Pennie Smith
All the enduring favourites were present as the Stone Roses played their first night at Manchester’s Etihad Stadium yesterday.
Book-ending the set with the classic opener and closer from their equally classic self-titled debut album, the band also included ‘All For One‘ from their far more recent London sessions with producer Paul Epworth, while ‘Second Coming‘ was nicely represented too along with a selection of b-sides and standalone singles.
By the end of this week the Stone Roses will have played four nights in Manchester, and then move on to New York for a date at Madison Square Garden before more shows in Ireland and Scotland – the latter being a headline visit to T In The Park.
Setlist (setlist.fm):
‘I Wanna Be Adored’
‘Elephant Stone’
‘Sally Cinnamon’
‘Mersey Paradise’
‘(Song for My) Sugar Spun Sister’
‘Bye Bye Badman’
‘Where Angels Play’
‘Shoot You Down’
‘Begging You’
‘Waterfall’
‘Don’t Stop’
‘Elizabeth My Dear’
‘Fools Gold’
‘All for One’
‘Love Spreads’
‘Made of Stone’
‘She Bangs the Drums’
‘Breaking into Heaven’
‘This Is the One’
‘I Am the Resurrection’