Richard Ashcroft a limited number of appearances in 2003, Ashcroft was absent from the music business for about two years. He later explained this in 2006, stating that "[e]veryone got it into their heads over the last few years that I was in my ivory tower like Lennon, baking bread all day. The fact of the matter was that I was bringing up kids". Ashcroft began playing gigs again in mid-2005, and, on 2 July at the Live 8 concert in Hyde Park, Coldplay invited him to perform with them during their set. They performed The Verve's hit "Bitter Sweet Symphony", after
Wigan Post Wigan Post The Wigan Post (formerly Wigan Evening Post and Chronicle and later just the Wigan Evening Post) is a daily tabloid British regional newspaper for Wigan in Greater Manchester, formally the traditional county of Lancashire. It is owned by Johnston Press and published by Lancishire publications, which has its offices in the town. The main area for the paper's distribution is around the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan. It is published six days a week (daily except Sundays). It was founded in the 1950's as a subdivision of the Lancashire Evening Post. It was formally a fully paid-for paper till