http://www.nme.com/news/the-verve/29261

This is strange. I was just looking yesterday to see if Richard Ashcroft had another disappointing solo album coming out soon and now today I see this! I'm cautiously excited. I'll have to think about taking a trip to catch one of the shows.

great band! just skip the hype and make some more great music. that's all i care about.

How passé..
Reforming bands is the new rehab!

In the words of Bevis, "Well how bout that?"

Unexpected

one word: paycheck.

Nick McCabe doesn't really strike me as an "in it for the paycheck" kinda guy. Plus they're probably all still rolling around in Bittersweet Symphony money. (Ok, not really.)

Awesome news. Their first few LPs are fantastic.

Yeah, they wish.

The Sundance Show abbey road had Ashcroft on it on sunday, and he sang bittersweet symphony.

Tour Dates are starting to come out..

Wed, 04/23/08
The Warfield San Francisco, CA The Verve presale begins:Thu, 03/13/08

Sat, 04/26/08
Pearl Concert Theater at Palms Casino Resort Las Vegas, NV
Mon, 04/28/08
WaMu Theater At Madison Square Garden New York, NY
Tue, 04/29/08
WaMu Theater At Madison Square Garden New York, NY
Thu, 05/01/08
Ricoh ColiseumToronto, ON

what! no East Coast dates south of New York

Yes! I loved that song "The Freshmen"

Weak, Bus, weak.

Okay I saw the show last night at the Warfield, and it absolutely was fantastic..
I would imagine they'll be back at some point in the year.

The absolute highlight was the last song, its new..
Someone youtubed it..
http://www.youtube.com/user/souvy7


Setlist..

A New Decade
Sonnet
This Is Music
Space and Time
Life's an Ocean
On Your Own
Weeping Willow
Sit and Wonder
The Rolling People
Velvet Morning
The Drugs Don't Work
Lucky Man
Come On

Encore
Bitter Sweet Symphony
New Song

Nice! The new song sounds interesting. Kind of like a symphonic version of Brown Sugar...

Pretty weak setlist. Their best work was their early singles and the first two albums.

They played to the recent fans for sure. But having never seen them live, I did enjoy hearing a lot of that stuff.

Yeah, I noticed the heavy reliance on Urban Hymns. I love that album as well, but nine songs out of fifteen from it? Then I see four songs from the second album, and I don't recognize Sit and Wonder. Not a single track from the first album or E.P. - not even Slide Away, which always seemed like a live favorite of theirs.

I wonder why they ignore Storm in Heaven so much. It was a great debut. I'd love to see them pull out something like See You in the Next One (Have a Good Time) at a show.

Edit: That sounds like more of a complaint than I intended. I'm glad to see them back together and making new music and I'd be happy to hear them play anything on this tour, or hopefully the next one.

Cool, I enjoyed Urban Hymns and checked out some of A Storm in Heaven and enjoyed it. Definitely cool news!

I think sit and Wonder was the other new song they sang.

It's from the Thaw Sessions I believe. At least it sounded familiar to me.

I don't have Storm in Heaven, got to get that I guess.


Live they reminded me a lot of the Stone Roses, the sound, the noise, and the ambience. Or at least Ian Brown, as I haven't seen the Stone Roses loud.

I saw Ashcroft open up for Coldplay. He played a lot of his own work so no one had any idea who he was. At one point I told my girlfriend, "That guy looks kinda like Richard Ashcroft!"

At one point I think the crowd gets a bit angry and just want Coldplay to come out (what? angry Coldplay fans?) and Richard gets miffed. And he goes to the end of the stage yelling at the person that's heckling him and says, "Do you know what it's like to write a classic? Do you?" and then he goes into "Bittersweet Symphony" and you see a thousand lightbulbs go off over the audience's heads.

Well, to be fair, the Rolling Stones needed the money.

being a witness to the last Stone Roses show loud wasn't an issue at all, Ian Brown's singing, or lackthereof, was.

I just heard the new song "Love is Noise" and I like it! I may have to pick up the album if the rest of it turns out as good.

Yeah that was the concert Closer. It Rocks excellently,

Here's the Video

The Verve - Love Is Noise
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