Brian Vander Ark’s opinions of his band’s most famous song have changed over time. When he wrote The Verve Pipe’s “The Freshmen” as a young man in the ‘90s, the song came from a place of real pain and ...

Rewind (no this is not that Craig David track with Artful Dodger) back to the nineties. Known as the naughty nineties, but the music was scene was set for Brit Pop and even the Spice Girls. Now we are ...

Alternate Tracklist is our new series where we take an album and rework its tracklist into a new Spotify playlist. For our first one, we have reworked The Verve’s 1997 classic third album, Urban Hymns ...

The Verve were many different bands across a stop-start career but the one thing they never were was boring. If you thought Oasis endured a turbulent ride, then wait until you dive into the history of ...

The singer told Radio 2’s Chris Evans the song expresses a kind of freedom. The freedom of comfortability in a meaningful relationship—beyond what he calls the “peacock” dance of early love. But how ...

If you don’t happen to know a hit song and fire up the Shazam app to figure it out, know there’s a musician who won’t shame you for it. Richard Ashcroft, the lead singer of British band The Verve, was ...

The Verve song 'The Drugs Don't Work' has been determined as the saddest song ever written, according to a scientific expert. Dr. Harry Witchell has carried out research and claimed that from a ...

The Verve have announced dates for a North American tour, their first in almost ten years. The band will play California's Coachella festival on April 25 before heading to Las Vegas the next day. They ...