The Gaa Gaas night 'Stay Sick!'. They were headliners on the second stage of the last ever Jersey Live Festival in 2016 performing after Richard Ashcroft the former frontman of Wigan rock pioneers The Verve had just finished his performance on the main stage. They also appeared at Drop Dead Festival in Lithuania, an event that originally started up at the legendary New York club CBGB. The band has shared festival/venue bills with the likes of Noel Gallagher, Primal Scream, The Stranglers, Richard Ashcroft, Madness, Happy Mondays, The Fall, John Cooper Clarke, A Flock of Seagulls, Specimen, Sex Gang Children, Zounds, Charles De
Mark Ashcroft to 1996 as a member of the academic staff of St Paul's College, Kapsabet, one of the theological colleges of the Anglican Church of Kenya; he was a tutor between 1986 and 1989, and its principal between 1990 and 1996. In 1996, Ashcroft returned to England. He was rector of Christ Church, Harpurhey from 1996 to 2009, and also area dean of North Manchester from 2000 to 2006. In 2004, he was made an honorary canon of Manchester Cathedral. In 2009, he was appointed the Archdeacon of Manchester. On 22 June 2016, it was announced that Ashcroft would become the