Ian Brown is back on the chopper as his new solo single First World Problems gets a self-directed video.
Filmed in Dunham Massey, Stretford and Cornbrook, the promo is preceding Brown’s Ripples album, due for release on March 1st, 2019. It’ll contain three songs co-written with his sons, as well as covers of Barrington Levy’s Black Roses and Break Down The Walls by Mikey Dread.
This follows Brown’s reunion with The Stone Roses which started back in 2011 and which looked like it would deliver a new album of its own when the singles All For One and Beautiful Thing emerged five years later. However, as last summer’s live shows ended, Brown was telling the crowd at Hampden Park in Glasgow to not be sad it’s over, but ‘happy that it happened’:
“Closer I Am The Resurrection was this sensation at its most attenuated, the extended, funky jam of its second half a victory lap in a race the quartet never ran,” Live4ever’s review from the First Direct Arena in Leeds not long before concluded: