Watch a Verve interview in Windows, Real or Quicktime. In certain quarters, The Verve's wholly unexpected second reunion may well have made for the most anticipated album of the year. Die-hard ...

The drugs don’t work, they just make you worse”. The Verve song was stuck in my head as I drove away from a farmyard recently ...

The 13th track closes The Verve's 'Urban Hymns' with a mission statement: “Come On”. And unknown to many, it also features Liam Gallagher.

After all, for a certain kind of muso, The Verve lost it the moment they added the ‘The’. It may have been forced on them under legal duress, but suddenly their engaging one-syllable mystery was ...

All farewells should be sudden” declared the sleeve of The Verve’s 1995 single ‘History’, as the band chose to announce their first split in clear and uncompromising terms. Turned out ...

The Verve have always played on the tension between their laddish tendencies and their explorative impulses – the dominance of the former is, you suspect, why Nick McCabe split up the band ...

The Verve are an odd band, having become world-famous for two songs — Bitter Sweet Symphony and The Drugs Don't Work — that sound completely unlike the remarkably consistent sonic soup that ...

Fans have been reacting to the fact that The Verve have made new music exclusively available on NME.COM/verve. The band have made the first 14 minutes of music they created together after deciding ...

The Verve beat Robbie Williams's Angels for the title of saddest song, with Elton John's Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word coming third. Dr Witchel said: "Music is undeniably powerful at ...

Verve have this in them,” noted Andrew Smith, presciently, in Melody Maker in May 1993. “Maybe with the new LP, A Storm In Heaven , the doors are finally being broken down as far as expression on ...

EVER since The Verve announced their reformation in the summer, there’s been a large amount of cynicism surrounding their motives. Indeed, just over a year ago, in this very publication ...