America was next. By September the single Slide Away was starting to make headway across the Atlantic and this set up the band for a gruelling round of appearances on 1994's Lollapalooza spectacle. Touring on such a scale can do things to a band. You improve but people crack, furniture goes out of windows and arrests are made (it was a bad year legally, not only did Pete find himself in a Kansas jail but the band formally known as Verve found themselves forced to adopt the The at the behest of the irate jazz label's lawyers). But you live and learn and they headed out to Europe in August for more festival hi-jinx and hotel illness.  It was almost the end of an ever crazy year, and a smashing debut.