The Verve
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The Verve: Manchester Roadhouse
Live Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 17 June 1995
SO THATS what it sounds like. A long, curdled up intro, all ghostly pyrotechnics and a death rattle of drums, then suddenly, whoosh! And the ...
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The Verve: The Road To Wigan Fear
Profile and Interview by John Robb, Siren, May 1992
BOUNCING ONSTAGE in slow mo'...loose limbed lanky frame in shabby oxfam chic....v-necked black 'T'...shaggy barnet and flapping lips...the man is pure Jagger, Richard Ashcroft...the front ...
Richard Ashcroft: Having The Verve To Become Unashamedly Epic
Interview by Simon Reynolds, The Observer, 26 July 1992
"When you live in a place like Wigan, your senses aren't exactly bombarded with stimuli," says Richard Ashcroft, lead singer of Verve. "So when you ...
Verve: Mill At The Pier, Wigan
Live Review by Stuart Maconie, New Musical Express, 24 October 1992
IT'S USUALLY Sunday supplement journalists who go to Wigan to hang around the notorious King Street area, sneer at the pier, observe the fights in ...
Interview by Andrew Smith, Melody Maker, 15 May 1993
Verve were last year's second most likely contenders for world domination after You Know Who. At which point they threw several spanners in the works ...
Live Review by Simon Price, Melody Maker, 29 May 1993
TUNE IN, TURN ON, WIGAN OUT ...
Interview by Stuart Maconie, Q, September 1993
"ER, A PINT of lager, did you say?" The barmaid is distracted. She has every right to be. Her current customer cuts rather a visual ...
Verve: Wulfrun Hall, Wolverhampton
Live Review by Ian Gittins, Melody Maker, 8 January 1994
VERVE ARE stoned immaculate. Yeah, we have to talk drugs here. It's stupid not to; as stupid as people who've never taken E chucking in ...
It's The 'Looza Baby, Why Don't You Kill It?
Report by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 30 July 1994
LOLLAPALOOZA once had the chance to be the greatest rock'n'roll circus the planet had ever seen. But, in spite of the live spectacle of VERVE, ...
Cypress Hill, Lemonheads, Verve, Hole et al: Reading Festival
Live Review by Cathi Unsworth, Melody Maker, 3 September 1994
READING.It's like acid; once you've tried it you swear you'll never be back for more, and yet you always are. Perhaps it's because this festival ...
The Verve: live at Manchester Roadhouse
Live Review by John Robb, Melody Maker, June 1995
YEAH, we know that Richard Ashcroft can talk a good campaign and that The Verve are the nearly men of the great northern rock thing, ...
Interview by Tom Doyle, Melody Maker, 3 June 1995
Fifteen years of experience has carried producer JOHN LECKIE from a-song-a-day sessions with John Lennon, to hours spent pouring over the endless noodlings of The ...
The Verve: Northern Soul Asylum
Interview by Dave Simpson, Melody Maker, 15 July 1995
The Verve have split the voters ever since they appeared in '92 as The Band Most Likely To after Suede. Some loved their experimental prog-rock ...
The Verve: Academy, Manchester
Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 16 August 1997
Dave Simpson witnesses the miracle works of Richard Ashcroft, reunited with the apostles of The Verve ...
The Verve: Urban Hymns (Hut/Virgin 7243 8 44913 £14.49)
Review by David Sinclair, The Times, 26 September 1997
Faith, hope and even clarity: David Sinclair applauds the bittersweet symphonies of the suddenly huge Verve ...
Review by John McCready, MOJO, October 1997
I CAN'T HAVE BEEN ALONE in not being convinced. Yet there were people from day one and the debut LP A Storm In Heaven making ...
Oasis, the Verve: Earls Court, London
Live Review by Dave Simpson, Melody Maker, 4 October 1997
THURSDAY ...
Oasis/The Verve: London, Earl's Court
Live Review by Phil Sutcliffe, MOJO, November 1997
AS PAUL Du Noyer wrote recently, somewhere along the road to epoch-making Oasis "took it as their job to cheer the country up". To which ...
Report and Interview by Tom Doyle, Q, November 1997
Richard Ashcroft: he goes back, you know. Once, on a groovy tide of stormy "head" rock, his band The Verve rose. Then, victims of depression, ...
Review by Simon Reynolds, The Village Voice, 18 November 1997
Damn and blast the Verve. I'd sworn never to fall again for that classic-rock godstar-savior-shaman shtick, that it was gonna be dance music's desiring-machines and ...
The Verve: The Boston T-Shirt Party!
Report by Paul Mathur, Melody Maker, 29 November 1997
Welcome to the beauty of the new soul rebels. We join THE VERVE in America and discover the Wigan warriors are ready to take on ...
The Verve: Bittersweet Success
Interview by David Sinclair, Rolling Stone, 11 December 1997
AFTER YEARS OF NEAR MISSES, THE VERVE HAVE SCORED BIG BY STAYING TRUE TO THE DARKNESS AT THE HEART OF ROCK & ROLL ...
The Verve: Follow The Yellow Brick Road
Retrospective by Martin Aston, Select, March 1998
The Verve's astonishing eight-year pilgrimage has been littered with drugs, dehydration, mental breakdown and six-month lasagne binges. Now, somewhere over the rainbow, the world belongs ...
The Verve, Beck: Haigh Hall, Wigan
Live Review by Dave Simpson, Melody Maker, May 1998
HAIGH DUDE! ...
Eyewitness December 1993: Oasis Support The Verve
Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Q, July 1998
Freshly signed to Creation, Oasis venture out on UK tour earning £50 a night supporting The Verve known at the time as just plain ...
Report by Phil Sutcliffe, MOJO, 1999
Tangled webs, anyone? Rocknrolls got them by the skein, especially when it comes to money. But the case of The Verve, Allen Klein and Andrew ...
Report and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, July 1999
Richard punched Pete and sunbbed Simon's wife. They all treated Nick like "kitty litter". Fame, money, workload, ego and mental illness killed The Verve just ...
The Verve: This Is Music – The Singles 92-98
Review by Nick Southall, Stylus, 4 November 2004
IN 1995, as a naïve and passionate and occasionally very stoned 16-year-old, I bought a copy of A Northern Soul on spec, because I'd read ...
Review by Adam Sweeting, Uncut, September 2007
As we await the comeback album, the Wiganites' third still soars. ...
Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, 15 August 2008
RARELY CAN RAMPANT self-regard and billowing emptiness have combined to such vacuous effect as they do in the Verve, and particularly in Richard Ashcroft, a ...
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