― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 12 May 2005 06:39 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 12 May 2005 08:44 (nineteen years ago) link
Oh...wait a minute...you're talking about THE Verve, purveyors of 1974-style soft rock?
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 12 May 2005 08:51 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Charlie Howard, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:09 (seventeen years ago) link
the debut, i never could fully embrace
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:13 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 April 2007 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Keith, Thursday, 12 April 2007 22:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― Keith, Thursday, 12 April 2007 22:11 (seventeen years ago) link
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guess what? they're back.
http://www.theverve.tv/
― StanM, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 11:19 (sixteen years ago) link
*smacks forehead*
I got a REAL bad feeling.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 12:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Likewise.
― Scik Mouthy, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 12:46 (sixteen years ago) link
More smooth MOR like Ashcroft's solo stuff, methinks. Least necessary reunion since the last unnecessary reunion.
― Neil S, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 12:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Hahah, all too true.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 14:08 (sixteen years ago) link
i pretty much HATE Richard's solo stuff, especially as time went on.
hope that they feel the groove again because they are one hell of a live band.
*crosses finger* for good luck on this.
first Blur, now Verve...who is next?
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 14:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Someone PLEASE book them on one of those Don't Look Back shows where they have to play all of A Storm In Heaven
I'm kinda shocked that McCabe is part of this.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 14:44 (sixteen years ago) link
And all of the early EPs, and the B-sides.
*pause*
Who are we kidding? At most they'll say, "This is an older song you might know" and only do "Slide Away."
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 14:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Like they'd even do that. The "older song you might now" MIGHT be History, if you're lucky, This Is Music if you're REALLY lucky. This will be an Urban Hymns set. If McCabe's involved it's cos interest rates have rised and he's pushed on his mortgage.
― Scik Mouthy, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 15:38 (sixteen years ago) link
At least it's a new album and they're not just doing a greatest hits cash-in tour.
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 15:57 (sixteen years ago) link
is McCabe's participation really that big a surprise? I mean, what else does he have to do?
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 16:42 (sixteen years ago) link
A friend suggested McCabe both 'resents and requires a steady routine,' and so the band format, though it irritates him, might irritate him less now than not having it.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 16:48 (sixteen years ago) link
If McCabe's involved it's cos interest rates have rised and he's pushed on his mortgage.
Or else Ashcroft knows that there's no way this will have any cred unless McCabe is on board from the beginning. Ashcroft probably realizes that he has to play nice and make this work or else he's opening up for puppet shows for now on.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 17:23 (sixteen years ago) link
months-old xpost to Keith - the old Cathouse was on Brown Street, the new one is on Union Street. And yes, I was at that Oasis/Acetone/Verve show.
Aye, that'd be brilliant. I'd be up for that. I have some reservations about the quality of material stemming from a reunion, but stranger things have happened.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 18:06 (sixteen years ago) link
I have some reservations about the quality of material stemming from a reunion, but stranger things have happened.
I suppose I'm just gun shy after the relative non-event of the House Of Love reunion with Terry Bickers - of course now they're doing one of those Don't Look Back shows.
I suppose the real questions here is whether or not Ashcroft has expunged all the ham and oatmeal out of his system and whether McCabe is interested enough to really cut loose.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 18:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Probably not.
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 18:17 (sixteen years ago) link
(I'm blaming my "stranger things have happened" quote on the strength of, um, Take That, so don't be expecting miracles)
I'm not sure Ashcroft and McCabe have anything to lose, and there's hardly been a stack of people begging for their triumphant return or anything. Mind you, people bought into the Embrace revival, so, yeah, I have no point.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 18:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Embrace never split-up or hated each other or anything though; it's just that no one cared for a couple of years.
― Scik Mouthy, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 19:00 (sixteen years ago) link
"No Come Down" (their B-side comp) and the original EP are the only things i still listen to.
― christoff, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 19:37 (sixteen years ago) link
"for a couple of years"
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 20:51 (sixteen years ago) link
So a good quality recording of one of the new shows leaked out and... well goddamn...
McCabe is fucking killing it... I don't know if he changed around his set-up and got rid of the Quadraverb, or if he's just showing off but he sounds like Townshend doing shoegaze. The set-list is equal parts old and new ("Gravity Grave" is fortunately in and still just as epic) and yeah, there's a good chunk of Urban Hymms in the set-list but they sound like the old 1992 Verve stomping through them. I could even stand listening to the otherwise odious "Sonnet."
The new stuff sounds like they would fit in on ANS - best thing I can say about them right now. Otherwise I'm pleasantly surprised.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 23:10 (sixteen years ago) link
These are all good things, I would say...
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 23:22 (sixteen years ago) link
I didnt go see them incase it ruined my good memories of seeing them in 1995 t in the park and 3 times around the urban hymns stuff, wish i had went now as the sunday mail said they played All In the Mind. I only saw them do gravity grave once(1995) I didnt go incase they played new stuff and it was crap. Sp where can i hear this recording Mr T? ;)
― Herman G. Neuname, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 23:56 (sixteen years ago) link
http://ocstwosway.blogspot.com/2007/11/verve-live-blackpool-nov06-2007.html
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 15 November 2007 00:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Roxor and then some!
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 15 November 2007 00:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Haha, I LOVE "Sonnet".
― Spencer Chow, Thursday, 15 November 2007 00:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, this is pretty spectacular. MUCH better than I would have guessed when news first surfaced.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 15 November 2007 01:44 (sixteen years ago) link
I was gonna say, why is everyone hating on "Sonnet" in this thread? It's hardly the greatest song in the world, but it's very pretty. "Lucky Man" helped me quit smoking, no idea why. And "History" is awesome. "Bittersweet Symphony" does still hold up, too. Love the Northern swagger (of the video).
― Lostandfound, Thursday, 15 November 2007 04:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Ha, I capitalised "northern", silly me.