first release as The Verve

In 1994, the band released the album No Come Down , a compilation of B-sides plus a live version of “Gravity Grave” performed at Glastonbury Festival in 1993. It was the band’s first release under the name “The Verve”, following legal difficulties with jazz label Verve Records . The band then played on the travelling US alternative rock festival Lollapalooza in the summer of 1994. A new mix of “Blue” was released in the US to promote the band. During the tour, Ashcroft was briefly hospitalised for dehydration after a drinking session, and Salisbury was arrested for destroying a hotel room in Kansas in a drug-fuelled delirium . Ashcroft later recalled: “At the start, it was an adventure, but America nearly killed us.”