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
Richard Band Joel Goldsmith. He scored Gordon's subsequent films such as "The Pit and the Pendulum" and 1995’s "Castle Freak", the later of which featured some inventive writing for a string quartet. He was nominated for an Emmy Award for Gordon's Master of Horror episode "Dreams in the Witch House". His score for "Re-Animator" was lauded by the magazine "Music From the Movies", which said, "Band’s music is dark and direct, creating an intense and eerie atmosphere, but always with a humorous touch... Surely, Richard Band is unquestionably one of the most underrated composers in the film business." Since 2000, Band has