Stone Roses to tour next year

[suedehead]

From Music Week

It's the gig they said would never happen, but it looks as though the original line-up of the Stone Roses WILL tour the UK next year.

The Sun is reporting as fact that a press conference is due from the group on Tuesday in London next week, in which Ian Brown, John Squire, Alan 'Reni' Wren and Gary 'Mani' Mountfield will confirm the news.

The story follows an earlier rumour from Clash Magazine that a "renowned producer" has convinced the group's long-warring factions - singer Brown and guitarist Squire - to agree to a reunion.

Inspiral Carpets founder and Stone Roses friend Clint Boon Tweeted in April: "It's true that Ian & John met recently. It was at Mani's mum's funeral. We all went back to a pub in Failsworth. Ian & John got on great."

Happy Monday frontman Shaun Ryder said at the time: "I think happen, I really do. There is more of a chance now than ever of them getting back together. Ian's just split with his missus and I bet she's hit him for a few quid.

"The only reason they will get back together is if Ian needs the cash. He never has before, he's a millionaire."

The Stone Roses 1989 debut LP is widely regarded as one of the greatest British albums of all time.

The band split in 1996, a year after the release of their follow-up album, The Second Coming.

[raliverpool]

If true.

OMFG!!!!!!!!!

Then let's start a campaign to get this to be the anti-XFactor Xmas #1 of 2011:

[suedehead]

I've never been a massive Stone Roses fan but they have made some great songs an I Am The Resurrection is one of them.

[andrew07]

I'm not getting my hopes up, I mean John Squire had said before that he had "no desire to desecrate the grave of the Stone Roses" (don't think he'd want to come out of retirement), Mani earlier this year had said it wasn't happening, nobody appears to know Reni's whereabouts, but then Ian Brown did say he'd do it if he was "down to his last chicken dinner".

[evansabove]

Talk about copying Steps

[Paddy]

The band can't beat the pub in York named ditto.

[thehitparade]

Oct 14, 2011 20:06:07 GMT 1 raliverpool said:

If true.

OMFG!!!!!!!!!

Then let's start a campaign to get this to be the anti-XFactor Xmas #1 of 2011:

Wouldn't an Easter Number One be more apt?

(thanks to Mrs Hitparade for pointing that out)

[banet2001]

It is nice to hear that the Stone Roses may be touring in the near future. I just wrote an article about the Stone Roses for a Manchester Music Scene Blog about a week ago.

[borneoman]

hope they tour for the music, not for the $$$

[raliverpool]

Stone Roses reunion: comeback gigs confirmed

Band appear together for first time in 15 years to announce two reunion concerts in Manchester next year, followed by world tour

Alexandra Topping
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 18 October 2011 15.14 BST[/b]

The Stone Roses in 2011
They are the resurrection … The Stone Roses in 2011. Photograph: Pennie Smith

Some will say they are doing it for fool's gold, others will wonder if – as they enter middle age – they just wanna be adored. But fans of the Stone Roses will only care about one thing: the band have confirmed they are reuniting, with two gigs planned for next year, followed by a world tour.

They will be playing new songs, but when asked about a new album Ian Brown said: "We hope so, but we said that before didn't we?" He added: "We'll ride this until the wheels come off, like we did last time."

Despite legal wrangling with record companies, fall-outs and vehement assurances they would never get back together, the original lineup – singer Ian Brown, guitarist John Squire, bassist Gary "Mani" Mounfield and drummer Alan "Reni" Wren – announced two gigs at Heaton Park in Manchester on 29 and 30 June 2012.

The long-awaited news – the resurrection has been some time in coming, with rumours circulating for several years – was announced at a packed Soho Hotel in central London.

The scheduled gigs will be the first time the band have played together in 16 years, since a widely panned performance at the Reading festival in 1996 that lead NME to describe Brown's rendition of I Am the Resurrection as "more like the eternal crucifixion".

The Stone Roses exploded on to the British indie scene in 1989 with their eponymous album, hailed as one of the greatest debuts of all time. Their psychedelic sound spoke to a generation of ravers during the second "summer of love". In their hometown of Manchester hundreds of fans gathered outside sold-out gigs, and at the height of their fame nearly 30,000 people attended the "baggy Woodstock" at Spike Island near Widnes in 1990.

But the group became snared in a lengthy legal battle with their label Silvertone, unable to release new music before a court case left them free to sign with Geffen. The follow-up to their debut, Second Coming, was finally released in 1994, but failed to meet inflated expectations.

Drummer Reni left in 1995, followed a year later by guitarist and songwriter John Squire – whose ranging riffs were as integral to the Stone Roses' sound as Brown's distinctive vocals – and the band split up the same year. Brown went on to create six albums, bassist Mani joined Primal Scream, while Squire, who created the artwork for the band's first album, formed the short-lived Seahorses before deciding to concentrate on art.

There seemed to be no way back. Squire created a work of art in 2009 that carried the words: "I have no desire whatsoever to desecrate the grave of seminal Manchester pop group the Stone Roses."

He said at the time: "I'd rather live my life than attempt to rehash it. Even if Ian and I were still double dating as we did in our teens then the prospect of a reunion wouldn't interest me at all." The feud between the teenage friends continued, with Brown apparently refusing an olive branch from Squire, who he said had sent him a song. In an interview with the Word magazine in 2009, Brown said: "He actually sent me a tune 18 months ago – pretty good, sounded nice, I liked it – but my sons turned round and said: 'Dad, you can't work on that – he sold you out, didn't he? He left you for dead.'"

Rumours of a comeback circulated in April this year after a meeting between Brown and Squire at the funeral of bassist Mani's mother. But it was quickly dismissed by Mani who said, in no uncertain terms: "Please f*** off and leave it alone. It isn't true and isn't happening."

But the obstacles in the way of a lucrative reunion have been swept aside. The news will put them in good company: Pulp reunited this year for a series of successful comeback gigs, the Specials reunited in 2009 for their 30th anniversary, and Take That have proved creaky knees need not mean a diminished fanbase.

Questions will undoutedly be asked about Brown's vocal capabilities – once described by Guardian critic Alexis Petridis as "a muffled, gloomy honk, like a despondent goose wearing a balaclava" – and whether the band, now in middle-age, will be able to capture the heady excitement of their early days. But to accusations they are selling out, they could reply with the lyrics of I Wanna Be Adored: "I don't have to sell my soul/ He's already in me".

Tickets go on sale this Friday at 9am.

[andrew07]

I'm pretty blown away. I thought it was just gonna be another of those "bogus" rumours like there had been in the past but still, this is the best news I've heard all year

[addpea]

I cant help but think its a bad idea. Although Im too young to have seen them first time around everything suggests they were a very hit and miss live band and given Ian Brown cant sing I just wonder how good these gigs are going to be, especially as the last two summers weve had Blur and Pulp reform and put in brilliant performances.
I am however interested to hear the new stuff which of course the other two didnt do although I cant help thinking that the money offered finally got too big for them to turn down.

[greendemon]

Oct 15, 2011 4:31:32 GMT 1 Paddy said:

The band can't beat the pub in York named ditto.

...except that the bar is named after the band

in other news:

I GOT TICKETS!

[Razzle Dazzle]

everyone has gone mental for tickets

[TheThorne]

well its likely they are playing T in the park andf I already got my tickets for that

[greendemon]

i know daz, i can't believe how quickly they sold out

[Earl Purple]

I can. They were legendary in their time. In many ways Madchester was the forerunner of britpop and they were the leading Madchester act.

[TheThorne]

Stone Roses confirmed for T In The Park 2012

www.tinthepark.com/

[wonderwall]

Wonder if there will be any new material