Richard Ashcroft to play Hop Farm Music Festival 2012

Richard Ashcroft will be playing the Hop Farm Music Festival in Paddock Wood, Kent (UK) on Sunday, July 1. The festival, headlined by Suede, Bob Dylan, and Peter Gabriel, will run from from June 29 to July 1.

For more details on the festival and lineup, visit the Hop Farm Festival website. According to NME, this will be Ashcroft's only UK appearance of the year.

Rock horsemen of the Apocalypse, circa 1992

• Source: Melody Maker, 1992
• Kudos: Captain21

Richard Ashcroft on BBC Radio 6 this week

Program: The Verve Urban Hymns 'Classic Album of the Day'

Time: Wednesday, 11 April 2012, 6 PM (UK) / 1 PM (US)

Description: Steve Lamacq is joined by Verve frontman Richard Ashcroft as he assesses the legacy of the band's 1997 reunion LP Urban Hymns, which is our Classic Album of the Day. The Verve's 3rd LP remains one of the top 20 best selling British albums of all time and walked away with the Brit for Best Album and a nomination for the Mercury Prize. It also spawned the mammoth singles, "Bitter Sweet Symphony," "Sonnet," "The Drugs Don't Work" and "Lucky Man."

Tune in!

• Source: BBC Radio 6
• Kudos: Thethirdreunion