Verve Reunites!

First the Spice Girls announce reunion plans - now The Verve are back together. Tha Mayor is in a 90's British-Invasion HEAVEN! 'Tiswas, here we come!

According to a post on the group's newly launched Web
site (http://www.theverve.tv/), Richard Ashcroft, Nick
McCabe, Simon Jones and Pete Salisbury were in a
London studio last week laying down tracks for the
album, which will be completed in the fall.

The Verve will then return to the stage for six U.K.
shows in November: November 2-3 at Glasgow's Academy,
November 5-6 at Blackpool's Empress Ballroom and
November 8-9 at London's Roundhouse. It appears
guitarist/keyboardist Simon Tong, who was last heard
from in the Good, the Bad and the Queen, is sitting
out the reunion.

The Verve rose to fame internationally in the early
'90s with a sound psychedelic enough for adventurous
listeners but palatable to commercial radio as well.
Internal tensions finally splintered the band in the
wake of 1997's U.S. breakthrough "Urban Hymns," which
has sold 1.34 million copies, according to Nielsen
SoundScan, and spawned the megahit "Bittersweet
Symphony."

Ashcroft has since released three solo albums but has
frequently played Verve songs in his live sets.