Richard Ashcroft and then attended Winstanley College, where he met Nick McCabe. His teachers referred to him as "the cancer of the class", though one member of staff recalled him being "incredibly intelligent". Ashcroft was an avid football player, playing junior football for Wigan Athletic. For some time Ashcroft wanted to be a professional football player, idolising George Best, but as he grew older he lost interest in this, turning to music instead. Ashcroft formed The Verve (originally just Verve) in 1990 with McCabe, Jones, and Salisbury. The band signed to Hut Records and became well known for their appetite for both
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