Urban Hymns Tour

Urban Hymns Tour

Tour by The Verve
Associated album	Urban Hymns
Start date	9 August 1997
End date	29 August 1998
Legs	6
No. of shows	51
The Verve concert chronology

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.

Notable shows

Haigh Hall show

The Haigh Hall show in Wigan, UK, was the bands homecoming gig, as they had not played in their home city 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

Date	City	Country	Venue
United Kingdom and Ireland
9 August 1997	Sheffield	England	The Leadmill
10 August 1997	Glasgow	Scotland	Barrowlands
11 August 1997	Manchester	England	The Academy
13 August 1997	Wolverhampton		Wolverhampton Civic Hall
14 August 1997	London		Hammersmith Palais
22 August 1997	Dublin	Ireland	SFX Centre
24 August 1997	Reading	England	Reading Festival
25 September 1997	London		Earls Court Exhibition Centre
26 September 1997
27 September 1997
North America
1 November 1997	Atlanta	United States	The Roxy
3 November 1997	Washington, D.C.		9:30 Club
5 November 1997	New York City		Irving Plaza
6 November 1997
8 November 1997	Boston		Avalon Ballroom
10 November 1997	Detroit		Saint Andrew's Hall
11 November 1997	Toronto	Canada	Phoenix Concert Theatre
13 November 1997	Chicago	United States	The Vic Theatre
15 November 1997	Seattle		The Showbox
17 November 1997	Los Angeles		Mayan Theatre
18 November 1997
20 November 1997	San Francisco		The Warfield
30 November 1997	Fairfax		George Mason University
United Kingdom and Ireland
10 January 1998	Glasgow	Scotland	Barrowlands
11 January 1998
13 January 1998	Manchester	England	Manchester Apollo
14 January 1998
16 January 1998	London		Brixton Academy
17 January 1998
9 February 1998
19 May 1998	Dublin	Ireland	Point Theatre
20 May 1998
24 May 1998	Wigan	England	Haigh Hall
Western Europe
1 June 1998	Landgraaf	Netherlands	Pinkpop Festival
2 June 1998	Paris	France	Zénith de Paris
3 June 1998	Grenoble		Summen
6 June 1998	Munich	Germany	Circuskrone
7 June 1998	Düsseldorf		Phillipshalle
North America
28 July 1998	Chicago	United States	Aragon Ballroom
29 July 1998	Auburn Hills		The Palace of Auburn Hills
31 July 1998	Hamilton	Canada	Copps Coliseum
1 August 1998	Montreal		Molson Centre
3 August 1998	Boston	United States	Harbor Lights
5 August 1998	New York City		Hammerstein Ballroom
6 August 1998
9 August 1998	Houston		Aerial Theatre
11 August 1998	Denver		Mammoth Center
14 August 1998	Anaheim		Arrowhead Pond
15 August 1998	San Francisco		Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
17 August 1998	Seattle		Mercer Arena
United Kingdom and Ireland
22 August 1998	Chelmsford	England	V98
23 August 1998	Leeds		V98
29 August 1998*	County Meath	Ireland	Slane Castle

• 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"