Verve Reuniting!

Aural Fixation · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:27 am

Let's start placing bets now as to how long this reunion lasts. Still, though...makes me excited!!! Hope they make it across to the States.

NME:

Quote:

The Verve reunite for tour
Richard Ashcroft and co write new songs

The Verve are set to reunite for a winter tour.

The original band of Richard Ashcroft, Nick McCabe,Simon Jones and Pete Sailsbury have got together for the first time in almost a decade.

In a statement, the band have announced they were: "Getting back together for the joy of the music."

It is believed they will take a summer break and then return to the studio to complete their next album.

The band broke up in 1999, with the tumultuous relationship between Ashcroft and McCabe being well documented with the two exiting the band repeatedly since they began in 1993.

The band are set to play:

Glasgow Academy (November 2,3)
Blackpool Empress Ballroom (5,6)
London Roundhouse (8,9)

Tickets are set to go on sale on July

catswilleatyou · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:30 am

damn...
i read the verve pipe
now that would have been a party

catswilleatyou · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:32 am

ooooo We were merely freshmen

Sketch · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:32 am

Few concert-going disappointments top buying a ticket for "Verve + Massive Attack @ Red Rocks" and going to "Verve at a former hockey rink with shitty acoustics" with the same ticket.

splates · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:32 am

i wonder if McCabe is still a good guitarist

A Northern Soul · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 12:23 pm **Posts:** 3742

this is great news, but i dont really have any hope of this lasting beyond (maybe) one album.

Twilightkid · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:39 am

gotta be more interesting then his solo records, no? just have to be!

Sex, Drugs, and Dave · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:53 am

Sketch Wrote:

Few concert-going disappointments top buying a ticket for "Verve + Massive Attack @ Red Rocks" and going to "Verve at a former hockey rink with shitty acoustics" with the same ticket.

...same thing but substitute hockey rink with the indoor baseball stadium I call hammerstein ballroom.

Vanlandingham · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:57 am

I'll be curious to hear what results from this.

MontyTheMongoose · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 11:19 am

catswilleatyou Wrote:

ooooo We were merely freshmen

When 90s scenes collided: Mustard Plug did a version of this song, live. Pick it up -- pick it up -- pick her up (get her to an hospital).

Sketch · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 11:21 am

Not bullshitting, dawg Wrote:

catswilleatyou Wrote:

ooooo We were merely freshmen

When (edit) Michigan 90s scenes collided: Mustard Plug did a version of this song, live. Pick it up -- pick it up -- pick her up (get her to an hospital).

catswilleatyou · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 11:46 am

Not bullshitting, dawg Wrote:

catswilleatyou Wrote:

ooooo We were merely freshmen

When 90s scenes collided: Mustard Plug did a version of this song, live. Pick it up -- pick it up -- pick her up (get her to an hospital).

i was at one of those mustard plug shows
back then

discostu · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 12:44 pm

Aural Fixation Wrote:

Let's start placing bets now as to how long this reunion lasts. Still, though...makes me excited!!! Hope they make it across to the States.

NME:

Quote:

The Verve reunite for tour
Richard Ashcroft and co write new songs

The Verve are set to reunite for a winter tour.

The original band of Richard Ashcroft, Nick McCabe,Simon Jones and Pete Sailsbury have got together for the first time in almost a decade.

In a statement, the band have announced they were: "Getting back together for the joy of making money."

The band are set to play:

Glasgow Academy (November 2,3)
Blackpool Empress Ballroom (5,6)
London Roundhouse (8,9)

e-stone · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 12:47 pm

Sketch Wrote:

Few concert-going disappointments top buying a ticket for "Verve + Massive Attack @ Red Rocks" and going to "Verve at a former hockey rink with shitty acoustics" with the same ticket.

so funny that we were at the same place at the same time. add to that disappointment the fact that nick mccabe wasn't even touring with them, and in his place was 50 year old bj cole with his shirt unbuttoned. blech.

anyways, this is good news. the last time they "got the band back together" resulted in urban hymns...so they could do something great again.

edit: although they have done a wonderful job turning that former-hockey-rink-with-shitty-acoustics into the fillmore auditorium which is now an excellent venue.

paladisiac · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 2:04 pm

elephantstone Wrote:

Sketch Wrote:

Few concert-going disappointments top buying a ticket for "Verve + Massive Attack @ Red Rocks" and going to "Verve at a former hockey rink with shitty acoustics" with the same ticket.

so funny that we were at the same place at the same time. add to that disappointment the fact that nick mccabe wasn't even touring with them, and in his place was 50 year old bj cole with his shirt unbuttoned. blech.

anyways, this is good news. the last time they "got the band back together" resulted in urban hymns...so they could do something great again.

edit: although they have done a wonderful job turning that former-hockey-rink-with-shitty-acoustics into the fillmore auditorium which is now an excellent venue.

more coincidence -- i was there too. friend & i were just fortunate to hear of the venue change, otherwise we would've drove all that way for nothing.

we did, however, know of the turmoil with the band. while we were standing in line at the fillmore we discussed how the show could suck between the band not being on good terms and the location, so we cut out and went home.

we ended up lying saying we couldn't make the show cuz of the late notice (which was true) driving all the way out there to red rocks (lie) before we found out and received our money back.

Prince of Darkness · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:41 am **Posts:** 11048

splates Wrote:

i wonder if McCabe is still a good guitarist

barring arthritis or loss of a finger or limb, how would one stop being a good guitarist?

puma · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 3:12 pm

when i read about this earlier today, i freaked out.... i was jokingly saying to a friend last night "well, if the verve ever reunited for a tour...." and what happened? i am psychic.

anyway, this excites me VERY much. screw you haters.

al pastor · **Joined:** Mon Aug 15, 2005 3:05 pm **Posts:** 86

I hope it lasts long enough for them to get to the northwest... I'll always have a soft spot for this band.

On a barely related side note, does anyone else think that that one ose gonzales song sounds like the Verve Pipes Freshman jam?

two guns holla · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 3:29 pm

Very interested in this news. Hope its not just a cash grab and actually produces something of substance.

splates · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 8:32 pm

Prince of Darkness Wrote:

splates Wrote:

i wonder if McCabe is still a good guitarist

barring arthritis or loss of a finger or limb, how would one stop being a good guitarist?

you know what i mean

DHRjericho · **Posted:** Wed Jun 27, 2007 12:09 am

colour me excited.

Verve Reuniting!

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