Richard Ashcroft In Shock Arrest

Richard Ashcroft has been arrested after bursting into a youth club and asking to work with the teenagers present.

Witnesses told today’s (June 21) Sun newspaper say the singer, fresh from his headline stadium show in Manchester last weekend, refused to leave The Bridge club in Chippenham, Wiltshire on Monday (June 19).

Staff called police and Ashcroft was taken into custody for a couple of hours, then given an £80 fixed penalty fine for disorderly behaviour and released.

Around 60 youngsters in their early teens were at the club when Ashcroft showed up.

Ashcroft performed his biggest ever solo gig at Old Trafford Cricket Ground in Manchester on Saturday (June 17). DJ Shadow joined him onstage for a version of the UNKLE track ‘Lonely Soul’.

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Ashcroft Reunites With Coldplay for Tour

Rockers Coldplay plan to turn the second leg of their 2006 winter tour in North America into a super gig by inviting former The Verve star Richard Ashcroft to open for them.

Ashcroft joined the group on stage at Live 8 for a version of The Verve's anthem "Bittersweet Symphony" and will now join the "Fix You" band on their tour starting March 20.

Fiona Apple will support the group on all other dates on the tour, which begins in Vancouver, Canada on January 25.

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Richard Ashcroft Inspired By The Beatles

Like fellow-Lancastrian sixties obsessives Oasis, Richard Ashcroft has unsurprisingly said that he has drawn on the music of The Beatles while recording his new album, his latest attempt to reestablish his place in the UK music scene.

Ashcroft, whose new album 'Keys To The World' is released next January, claims that it's time to look at life at the Beatles did (even though it was 40 fucking years ago and the world has changed somewhat!).

Dicky says: What I like about great records, like 'Revolver', is when you analyse them, they actually go to a lot of different places.

"It was that period where they wrote about English life with a bit of Dylan sardonic twist, and I think we need that now - I think that's what I need to do now.

"I need to stake my claim again."