Ian Brown fronting the Stone Roses at Manchester City’s Etihad Stadium, June 17th 2016. (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever Media)
Ian Brown has apparently cast doubt on the future of the Stone Roses.
Brown is widely reported to have told the crowd at Hampden Park in Glasgow, ‘Don’t be sad it’s over, be happy that it happened’, after they brought their latest spell of huge UK shows to an end.
The Stone Roses toured extensively in 2012 after the unlikeliest of reunions had been confirmed in October 2011, but were quiet again until they returned for more live shows in 2016. Hopes of a first full album from the band since Second Coming were raised too last year with the release of the All For One and Beautiful Thing singles, but that all might now prove to be merely the final plot twist in an engaging story.
The future of the band was pondered by Live4ever in our just-published review from last week’s gig at the First Direct Arena in Leeds: “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,” it reads.
“Thank yous and farewells later, The Stone Roses glow is undimmed, a band which can do no wrong, even if that is by doing almost nothing for almost twenty years. Their gift is as a good times jukebox, a scrapbook of then and now, living clippings. Only time will tell if this will be enough to keep them in the present tense.”
Read it in full here.