The Verve: live at Manchester Roadhouse
John Robb, Melody Maker, June 1995
YEAH, we know that Richard Ashcroft can talk a good campaign and that The Verve are the nearly men of the great northern rock thing, claiming to be able to fly with all those great intentions and wild-eyed riff-mongering.
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