Richard Ashcroft is contractually obligated to record another album for Parlophone. Ashcroft played a solo gig on 25 August 2008 as part of the Last Days of Summer Festival in Buckingham. The Verve broke up for a third time sometime between the last rehearsals in late 2008 and the summer of 2009. It was announced in August 2009 by a band's friend. A b-side compilation was considered a possibility, as Richard's team has asked the fans through his site about their feelings on such an album, but it's now very unlikely. In December 2009, Richard contributed the lead soundtrack song for the
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