPA club was launched for an annual fee of £30. In return fans receive the download only track 'Third Eye', 3 further download tracks during the next 12 months, an exclusive members only t-shirt, exclusive shows for club members, and presales on gig tickets.

 
18-01-10 Are You Ready?
The video for Richard's new song, Are You Ready? (with newly formed band 'United Nations of Sound') was made available to watch exclusively on NME.COM. It was also aired for the first time on Radio One's Zane Lowe show in the evening.

The song is to be included on the new album (working title 'Redemption'). No I.D. is to produce the album as Richard 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.

 
18-12-09  Richard's new single 'The Journey' released for download
Richard's new song 'The Journey' was released for download on iTunes, and is the theme music for a short film of the same name by Richard Jobson and Emma Thompson about the realities of sex trafficking. All proceeds go to the Helen Bamber Foundation.

 
17-12-09  News at last of Richard's forthcoming solo album
No I.D. is to produce Richard's forthcoming solo album (as yet untitled) that is due out in April 2010. Richard was impressed with No I.D.'s 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.

 
25-08-08  Richard performed solo
Richard performed a stunning solo set at The Last Days Of Summer Festival at Stowe House in Buckinghamshire. Although Richard's performance was followed by Athlete and 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 using shiny toilet paper for tracing paper, and then sung his own short version of Working Class hero.

 
05-08-08  Richard's solo career to continue
During an interview with Zane Lowe at BBC Radio 1's Maida Vale Studios, Richard revealed that he had every intention of continuing with his solo career, and saw no reason why it shouldn't continue alongside The Verve. 

 
26 June 2007   The Verve reunion was announced.
It was announced that Richard Ashcroft, Nick McCabe, Simon Jones and Pete Salisbury would reunite. It came as quite a shock to fans as only earlier in the year Richard Ashcroft was quoted as saying "There would be more chance of getting all four Beatles together on stage than a Verve reunion". Dates for a November tour were announced - 2 each for Glasgow, Blackpool and London, and an album promised for the end of the summer. Simon Tong did not rejoin fellow bandmates, but chose to continue to work with The Good, The Bad and The Queen.