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
Johnny Ashcroft Steven was lost) to Monday, 8 February (when he was found alive and well). During the fourth "Australian Variety Artists MO Awards" in 1979 1979 Mo winners Ashcroft received the "first Male Country Entertainer Mo award"–a performance award voted for by his peers. This was followed by a "National Award For Service To Australian country music". He is to be found in Tamworth's "Australasian Country Music Hands of Fame" and Australian Roll of Renown. Johnny Ashcroft was awarded the "Medal of the Order Of Australia (OAM)" in 1990 and is a "Fellow of the Australian Institute of History and Arts