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Have The Verve broken up for a third time?

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  • 25-08-2009 2:12pm
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    BornToRun88
    Registered Users Posts: 399 ✭✭


    Does anyone know if the verve's reunion is over? I missed them at Oxegen last year. I hope they haven't split up. It's been rumoured in some places. It would be a pity, such a great band.


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    Stompbox
    Registered Users Posts: 1,811 ✭✭✭Stompbox


    They have yeah.


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    BornToRun88
    Registered Users Posts: 399 ✭✭BornToRun88


    Richard Ashcroft is preparing a new album so I guess they have. When he tours the new album I imagine he'll play some classics from the verve, after all he pratically wrote half of their best album 'urban hymns' by himself.


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    homerun_homer
    Registered Users Posts: 7,025 ✭✭✭homerun_homer


    The reunion was a self serving thing for Richard Ashcroft to boost his career once again. Those guys can't stand him and haven't talked to him in ages.


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    RodVelvet
    Registered Users Posts: 334 ✭✭RodVelvet


    Simon Jones and Nick McCabe have formed a new group called The Black Ships. I thought Forth was a fairly good album but it wasn't promoted at all by the band. I was hoping they would go on tour as I would like to see them live again. The boys seemed to be in the dark regarding a UK tour going by their myspace blogs at the time.

    It seems the reformation was a means to an end to revive Ashcroft's solo career. I hope his next solo album is a flop and his ego realised that solo he is not capable of the heights he reached whilst in the Verve. Apparently tensions began to show during some of the gigs they did play particularly between Richard and Nick as per usual. Hopefully if Ashcoft's solo album is a flop he might go back the the Verve and put in a full effort next time.


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    JerryHandbag
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    Have they really split though? My understanding was that it was just gonna be an alternation between Verve/Ashcroft solo albums from now on - that we would see more albums from The Verve, just not very frequently....every 4/5 yrs maybe... and Ashcroft solo records in between. I liked Forth in the end, it kind of grew on me.

    You just know they'll get back together again if they have split ;)


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