Some concrete details have been confirmed for the reissues of The Verve‘s first two studio albums – 1993’s ‘A Storm In Heaven‘ and its 1995 follow-up ‘A Northern Soul‘.
The former will be re-released on September 9th as 4-disc super deluxe edition, remastered by Chris Potter and complete with earlier EP tracks, acoustic takes, live recordings and two other collections, ‘South Pacific’ and ‘Shoeshine Girl’. An accompanying DVD has a 1992 Camden Town Hall concert, the US video for ‘Blue’ and previously unseen footage from New York in October 1992. A new video for ‘South Pacific’ using footage from producer John Leckie is in there too along with postcards, and a 48-page book.
And the latter is a 3-CD super deluxe edition again remastered by Chris Potter and with more b-sides, to-date unreleased live recordings and seven rare studio cuts. A 36-page book for this album has both new interviews and photos.
The two albums in question immediately preceeded 1997’s ‘Urban Hymns‘, which began life as an intended Richard Ashcroft solo album but which went on to become the band’s huge commercial breakthrough, an immediate post-Britpop soundtrack and ultimately one of the biggest selling albums in British music history.