Slide Away.

Richard Ashcroft spoke up against the current fascination with nostalgia in a recent interview with BBC Radio 6’s (and ex-member of  defunct 90s punks Kenickie) Lauren Laverne, assuring that he had absolutely no intention of reforming The Verve and jumping on the festival circuit again.

He explained: “The whole nostalgia thing is getting suffocating and it’s difficult for younger acts, especially at festivals.” Continuing “If you look at some of the line-ups, I’m not ageist by any means, but it’s dominated by nostalgia. We need the youth to create their own version of what may potentially become nostalgic but if they haven’t got a place to do that because they’re dominated by these big monster dinosaur acts, mopping up all the money.”

Certainly glancing at the line-ups of most large-scale festivals, the singer’s not far wrong, and his comments seem to echo Thom Yorke and Nigel Godrich’s rejection of Spotify last week, where he noted how difficult the current climate was for emerging talent. [via NME]