Richard Ashcroft pronounces large 2024 homecoming present at Wigan’s Robin Park
Richard Ashcroft can be returning to his hometown of Wigan for an enormous present subsequent yr.
The previous frontman of The Verve will play Robin Park on July 20, marking his first present in Wigan for over 25 years.
“After 25 years, I’m again enjoying in my hometown. Wanting ahead to a tremendous evening in Wigan,” he mentioned in a press launch.
The Wigan present gained’t be the one large-scale Ashcroft performs subsequent summer season, nevertheless. He’s additionally set to play in Halifax as a part of the ‘Stay At The Piece Corridor’ sequence and can carry out in Saffron Walden as a part of the Heritage Stay sequence of live shows. He additionally participated within the latter sequence this summer season, enjoying within the grounds of Englefield Home in Berkshire, England.
Tickets will go on sale on Friday (December 1) – you’ll be able to see the complete checklist of Ashcroft’s summer season reveals beneath and purchase your tickets here.
Richard Ashcroft’s 2024 summer season out of doors reveals are:
JULY
20 – Wigan, Robin Park
AUGUST
2 – Halifax, Piece Corridor
3 – Saffron Walden, Audley Finish Home
In the meantime, earlier this yr, Ashcroft recreated the music video for The Verve’s ‘Bitter Candy Symphony’ for Sky Sports activities.
The singer recreated the visible accompaniment to the 1997 hit for a Sky Sports activities promotion of System One, and filmed the clips a few days earlier than final week’s British Grand Prix 2023 kicked off.
As a substitute of strolling the streets of London as within the authentic video, Ashcroft is seen performing the observe across the UK’s Silverstone Circuit, which hosted the primary British Grand Prix in 1948. The footage additionally options retro footage from earlier Grand Prixs, together with footage of the viewers.
Arriving over 1 / 4 of a century in the past, ‘Bitter Candy Symphony’ stays The Verve’s hottest track, and first appeared as a part of their third studio album ‘City Hymns’.