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English Agenda
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Concerts
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Pop Music
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Rock
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Summercase 2008
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The classic Brit-pop band The Verve returned to touring last November and needed sold out notices for all their venues. This year, with a new album coming out (their first since '97) there is a new life about the group that, in under a decade, from their beginnings in 1990 to their break up in '99, managed to become one of the most influential bands in British music history. Richard Ashcroft, Nick McCabe, Simon Jones and Peter Salisbury formed The Verve under the influence of the shoegaze sound and dream pop. Ashcroft's charisma and their mix of epic and psychedelic pop quickly earned them a reputation. After two acclaimed albums, 'A Storm In Heaven' (1993), and 'A Northern Soul' (1995), The Verve achieved worldwide success with their third album, 'Urban Hymns' (1997) and tracks like 'Bitter Sweet Symphony', 'The Drugs Don't Work' and 'Lucky Man'. Eventual victims of their own excesses, the band broke up in 1999. Now considered to be one of the best things to have come out of brit-pop, their reappearance with a new album and a string of concert performances is one of the hottest music news stories of the year. Bittersweet Symphony
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