NME: The Greatest Indie Album Of All Time

Vote for 'A Storm in Heaven,' 'A Northern Soul,' and 'Urban Hymns' here.

Ashcroft plans to release a B-sides album...and needs some fan input

The line 'We're looking at putting a B sides compilation together. What should be on it?' says it all.

'The Debating Chamber' has been put together on Ashcroft's website for fans to put forward their ideas on what they would like to see on the compilation.

Talk about it and place your top 10 choices on the Virtual World Forum.

Also new to Ashcroft's site is a 'radio' section as well as a 'news updates' section, which also provides a link to an email where fans can send photos for possible inclusion in a planned Richard Ashcroft Flickr group.

NME: Music's biggest egos

A list including The Verve/Richard Ashcroft. Link here.

Another video from the Night & Day, feat. Nick McCabe

Uncle Joe's Mint Balls + McCabe

Last June, several personal videos surfaced from Verve's 1997 US Tour, presumably from Simon Tong's video camera. If I remember correctly, the official Verve video shows Tong holding a video camera while overlooking a cityscape, so presumably its him.

Anyway, one of the videos, humorously titled "US TOUR - Sponsored by Uncle Joe's Mint Balls," sees Ashcroft holding a can of Uncle Joe's mints with plans of selling the product on the road. The video found its way to Uncle Joe, a Wigan based confectioner, and is now mentioned on their website. Class promotion of a Wigan based company!! Link here.

Also, here are two videos. The first contains footage from Nick McCabe's fairly recent gig with Damo Suzuki (Can) and Jeff Wootton at the Night & Day in Manchester. It passes visually but struggles aurally. The second is an amalgamation of sound using one of Nick McCabe's guitar tracks wrapped around Annie Lennox's song "Why." Clever.