UPDATED: The Verve reunite: tour in November

Can't wait.

there's no way McCabe would have rejoined if it was going to be like 1997 all over again, with Ashcroft reducing the others to Just Another Backing Band. This is the ORIGINAL line-up, the one that made 'A Storm In Heaven' and 'A Northern Soul', NOT the line-up that recorded 'Urban Hymns', so it could actually be fantastic.

If you don't believe me, watch this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuRgAITJhIQ

and then this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY93rewMetY

but this depresses me. Maybe it's cos they could be amazing. But they won't be.

And the whole Verve thing migrated, didn't it. When were they ever meant to be a 'band of the people'? playing shows in fields in Wigan.

I want them to be psychedelic warriors from venus again. THAT Won't happen.

The original fans are still spinning in their Gravity Graves...

is fucking amazing.

Hope this isn't dissapointed, but today I'm happy!

I saw them at V98 and it was heartbreaking - no McCabe, and their entire pre-Urban Hymns output was represented by two songs ('See You In The Next One' and 'History', which was a complete load of fucking shit in the first place).

The question that's bugging me is: do I risk the heartbreak again? I've dreamed of seeing that original line-up onstage for over a decade now, but if they suck I'll have to burn things. Starting with Ashcroft's face.

i love early Verve, but the gigs are going to be full of beery football hooligans waiting for The Drugs Don't work and Ashcroft's "genius".

Whereas I want to hear 10 minute jams with Nick Mccabe.

what an insufferably arrogant prick Richard Ashcroft was at the height of The Verve's fame. Still, every band's reforming these days...

what software do you need to run those .torrent files?

i absolutely adore the verve. i'll quite happily put up with utter utter shite to hear them play live.

i'm pretty sure i will be at the london gigs.

2nd choice of guitarist to the stars.

i really dunno about this, it could be amazing but then again it could be shite. depends if dicky's ego gets in the way. last time i saw the verve was january '97 at brixton. it was amazing. mind you i was stoned off me tits at the time. :)

The guy has gone from writing 'I stand accused/ just like you/ of being born without a silver spoon' to writing shit like 'Money To Burn' about how loaded he is.