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Bootleg Guide

• Stockholm Marquee 85
• Manchester International 85
• Embassy Club 85
• Manchester University 85
• Manchester Ritz 1986
• Manchester International 1 87
• Clause 28 Gig 88
• Manchester International 2 88
• Belfast University 88
• Manchester Hacienda 89
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• Valencia, Spain 89
• Milan Rolling Stone Festival 89
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• Hamburg Club Logo 89
• Luxor Club, Cologne 89
• Tokyo 89
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• Stockholm Fryhuset 90
• Spike Island 90
• Belfast Maysfield 90
• Glasgow Green 90
• Stockholm Palladium 95
• Amsterdam Paradiso 95
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• Feile Festival 95
• Club Chitta 95
• Tokyo Budokan 95
• Osaka Imp Hall 95
• Hiroshima Mielpargue 95
• Fukuoka Sun Palace 95
• Osaka Imp Hall 95
• Osaka Imp Hall 95
• Leicester University 95
• Brixton Academy 95
• Brixton Academy All-Nighter 95
• Leeds Town and Country Club 95

Bootleg DVDs

• The Flowershow 85
• Newport 95
• Ian Brown Vol 1

The Stone Roses - Alexandra Palace (aka It Ain't Where You're From)

City: London, England

Date: 18th November 1989

Running Time (Approx): 70 mins

Tracklist:

1. Intro
2. She Bangs The Drums
3. Standing Here
4. Where Angels Play
5. Shoot You Down
6. Elephant Stone
7. Waterfall
8. Sugar Spun Sister
9. Made Of Stone
10. Going Down
11. Sally Cinnamon
12. I Wanna Be Adored
13. I Am The Resurrection
14. Fools Gold

Sound Quality: B
A slight layer of noise, but the recording is decent, and there's no distortion, but the mix sounds quite.. hollow. The last three songs are in really good quality.

Performance Quality: B
A good performance, which was forgotten because of the poor sound at the gig. Although the are some mistakes, Ian sings in tune most of the time, and Reni plays some of his funkiest stuff during the IATR and Fools Gold medley at the end, using bongos on his kit to good effect. Squire's guitar is on top form, assisted well by Mani, apart from his mistake on IATR. The last two songs contain some of the best live stuff the Roses ever did.

Why should I get this bootleg?

Because this was one of the Roses's great gigs, and was also a good performance. Contains Ian Brown's famous "It's not where you're from…" speech too, after the crowd continually chant "Manchester, la-la-la, Manchester, la-la-la".

Background

This was the second of the Roses' big gigs, after Blackpool. Unfortunately, they used a mate of theirs to set up the sound system. During the soundcheck it sounded ok, but when the crowd came in it completely changed the acoustics of the grand hall, leaving the sound in a complete mess. The engineers worked hard to improve the sound, and did, but even at it's best it was just about adequate. Ian Brown later said in 1998 that he and John left in a car after the gig and didn't say a word all the way home - they were too disappointed in it. Still, it was another event, and about 7,000 people saw it, the Roses first major gig in the south of England.

Fan Reviews

"The sound is, as you say, not the best, but the IATR/Fools Gold merge at the end is superb and makes it well worth having." - Craig Elder, Scotland

"Fools Gold is as funky as the devil himself! It's a bit of a letdown when Ian starts singing in the wrong key, but still..." - Alan Parkinson, England

Thanks to Will Odell for compiling the original bootleg guide.

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