Ask The Verve

Having sorted through thousands of submissions we can now reveal the Top 50 questions

1. When you are not playing music, what other activities in life do you enjoy?
2. Which was the first full song you played when you all came back together for the first time?
3. If you each had to pick one favourite Verve song, which would each of you choose?
4. Nick – What has driven the switch to Strats?
5. If you could live the life and have the career of another musician, who would it be?
6. I frequently refer to the first time I heard bitter sweet symphony as the moment I fell in love with music. Have any of you had any similar defining moments or influences?
7. What was your favourite memory of Glastonbury this year?
8. What is your favourite song to play live?
9. How come you’ve all still got such great haircuts?
10. Do you have to be in a band to have great hair?
11. Did you have to rehearse much for the tour last year, or did it all come back to you easily?
12. If Love is Noise, what noise best describes love?
13. If you could write and perform a song with anyone who would it be?
14. I’d like to ask you guys about the inspiration behind your fantastic early single and EP covers like She’s a Superstar, Gravity Grave, Slide Away and the awesome Blue and Storm in Heaven. They are great images, which as a teenager often made their way on to friend’s parkers and army bags etc!
15. I’d like to ask how many different pedals you used when recording Storm in Heaven to create those huge whirling sounds that totally propel you into another world?
16. If any band in history could cover a verve song, what band would you want it to be and what song would you want it to be?
17. What is the significance of the number 13 on Urban Hymns? (13 tracks, 13th track is 13 minutes long, album is exactly 76 minutes long – 7 plus 6 is 13)?
18. If love is noise, which is the noise of verve ten years after?
19. Where did the album name come from?
20. When putting the new album together did you start from scratch as a new band or did you have stuff left over from 10 years ago to use?
21. I have always wanted to know how your band got started. Like how did you all meet and become a band?
22. I was just wondering what it was like for you as a band when you started out in Wigan and which venues you played across the North West before you got signed?
23. What person in history has affected the world the most?
24. What is the greatest guitar chord?
25. If there was any gig you’ve ever played since you formed that could have gone on forever, which would it have been and why?
26. Since to me you guys are on my list as one of my SUPER BANDS of all time, if you all had super powers what would they be?
27. What influence does Wigan play, if it still does, in your music, attitude, and perception of the world?
28. Walking back on stage together after all that time apart for the first time. Was the response you got what you thought it would be, or better?
29. The Verve got back together for the joy of music, so respectively, for the four of you, what was the most fulfilling part of making Forth?
30. Prior to Verve, did you go by any other names?
31. If you had to pick three albums that were the pinnacle of your inspiration to be in a band and form your own unique sound, what would they be?
32. I’ve heard some great stories regarding the illusiveness of the Voyager 1 vinyls: like there were only 1000 printed and the boat sank from America that was carrying them!!! Can you shed some light on what happened to them all and how rare they actually are?
33. If you weren’t the best band in the world, who would be?
34. What was the first song you wrote together?
35. I wondered how you go about writing songs together. I know that some of the songs are written by Richard Ashcroft, but how do the more jam-based songs come together? Does one of you have an idea And bring that into the studio, or do you just start playing?
36. How do you feel about the digital space and the World Wide Web?
37. Long-time fans know the now infamous story of Owen Morris’ smashing of the studio glass window in a fit of ecstatic, and excited rage. Which of those amazing songs from that session prompted that moment of legendary Rock-and-Roll awesomeness?
38. Do you believe in magic?
39. Just wanted to know if the band had any advice for up and coming bands?
40. What song best represents The Verve and why?
41. What would Verve in 1992 make of The Verve in 2008?
42. If the band members were to have a movie about their lives, which actors would you want to portray you?
43. Three songs to go till the end of the gig and your memory blanks out all Verve songs. What three covers will you do?
44. When you’re writing new songs, lyrically, where do you get your inspiration?
45. I know the toilets at Coachella were disgusting, but could you seriously smell them from the stage?
46. Who came up with the imagery for the album and single artwork? They look amazing!
47. How do you think you and your music have changed?
48. Which Verve video do you each like the most?
49. You’ve been playing in quite a few different countries in your career – is there any specific difference in the audiences of different countries- for instance, Italy seemed to go particularly wild for Lucky Man at some stage?
50. Which bands are you currently listening to?

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