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Aug 2, 2010 Updated Aug 4, 2010

Former Verve frontman Richard Ashcroft stormed off stage during his set at Splendour in the Grass.

Ashcroft, who was fronting new outfit the United Nations of Sound, was reportedly unhappy with the small crowd that had come to watch him and lashed out at festival organisers for putting him on at the same time as one of the festival's major draws, Boston alt-rockers Pixies.

He stopped mid-song and told startled fans he may as well go and watch Pixies instead of continuing with his set.

He then reportedly threw down his tambourine and stormed off to a waiting car.

Source: News.com.au external link

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The Verve (originally Verve) were an English rock band formed in Winstanley, Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, in 1990, by vocalist Richard Ashcroft, guitarist Nick McCabe, bassist Simon Jones, and drummer Peter Salisbury. The members had met at Winstanley Sixth Form College. Simon Tong later became a member. Beginning with a psychedelic sound indebted to shoegazing and space...

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