Despite reuniting for a new album, as well as festival appearances and various live shows this year, The Verve’s frontman Richard Ashcroft has confirmed that there is still “baggage” within the group which has meant that reuniting has not been all plain sailing.
“Obviously there’s baggage and things that you’ve got to sift through,” Ashcroft said. “It’s not some [romantic novel] ‘Mills And Boon’ scene running down the beach as the sun sets. But it is the case that these four people make a unique sound together.”
McCabe added: “All of us have grown up. We’ve had a lot of time to think about things, but hopefully we’re older and wiser, and it just seemed to me that I put a huge chunk of my life into this and there is no way that I would turn my back on it if there was ever a chance of it working again.”
Rumours that McCabe could no longer handle life on the road, as well as band members falling out, surrounded the second split up of the group in 1999.
By Chloe Trodden
