The Verve Suck It Up And Get Back Together

It's been eight bittersweet years since The Verve broke up, but the British band are picking up the pieces and reuniting.

"The Verve, Richard Ashcroft, Nick McCabe, Simon Jones and Pete Salisbury, were back recording in a London studio last week," read an announcement posted on the group's website this week. "After a summer break, they will return to the studio to complete their next album."

The group have also announced six U.K. shows in November.

The Verve formed in Wigan, England in 1990 and first broke up in 1995 when guitarist McCabe left following the release of their second album, A Northern Soul. Ashcroft reformed the band with guitarist Simon Tong, who remained with them until things fell apart again in 1999. Tong, who's been playing with The Good, The Bad & The Queen, isn't part of the reformed Verve.

McCabe rejoined the group in time to record their most popular album, 1997's Urban Hymns, which included the hit "Bittersweet Symphony." He quit again in July 1998.

In the years since The Verve's dissolution, Ashcroft released three solo albums and drunkenly crashed a British youth club, demanding to work with the teenagers at the centre.

Tong and Jones briefly formed a psychedelic rock band called The Shining. Salisbury, who opened a drum shop in England three years ago, has toured with Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. McCabe worked on a remix for The Music and an album by veteran British singer/songwriter John Martyn.