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Urban Hymns Tour

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Start date
  
9 August 1997

No. of shows
  
51

Associated album
  
Urban Hymns

Legs
  
6

End date
  
August 29, 1998

Leg
  
6

The Urban Hymns Tour was a concert tour by British rock band The Verve from August 1997 until August 1998, in support of their album Urban Hymns. The tour consisted of 6 legs, containing 51 shows in total.

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Haigh Hall show

The Haigh Hall show in Wigan, UK, was the band's homecoming gig, as they had not played in their home town since 1992 on the Gravity Grave Tour. The band were supported by John Martyn, Beck (who was playing his only UK date of that year) and Eumir Deodato. The show was a complete sell out and became one of the band's most famous performances.

Slane Castle show

The final gig on the tour was the annual Slane Concert, which The Verve headlined. They were backed by David Gray, James, Robbie Williams and the Manic Street Preachers. The show was almost at full capacity, with over 80,000 fans purchasing tickets. It proved to be the band's last gig until their 2007 reunion. The show ended with a 15-minute jam of "Bitter Sweet Symphony".

Tour legs

  • The show in County Meath, Ireland, was the band's last ever gig until their reunion in 2007.

    • Live set

    The set list was chosen from a selection of these:

  • "A New Decade"
  • "This Is Music"
  • "Life's An Ocean"
  • "Man Called Sun"
  • "Sonnet"
  • "One Day"
  • "Catching the Butterfly"
  • "Slide Away"
  • "Neon Wilderness"
  • "Weeping Willow"
  • "The Rolling People"
  • "On Your Own"
  • "The Drugs Don't Work"
  • "Space and Time"
  • "A Northern Soul"
  • "Stormy Clouds"
  • "Stormy Clouds (Reprise)"
  • "Bitter Sweet Symphony"
  • "History"
  • "Lucky Man"
  • "This Time"
  • "Come On"
  • "Velvet Morning"
  • "See You in the Next One (Have a Good Time)"
  • "Lord I Guess I'll Never Know"
  • "So Sister"

    • References

    Urban Hymns Tour Wikipedia
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