2007 Richardson's career in the music industry started off in the mid-1990s, working as a producer in his local area in Wales. By the late 1990s he was working as an engineer at Front Line Studios in Caerphilly, which is where he first met the other members of
Lostprophets. "Not only did [Watkins] take 15 years' [work] away from me, but he took away my future as well," Richardson told
The Daily Telegraph. "Because even though the band was starting to decline, we could have gone away for a couple of years and then come back with the hope that people might give a shit. So we thought about calling it a day for a bit and then returning and going on the road and playing all our greatest hits until we were dead. That was the retirement plan, but that's all gone now." Six months after the announcement, they formed a new band,
No Devotion, with
Geoff Rickly as their new lead singer. The band have released two albums,
Permanence (2015) and
No Oblivion (2022). During an appearance on the ''Sappenin' Podcast'' with
Sean Smith in December 2019, Richardson revealed the reason why they formed a new band. "We didn't catch our breath after the whole thing went down with [Watkins]. So I was like, well 'fuck if that's gonna be the thing that's on my fucking gravestone.' Like 'Oh, that guy was in that band with that fucking prick.' It's like, fuck that. I'm gonna do my own band immediately." During the same interview, Richardson revealed that he had engaged in a violent altercation with Watkins in 2012, as the latter's drug use put much strain on his relationship with the remaining band members prior to his conviction. Richardson has been the touring bassist of
Thursday since 2017. ==Personal life==