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The Verve

July 2021

  • Richard Ashcroft performs on stage during Electric Picnic Music Festival 2019 at Stradbally Hall Estate on September 1, 2019 in Stradbally, Ireland.

    Richard Ashcroft quits Tramlines festival owing to its Covid research

    Verve frontman was set to headline Sheffield event, but says it was ‘sadly forced to become’ a ‘Government Experiment’

May 2019

  • Rebecca Nicholson

    Names in the news
    Richard Ashcroft’s sweet victory as Stones bow out graciously

    Rebecca Nicholson
  • Richard Ashcroft at the Ivor Novello awards, where he won outstanding contribution to British music.

    Bittersweet no more: Rolling Stones pass Verve royalties to Richard Ashcroft

January 2018

  • Richard Ashcroft, Tin Man, Scarecrow and Dorothy, Las Vegas, 1994 by Chris Floyd

    My best shot
    Chris Floyd's best photograph: the Verve meet Dorothy, the Tin Man and Scarecrow

    ‘I was following the band round Vegas for a week and we ended up in this tacky casino with a Land of Oz in its foyer. Richard’s not afraid to ham things up’

August 2016

  • The Verve

    Watch the Verve's video for South Pacific

    The band’s cosmic-rock debut album, A Storm in Heaven, is reissued featuring this previously unreleased track

April 2016

  • Richard Ashcroft

    Richard Ashcroft: ‘I wouldn’t trade what Coldplay have achieved for any of my songs'

    From careering around Wigan in his mate’s Mini to posing with a drip in his arm, the former Mad Richard has had a breakneck ride. He may now be living a quieter life but he still wants to be ‘bigger than the Verve’

February 2016

  • Youth<br>British bass guitarist and producer Martin Glover, aka Youth, of post-punk group Killing Joke, circa 1980. (Photo by Tim Roney/Getty Images)

    ‘I treated working with Paul McCartney as art’ – Youth on his five favourite albums

    The producer and Killing Joke bassist has produced everyone from Alien Sex Fiend to Bananarama. Here he picks the best albums he has worked on, from Pink Floyd to the Orb

January 2016

  • Chris Moyles’s Radio X advert

    ASA clears Chris Moyles Radio X ad despite more than 100 complaints

    Promo featuring DJ bumping into people is pastiche of Bitter Sweet Symphony video by the Verve

October 2015

  • John Cleese in the Monty Python Ministry of Silly Walks sketch.

    The 10 best ...
    The 10 best walks in culture

    As new film The Walk opens, we retrace some famous steps, from Monty Python and Julie Walters to the Verve

August 2015

  • Jazz Summers at the Oxford Literary festival last year.

    Jazz Summers obituary

    Music manager who turned Wham! into a global phenomenon during the 1980s

October 2014

  • Charlatans

    Charlatans announce first full album since death of co-founder Jon Brookes

    Due in January, Modern Nature sees the group replacing their late drummer with members of New Order, Factory Floor and the Verve

April 2014

  • new order

    Music blog
    What songs are you most moved by?

    Miley Cyrus was moved to tears when performing a cover of Fleetwood Mac's Landslide in concert last week. What music has the power to make you weep?

June 2012

  • Greece celebrate winning 2004 Euros

    Sportblog
    Euro 2012: England analysis would sound slicker if they cut back Verve

    Martin Kelner
    Martin Kelner: In PG Wodehouse's day they knew how to react when someone played a hackneyed, over-sentimental dirge – they hurled rotten fruit

October 2011

  • Borne Blonde

    First sight
    First Sight: Born Blonde

    Five stern-faced young men, who brilliantly sound like they belong on a mist-shrouded hillside

July 2010

  • RPA and the United Nations of Sound: United Nations of Sound

    Richard Ashcroft has joined forces with soul and hip-hop musicians, but the results are clunky and overcooked, says Kitty Empire

June 2010

  • Richard Ashcroft Performs At Manchester Academy

    RPA and the United Nations of Sound

    Academy, Manchester
    Richard Ashcroft drips charisma but his new band lacks verve, writes Dave Simpson

April 2010

  • The Tiller Girls

    Radio catchup
    Radio catchup: Band break-ups, high-kicking chorus girls and tales from Bristol

    Celine Bijleveld: Give the election the swerve with a few radio treats

August 2009

  • The Verve

    The Verve split up – for the third time

    Wigan's finest have called it a day yet again. What's the betting they'll be back with a new album in 2013?

October 2008

  • Kate Nash

    Music blog
    Behind the music, In the City

    Helinne Lindvall: At this year's In the City conference, one panel brought up the brilliant start that the Featured Artists' Coalition has made. So why weren't many artists there to debate its merits?

August 2008

  • The Verve

    Rock review: The Verve, Forth

    The Verve's fourth album manages not to collapse under the weight of Richard Ashcroft's ego - just

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