Melody Maker, 9th June 1990 When The Stone Roses announced their plans for a gig at Spike Island the concert was eagerly heralded as the event of the year. Everett True joined the 28,000 crowd and witnessed the highs and lows, the baggy bits and the saggy bits. At the press conference, the day before [...]
NME June 9th 1990 “I don’t have to sell my soul/He’s already in me” – I Wanna Be Adored, The Stone Roses. Ian Brown doesn’t have to sell his soul, but in a conference suite in Manchester’s Piccadilly hotel a hundred-plus ‘international press’ liggers are on a bargain hunt for titbits. It’s 25 hours before [...]
The 27th of May 2010 will be the 20th anniversary of The Stone Roses landmark gig at Spike Island. To celebrate the anniversary we’ll be publishing a series of special commemorative articles. Look out out for historical magazine articles and reviews, some classic photos, the odd download and maybe some surprises. Of course a big [...]
Update: sorry folks looks like the video has been pulled from YouTube due to copyright violations. Here’s the next best thing, some behind the scenes footage from ePaxB – Roses @ Spike Island. Time for something special. Unearthed is a trailer for the legendary Spike Island gig from 1990. There’s been rumours of footage circulating [...]
Found a nice article from Paul Slattery who photographed the legendary Spike Island gig back in 1990. Read about his experience and see some of the images he captured on the big day. And if you read this Paul, please stop by and tell us some more! Head over to the Retna photographers blog.