The Verve: Glastonbury 1993 (Full Performance)

The Verve recorded live at Glastonbury Festival 27-6-1993. The full performance (minus Blue and Gravity Grave).
FM broadcast quality, 320kbps
Setlist:
00:00 - Star Sail
4:10 - Slide Away
8:25 - Virtual World
14:12 - The Sun, The Sea
21:02 - Make It Till Monday

[@bargepoled]

Nick Mcabe was and still is one of the greatest guitarist this country has ever seen. He was 22 at this gig.!

[@markbarrett4440]

McCabe is a fantastic guitarist, he can summon up crystalline snowscapes and bloodsoaked fields of feedback with a flick of a footpedal, only a musician with total mastery of his instrument can do this.

[@michaelcraddock8579]

Absolute master of those footpedals made Oasis sound very very dated.

[@willritter4076]

and the dude kept such a low profile that it was just nuts... has he done anything outside the Verve?

[@bargepoled]

@@willritter4076 yes.

[@tarunpanchal7224]

Kiss these people

[@MsLuKrezia]

I was there, those were days when music sounded so bloody magic... He sang barefoot, long haired, very very skinny, total black dressed, he was so suffered and intense, simply beautiful. They played at the sunset of a brilliant hot day, the sky was like indaco and i moved towards stage attracted from their music, didn.t know who were the Verve before Glastonbury, but their music touched my soul and i still love them since that unforgettable festival.Thank you for sharing

[@MrWayout74]

As I recall it was miday after The Adorable, cloudy and not a sunset in sight. Did you see The Pistols at the Lesser Free Trade Hall in Manchester too?

[@tompoole007]

MsLuKrezia mc escher devils and angles :)

[@lebroy1196]

Agree, I saw them play in 95 when McCabe's amp stopped working. They were on mid afternoon in 95, so there is no way they played at sunset in 93

[@Mantis74]

Im assuming your unaware of the footage that blows your fairy tale wide open. Cloudy and he's wearing shoes, not all in black. The music was fucking glorious, no mistake there.

[@Mantis74]

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[@faunoram]

NICK McCABE burning the sky with his guitar !! 🔥

[@paolo-n2000]

The Verve are truly one of the all-time great bands! Nick McCabe guitars, Ashcroft vocals, best rhythm section with Pete and Simon...Come On!!!

[@wonderpope]

Absolutely agree! People like to point out only one of these aspects...but the magic lies in the combo of the 3 (or 4 if you want to separate Pete and Simon).

[@textcentric]

Always loved the Verve but my appreciation has grown since watching videos of them playing live. The bass player is amazing - the groove he lays down. And the drummer... rock solid!

[@markbarrett4440]

Saw VERVE supporting Smashing Pumpkins at Leeds 1993. Left with one muthafucka of a headache. Still one of the best gigs of my life, so far.....

[@michaelfunke8813]

Saw the same tour in Stockholm. Both bands were great, but Verve were outstanding.

[@folkiebassplayer7366]

Saw them on the same tour at Nottingham, I left in a state of shock, both bands were astounding. It was the night I fell in love with music again after an 8 year break.

[@hux2000]

Back in the days when they were just Verve - no "the". And that's who they'll always be to me. Legends, all of them!

[@Fvkhh]

Verve were Verve..a league of their own in the early days..

[@donaldvarley1700]

I no longer attempt to put words to describe, explain, appreciate, compare...there are no words to convey the sound Nick McCabe produces. His genius is beyond language.

[@WSUGLUE]

Totally agree.

[@simonruckes]

Goosebumps. Was there. 24 years old & so much of life ahead of me.

[@tonysproule3408]

Sir McCabe the greatest guitarist this generation has ever seen!

[@Saybleu]

Thank you!!!! Tony you know🎸

[@kevinross2515]

wow!!!! Urban Hymns was the first Verve album I heard and it was a brilliant but the best thing about that album is it made me want to hear their early stuff... its just on a different level to any thing else I've heard. The guitar sends shivers up my spine. This is music!!!

[@sperlst]

well for them Drugs definitely worked... after that, every else is just crap

[@admi908]

greatest band ever

[@sneakynicknamewils9190]

great taste

[@VivaLaVideoz]

This is true, I can't describe how their music changed the makeup of my brain. A Storm in Heaven is a masterpiece.

[@theyearoftherat]

Nicks guitar playing on Star Sail still hits me as hard as it did in 93.

[@jeffpsttinson8263]

A Rock n roll band for the people Modern day blues 💙

[@KaironBrito]

Thank you so much for sharing this great historical archive.

[@dandan688]

This was put out on Radio 1 evening session that year - they cut down the track list but it still sounded amazing . I taped it and took the cassette to university with me must have played it a 100 times and sellotaped it together twenty times the music back then was amazing and Verve wee on fire in the early years x

[@kliensasser]

Came here to listen to the opening of Virtual World...over and over again. I can see it now.

[@toast0009]

With you, goes to a different plane...

[@davekatz3679]

If I remember rightly, they played three times that weekend. And each one was excellent.

[@heathdomas8165]

Nothing tops the first three or so years of Verve. Puts Urban Rhythms to shame.

[@theyearoftherat]

100% spot on.

[@rdgrdg1632]

Its called urban hymns for fucks sake

[@briz1965]

true

[@megadave1197]

@@rdgrdg1632 still it’s not as good as the early music. They went all Noel Gallagher on us 😖

[@rdgrdg1632]

@@megadave1197 what

[@enlightenednormie242]

Greatest Glastonbury performance ever!!!!

[@junctionfilms6348]

Amazing, I had recorded this off radio one and I was in a situation where I had to give away lots of my old cassettes, this was one thing that went . . .nice to hear it again.

[@Mantis74]

Full performance with some tracks missing, so not the full performance. Brilliant.

[@joseph2112]

I just discovered this band so many years later I am in awe I have not stopped listening for 2 weeks. the concert from 1998 Wigan got me hooked Nick is amazing I play the guitar and love that style of playing. They would be on top if they were to get together again 🤘😎

[@kevinross2515]

the sun the sea. ....Wow....

[@yaroslavtormyshev4385]

deep and organic. absolute balance in sound. saw them at Lollapalooza in 1994. There were many bright musicians then, but their performance was mesmerizing

[@sallyfletcher8874]

Absolutely amazingly ethereal n intense, n Rich outstandingly beautiful 😍

[@Alexandre_LISBOA772]

greatest band ever!!!! They were the best

[@travistravinyle4207]

Thanks I had never heard the full performance

[@michaeloneill8452]

you just cant get close to exactly where on the ledge they were around this time... they didnt f'in know just where they were either which makes it so very very special....

[@JasonHFY]

How could a band be THAT good?! Nick McCabe is not from this world.

[@jackielambton1800]

I was there. Pink glitter top ❤

[@VladStoian]

INSANELY GOOD

[@janetlynskey8155]

I was there and it was amazing 🥰❤️💜

[@Romchikthelemon]

Спасибо, понравилось. Thanks for sharing.

[@stuartcarswell2815]

Saw these 2 years before at St Helens Citadel... incredible

[@skuad58]

goosebumps..

[@tompoole007]

skuad58 goosebumps on my goosebumps :)

[@VivaLaVideoz]

Astral travel

[@xongaagnox]

brought me back

[@chuck3605]

Thank you for posting this. I thought I’d ask musically minded folks as to if y’all know where I might purchase live audio recordings of The Verve. Thanks for any help.

[@thechief00]

holy shit

[@brad5983]

The drums and bass tho

[@craichead333]

holy shit......

[@Foo-oo-oo-oolsGold89]

It still baffles me to this day that the Verves Breakout album wouldnt come till 97's Urban Hyms. People slept on this band from thete first record.

[@user-bx6zr6my4d]

A year before i why of watched i93 t 94i oasis played 1o clock to young

[@tompoole007]

Guitars from the top floor of the music department store. The Verve Somerset Mr rock and rolling people Richard Ashcroft. :)

[@cocochanel222]

Before they were forced into indie.. amazing show gaze

[@paoloantoniolopezbutron8292]

🖤

[@severinamaria5762]

Classic live 93

[@PRSM1982]

vida.

[@anthonyjohn3445]

I was there

[@jarvismunoz1084]

Richard el ego acabo con tu carrera..regresa con nick...please

[@ginaramusic]

Trancendental psychedelic spacey meditating healing tripping groovy stoner shoegazey, what i can say more about A Storm In Heaven ?

[@adrianbeaumont6745]

What a band. What a shame they split 🎶😔

[@edwardshaw2958]

I was there, sun was out and I was sharing a bottle of vodka. A great album before they went shit.

[@megadave1197]

They really did regress artistically. Most bands go the opposite way like Radiohead who started out normal and then became experimental and daring where as Verve started mystical and experimental and gradually became shit. Nothing sadder than years later seeing Ashcroft strumming an acoustic like a busker wailing on about a sonnet. It actually shocked me 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@sallyfletcher8874]

Vodka n verve! I'm well jealous 😔

[@brad5983]

They changed so much 😢

[@michaelgibson4863]

for the worse...

[@user-bx6zr6my4d]

The better

[@michaelgibson4863]

@user-bx6zr6my4d No chance. They started to write totally differently , and it was basically a Richard Ashcroft solo project by the end. For people like me, who thought they were a band of equals, that imbalance immediately removed key parts.

[@duardoduardo439]

though I'll found Gravity Grave here?

[@latneyparker5702]

Gravity Grave is missing

[@sneakynicknamewils9190]

they're even better than that

[@clxbeste]

Ashcroft at 14 mins. HAHAH.

[@kliensasser]

why even bother

[@rintojulian2680]

psychedelic

[@user-bx6zr6my4d]

Pi people yyea🎉on

[@abeach5420]

#NickMcCabe (nuff said)