The Verve Calls it Quits, Again
Breaking Up The Verve is Not Hard to Do, Maybe Fourth Time Will be the Charm
As reported by British tabloid The Daily Mirror, The Verve has broken up. Again. Having broken up after 1995 sophomore album A Northern Soul and again after 1997’s Urban Hymns, the official score is three breakups to four studio albums.
Despite their most recent reformation and the release of last summer’s Fourth, The Daily Mirror indicates (and The Guardian also reports) that this time, it might be for good. An unnamed source tells the The Daily Mirror newspaper, “As far as Nick [McCabe] and Simon [Jones] are concerned The Verve no longer exists…they think Richard [Ashcroft] was just using the reunion as a vehicle to get his solo career on track.”
While Ashcroft is busy in his solo endeavors, Pitchfork reports that the other two-thirds of The Verve have begun work on a new project called The Black Ships, which—not surprisingly—Pitchfork likens to an “early Verve.”
With any luck the fourth reformation will be a charm and The Verve will reform again in a few years to record their fifth album.
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