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
Catherine Ashcroft Catherine Ashcroft Catherine Ashcroft (* in North West England) is an English musician (Irish Folk). She plays self-told whistles and Uillean pipes. In 2008 Ashcroft recorded her first CD "Take Flight and Follow" in the "Stenkrith Studios" in Kirkby Stephen. There she met Belfast's songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and singer Maurice Dickson, both form the band "Mochara" (Irish for "my friend") since that year. They perform Celtic music. In common Ashcroft and Dickson have published three music albums: "In Your Blood" in 2010, "Spirits and Dreamers" in 2013 and "Live at the Island" in 2015. Ashcroft participated in Riverdance's China tour in