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The Verve
Musiker - Brit Pop
http://www.theverve.co.uk
http://www.myspace.com/theverve

Before they started the Verve, Richard Ashcroft, Simon Jones, Nick McCabe and Peter Salisbury used to gather in an old car high above the hillsides around Wigan, gazing down over the town and wondering how they could avoid the anonymity that destiny seemed to be presenting them with.

Their solution was to form a band, but even the wild-eyed dreamers couldn’t have possibly guessed just how far that band would take them.

In fact, the Verve have given us three fantastic albums – including Urban Hymns, the fifth fastest selling British album ever on release and one of the landmark releases of the Nineties. There have been some stunning gigs, both in tiny pubs in Wigan on the way up or the mammoth 33,000 capacity Haigh Hall back in their hometown once they’d been around the world. They play “music of the spheres,” which strives to break out of the stratosphere and yet is laced with a brutally down-to-earth, gritty realism that understands the hopes and fears of their world-wide audience but challenges them to accompany the band on a quest for something greater. When the words of Bitter Sweet Symphony power out across a venue, the words “It’s a bitter sweet symphony, this life, you’re a slave for money, then you die” are transformed from what should be a depressing statement into an uplifting cry of celebration and of seizing the moment, something the Verve can never be accused of failing to do themselves. As the cover of 1995 single History spelled out, the Verve’s manifesto is “Life is not a rehearsal.” Individually and collectively, they challenge themselves and their enormous audience to get the most out of it we can, and live for the instant.

This belief is spontaneity and the here and now is particularly evident in their explosive live shows, which reflect how the band are feeling at the time. Not a band who could ever be accused of faking, the Verve live experience can run anything from cutting sets short after two songs (as they were known to do in their early days) if the feeling isn’t there, to playing 45 minute jams of songs if they felt like it or even conversely walking away from the band entirely when things haven’t been right. However, generally it manifests itself in thrilling improvisation as setlists are rearranged at will and songs blast off wherever they want to take them, a quality prevalent in jazz and Sixties rock but which has been all but lost among the sterile, formatted rock bands of today. Thus, when they are together and on form, few if anyone can touch them. Critics and fans alike recognise a band who individually are people like you and me, but collectively are Out There.
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