Verve at Coachella

noah | April 26, 2008 12:00 pm
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Because I seem to be speaking in fours today, here’s a four-pack of things about last night’s Coachella performance by the recently reunited Verve (or is it “the recently reunited The Verve”? Grammarians?): One, they debuted a new song, which sounded very great in the context of the performance; two, as with the Battles show earlier in the day, there were people doing the hippie-noodle dance in my line of vision; three, apparently Erin “Joanie Cunningham” Moran is a big Verve fan, as there was a crowd shot midway through the band’s performance of “Bittersweet Symphony” that I am 99.4% sure had the former Happy Days star as its focal point; and four, the band sounded really great and were probably the day’s most pleasant surprise, with last night’s set pushing me into the “I will buy tickets for its upcoming NYC show” camp if only because I was a little bummed out that they didn’t play “Slide Away.” [Photo: AP]