Richard Ashcroft plays the Albert Hall in Manchester, May 2016. (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever Media)
Richard Ashcroft and James have now been confirmed as part of next year’s Sounds Of The City series in Manchester.
Blossoms were signed up for July 8th next year, supported by The Coral, Rory Wynne and Touts, and now Ashcroft is at Castlefield Bowl too on June 30th, while James play on Friday, July 7th. The Hacienda Classical project has a gig there, on July 1st.
Richard Ashcroft remains busy touring his solo album These People, and recently discussed the make-up of his sets and the lack of certain Verve songs with Radio X.
“I think I’ve just avoided over the years the tunes I think we wrote as a collective in a way,” he said. “These are the songs I wrote and arranged etcetera. The other ones are the ones the band wrote collectively.”
“Yeah I wrote the lyrics and whatever, but you know Nick would come up with the riff or et cetera.”
Sounds Of The City 2017 line-up:
JUNE
30 – Richard Ashcroft
JULY
1 – Hacienda Classical
7 – James
8 – Blossoms w/ The Coral, Rory Wynne, Touts
