Brian Cannon on working with The Verve

ZANI:	Tell me how you met The Verve ?
Brian Cannon:	I first met Richard (Ashcroft) at a party in Wigan in 1989; he was a 17-year-old student at the time who I had nothing in common with it seemed: he was wearing a floppy hat with flowers on it and I was 23 at the time, dressing in Adidas trainers. We got talking and he found out that I was just starting out and designed record sleeves – he found that interesting as he was just starting out with his band. I didn’t see him again for another two years when I bumped into him at a petrol station at six in the morning buying a pint of milk... He recognised me, told me his band (Verve as they were known then) had been signed and that he wanted me to design their covers.. Stroke of luck...
ZANI:	Didn’t you go on tour with them? What is your lasting moment being in the “Verve bubble”?
Brian Cannon:	I went on tour with The Verve A LOT. I’ve seen them play over a hundred times. The best times were, as with most bands, when they first started to get a following nationally – turning up in a city where you don’t know anyone and there being a couple of hundred kids who are into the band. My lasting memory was from the Gravity Grave tour of 1992; I was the only member of the posse over 25 for the sake of the insurance to drive the tour bus – a Volkswagen LT 35. In the evening, we drove into Edinburgh and could see the city in the distance, while the band in the back were watching Rolling Stones videos. It was something else.
ZANI:	Some of The Verve’s artwork is outstanding – was it a collaborative effort? Or were you just left to produce the pieces for approval?
Brian Cannon:	In each case I had a chat with Richard, sometimes he would have specific ideas but, on the whole, it was left to me and the ideas were mine.
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ZANI:	You’ve put together a book celebrating Microdot, including all the work you did with The Super Furry Animals, The Verve and Oasis. Out of all of these photographs, which one was the most difficult to pull off and which was the most enjoyable?
Brian Cannon :	The Verve’s first album, A Storm In Heaven, was a massive undertaking and nearly did me in, but it remains my best piece of work to date. As for the most enjoyable, Roll With It on Weston-Super-Mare beach was a great laugh, and shooting the Lucky Man sleeve for The Verve in New York was ace.
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