THE VERVE ARE BACK BITCH!

According to his website, it looks like Dicky Ashcoft finally stopped listening to his massive ego, pulled his weird looking head out of his ass and dialed up Nick McCabe and said "let's get the band back together mate!" Fucking finally dude... music is power Dicky and the best music you made is BY FAR with The Verve! This means two things that are both music to my ears. First... NO MORE ADULT CONTEMPORARY SOLO ASHCROFT RECORDS! WOO! Secondly... THE VERVE ARE MAKING A NEW RECORD AND ARE GONNA PLAY SHOWS! SHIT YEAH! Yep, the original line-up (Richard Ashcroft, Nick McCabe, Simon Jones and Pete Sailsbury) were back together (first time since they broke up in 1999) recording in a London studio last week. After a summer break, they will return to the studio to complete their next album and then in November they'll be playing some live shows in the UK. Who's flying me over for that? Any takers? Anyone? Here's the deal... you fly me over for the shows and I'll buy beers for us at the shows as well as the tickets to the shows which go on sale on my big 3 0 birthday July 6th. See, it's fuckin' meant to be.   

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

(Download - "This Is Music")

(Download - "The Rolling People")

(Download - "On Your Own" Acoustic)

The Rolling People - Live @ Wigan 1998

Lucky Man live on Jools Holland Show 1997

Update: The Verve have launched a new website @ http://www.theverve.tv/ and a new myspace page @ http://www.myspace.com/thevervetv

ANOTHER EVEN BETTER UPDATE: As Finn posted in the comments of this entry, you can download 17 KILLER demos from The Verve's 1996 Urban Hymns session over at the blog "I am fuel, you are friends". Looks like a cool page... check it out.

Comments

[Marty E.]

It's about fucking time!

[michael_m]

well lets hope they don't fuck this one up...not pessimism, just realism...

[Ben]

C'MON!!!!

[ted]

this really is reunion year.

fuck, compared to the states, everything's double the cost in the UK right now... you'll be paying a lot for beers. i paid close to twelve dollars for two cups of black coffee at an airport during a sleepless nine-hour layover before spending a ten-hour flight from heathrow back to LAX, sitting next to a crying two-year old named alfie... painful, not priceless.

[Ali D]

About time Richard got his ass into gear.

[John]

...already looking into airline tickets for this shit. I'm going to both London shows for damn sure, even if I have to sell off my entire record collection.

[finn]

would you, like, put out, travis? cos i can buy my own beer.

did you ververs see FuelFriends heather's post, and the zipset of olympic studios demos? free music...
http://fuelfriends.blogspot.com/2007/06/sweet-symphony-verve-reunite.html

[e]

If I win the lotto I promise to save you a seat on my new jet that will be flying to London....But no mile highing please Finn&Travis...Happy 30th my fellow Cancerian.

[only_u]

and with some good comes some bad reunions
Spice Girls announce reunion tour

[Sly]

Hey, I'm on a limited budget (read as: fucking broke) and I'm looking to buy one old Verve release. Would all you Verve fans reccomend "A Northern Soul" or "Storm in Heaven"? Or maybe there's some killer old EPs too?

[red]

more verve rarities to be had here:

http://encouragingechoes.blogspot.com/

ps luv the blog. keep up the good work

long live the verve

[alex]

hey assholes. stop wasting time and post something. jesus.

[finn]

fuck big sur.

[Ben]

Got my ticket for Roundhouse on the 8th. Stoked!

[James]

It's you an me, we're history.

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