Ashcroft: 'I will return to solo career'

The Verve's Richard Ashcroft has revealed that he has not abandoned his solo career plans.

Ashcroft released three studio albums - Alone With Everybody, Human Conditions and Keys To The World - while his band were on hiatus between 1999 and 2007.

However, the singer insisted that the success of The Verve's reunion and impending studio album Forth will not prevent him from working on his own again.

"I will continue my solo stuff," he told the BBC. "But it seemed a shame to leave this thing dormant when there is so much talent there."

Speaking about his group's headline slot on the final night of Glastonbury, he commented: "I've never done a bungee jump because I don't need to do one, because that's what performance is all about.

"It's about jumping out of the aeroplane. And that's the biggest jump I've done in a long time, so the afterglow was pretty long after Glastonbury."