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
Catherine Ashcroft 2017/2018. 2007 she won All Britain titles on both whistle and pipes. Catherine Ashcroft Catherine Ashcroft (* in North West England) is an English musician (Irish Folk). She plays self-told whistles and Uillean pipes. In 2008 Ashcroft recorded her first CD "Take Flight and Follow" in the "Stenkrith Studios" in Kirkby Stephen. There she met Belfast's songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and singer Maurice Dickson, both form the band "Mochara" (Irish for "my friend") since that year. They perform Celtic music. In common Ashcroft and Dickson have published three music albums: "In Your Blood" in 2010, "Spirits and Dreamers" in 2013 and "Live