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 [...]
A full page review of the Roses’ boxset from September 2009. Uncut magazine awards it top marks and gives a nice overview as to why the album matters so much to so many.
Bit of mixed bag today. Three clippings that I’ve lost the origins of. First up is a review of the Hacienda gig on 27 February 1989, then two news articles from the Record Mirror that I think were from February and April of the same year. If you can clarify the sources or dates then [...]
Day 7 already. Is there more? Of course there is … lot’s more. An enthusiastic review of the Roses’ Hacienda gig from 1989, just a couple of months before the album’s release. The Roses must’ve been on the top of the world knowing what a great record they’d just made. Despite their bravado they couldn’t [...]