A Requiem of the Past
17-Apr-1995-
The Cliffs Pavilion _ Southend, UK
Start of the UK
and Paris Tour April '95. Supporting Oasis.
18-Apr-1995
- The Duchess of York _ Leeds, UK
20-Apr-1995
- The Bataclan _ Paris, FR
01-May-1995
- This Is Music uk
'This Is Music' is
The Stooges if they moved forward a couple of decades and moved from the
industrial hell hole of Detroit to the post-industrial hell hole of Wigan.
Except The Verve replace The Stooges' delicious nihilism with a searching,
yearning guitar rush. Good to have you back, space cadets." - MELODY
MAKER
It's taken an awfully
long time for them to return from America's hideous heartlands, though
the pleasure of this single and the imminent album will make it seem mere
moments. Beautiful, powerful and ludicrously necessary." - SPARK
"The Verve obviously
reckon that hotel-trashing bonding with Oasis is an easy ticket to the
top. They have, in the words of their frontman, 'mad' Richard, been 'on
the shelf too long'. Sadly for them, I rarely reach for the shelf marked
'aimless nodding' in my cupboard." - RASP
10-Jun-1995
- Preston Heineken Music Festival _ Preeston, UK
12-Jun-1995
- On Your Own uk
"….a mellow, meandering
song with big pretensions but no direction. The other tracks are even more
disappointing: 'I See The Door' is a messy acoustic song; 'Little Gem'
an unfocussed mess; 'Dance On Your Bones' over seven minutes of rambling
stoned indulgence." - NME
"….compelling although
maybe too laid back and cool to become a rel crossover hit." - MUSIC
WEEK
"Stonesy acoustic
bliss that sounds so authentic you can smell the skunk in the air. Brilliant."
- RAW
03-Jul-1995
- A Northern Soul uk
"Since the last album
we have spent two years playing music every night and that means you get
"This record's got
northern soul in it, stuck in a Welsh valley. We recorded twice as much
as we needed. It wasn't that the songs weren't good, we just didn't get
the magic when we recorded them…..we missed two or three of the best songs
so we'll go back and do them again. Get 'em right." - PETER SALISBURY
"Lyrically the whole
album is me asking myself who the fuck am I? Am I the guy in 'This Is Music',
standing tall in the world with these huge guitars around him like the
king of rock 'n' roll, or am I the guy in 'A Northern Sou'l who's wasted
and desperate, or am I the guy in 'On Your Own', who's in between life
and death, or am I the guy in' Life's An Ocean' imagining the future and
buying feelings from a vending machine, am I this future shock guy? But
I'm all of them, you see. It's dangerous to fracture your personality too
much, but that's what it was." - RICHARD ASHCROFT
"On this triumphant
second album, these four Wigan lads return in a swirling, tortured, cloud
of Doors-ish psychedelia. Richard Ashcroft's soft, druggy drawl twists
round spacey guitar lines and blurred distortion, while the pain of the
gentle 'On Your Own' disturbs and sticks in your mind." - GQ
"As befits their
recent titular addition - the US jazz label Verve objected to the unprefixed
moniker - 'The' Verve are suddenly the definite article." - Q
"Global domination?
Maybe next time, chaps. Maybe next time…." - NME
"…..'Soul' doesn't
flow with the seamless cadences that marked their debut, especially
"…..the way the whole
lot hangs together as a complete journey puts 'A Northern Soul' ahead of
most albums you'll hear this year…..it'll still be blazing your synapses
for many months to come." - SELECT
Back
to the top?
18-Sep-1995
- History uk
"Hands up those who
like The Verve, what's that, about three, no maybe four or even five. To
be honest, The Verve were the most overrated thing since Christianity.
Both are based on men with long straggly hair and both will never come
back." - STRATHCLYDE TELEGRAPH
"History is a startling
finale, all dashed hopes and kaleidoscopes. And as the summer fades into
memory, truly a song to begin the end of the year with." - NME
"They arrive
on stage to David Essex's 'Rock On'….The smattering of new material they
play - "This Is Music' and 'No Knock On My Door' in particular - reveal
a new-found edge. They're more garage-born than the songs on their debut,
'A Storm In Heaven' - guitars riff, the bass pile-drives through the crowd
and the ghosts of The Stooges, The Doors and Thee Hypnotics are all ceremonially
invoked. An evening of rare pleasure in an otherwise unremarkable city."
- MELODY MAKER
"…..appearing
in front of a worryingly partisan audience and delivering an astonishing
performance that rises to a brilliantly fitting apex. At the close of 'Come
On', Richard retreats from the microphone, stares into the middle distance
and yells 'rock 'n' roll is alive in Paris!' Two hours later…..bad karma
strikes. Guitarist Nick McCabe, wishing only to rejoin his band in their
dressing room, is punched downstairs by one of the neanderthal security
officials…..He's broken one of his precious fingers, scuppering The
Verve's British
tour….." - NME
The rest of the
tour is postponed and rearranged.
This Is Music, Let
The Damage Begin, You And Me
Single: Label: HUT
RECORDINGS. UK Chart : 35. Formats: UK Cat #: HUTT54 : 12" Single Released
01/05/95 UK Cat #: HUTCD54 : CD Single Released 01/05/95, UK Cat #: HUT54
: 7" Single Released 01/05/95, Non UK Cat #: HUTDE54 : CD Single Released
THE VERVE HEADLINE
A FREE FESTIVAL IN PRESTON'S AVENHAM PARK. SUPPORT FROM POWDER, PURESSENCE
& BLAMELESS.
A fine performance to a sizeable crowd on a dull evening. One fool lobbed
a bottle at Richard in mid-song and Richard stopped to let the guy know
he was less than impressed. Security stepped in to drag the guy (who at
this point realised he'd bitten off more than he could chew) away. Needless
to say, he didn't want to go and it was an amusing spectacle to see about
six security blokes trying - with difficulty as the guy must have weighed
250 lbs - to pull him out of the crowd.
On Your Own, I See
The Door, Little Gem, Dance On Your Bones
Single: Label: HUT
RECORDINGS. UK Chart : 28. Formats: UK Cat #: HUT55 : 7" Single Released
12/06/95 UK Cat #: HUTC55 : Cassette Single Released 12/06/95 - Deleted
21/06/96, UK Cat #: HUTCD55 : CD Single Released 12/06/95
A New Decade, This
Is Music, On Your Own, So It Goes, A Northern Soul, Brainstorm Interlude,
Drive You Home, History, No Knock On My Door, Life's An Ocean, Stormy Clouds,
Stormy Clouds (Reprise)
Album: Label: HUT
RECORDINGS. UK Chart : 13. Formats: UK Cat #: HUTLP27 : 2 x 12" LPs Released
03/07/95 UK Cat #: HUTMC27 : Single Play Cassette Released 03/07/95 UK
Cat #: CDHUT27 : CD Album Released 03/07/95 UK Cat #: DGHUT27 : CD Album
Released 03/07/95 - Deleted 04/07/96
a lot better." -
NICK McCABE
earlier on. The
thick strings that flush out the edges on several tracks are nowhere near
as
cool as the horn
trio that supplied an adjunct environment on 'Storm'. Nonetheless, with
music
that can drift from
puffy clouds and cool breezes to thunderclaps and stirring gusts, 'Soul'
only
falls one breath
short of aural ecstasy." - SAN FRANCISCO WEEKLY
18-Jul-1995
- Slims _ San Francisco, CA, US<
THE 'CONQUERING
AMERICA' TOUR, SUPPORT FROM HUM
"The Verve
hypnotise the audience with their laid-back but epic rock. Dramatic, swirling
chords pulsate as singer Richard Ashcroft prowls the stage. ….Insolent
and indolent, their compositions can be wearing on record but in live performance
they really shine." - THE OBSERVER
History (Radio Edit),
Back On My Feet Again, On Your Own (Acoustic), Monkey Magic (Brainstorm
Mix), History, Grey Skies, Life's Not A Rehearsal
Single: Label:
HUT RECORDINGS. UK Chart : 24. Formats: UK Cat #: HUTCD59 : CD Single Released
18/09/95, UK Cat #: HUTC59 : Cassette Single Released 18/09/95 - Deleted
21/06/96, Non UK Cat #: HUTDE59 : CD Single Released, UK Cat #: HUTDX59
: CD Single Released 18/09/95, UK Cat #: HUTCDP59 : CD Single (Promo) Released
- Deleted, UK Cat #: HUTCDP59 : CD Singgle (Promo) Released - Deleted
History: released
on two CD's
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