Client
The Verve
The Verve
Overview
Music Packaging
A Northern Soul - Front sleeve image.
The band were photographed, in black and white, in a Manchester studio.
The resulting image was hand coloured before being turned into a large format transparency. The transparency was in turn projected from a scaffolding gantry onto a warehouse wall.
Features of the wall can be seen in the shot, such as a pipe running horizontally acros Peter Salisbury’s face and one running vertically through Richard Ashcroft’s.
The band were photographed, in black and white, in a Manchester studio.
The resulting image was hand coloured before being turned into a large format transparency. The transparency was in turn projected from a scaffolding gantry onto a warehouse wall.
Features of the wall can be seen in the shot, such as a pipe running horizontally acros Peter Salisbury’s face and one running vertically through Richard Ashcroft’s.
A Northern Soul - Back sleeve image.
Simon Jones pictured in reference to a lyric from the song ‘Life’s An Ocean’
‘Imagine the future,
Woke up with a scream,
I was buying some feelings,
From a vending machine’
Simon Jones pictured in reference to a lyric from the song ‘Life’s An Ocean’
‘Imagine the future,
Woke up with a scream,
I was buying some feelings,
From a vending machine’
Above & Left - A Northern Soul interior imagery.
4 images below. No Come Down
The third and last Verve / The Verve tetraptych.
Bagatelle machine (not pinball) bought by Microdot, painted by Brian Cannon.
The coloured room setting was inspired by Chicago pinball machine manufacturers promo photo’s. The model’s dress and demeanour a direct influence of Reservoir Dogs.
4 images below. No Come Down
The third and last Verve / The Verve tetraptych.
Bagatelle machine (not pinball) bought by Microdot, painted by Brian Cannon.
The coloured room setting was inspired by Chicago pinball machine manufacturers promo photo’s. The model’s dress and demeanour a direct influence of Reservoir Dogs.
This Is Music - Cover image.
Shot in Headingley, Leeds.
The lettering on the sandwich board, despite it’s appearance, was screen printed on the board and not added later.
Shot in Headingley, Leeds.
The lettering on the sandwich board, despite it’s appearance, was screen printed on the board and not added later.
On Your Own - Cover image.
Shot on Southport fun fair at 6 am.
Shot on Southport fun fair at 6 am.
History - Cover image.
Shot on 42nd Street, New York City.
It was by total coincidence that the lettering was in place outside a disused theatre, the work of a local artist.
It was an even more remarkable coincidence that History turned out to be, at that time, The Verve’s last single before splitting up.
Shot on 42nd Street, New York City.
It was by total coincidence that the lettering was in place outside a disused theatre, the work of a local artist.
It was an even more remarkable coincidence that History turned out to be, at that time, The Verve’s last single before splitting up.
Urban Hymns - Cover image.
Shot in Richmond Park, Surrey.
Despite rumours to the contrary, the image does not represent a split in the band between Nick McCabe and the others, he just happened to be looking the other way as the rest watched a herd of deer running past.
Shot in Richmond Park, Surrey.
Despite rumours to the contrary, the image does not represent a split in the band between Nick McCabe and the others, he just happened to be looking the other way as the rest watched a herd of deer running past.
Urban Hymns - Interior image.
Urban Hymns - interior image.
The band with Richard Ashcroft’s dog.
The band with Richard Ashcroft’s dog.
The Verve 'Space Echo' image was originally applied to a T shirt when the band reformed for the first time in 1997.
Simon Jones would often be seen wearing the garment and indeed sported it at the first gig on the comeback tour at the Sheffield Leadmill on the 9th August 1997.
The Space Echo itself was a piece of equipment used by Nick McCabe, the device records incoming audio to a loop of magnetic tape, then replays the audio over a series of several playback heads before it is erased again by new incoming audio.
The sticker on the front of the machine which reads 'The creative answer - The Verve' originally read 'The creative answer - Roland'.
Roland were the manufacturers of this piece of kit, it's product code was Roland RE - 201.
Simon Jones would often be seen wearing the garment and indeed sported it at the first gig on the comeback tour at the Sheffield Leadmill on the 9th August 1997.
The Space Echo itself was a piece of equipment used by Nick McCabe, the device records incoming audio to a loop of magnetic tape, then replays the audio over a series of several playback heads before it is erased again by new incoming audio.
The sticker on the front of the machine which reads 'The creative answer - The Verve' originally read 'The creative answer - Roland'.
Roland were the manufacturers of this piece of kit, it's product code was Roland RE - 201.
Bittersweet Symphony - Cover image.
The first Verve sleeve to use a composite of more than one image.
The first Verve sleeve to use a composite of more than one image.
The Drugs Don’t Work - Cover image.
Unsued mock up for The Drugs Don’t Work.
Rejected by Richard Ashcroft as he thought it played ‘too much on the death trip’
The song is actually about the death of his father and not narcotics.
Interesting to not, at this stage the song was called ‘Drugs Don’t Work’ the ‘The’ was added later.
Rejected by Richard Ashcroft as he thought it played ‘too much on the death trip’
The song is actually about the death of his father and not narcotics.
Interesting to not, at this stage the song was called ‘Drugs Don’t Work’ the ‘The’ was added later.
Lucky Man - Cover Image.
Shot on the corner of Wooster St. New York City.
Shot on the corner of Wooster St. New York City.
Unused shot from the Lucky Man sessions.
Sonnet - Unused mock up image.
