reunion announced

Ashcroft had been adamant that The Verve would not re-form, once remarking: “You’re more likely to get all four Beatles on stage”. However, after Ashcroft learned that Salisbury was in contact with McCabe over a possible side project, Ashcroft contacted McCabe and Jones, making peace with them, and the band re-formed. Tong was not asked to rejoin, so as to keep the internal issues that split the band up a decade ago to an absolute minimum. Jones explained this decision by stating: “It would have been too hard, it’s hard enough for the four of us. If you bring more people to it, it’s harder to communicate and communication has always been our difficulty”. Paradoxically, McCabe would state years later on his Twitter account, that he intended to include the electric violinist and arranger Davide Rossi as a new member of the group. On 26 June 2007, the band’s reunion was announced by Jo Whiley on BBC Radio 1 . The band, reuniting in their original line-up, announced they would tour in November 2007, and release an album in 2008. The band stated: “We are getting back together for the joy of music”, though they turned down a multi-album deal offer “because the ‘treadmill’ of releasing albums and touring marked the beginning of the end for the band a decade ago”.