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- The Verve - live at the London Astoria, four songs, as broadcast on "The Beat" Monday October 25th 1993. I recorded this using a Nicam Hifi VHS VCR, recording at SP, onto TDK EHG videotape. Tape archive number 691. Additional songs were broadcast on different editions of this show. Set list as follows
00:02 Star Sail
04:08 Slide Away
08:08 Virtual World
14:10 Blue
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I know it must be hard work. But is there a chance of a Chicago Metro or Frankfurt remaster?
@@floytron5924 I have neither show, so no chance of a remaster by me
Thank you SO MUCH for the excellent audio - made my week.
THIS is why i fell in love with this band! Thank you for sharing this!
Such an original band. Can't compare them to any bands that had been before them. Don't sound like The Doors or Pink Floyd (as one journalist said they did!) In a league of their own. Love all their albums
Verve at their uppermost peak. Forget Urban Hymns, Storm in Heaven was their absolute masterpiece
A Northern Souls was the best of their two worlds tbh, it was a nice balance between urban hymns and storm in heaven
@@luna-tick5554 Shows how great The Verve were everyone is debating between these three albums.
A northern soul is my favourite then a storm, then urban hymns and finally the pile of Verve lite shite known as forth. Still 3 works of art out of 4 isn't too shabby
Im absolutely agree. This is their best album of them, every song is a pure gem.
One of the greatest albums ever
Watching early Verve is like watching videos of a dead relative. You love to see them but they also pain you because you know they are gone.
one of the best bands ever
I no what Iram they have get back
Bull with horns
Brilliant days...not a fking mobile phone in sight and a band you could believe in.
England's response to grunge music, it has that english sensibility and atmosphere. Great moment for this band!!
Thanks for watching and commenting.
To all Brits watching and commenting here: 1993 is the year I first put my feet on England soil.
And despite I fully ignored, back then, a band this huge was on the scene, I remember you could feel it in the air by simply walking along London streets.
What a time to be there...
Forever grateful to you, mates.
Greetings from Italy.
Thanks for watching and commenting Stefano
It must have been something unreal. Lucky you 😊
93 - still great times musically here! Rather have that Italy weather now though 🙂
One last decade where we gazed at the sky and looked for heroes before the world went to hell. 🔥🎸
❤
Ain’t that the God damn truth
Yep.
i love the early stuff of the verve, sound so psychedelic
Me too!
Huge amount of sound for one guitar player.
Nick McCabe is a genius guitarist
its very Edge
@@ben-ow3ow nope, its very robin guthrie
@@lexoz3923 can't argue with that one bro ☮
@@ben-ow3owmore like fripp
Favorite era of The Verve... sooo freaking magical.
Absolutely
The early 90's when music was the drug
drugs were also involved
nothing in the early 90's, or the 90's in whole, touched that record.
But the drugs did help.
Also, heroin. Heroin was definitely the drug.
Well yeah...and the drugs
1993 "Storm In Heaven" Verve is the BEST Verve. I have worn this goddamn record out over the years. As Courtney Taylor-Taylor from the Dandy Warhols called it, "gooey comedown music for the cocoon of the morning after." Undefeated.
I've watched this video about 1000 times now 😅 Nick McCabe is a wizard 🧙♀️
Thanks for watching so many times 🙂
@@ScottishTeeVee Thanks for posting this gold!
Nick McCabe channeling sounds from the heavens. What tremendous talent.
Back when the Verve could put on a genuinely mesmeric, transcendental live experience that harkened to the days of psychedelia. Few bands were as potent in the early 1990s.
00:02 Star Sail
04:08 Slide Away
08:08 Virtual World
14:10 Blue
tyx for so g list ❤😊
Legend
Music like this made me glad to be alive, after the end of the eighties that slid into the crap of Stock Aiken and Waterman.... and then the Stone Roses, the Verve, came knocking and the world made sense again. English music was alive and well. The indie-rock wave washed in and we didn't just slip slide away, we surfed on it. Hearts alive again!
Nick's one of the only cats that I can hear play and immediately I'm excited about guitar music again. He is to an ES-355, a Strat, a Les Paul and a Space Echo what Bill Evans was to a Grand Piano.
@@KaiWatson he is the true heart of the verve
The best album from the 1990s and one of the best rock albums of all time, can't say enough good things about these guys.... This was them at their peak!
I can be pretty confident of my memory because I didn't really drink or take drugs back then; my first experience of The Verve was Lollapalooza in the summer of 1994 in Barrie, ON, Canada. The weather was dreary: cloudy, humid, hot, rainy, etc... The Verve took to the second stage and seemingly sonically blasted the clouds away with Slide Away. Splits in the clouds appeared and the sun rays burst through. It was an angelic, otherworldly experience. I was hooked forever. The 90's ruled.
Here I am, yet again watching this video. A reminder that 'A Storm in Heaven' is a masterpiece, and that at this time Verve were absolutely unsurpassable live.
Thanks for returning to watch again and again, I do appreciate it🎸
Singer thinks he’s mick
Jagger
Don’t get carried away with the word unsurpassable
@@TheAdArchivenah he's just high
@@TheAdArchive😂😂😂 really.
wish it was. 93 now.. what a amaazing time...
This is from another planet - how privileged we were to have true artists of this calibre in the 90's
Verve at their absolute prime, no-one could touch them at this point. 17 minutes you don't want to end.
By the time I got into them they had went tits up, the first two albums are like nothing else and was so glad they did a final tour. Ashcroft solo was also unreal back then, especially embarrassing Oasis at Old Trafford Cricket Ground by being 10000 times better. Check out their Paris sessions for more genius.
So true, I've never known a band fall from greatness so much.
@@stevenjamesmoss Fam, their songs after this era were just as great as these were. The quality is the same, just different type of sounds.
I don’t care what issues they have between each other, Ashcroft can’t deny how much McCabe brings to the table. This is incredible, atmospheric and unique.
I Love both in their own rights, but you have to appreciate their musical chemistry. It’s majestic, they shouldn’t be trying to erase each other.
All members of this band gel so well, each playing a pivotal role.
Can’t forget the amazing rhythm section of Jones and Salisbury, just gorgeous grooves throughout.
It’s a shame they couldn’t keep their differences aside because when together, they light the room up.
Euphoric Stuff.
Yes McCabe is simply a master of atmospheric guitar. I think we can safely call him a genius of the craft. I've never seen this footage before--man this is astoundingly good! And agreed on the rhythm section, gorgeous grooves indeed. Ashcroft is excellent too! I wore out Urban Hymns--all of those incredible songs and Rolling People, the playing of McCabe in that jam in that is otherworldly! But so is this set!
Marcus I've worn out 4 copies of urban hymns !!!!!!!!
@@soundbelch1600 i have to disagree about R.A's voice. In fact, it was his voice AND lyrics that got me into Verve in the 1st place, not McCabe's guitar playing. You can't deny how much his voice brings to the table. I have never heard more raw, distinct voice in my life.
@@soundbelch1600 i agree,actually🤣. There was an organic sound when all 4 of them got together. It all just WORKED. I still wonder tho what happened between them? For some reason it seems that Richard has some sort of moral obligation not to reveal it.
@@soundbelch1600 have you heard of U2? Still together
I have no idea what I did for the algorithm to randomly bless me with this recommendation, but wow. They are fucking amazing in this performance and I want the 90s back now.
Thanks for watching and commenting Katrin 🙂
me too ❤😊
Me too 😂🎉❤
The glory years for me...There were so many different sounds bubbling away in the background in 1991-1995. I took it all for granted, naturally!
Thanks for watching and commenting
He thought he was bigger than the band , but it was the band that created the sound ,
Very true
I was at this concert. Truly one of the best night for me seeing live music!
You lucky fella
@@ScottishTeeVee definitely! I was a college kid and had never heard of The Verve. Became a lifelong fan after that night!
@@dyerardi6 Oh you even luckier fella, going to a gig with no expectation, to have your life changed. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Despite their later success this was the height of the Verve IMO. Amazing sonically and visually. Just a great band.
A Northern Soul for me just pipped A Storm in Heaven. Utterly sublime.
Storm in Heaven is a complete Masterpiece
Thanks for watching and commenting Tony
I love his crazy antics and the demented guitar soundz!!!❤❤❤❤
nick mccabe is a top tier guitarist
I have know idea why they were never huge in the US. They were just as good as ANY band in america at the same time i.e. Nirvana, RHCP, STP, Pearl Jam......
@@kennithchapman9689IMO the guitarist is influenced by SHOEGAZE. I believe that for this reason the band doesn't sound pop enough to compete with the bands you mentioned.
The best
Nick is SO good, it would be insulting to him if his name is mentioned in the same breath as other "famous" guitar players. His playing is awe-inspiring.
@@winterposies8420 I dream his pallet of sound. People talk about this and that concerning texture and tone, McCabe is a facet in time that’s eternal
They were all 21-22 years old at this point... This band was bursting with talent and energy and I can only think of Suede as their equals in this era of British rock.
That said, no other band had the power to take me to some other place quite as Verve did... Slide away indeed. Brilliant stuff!
Nick's guitar playing is Ethereal. I'm still to hear anyone that gets near his unique tone.
Definitely an innovator of some of today’s indie music
Yeah he has so much feeling..taste in his playing.
absolutely
Richard Ashcroft said the first time he met him he was walking down a corridor at college and he heard this alien otherworldly sound coming through a door and he looked in and it was Nick playing a guitar and that was that!
The noise McCabe can/could get from a guitar is no of this planet,so underrated.Wish they had worked together more/sorted shit out
1993 my first daughter was born. (3 more after!). Richard, Nick & the Verve were always in the background. Still listening today...Richard reminds me of early Genesis Peter Gabriel
Four girls, I hope you brainwashed them all into being fans of The Verve
@@ScottishTeeVee 2 girls, 2 boys!
Despite being from Texas and American “alternative” music ruling the airwaves here. I loved the things coming out of the UK so much more. Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, the Verve, Pulp, Suede, Stereophonics, Massive Attack so much good music.
oasis , blur, stereolab , Portishead. That one group radio something.,, lots of nineties English artists that were huge in the states.
Obviously the bands you just mentioned were extremely popular, I was referring to the ones that were known for a single hit but had much more than that.
Early Ride stuff was and still is epic. Check out Leave them all behind from the 1992 album Going Blank Again, hell that album oozes class.
^5!!!
@@TamingTheSprue hey millenial welcome to the smash hits from the uk the verve was only a small portion of the whole deal let alone the greater bands
Storm In Heaven is truly the masterpiece for this band. So lush, emotive, psychedelic, and nicely textured. This band manages to be overrated for Urban Hymns while at the time underrated for this gem - top tier debut album.
I love this music. I would drive thru the Illinois farmland and listen to Storm in Heaven ... it was unbelievable peaceful, a religious experience for me.
lucky bastard, Dave boulder CO USA
Amazing mate.
I’ve done the same thing in NJ and England. I want to try driving across the plains or over the Rockies, or riding down the PCH. Religious experience wherever you get to listen to this.
Same, i don’t wanna be pot oriented. But this album, when u are stoned. It’s a spiritual trip!
I dig that 👌😎💯
This is terrific footage of a terrific band. Listening to the Verve just gets better with age. But BOY it makes me ache for the 90s...
The Verve supported Smashing Pumpkins at Nottingham's Rock City, also 1993. Billy Corgan once stated that gig was his personal favourite.
Wow really? I was there! I loved both bands but the Verve were untouchable at this time (imho).
@@duckrabbit6122 It was the only gig on the tour where Pumpkins played Siamese Dream all the way through. Excellent gig.
@@simoncardie9371 Hey THANKS for the reply Simon. It was an incredible gig. I've seen so many at Rock City but alongside Wilco that was the greatest.
@@duckrabbit6122 I agree. It was a great gig. I also saw Tool's best gigs at Rock City. First supporting Fishbone, then again on their own tour. Eels and Supergrass were another couple of blinders.
I saw that tour when it came to the Barrowlands in Glasgow. Truly immense
Verve before they became The Verve.
Richard looks like an Angel!
love this stuff. It is odd I only heard Urban Hymns and Richards solo stuff up until now. I missed an important cog in that incredible music machine.
ahhh, remember the days of no smartphones at gigs, bliss.
That spacey guitar sound fills up the entire space...awesome
Indeed 👍
Slide away, fantastic piece of music. 👏
we dont get music like this anymore
Around this time Verve simply were the best band in the world...
The Brits do it best 🤟. What a rock solid band
The sound is massive. Didn’t appreciate how good they were live.
I think that most people who have heard The Verve only for there hit singles, would not recognise this as their sound, but to me this is way better than the stuff that hit the charts.
I have watched The Verve's Glastonbury 2008 set so many times , I always thought the old " you should hear their early stuff " couldn't apply to these people..... but ...Oh My God !!!!
One of the best bands ever. Nick is a guitar genius
I was at this gig. It was a compendium gig night for The Beat tv show at The Astoria. The Wonder Stuff headlined and Swervedriver played as well. Swervedriver were flucking awesome. I totally regret not paying enough attention to The Verve tho…I remember Richard walking on stage all hands in the air like a messiah greeting his disciples. I also remember Swervedrivers Adam Franklin was stood by the stairs watching their set. That’s about as good as my memory serves me. Nick McCabe is a genius tho.
You are one of the few who ever attended the Beat concerts, thank you for commenting and sharing the memories.
How on earth could you get up for the Wonder Stuff singing the Size of a Cow after listening to this amazing Verve set beforehand?!!
My, were you lucky. What a show for the ages!
Saw them in a tiny club in Sacramento during this time frame. Like seeing a young Rolling Stones with a completely different sound. Ashcroft and McCabe were simply brilliant.
that guitar,,,, that guitar,,,,,my goddd
Fantastic isn't it, listen with good headphones and it's just jaw dropping.
Yeh nobody sounded like Nick McCabe did in the early years of Verve, truly elemental... I always thought 'A Storm in Heaven' was more than just an album title, but a perfect description for his guitar sound!
I saw this tour in LA. "A Storm In Heaven" is a crowning achievement. Possibly the best shoegaze and British release of that year.
Were they really considered Shoegaze? I mean, I didn’t know they were really in that mix being from America. Being a fan of my bloody valentine, lush and ride in the early to mid 90s I can clearly see it and hear it but I only knew bittersweet sympathy until like two weeks ago. I’m a serious crate digger it’s just that I didn’t look deep into their catalog of being as though I’m in so many different styles of music and got to cover American hip-hop rhythm and blues British rock and everything else I just overlooked the verve and had no idea that biggest album in America from what I’m hearing now is far from their best. The first two albums have completely completely completely blown me away this week and I’m starting to believe that they did blow Smashing Pumpkins off the stage when they toured with them in 1993 😮.
@@williamperri3437, Yes, they definitely were considered shoegaze, especially this album.
@@williamperri3437 Listen to "A Storm In Heaven" and tell me that that's not shoegaze music.
@@dougtull4594the sound was. But they weren't of the movement. The shoegaze (hate the term) was very much around Oxford and more middle class bands. The Verve were from Wigan and distinctly Northern. They would not have considered themselves of that southern sound.
@@LaurentCourtinesNick Mccabe said that he liked and still likes what those bands were doing at the time. Dont know about the others
Saw Verve support Smashing Pumpkins at Newcastle Mayfair back in 93, great live band
Great double bill
Saw them at Rock City on the same tour, totally blew my mind!
Southampton guildhall pumpkins were bland
This was the first gig I ever went to. Absolutely amazing to see some of it again after such a long time. Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I don’t know how you could ever top this show
How was your head ever the same after that experience
Blessed
I just started Uni in the early 90’s and the indie scene hit. I miss these sounds and good times. Nothing today comes close
This is immense. Absolutely immense.
Totally immense.
What an electric performance. Richard looks like he’s on another planet.
Probably is on another planet in his eyes... drugs 😂
He was lol 😆
another dimension would be more accurate
Whoever was lucky enough to attend this concert - I will be forever envious :) what a legendary performance!
Thanks for watching and commenting
97 at the Warfield in San Fran blew my shit far far away
Definitely wish I had been there too from 🇺🇸 ❤❤❤this is superb ❤😊
@@ScottishTeeVeetyx for posting this great concert! New subscriber happy in 🇺🇸 cheers ❤❤❤❤😊😊
@@kathleensalazar5222 Hi Kathleen, thanks for Subscribing and commenting. Good to hear from a viewer in the USA 🙂
this is heaven, words cant even describe. these guys were so much more than bittersweet
Much much more!
A Northern Soul ! Enough said
@@silverpower6912 Stole what?
This is "A Storm In Heaven"
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@@silverpower6912 they didn't steal the song, Allen Klein allowed them to use the sample. then changed his mind when the song / band took off.
This is music....
theres something about this group that's quite unique+ ethereal....and beautiful....and DEEP/I'm THERE...all the way there....shear BLISS/just BLISS .....
Listened to A Storm in Heaven prolly 1000 times. So freakin good!!!
Saw these guys at Lollapalooza in Pennsylvania just a few months before this was filmed. They were absolutely stunning live. A sound you could truly wallow in.
u so lucky😊
I always finsd myself homing in on Simons Bass lines... he just rolls that Bass as 'smooth as butter melting off a hot knife' ! just incredible...
the first time i saw them in LA all i could feel was the bass going through my body....it was awesome !!!
well i think in bands like this, the bass is essentially what carries the melody...guitar is weaving layers of texture in a soundscape kinda way, but the bass is the anchor providing the melody...
Yes, but it's the guitar that projects the butter all over you until you melt
I heard this on a TV show years ago. They only used the intro and the bass. I went looking for it, and it’s the only thing I can hear. I have the same problem with JPJ in Ramble On. 😊
@@neilus That and some great drumming!! (Slide Away... WOW!)
Nick McCabe.....he's up there with Jimmy Page, for me, anyway. Best British guitar band that I have heard from that era. And since. McCabes guitar like waves smashing on the rocks. Pure. Beautiful.
beautifully stated ...quite a unique soundscape created here by the VERVE...let it take you to some other realm of existence
jimmy page is not on par.
there are greats and then there are those who are force fed.
Love this. Real early 90's vibe. Brilliant guitar, bass and vocal. Good old VHS as well, Love the quality.
Glad you enjoyed it!
The Verve were hands down, the best band of the 90’s. they could do everything.
psychedelic jams, ballads, pop songs and absolute rockers. no one can come close.
This is music !!!!
Really proper music . These guys are fkn legends and McCabe 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
incredible recording quality
Glad you liked it Kev
What a band. Love The Verve forever
me too❤😊
Can't believe I even saw this Couldn't absorb it even then .... fkin amazing x
Storm in heaven.makes you drift away to heaven.
Thanks for watching and commenting Derek
Simply outstanding!
0:02 Starsail
4:07 Slide Away
8:08 Virtual World
14:06 Blue
tyx for listing song 🎵 titles ❤
God’s favourite guitarist
Happy the guitar came through so nicely on the VHS
I can't go 24 hrs without watching and listening to The Verve!
me too ❤😊
conceived in a chrome dream, I was a crease in the shirt that this world wears
I still get butterflies listening to this.
Quiet and peaceful and then dipping so quickly into violent noise.
So good.
They influenced black rebel motorcycle for sure. Thanks for uploading and sharing.
Thank You, for watching and taking the time to comment
TOO BAD BRM SUCKS AND IS LAME
@@PonySueTheRainbowWitch 😥
I've seen so many bands live, so many great shows... I still have one huge regret. I never saw Verve live. My music taste didn't shift to rock and roll till my mid twenties in 2004 time and it just never happened. Think I'll always regret that.
Blue is one of a kind. Original rock from a time forgotten. Would love to see Richard play some of these gems again.
I love this album so much. Beautiful. Blue is a masterpiece too, they all are.
2022 still the best
Easily a top 10 rock album of all time
Watching only MTV videos as reference back in the day I had no idea they were this good before breakthrough
The Verve is one of the best bands of this era or of all time either way. I just really miss seeing bands play this good.
I had only known the Verve's more popular Urban Hymns and Northern Soul era songs. These early songs are the Verve's best. Simply amazing!
So glad you enjoyed this, thanks for commenting
Man this sound reminds me of Spacemen 3. So trippy and jammy
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I LOVE the PURITY of this ......a rare performance indeed!
absolutely 💯 ❤😊
A very different Verve to the Urban Hymns era, and much better, in my opinion. The noise that just one guitarist can make here is incredible. The 3-chord ballad stuff was where Ashcroft wanted to go and it didn't sit very well with the others, particularly Nick McCabe, and was a contributing factor to their numerous splits.
Had they continued like this, then they would be massive, I gave up on them when they went to the ballad stuff.
bummer, who's the 🔥 🥵 blond guitarist name? looks familiar tyx
@@ScottishTeeVeebummer they were still great!
RPA....Greatest songwriter of our generation. No equal. ❤
Thanks for watching and commenting Allan🙂
Miss this time period...
So, so good. This album is such a trip. It's one of my favourite driving soundtracks.
A sample of a true masterpiece…thanks for the post
This is a band at the peak of their powers. Unbelievable performance.
Keep coming back to this again and again, my favourite period of The Verve.
Thanks for returning, glad you enjoy it so much
Classic The Verve is at the top of music. Storm in Heaven is big stuff.
You mean Verve then :)