Ticketing and events company Pollen falls into administration
The ticketing and travel company Pollen – which previously operated as Verve and before that StreetTeam – has fallen into administration after…
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StreetTeam is now Verve, raises $18.5 million in new finance
Peer-to-peer ticket selling platform StreetTeam is now called Verve, so you all need to update your list of…
P2P ticket selling platform The Physical Network combines with We Represent, becomes StreetTeam
The Physical Network and We Represent combine to form new brand StreetTeam…
Some random record sale stats
Compilation album sales rose this year, five albums passed a quarter of a million copies in Q3 2008, and digital album sales grew 61%, according to BPI figures.…
Verve deny split rumours
The Verve have denied rumours they are about to split, saying Nick McCabe cut a finger on glass after a Japan gig and will still play V Festival.…
Yorke et al remix classical stuff
'Cortical Songs' by Nick Ryan and John Matthias has been remixed by Thom Yorke, Simon Tong and John Maclean, due out on 21 July.…
Verve album may be out this summer
The Verve are reportedly planning to release their comeback album on 18 August, with the record almost complete.…
Glasto demand down
Glastonbury ticket registrations are down on last year, which Michael Eavis puts down to this year's headliners Kings Of Leon, The Verve and Jay-Z being less huge.…
New Verve on NME.com
The Verve's first studio recording in a decade, a fourteen-minute track, can be downloaded from the NME website for seven days.…
Remix Night February
Remix Night at Cargo on 16 February features live sets from Transmission and Keith, plus DJ sets from Mr Go Home Productions.…
Velvet Underground acetate sells for lots of cash
An acetate of 'The Velvet Underground & Nico', bought at a Montreal flea market for seventy-five cents, has sold on eBay for $155,401.…
Ashcroft scared by bird flu
Richard Ashcroft has told Xfm he got paranoid about bird flu, and played a Radio 2 session with a forty-piece orchestra, broadcast on 21 January.…