The Stone Roses

**Magicme** · 17/03/2009, 9:49 PM

Dont do this. Dont crush my hopes and dreams.

**noby** · 18/03/2009, 8:17 AM

Originally Posted by Magicme

Never got to see them when they were here before for one reason or another (one being heavily pregnant with my now 14 yr old son) and it has been my biggest let down in life.

I saw them 14 years ago in Cork, and while it may not have been the biggest let down in life, it was right up there.
I consoled myself with the fact that I got to see them (or most of them, anyway). The '96 reviews seem to be a lot worse, and there's always a danger that any reunion won't improve on this.

**Neish** · 18/03/2009, 10:22 AM

Originally Posted by noby

I saw them 14 years ago in Cork, and while it may not have been the biggest let down in life, it was right up there.
I consoled myself with the fact that I got to see them (or most of them, anyway). The '96 reviews seem to be a lot worse, and there's always a danger that any reunion won't improve on this.

Agree 100%

**Wolfie** · 18/03/2009, 1:17 PM

Originally Posted by MojoPin

http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/...5875-21203802/
THIS IS THE ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Great to hear but I'd like to know more detail of the proposed re-union. It doesn't seem to add up.

Ian Brown is currently recording an album and will most likely be touring it. John Squire has 3 art exhibitions, Mani is commitments to Primal Scream.

Have Brown and Squire reconciled to any degree, for instance?

Will the band properly rehearse a set to avoid another '96 calamity?

A litany of questions to be answered before this would have a chance of working out.

**The Optimist** · 18/03/2009, 3:36 PM

John Sqiure denies the rumours:

http://www.nme.com/news/the-stone-roses/43512

**Macy** · 19/03/2009, 8:13 AM

This story comes out most years, purely coincidentally right around Festival Ticket Sales time...

I was in Cork, and saw them a couple of times in the following tour, and I thought they were pretty tight tbh. Cork in particular was amazing, but then that could've been the occasion. The live ep from there sounds alright too though.

I'm not sure what's in it from Ian really. He has a successful solo career. I would go, as it can work (the Mondays first comeback in 99 showed it could), but I don't really see it (for the moment anyway).

**The Optimist** · 19/03/2009, 8:40 AM

[quote Cork in particular was amazing, but then that could've been the occasion. The live ep from there sounds alright too though.[/quote]

What ep was this? I don't think i've heard of that one.

**Pauro 76** · 19/03/2009, 9:25 AM

I reckon some of Ian Brown's solo work stands up to the Roses stuff..... It's a big risk for him, his solo career is hardly on the slide?

**Macy** · 19/03/2009, 10:08 AM

Originally Posted by The Optimist

What ep was this? I don't think i've heard of that one.

Crimson Tonight, a Japanese Import. Got it ages ago, but I have noticed it in recent years. Daybreak, Breaking Into Heaven, Tightrope and Driving South are the tracks irrc.

**OneRedArmy** · 19/03/2009, 11:48 AM

Squire has quashed the rumours in a fairly interesting way.

Check out the BBC website!

**Wolfie** · 19/03/2009, 12:17 PM

Originally Posted by OneRedArmy

Squire has quashed the rumours in a fairly interesting way.

Check out the BBC website!

Clever approach alright.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7952409.stm

**Pauro 76** · 19/03/2009, 12:43 PM

That actually looks like a great cover for an album!

**Wolfie** · 19/03/2009, 12:48 PM

Could make a good T-Shirt too...................

"I have no desire what-so-ever to desecrate the grave of seminal Manchester pop group The Stone Roses."

**ken foree** · 19/03/2009, 3:59 PM

met and saw them in the manhattan center ballroom in '95, the day everton beat man. united in the fa cup final - the band was p!ssed but the roadies were very happy

they were really good even with the stand-in, non-reni drummer guy. the worst aspects (brown's ring-clenchingly awful voice on tightrope or whatever that acoustic one was from 2nd coming) were vastly overshadowed by the transcendental resurrection and fools gold jams. good stuff.

**Neish** · 19/03/2009, 5:44 PM

Ok now the rumor has been squashed yet again, how long to it resurfaces? I 'd ay before sumer 2011

**The Optimist** · 19/03/2009, 6:55 PM

Originally Posted by Macy

Crimson Tonight, a Japanese Import. Got it ages ago, but I have noticed it in recent years. Daybreak, Breaking Into Heaven, Tightrope and Driving South are the tracks irrc.

I've found it.Thats a great version of Breaking Into Heaven.