From a fan who attended the Berlin gig, 27th Sep.

"It was a great one. RA started with Brave New World. Further he played from his album:
On A Beach
I Get My Beat
You On My Mind In My Sleep
New York
C'mon People

From The Verve he played:
Space And Time
Lucky man
The Drugs Don't Work
Sonnet

...Ii am sorry but i don't get the order of the songs anymore. Richard closed the show after 1 hour and got back for a solo encore with an unbelivable version of History! I tell you, this one beats the Glastonbury version.I don't think that there is someone out in the business with more Soul than Richard! This version was a real hit! Then A Song For The Lovers and he got away with Bitter Sweet Symphony. This was truly one of the best shows i have seen. Richards voice was outstanding. The acoustic at the Columbia Hall was a disaster! Richard was sort of very open tonight and he showed a lot of emotions to his audience and in putting them into his songs. What i disliked was that he " smoked" a little bit too much! I mean it is ok but i would prefer him to be "clean"...and the strings in my head carried me out of the Columbia Hall! Regards from Berlin - Askin ."

/Askin Akyol

From NME:

Thanks for staying faithful, even though it's not The Verve." It might as well be.The set opens with an energetic 'Brave New World', giving Ashcroft's soaring voice the space it lacks on record. 'I Get My Beat' follows quickly, standing out here as it does on the album as a quirky original. From here on in 'Alone With Everybody' is sandwiched almost shyly in between the urban hymns. And yes, the Verve hits do stand out, no argument. Even 'A Song For The Lovers' doesn't get a look in until the solo encore, strangely transformed by the acoustic treatment.

'New York' grinds without passion. 'You On My Mind (In My Sleep)' is lost, he can't seem to get it across to us. It would be a struggle for Richard Ashcroft to stand out from the shadow of the band that made him a star, and he seems not to want to. Even after an exhaustive run through the Verve classics, it's still a surprise that he chooses to end with 'Bitter Sweet Symphony'. Obviously Ashcroft does not regard this as his personal 'Creep'. "We're gonna take this song somewhere it's never been before, where it doesn't belong to anyone," he tells us. That's the bitterness out of the way, then. But he sticks to his word. 'Bitter Sweet Symphony' is played tonight as a knockout classic, a golden voice almost praying along with an acoustic guitar. It's the same song, but it's a million miles away from the 15-minute marathon that was the closer at Slane Castle in Dublin.

This isn't about The Verve any more, this is Richard Ashcroft showing every single one of us why it's called soul music. When the band finally kicks in with that sample, it's the complement, not the crux, of the song. "Use it," he exhorts, over and over again. The personal has become the political. Caroline Gibney