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Caught Live: The Verve














A few things you should know about The Verve, for those not familiar with this phenomenal recently-reformed indie rock band, who got the Roundhouse audience chucking pints over themselves with glee.

First up, kooky frontman Richard Ashcroft taught Stone Rose Ian Brown all he knows about weird punchy swaying dancing, and everything Oasis singer Liam Gallagher knows about swagger.

Oasis even wrote Cast No Shadow about Richard on their hit second album (What's The Story) Morning Glory?

Fomerly known as Mad Richard, Mr Ashcroft has carved a niche for himself in the rock firmament as a latter-day Syd Barrett, only without actually going bonkers and hiding in a semi in Cambridge.

And the thing is, Richard ruled with his psychedelic rock and stage presence that hasn't been seen since the Stone Roses were still viable.

What the Verve do, and always did, is build a bridge from the UK's experimental shoegazing scene to its jaunty tunes of Britpop.

All right, The Verve sometimes have a lack of tunes, but they make up for that with sheer noise.
The Verve always specialised in squally, feedback-laden guitar licks, coupled with an appreciation of psychedelia bred with top tunes that few bands held true at the time.

And this was what stunned. And thank God for that. The elegiac Bittersweet Symphony made your reviewer cry with its swelling beauty, and old Verve favourite and rarely-played History made my gig buddy boo-hoo too.

This was epic indie rock that never failed to please.

SET LIST
This Is Music
Space And Time
Gravity Grave
Weeping Willow
Life's An Ocean
Sonnet
Sit And Wonder
Velvet Morning
Already There
Stormy Clouds
Let The Damage Begin
On Your Own
Rolling People
The Drugs
Don't Work
Bittersweet Symphony

ENCORE
A Northern Soul
History
Lucky Man
Come On
Man Called Sun

Source: www.sundaymirror.co.uk

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