Artist
The Verve
The Verve is an alternative rock artist from Wigan, England formed in 1989. 24 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Alternative Rock · Wigan, England · Best alternative rock albums
- 24
- Releases
- 1991–2025
- Active years
- 1989
- Formed
Artist
The Verve is an alternative rock artist from Wigan, England formed in 1989. 24 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Alternative Rock · Wigan, England · Best alternative rock albums
Most popular
Urban Hymns
1997 · 12 tracks
Bitter Sweet Symphony
Single · 1997
The Drugs Don't Work
Single · 1997
Lucky Man
Single · 1997
Catching The Butterfly (Live)
Single · 2017
South Pacific (Sawmills Session / 2016 Remastered)
Single · 2016
King Riff (AKA This Is Music) (Loco Studio Session / 2016 Remastered)
Single · 2016
Shoeshine Girl (Sawmills Session / Remastered 2016)
Single · 2016
Rather Be
EP · 2008
Love Is Noise
Single · 2008
Sonnet
Single · 2003
History
Single · 1995
Verve EP
EP · 1992
All in the Mind
Single · 1992
The Verve were an English rock band formed in 1989 in Wigan by lead vocalist Richard Ashcroft, guitarist Nick McCabe, bass guitarist Simon Jones and drummer Peter Salisbury. The guitarist and keyboard player Simon Tong later became a member. Beginning with a psychedelic sound indebted to shoegazing and space rock, by the mid-1990s the band had released several EPs and three albums. It also endured name and line-up changes, breakups, health problems, drug abuse and various lawsuits. Filter referred to them as "one of the tightest knit, yet ultimately volatile bands in history". The band's commercial breakthrough was the 1997 album Urban Hymns, one of the best-selling albums in UK Chart history, and the single "Bitter Sweet Symphony", which became a worldwide hit. In 1998, the band won two Brit Awards-winning Best British Group, appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine in March, and in February 1999, "Bitter Sweet Symphony" was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Rock Song. Soon after this commercial peak, The Verve broke up in April 1999, citing internal conflicts. During an eight year split, Ashcroft dismissed talk of a reunion, saying: "You're more likely to get all fo…
