The Verve The Verve The Verve were an English rock band formed in Wigan in 1990 by lead vocalist Richard Ashcroft, guitarist Nick McCabe, bass guitarist Simon Jones and drummer Peter Salisbury. Guitarist and keyboard player Simon Tong later became a member. Beginning with a psychedelic sound with their debut LP "A Storm in Heaven", by the mid-1990s the band had released several EPs and three albums. It also endured name and line-up changes, break-ups, health problems, drug abuse and various lawsuits. The band's commercial breakthrough was the 1997 album "Urban Hymns", one of the best-selling albums in UK Chart history. The
Wigan Town Hall in 2007 to redevelop the site as office accommodation and 133 residential units, which Wigan Council is still considering as of 2012. Wigan Town Hall was designated a Grade II listed building in 1990. Wigan Town Hall Wigan Town Hall was the second of three seats of local government occupied by the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan and its predecessors, built on a plot at the corner of King Street and Rodney Street in Wigan, England, between 1866 and 1867. Next to the Robinsons Brewery, it replaced an earlier town hall constructed in 1720 by the Earl of Barrymore and Sir