Ashcroft To Hold An Intimate Gig For RPA Club Members

Richard Ashcroft will be holding an intimate gig in central London on December 7th for RPA Club members only.


If you’re not already an RPA Club member and would like to purchase tickets for this event, you will need to sign up to the club before midnight on Monday 15th November.


Members will be notified when tickets will go on sale and how to access them via email (restrictions will apply).


As well as getting access to tickets for the gig, as an RPA Club Member you’ll also receive;


- Instant exclusive access to RPA Club only tracks.
- Limited Edition members only t-shirt.
- Access to pre sale tickets for tours.
- Access to tickets for members only gigs.
- Further exclusive tracks throughout the year.

Richard Ashcroft To Play Concert For Killing Cancer

Richard Ashcroft is set to play a gig at London's HMV Hammersmith Apollo in aid of the Killing Cancer charity on January 13, joined by The Who, Debbie Harry and Jeff Beck.


The gig will raise money for the Killing Cancer charity, which helps to fund research into Photodynamic Therapy (PDT). The therapy destroys cancer cells with a single treatment.


Tickets go on sale at 9am (GMT) on November 19. See Killingcancer.co.uk for more information.

Richard Ashcroft Signs With Razor & Tie

Richard Ashcroft has signed with Razor & Tie for the North American release of "The United Nations of Sound," his fourth solo album produced by No I.D. (Jay-Z, Kanye West).


The singer has joined artists like Brand New, Joan Baez and Semi Precious Weapons on the label, which will issue the album in early 2011. "Sound," Ashcroft's first solo effort since 2006's "Keys to the World," was released overseas on Parlophone last July prior to the signing.


Razor & Tie VP of A&R Beka Tischker calls Ashcroft "one of the seminal figures of modern British rock music," adding that "it's an honor to work with someone as esteemed as Richard."


The album follows the 2009 break-up of "Bitter Sweet Symphony" auteurs The Verve after the group released fourth album "Forth" in 2008 and embarked on a world tour, including a headlining set at that year's Glastonbury Festival. "Sound"'s lead track "Are You Ready?" is featured in Volkswagon's latest Jetta TV spot and is now available on iTunes.


After spending last summer playing shows in Europe, Australia and Japan, Ashcroft has also announced plans to tour the U.S. next year after a six-year absence from the States.

Verve Songs In Top 1000 Songs Ever

To end all those pub arguments about music Xfm have released The Xfm Top 1000 Songs Of All Time book, the definitive guide to the best tunes ever recorded. Collated from the annual 'Top 1000 Songs of All Time' listener poll, the most requested songs on the 'X-list' and suggestions from radio DJs and celebrity guests. The following Verve and Richard Ashcroft songs made it into the 1000:


The Verve, 7 songs:
Bitter Sweet Symphony
The Drugs Don't Work
Lucky Man
History
Sonnet
Love Is Noise
This Is Music


Richard Ashcroft, 1 song:
A Song for the Lovers

Pete Salisbury With The Charlatans

The Charlatans played a BBC 6 live session recently along with Pete Salisbury filling in for Jon Brookes on drums. Go to the BBC 6 Music website for pictures and live video of the performance.

Verve Drummer Joins The Charlatans

The Verve drummer Pete Salisbury has joined The Charlatans to replace Jon Brookes as he battles a brain tumour.


The British band cancelled a string of shows in the U.S. after the percussionist collapsed at a gig in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania last week (15Sep10). He was later diagnosed with brain cancer and will take a break from the group to focus on his health struggle.


The Charlatans vowed to continue performing and have now hired Salisbury to take over the drums on their upcoming U.K. tour.


The band will unveil the new line-up at a charity gig in London on Monday (27Sep10) and the tour kicks off in Hatfield, England on 5 October (10).

Ricky Gervais Inspired By Rockers Like Richard Ashcroft

Funnyman Ricky Gervais has praised rockers Richard Ashcroft and Liam Gallagher for giving him inspiration for one of his films.


During a Q&A at the Soho Hotel in London for the DVD release of Cemetery Junction, directors Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant admitted Liam, 37, and Richard, 38, were the inspirations behind the comedy-drama.


Gervais, 49, found that actors fell into two categories, half that play society types and half that play violent wife-beating roles.


But the Extras star worked with Stephen to make their characters different and more like rock stars.
He said: 'We didn't want it to be one those really gritty 'isn't England a bit depressing and crap and normal' films.


'We wanted it to be a bit more glorious and evoke those possibly false memories of every day being sunny and brilliant and fun, that's how I remember my childhood.'


Ricky added: 'We cast about a thousand people to try and find these Jimmy Deans and John Travoltas - half of them will be Mr Darcy one day, and the other half will be going, 'You f****** slags.'


'So we had to look to our rock stars like Richard Ashcroft and Liam Gallagher, that's where we rule the world.'


Stephen added: 'This country's always been very good at making rock stars, and rock stars are unashamedly cool but somehow British films are less like that, it's like we're a little bit more embarrassed to be like that.


'We need to be self-conscious and make things seem gloomier and grittier but that wasn't my experience of growing up, everything seemed very cool to me.'