Ian Brown reveals new solo album Ripples, First World Problems single

‘Don’t be sad it’s over, be happy that it happened’, Ian Brown told the crowd at Hampden Park in Glasgow as The Stone Roses ended a 2017 summer of live gigs.

It brought hopes of the All For One and Beautiful Thing singles finally resulting in a full length album from the band; instead Brown has been reigniting his solo career and will release a new album himself, Ripples, on March 1st 2019. Immediate preview First World Problems is streaming online now.

The future of the band was pondered by Live4ever during our last encounter with them at the First Direct Arena in Leeds back in June 2017: “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.”

“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.”