Category: Stone Roses News

Shane Meadows making Stone Roses reunion documentary?

There’s been much speculation regarding Shane Meadows making a film of the Roses comeback, and now a post on shanemeadows.co.uk sheds some light on the story.

Apparently Shane is in discussions to document the Roses return and was actually filming the Stone Roses press conference last week.

Head over to the Shane Meadows website for the full story.

“Unconfirmed” tour dates exposed as fake by NME

After initially publishing the rumoured Roses tour dates as seen on this site and elsewhere, the NME has re-written their article exposing the dates as incorrect.

Let’s hope the dates are indeed wrong as some of the venues were very unpopular choices with the fans.

Any inside info on tour dates or otherwise can be sent to: thestoneroses@hotmail.co.uk

NME

The Stone Roses UK and Ireland arena dates are exposed as fake by NME

Roses 2012 tour dates

After the huge success of the Roses come back Heaton Park gigs, it will be no surprise to hear that a full tour is planned.

So for all you disappointed fans who missed out on the ticket rush, here are the strongly rumoured but unconfirmed tour dates:

  • Fri 29 June Heaton Park, Manchester
  • Sat 30 June Heaton Park, Manchester
  • Sun 1 July Heaton Park, Manchester
  • Thu 5 July Echo Arena, Liverpool
  • Sat 7 July O2 Arena, London
  • Sun 8 July O2 Arena, London
  • Wed 11 July SECC, Glasgow
  • Fri 13 July Slane Castle, Ireland
  • Sat 14 July Botanic Gardens, Belfast
  • Mon 16 July iTunes Festival, London
  • Fri 20 July Espacio Movistar, Barcelona, Spain
  • Sat 21 July Palacio de Deportes, Madrid, Spain
  • Mon 23 July Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy, Paris, France
  • Wed 25 July Futurshow Station, Bologna, Italy
  • Thur 26 July Datch Forum, Milan, Italy
  • Sat 28 July O2 World, Berlin, Germany
  • Sun 29 July Color Line Arena, Hamburg, Germany
  • Tue 2 Aug Globe Arena, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Wed 3 Aug Spektrum, Oslo, Norway

Roses sell 220,000 tickets

The Stone Roses tickets for Heaton Park shows sold out in 68 minutes.

The first two gigs sold out within 14 minutes of going on sale today with all 150,000 tickets being snapped up. The band then added a third date on which sold out less than an hour later.

Despite the crazy numbers there’s still many disappointed fans out there.

How was it for you?