The Verve share live version of Catching The Butterfly from Haigh Hall

Live footage of The Verve performing Catching The Butterfly at Haigh Hall in Wigan has been shared online after the re-release of the band’s 1997 album Urban Hymns – have a watch here.

The concert is part of a generous batch of bonus features which are included on the reissue – in our review, we concluded that ‘this wealth of material highlights the oscillating journey The Verve undertook to arrive at the cusp on which Urban Hymns is mounted‘:

“Even with the benefit of hindsight and familiarity Urban Hymns’ kernel still dazzles; Sonnet, The Drugs Don’t Work, Bittersweet Symphony and Lucky Man are as prosaic as they are ambitious, bold campfire songs for a generation weaned on an establishment tit. To achieve this, Ashcroft took the plain of his voice and bent it around the newly accessible sense of melody he’d coined, the outcomes poised and straight, creators of moods rather than their reflectors.”

“He also was able to look back with an informed sense of perspective. Whereas the Gallaghers left themselves open to criticism by being defiantly unabridged – via the blinking near self parody of She’s Electric, Roll With It – here the conductor gambled less, with the idling country soul of One Day, Catching The Butterly’s tumbling psychedelia and the drenching mantra of Weeping Willow all watermarks as equally high concept stablemates.”