March 1995 - Ride On Fanzine is published.
Their was 4 different issues published.
You can download there here.
January 1995 - Love Spreads Japanese Release Date
January 1995 - Pennie Smith Photo Shoot
For Geffen MCA Press Photos. Reni does not look happy in any of the photos.
January 1995 - The Stone Roses appear on the cover of Japanese Crossbeat Magazine
05-09 January 1995 - London - Ride On
Apparently the band mix/remix tracks for upcoming single releases. Maybe Moses and Ride On are included.
May 1995 - SOS Sound On Sound website, Article By Matt Bell, Simon Dawson said: With the album finished at last and in the shops, I asked Simon whether he had exhausted the vaults of finished material, or whether there were more as‑yet‑unreleased tracks? Sheepishly, Simon admits that there's "loads of ideas, not actually finished songs. There's a couple of new tracks for B‑sides on the new single ['Ten Storey Love Song'] which grew out of the album sessions: 'Moses' and another one which we did in London at the start of January called 'Ride On'. We did that very quickly, in just three or four days, because the guys had to go to the States, but we did it, and it sounds great"....
January 1995 - Love Spreads Video Shoot, Los Angeles, USA
The band's U.K Video is refused airplay by MTV because of its "poor quality".
1 January 1995 - The Stone Roses fly to the L.A again to discuss the U.S. Tour with Geffen Records and promote the new record. The band stayed at the West Hollywood Apartments, L.A. Geffen discuss the bands upcoming itinerary. John is ill during the duration of the bands stay and is later diagnosed with pneumonia.
February 1996 - Q Magazine, Article/Review by John Harris: "I collapsed walking from the toilet to my bed, which was about where that ashtray is (a matter of a few feet). It was pretty scary. I was in bed for two weeks, feeling like I was drowning. Then we flew to America, and I remember who was on the plane, Goldie Hawm and Kurt Russell, being fashionably late, with the bags of shopping running for the gate, I was behind them, the last one on board. It was the illest I’ve ever been.
From 01 March 1995 -'The Face Magazine' Issue 78.
John Squire doesn’t manage to leave his room during my time with the The Stone Roses in LA. The doctor visits every day. Meal trays come and go, the sound of Natural Born Killers on his TV spills sporadically into the corridor and the gut-wrenching, terminal coughing is never ending.
The band’s guitarist, principal songwriter and sleeve artist is not well at all. A couple of days after I arrive back in London, however, the phone rings and John’s voice is on the line, agonisingly faint, but full of apologies. He still breaks off sentences to cough violently, but is much improved; he’s been playing guitar to himself in his room (“some of the old songs, ‘Waterfall’, ‘Adored’, ‘Resurrection”‘) and has now managed to watch Natural Born Killers “four or five times”.
Manager Doug Goldstein said: “Reni wasn‘t certain he wanted to take it on: a year and a half being away from home, touring and promoting the record.”
1995 - Love Spreads U.S & Canada Release Date
Peaked At Number 55 On The U.S. Hot 100 Airplay Billboard Chart. Peaked At Number 67 On The Canadian RPM Top Singles Chart.
In L.A. the Roses re-shot the video for Love Spreads with director by Steve Hanft (Propaganda Films). Steve had directed, Geffen label mate, Beck's video 'Loser'. Beck even had a small cameo in the promo video.
From 01 March 1995 -'The Face Magazine' Issue 78.
How important is success in America?
John: All I desire is to make enough money to make another record.
Reni: Yeah, it’s important in that if this LP doesn’t sell we might not be making the next.
Ian: It’s only important that they can see us and we can see them.
Mani: The boy and girl shagging to our record- that’s what’s really important.
From March 1995 - Q Magazine, Who the hell do The Stone Roses think they are? (March 1995) by Adrian Deevoy:
"The reason why no British band has taken the US in the last 10 years," continues Brown, warming to his theme and regaining some of his old arrogance, "is that none of them have been any good."
"America's there for us if we want it," he claims boldly. "It's ours."
16 January 1995 - Second Coming U.S.A Release Date
The album entered the charts at number 47. The LP goes platinum after selling 300,00 Copies.
17 January 1995 - Modern Rock Live Session, L.A., U.S.A.
Interview only. Ian causes controversy during an the radio interview by saying the American army should "stop killing babies“. His remarks are prompted after hearing adverts urging citizens to join up.
23 January 1995 - KITS 105.3 FM, San Francisco Bay Radio, Studios, Oakland, U.S.A. DJ Mark Hamilton Session. Interview with Mani, John, Ian & Reni.
When asked what he thought of America at Kits Live 105, in San Francisco, Reni replied, “Very small, cramped.”
23 January 1995 - KOME 98.5 FM, San Jose Radio, Studios, San Jose, U.S.A.
25 January 1995 - Michael Eavis asks the band to headline this year's Glastonbury Festival. "I'm hopeful they will play," he says. The Roses are "very keen", apparently.
28 January 1995 - Melody Maker reveal the dates for the secret shows. The Stone Roses announced a short secret tour of U.K. shows. All the shows were cancelled. John Squire was ill with pneumonia, which started in the U.S.A..
Apparently the tour itinerary included shows at Blackwood, Ipswich, Belfast, Glasgow and Liverpool.
From 01 March 1995 -'The Face Magazine' Issue 78, March 95: While the other members of The Stone Roses have been professionally vague about the more specific upcoming plans, John is soon revealing all. “Yeah, we’re playing all those small clubs in March – Blackwood, Ipswich, Belfast, Glasgow and Liverpool I’ve got on my itinerary here. They’re secret dates: bloated four-hour sets, I think!”
From 04 March 1995 - NME Magazine News: However, venues for the Roses' five-date UK tour - Ipswich, Blackwood, Liverpool, Glasgow and one other city - are being changed after being revealed in last weeks' NME. A spokesperson said: "They like to stay one step ahead. They don't like people to know what's going on too early."
From 20 April 1996 - John Squire appears on the cover of the NME (New Musical Express) Magazine: What happened when Reni left?
John said “Well, running up to it, left us looking like pricks with interviews and photo sessions and a video shoot. It just became apparent that he wanted out but he didn’t know how to do it. We had ten days, I think it was ten or 12 days to go to the tour. We’d already had to blow out the secret tour because we simply weren’t ready to play it. The rehearsals hadn’t been going very well. Nobody was really in shape to do it. So I just remember it being a really mad rush to cram everything in. Any time in our history it would have been a major blow to lose a member, ten days before a gig never mind a tour, because we’re all the sort of people who’ve played in bands since we were 11 and doing pub gigs every night. It was kind of a one-off.”
February 1995 - The Stone Roses appear on the cover of Japanese Crossbeat Magazine.. After the exclusive interview for Big Issue was published, the interview article was auctioned at their request to the press around the world. The contract money exchanged for its publishing rights, in line with the magazine's original purpose, was handed over to The Big Issue for the reintegration of homeless people. The Interview was later used by Melody Maker newspaper & in Japan, February 1995, Crossbeat Magazine magazine published the full interview.
February 1995 - The Stone Roses feature on the cover of VOX Magazine, February 1995, Issue 53, £2. Full band photo featuring Reni. Headline read 'We'll Never Sell Out!, Stone Roses The Interview, The Producer, The Scam'
February 1995 - The Stone Roses feature on the cover of Select Magazine. Full band photo featuring Reni. Headline read 'So, what kept you?'
13 February 1995 - Ten Storey Love Song Video Shoot, Bow Street Studios, East London. Ian wanted to use Wiz for the video but the band asked Sophie Muller instead. Wiz came down to the shoot and met with the band. Ian would later work with Wiz for some of his solo promo videos (see 12 January 1998 - My Star).
From Simon Spence's Book 'War & Peace': The video was shot by English director Sophie Muller best known for her work with The Eurythmics, Sade, Shakespeare’s Sister and Annie Lennox.
Remarkably, drummer Reni did not even bother to show for the video shoot, and was instead represented by a Pennie Smith photo of his head blown-up and stuck on a stick. Brown also missed the first day of the two days shoot.
Geffen handed her a huge budget. The shoot was planned to take place in London. Muller hired a huge crew and did a big set build. On the first day, just Squire and Mani showed. “I think what happened was that it was Ian’s son’s birthday,” she said. “And he wanted to go to the birthday party and he was still up north. And I remember saying to them, does he realise that there’s sixty people just sitting waiting? It was one of those weird, kind of surreal things. He phoned and said he’d be down later, and I was like, down later ? This is a film-shoot! The record company were freaking out. Ian turned up right at the end of the day and said, let’s get on with it. I showed him the script and he said, oh I don’t want to do any of this. I was like, what do you mean you don’t want to do it, that’s the script, haven’t you seen it before? And he went, no! I just thought it was hilarious, there was this huge video and two of the band didn’t turn up and then when one of them did turn up, he didn’t want to do the idea because he hadn’t read the treatment!”
20 February 1995 - Ian Brown's 32nd birthday
25 February 1995 - All the secret shows were cancelled.
John Squire was still ill with pneumonia, or 'pleurisy' depending on which article you read. Dates included 06 April 1995 - State Ballroom, Liverpool.
27 February 1995 Monday - Ten Storey Love Song U.K Release Date. From promo poster 'on two track 7" and cassette and three track 12" and CD'. The original advert noted all formats include previosuly unreleased tracks.' Peaked At Number 11 In The U.K. Charts. CD Sleeve indicates Ten Storey Love Song as the LP version despite the obvious fade out.
From 01 March 1995 -'The Face Magazine' Issue 78, John’s latest sleeve art (John Squire: “The idea’s just been to get away from the Jackson Pollock impersonations. This new single features a square box full of cheap models of Michelangelo and for the one after that I’ve smashed up some floppy discs from my sampler, glued them down and painted over them”).
From 01 March 1995 -'The Face Magazine' Issue 78.
When John Squire gets sick, strange things seem to start happening this most unorthodox of bands. As he languishes with what is variously described as flu, pneumonia and pleurisy, the timing and location my meeting with the group become ever-changing variables. Meanwhile not only are the B-sides of the next single not getting finished as quickly expected (“the other three seem to be slacking a bit” comes one report from the studio), but the A-side seems to have become somewhat erratic well. Since the release of “The Second Corning” in December, the world has been under the impression that the follow-up single to “Love Spreads” will be the swooping swooner “Ten Storey Love Song”. Now, “Breaking Into Heaven” and “How Do You Sleep” (the latter playlisted Radio 1) are suddenly also being whispered about.
The way both Reni and Mani are describing the current state of the Roses’ garden, the world can expect to see individual songwriting credits for all four of the group in the future. Ian, for his part, says he already has “about 20 new halves” starred, while John claims “this band’s never been about holding anyone back creatively”. The situation obviously recalls the way that the bands’ idols, The Beatles, began to draw increasingly on all four members to bolster songwriting depth.
Reni plays me the latest song The Stone Roses have recorded, a new Squire/Brown co-composition “Ride On”. One part swampy atmospherics, one part towering guitar slabs, “Ride On” is a dark, cosmic slop with a Marvin Gaye sample buried in its midst. Reni thinks it’s “technically so-so, but spiritually spot-on”. Others will, no doubt, see it as a further sign of the dreaded “muso” disease afflicting their pop prophets.
Where once there was the strict three minute-aesthetic of, say, “Mersey Paradise” and “She Bangs The Drums”, now there is talk of a loose, musical maturity. “But I’m really looking forward to when we don’t write pop stuff like that,” says Reni, “because even when we were doing it we were thinking, ‘This will do until we write something really good.’
We’re writing tunes now in the way I pictured a great band doing it when I was ten. Pure and live, with space and depth, get it together in ten minutes and stick it down.
From 04 March 2011 - Clash Magazine/Website article "The Life And Times Of The Stone Roses, Avanti! fanzine and Melody Maker writer Dave Simpson said: There were a lot of rumours about what was happening with the Roses. I think every so often journalists would be sent to try and find out - you know, talk to someone in the cake shop down the road from the studio or something, There’d be rumours that Mani had grown a massive beard and wanted to be called Moses. There was a hilarious story that Matthew Priest from Dodgy started, that Ian Brown wished to be addressed as ‘King Monkey’. It just seemed ridiculous.
27 February 1995 Monday - Evening Session, BBC Radio 1, BBC Studios, London. Ian, Mani and Reni interview with Steve Lamaq and Jo Whiley BBC Radio 1. Mani reveals Slaughter And The Dogs were the band that made him want to pick up a guitar.
Ian Brown plays the Zeppelin soaked wonder that is 'One Time For The Rebel' by Son of Bazerk, and then strenuously points out that The Wonder Stuff wasn't one of the band's choice of records.
JW: That was The Wonder Stuff, and we have The Stone Roses with us till 9 O’Clock tonight, er, lots more of their choice records, loads of questions..
I: [interrupting] That WASN’T one of our choices, just… let’s get that right.
M: Miles Hunt – rhyming slang.
Reni discloses that he was in a band called Dealer before he joined the Roses.
SL: Right, OK. Ben and James in Cumbria, ‘Were any of you in bands before The Stone Roses, and were you any good?’
I: I was in a band called ‘The Patrol’ and we were no good.
R: I was in a band called ‘Dealer’, and we were wicked, man.
SL: Dealer?!
R: Yeah. And our influences were: AC/DC, UFO, Eddie van Halen, that’s with Dave Lee Roth, well, before I realised a few things about the guy, and, er… stuff like that.
SL: How long was your hair at that point?
R: Well I never really had big hair, y’know, I was always a pretty tight crop with the hair usually. I stuck out in a crowd, because at the time lost of my friends were what they call ‘stinkers’ y’know and… there’s this big mod revival movement going round now… well if you were a heavy metal freak, you were called a stinker, that’s what they used to call them in the North-West of England.
SL: Really? No, I haven’t heard of that one. Stinker.
R: I used to hang out with the stinker crowd, man, yeah. And we were like, y’know, hanging out in the Hell’s Angels pubs and stuff, and everyone was into AC/DC.
March 1995 - The Stone Roses, Ian & Mani Interview appears in Q Magazine. Conducted by Adrian Deevoy at the Kensington Hilton Hotel, London.
March 1995 - The Stone Roses appear on the cover of Japanese Rockin' On 3 Magazine
March 1995 - The Stone Roses appear on the cover of Total Guitar Magazine, Issue Number 04
01 March 1995 - Ian Brown appears on the cover of 'The Face Magazine' Issue 78, The Stone Roses interview, Thai-resturaunt, Sunset Strip, L.A., CA. Cover noted 'To Hell & Back, Stone Roses, The first major interview'.
From 01 March 1995 - 'The Face Magazine' Issue 78.
Do you think The Stone Roses will still be together in 1999?
John: I think the group’s really strong. I hope we will be.
Ian: I know we’ll still be together. The best is yet to come.
Reni: I’d like us to stick an album out every year until 1999.
Mani: Listen, I’m not going back on the dole for nobody.
Reni at the crossroads. “These things don’t change the way you look, but you grow up so much inside,” he says. “You stop being a surly, sulky little bastard, basically.”
It is 11am, the Stone Roses’ drummer has just got out of the shower, and he is already in hill flow. He tells me has drumming could currently do with some real work on it, that he now meets better drummers in the New York subway. He’s the most replaceable member of the group, he believes, although you sense that, right now, he’d far rather be sampling Gang Starr loops than blowing his own trumpet. “In every band I’ve been in, I’ve always been the best player in the room,” he says. “And that’s not true any more.”
Reni is a dad now too and has been for longer than he ever knew, in fact. “I’ve two kids at home now, two boys, and that wasn’t really planned at all.
But I’ve got another little girl as well, she’s nine now. My daughter, right, she’s being chased around at the moment back home by journalists. Her mother’s being hounded out of a bar job because these people keep turning up asking all these questions. Now what’s happened between me and her in the past and what money I give them has got nothing to do with the fucking News Of The World.” So what’s the story? “Millionaire Star’s Secret Daughter!”? “Stone Rose’s Thorny Past!”?
Reni says the story’s not there, and that no one concerned would be selling it even if it was. “None of us are millionaires, anyway, not even quarter millionaires, not even ten per cent.”
“I never knew this little girl was mine, right, and I’d been told in the past it was nothing to do with me. But then when I saw her as a seven-year-old child it was just this self-evident thing.
So I had the DNA tests straight away and that was it for me, since that day I’ve seen her weekly as often as I can. I took her straight home to mine and introduced her to her two little brothers.
The whole parenthood thing, it just knocks you sideways.”
Reni has not had a quiet five years. As well as helping to bring up two (then three) children, he’s built a four-track studio at his home in Manchester, seen it get burgled, rebuilt it, started writing his own songs on keyboards and guitar, suffered the divorce of his parents and then found time for a few months drumming on a Stone Roses album too.
Ian Brown on Happy Mondays 01 March 1995 - Ian Brown appears on the cover of 'The Face Magazine' Issue 78. I’d always thought that us and the Mondays would make things more real, but and I don’t know why it happens , it all peters out and goes wrong. You know those lads in the Mondays, I feel proper sorry for them, They’re great musicians and they can play, but I seen Mark Day a year ago and you know what? He couldn’t afford to buy a cot for his daughter.”
March 1995 - John Squire told Los Angeles Times / The Face magazine he’d had a cocaine problem during the making of Second Coming. The Los Angeles Times featured an article regarding John's substance abuse "I made the mistake of using cocaine for a while, thinking it would make me productive, but it just made me more unsure, more paranoid.".
From February 1998 - Uncut magazine Ian Brown interview: In March, 1995, John Squire told The Face he’d had a cocaine problem during the making of Second Coming. Why do you think John succumbed to cocaine?
“Dunno. Easy to get – you’re in a band, you get the best gear. You start off using it to bolster your confidence. You’re insecure. But then you can’t go out without using it. You’re using it in the studio, you’re using it at home. Pick the phone up, the next thing four grammes are arriving. So you shut yourself in your room, you never come out. I’d go away for a week, come back and no one’s talking. He’s not talking to him, he thinks he’s a dick, and he thinks he’s a dick, and I’m trying to be the daddy of them all. I’m walking in each room and getting big hugs, but he won’t work with him. Charlie is the devil, simple as that.”
March 1995 - Q Magazine, Who the hell do The Stone Roses think they are? by Adrian Deevoy: "I've haven't done chemicals for three or four years now," says Brown, allowing some green tea to infuse in his London hotel room. "Don't smoke ganja either. I've only had coke twice in my life and it turned me into the most arrogant, unbearable person in the world."
From Autumn 2001 Mojo Collections “There’s been a lot reported in the press about John and his cocaine habit,” says Dawson .. “And you know, I never saw him take cocaine, ever. And I was with them for 14 months. He was taking cocaine — he’s said so himself— but I never saw anyone taking it. “There was a problem with lan and the amount of smoke he was doing. That was difficult to cope with. It was difficult to under stand what he was saying. And when he was very stoned, it was very difficult to understand what he was saying. And sometimes … there was stuff happening that was a bit odd. Like when he shaved his head, and Reni did the same thing to try and hold it all together.” Brown later admitted as much: “I smoked too much. It just turned my head to mush. If you smoke all day and night you just get hyper-critical and you never get to the end of anything.”
03 January 1998 - NME Magazine: Ian Brown: “In ’95 I was saying, ‘Will this work, can we bring it back?’ And I think by the end of the year we had done. But there was always a gap. On those tours there were two buses: the cocaine bus and the non-cocaine bus. And if someone’s on coke you can’t work with them. It’s simple. There’s no-one in my life now who takes cocaine. Everybody that I know who takes coke I’ve just cut them out of my life and I feel great now.”
So which bus were you on? “I was on the non-cocaine bus. Six of us. And all the rest is coked-up. I can’t stand cocaine. It’s the weakest thing you can do. There’s no love, there’s no soul.”
01 October 2009 Thursday 12:14 - The Guardian Newspaper article, by Guardian Music - Hannah Pool Interview: Ian Brown talks to Hannah Pool about the Stone Roses and his solo career...And the worst (Roses memory)? Walking into John's [Squire] room and seeing him with another delivery of cocaine in a big pile on his table. It's 11 in the morning and he's snorting lines of cocaine and I'm thinking, "Shit, is that what we are now? Do you have to take coke at 11 in the morning just so that you can come up with a guitar line? I thought we were against all that. I thought we were the real article. If he could have seen himself when he was 15, doing that, he'd have been horrified...
23 September 2005 Friday 23:59 - The Guardian Newspaper article, by Simon Hattenstone, Interview by Simon in a Milkshake bar in West London: "We had two buses - the coke bus and the weed bus. All the crew who was into the charlie travelled with him. It was all the white guys on charlie with him, and me and all black guys on our bus. The black guys just had a good laugh. They weren't on coke, they didn't need it."
1998 - Hot Press, Interview by Stuart Bailie, in a bar in Chorlton: Squire later confessed that he had over-indulged in cocaine during the wilderness years, that the drug made him anti-social. In contrast, Brown passses on alcohol, fuels up on bananas and treats his face with Clinique Pour Homme moisturiser. He does press-ups, stretches and sit-ups, and works out on a rowing machine. He is deeply contemptuous of cocaine users.
"When you go into a place where people are using it, you can feel the coke straight away" he snarls. "There’s no love in the place, no soul. They’re saying nothing. They’re wastin’ our time, like an entire generation all on coke. We know that coke is the devil. In the 70’s punk came to destroy coke and now it’s cool again."
"If you’re gonna make records on coke, do what Marvin Gaye did and let’s hear the torture, how you’re fighting for your soul. You can hear it on What’s Going On. Look at how he ended up. A world superstar, and he was on his own in Belgium. Playing dates in Ostend. To get away from coke. I gave up powders in 1990. But I never went mad on them, no."
From 13 May 1995 - Melody Maker Magazine, Review and Interview by Dave Simpson: John, there were reports in a US tabloid that you'd had a serious problem with cocaine during the making of Second Coming. Correct? (Mani and Ian shuffle uneasily in their chairs.)
JOHN (staring at the table): "Yeah. I did too much."
How serious was the problem? (Cue distracting noises from Ian and Robbie.)
JOHN: "It made me anti-social."
I took Tears to be about that. ("Somebody throw me a line/I need it, need it bad…")
JOHN: "No, I never thought about it like that."
IAN: "I sung it. Never went through me head."
JOHN: "Tears is a love song."
ROBBIE: "Every song's got a million meanings, man. You make your own mind up."
...There's always been a lot of religion in the Stone Roses music, from the lyrics of Resurrection to the title 'Second Coming' and the imagery on Driving South. Why do you take so much from The Bible?
JOHN: "It's unconscious. Resurrection was Ian's and Second Coming, that's public domain, innit? I thought it was cocky and tongue-in-cheek at the same time."
IAN: "I read The Bible whenever it takes me. I read Exodus a lot during the Gulf War, when we were recording in Wales. It hit home cos here was this rich family who was bringing the biggest army in the world to kill poor people. We couldn't do anything to stop it."
Could God have done something to stop it?
IAN (thoughtfully): "Yeah. God's creative, not destructive. God is a creation."
One thing I particularly liked about Love Spreads were the lyrics "The Messiah is my sister", which sound really innocuous when you hear them on the radio but in fact you're questioning thousands of years of Christianity by saying that. It's a casually controversial thing to have in a pop song.
IAN: "I don't see it as controversial."
Tell that to the Pope!
IAN: "Well, if you read the Dead Sea scrolls, they tell you that Mary Magdalene gave Him his power."
ROBBIE: "Do you know what The Bible calls the church? 'She'. It's like what The Bible calls the earth, 'Mother Earth'."
Maybe, but it's always been written that God/Jesus was a Him. You could be on the brink of a major religious and political storm here, with people - in Italy or Ireland say - burning records in the street like they did with The Beatles!
JOHN: "The idea of the song is, 'Why couldn't Jesus have been a black woman?' It's just an attack on the white guy with a beard sittin' on a cross, cos that reinforces the patriarchal society."
March 1995 - Newport Council has spent £2,500 replacing ten stone cherubs which have been stolen from bridges and monuments in the town Ian Brown tells the South Wales Echo: "People should have more respect for architecture. "
04 March 1995 - The Stone Roses features on the cover of NME (New Musical Express) Magazine Front page headline read 'We're stll arrogant sods! The Stone Roses take on the world'. The NME priced at 80p. See Media for the interview.
From NME News Section: Meanwhile, Newport Council has spent £2,500 replacing ten stone cherubs which have been chipped off bridges and monuments in the town. The cherub, part of Newport's coat of arms, was used as artwork on the 'Love Spreads' single....
09 March 1995 Thursday - Gareth Evan's discusses the upcoming case with the band's lawyers
10 March 1995 Friday - Gareth Evan's High Court Case, London is settled out of court. Gareth was sueing the band for wrongful dismissal and originally demanded £10 million pounds. The band never went to court (court date was 15 March 1995), the case was settled out of court (10 March) for an undisclosed amount. Lawyers for both sides met over the weekend to thrash out who would pay the legal costs.
March 1995 - Cottonworks Rehearsal Rooms, Mill, Ardwick, Manchester. I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Don’t Stop / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak / Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Standing Here / Love Spreads / Good Times / Shoot You Down / This Is The One / Drivin’ South / Made Of Stone / I Am The Resurrection / Beggin’ You / Fools Gold
From March 1995 - NME Magazine News. Meanwhile, the band have signed a clothes sponsorship deal with Cottonworks, the casual fashion house that also sponsors Take That and The Orb.
The firm has also provided the Roses with rehearsal rooms at its factory in Ardwick, Manchester, which the band were last week using to prepare for their forthcoming UK tour.
During these sessions the band has been playing ‘I Wanna Be Adored’, ‘Waterfall’, ‘She Bangs The Drums’, ‘Don’t Stop’, ‘Made Of Stone’, ‘Shoot You Down’, ‘This Is The One’, ‘I Am The Resurrection’, ‘Standing Here’, ‘Fools Gold’, ‘Love Spreads’, ‘Breaking Into Heaven’, ‘Drivin’ South’, ‘Ten Storey Love Song’, ‘Daybreak’, ‘Good Times’, ‘Beggin’ You’, ‘Tightrope’ and ‘Your Star Will Shine’..
Drummer Reni told NME that currently one of his favourite bands was superstar metallers Megadeath. “I went to see them and I was getting down with the metalheads,” he said.
30 March 1995 - Reni leaves The Stone Roses.
The official statement was only made 04 April 1995.
NME printed a article including the statement
"Reni has left. He has been replaced by Maddix who is 25 and who is a friend."
In an interview with the UCD college newspaper (circa January 2003), John Squire has claimed it was Ian, not him, who had the row with Reni that led to the drummer quitting the Roses.
From 13 May 1995 - Melody Maker Magazine, Interview by Dave Simpson: So, Reni has left. What the hell happened?
IAN BROWN: "Time ran its course. The way it is is the way it is. He'd had enough so he left."
Reni's departure seems like a snap decision. Is that the case or had it been brewing up for a while?
IAN: "Over the years we've often talked about it but we've been mates, buds, for 12 years."
JOHN SQUIRE (quietly): "Reni's been talking about leaving for about a year."
It had been noticed that Reni had recently made a habit of not turning up for the band's promotional appearances: interviews, photo sessions and the like. The sketchy news stories concerning Reni's departure have all hinged on his "unreliability".
IAN: "He had his reasons for doing what he did."
MANI (irritated): "We can't sit here and diss him, man, Reni's had a lot of f***ing bad shit in his life and that… you get onto something else man. You ain't gonna get shit out of us."...
Ian Brown Interview from Uncut Magazine, June 2006, Issue 109: Reni left first. Rumour has it he was on heroin…
“Yeah. Well, he didn’t get up until 9 o’clock every night.”
Can you confirm the smack stories?
“Not really. It’s one thing we’ve never really talked about because he’s got kids and he’s never really done an interview since. It’s down to him.”
Fair enough. But there was heroin in the Roses camp?
“It ended up being, yeah. And that’s what probably also fucked it all up because you can’t play with junkies. Unless you’re all junkies.”
Did you ever try heroin? “Never tried it. I used to buy weed from a couple on Coronation Street and they used to beg us not to take it: ‘You’re the Roses, you don’t need it.’ I had junkie friends who’d sell me weed, but they made sure we never touched it. I’ve sat with kids doing it, but never tried it.”
From 06 March 2009 - Uncut Magazine Interview with Ian Brown: So, how gutted were you when Reni left?
Not half as gutted as when he was there. But we still had our moments. We still had some great shows. I mean, Brixton in ‘95 was our best show after Glasgow Green that we ever played. I think we’re more consistent with Robbie Maddox on the drums. We’re sort of good to great every night, whereas with Reni we were great one night, good the next and crap the next.
Really? Because he’s got a reputation of being one of the best drummers of that era.
He’s probably the best drummer I’ve ever seen, still. So, why was he so inconsistent?
It wasn’t just him. It was all of us. Just the dynamic? Yeah. Sometimes it worked and it was amazing. Sometimes it didn’t.
Right. So do you speak to Reni much? I haven’t spoken to Reni since 2001.
From February 1998 - Uncut magazine Ian Brown interview: Had you anticipated Reni leaving?
“Yeah. Because of the situation, he wanted to leave to spite John, but he didn’t want to do it to me. I’d considered leaving myself, in 1993. It was no surprise to me when Reni left.” Because no reason for Reni’s departure was given at the time, rumour spread that it was either down to arguments about money, or that the drummer had a heroin problem. Was that untrue?
“[hesitating] No one had a beef about money… if we’d have delivered 50 songs, we’d have shared £20 million.”
From 2001 I Am Without Shoes Exclusive Mani Interview: > IAWS: Reni – it seemed a sudden decision to quit the band?
Mani: Not really. Reni is a calculated guy, he would’ve thought long and hard before deciding to leave. I think he saw the way things were going before the rest of us. He sussed out moves by certain other members of the band and realised that people had their own agendas, so he got out of it.
IAWS: Part of the reason it seemed sudden was because of the radio interviews you’d been doing a few months prior to him quitting, in which he was the most talkative member of the band, and was talking a lot about his and the band’s plans for the future.
Mani: Yeah, well, people put up smokescreens, don’t they? That’s all it was man, a smokescreen.
From John Squire Interview 18 May 1997 - Sunday Mail, Scottish Daily Record: "When he left, the chemistry just wasn't the same,"
From 13 June 2007 - XFM Manchester Session Interview John Squire said: Whilst making the second album, it was like we were lost at sea, we didn’t have a business manager, we didn’t have any kind of management really.
Doug Goldstein got involved – the Guns ‘N Roses manager – and the band were a little bit unsure about whether to go for that and Ian and Reni had a row about it and maybe it expanded from that issue, I’m not sure. Ian came to me and Mani and told us that Reni had quit the night after this big row and said he wouldn’t work with again anyway.
This was a couple of weeks before the tour was due to start and I could see in Ian’s eyes that there was no turning back from that point and I think that was really the last nail in the coffin for the band. It was never the same after that moment. I realised I was facing a choice in a way; that I could either do the tour without the drummer or the tour without the singer, and that was no contest.
From April 1995 - The Guitar Mag Feature: Reni said: "Possibly. Personally, I'm sick of underachieving. I've written my own stuff, my problem is finishing it. The last few years I've been learning the guitar; I'm a very basic strummer but I just can't help writing songs. In fact my drumming suffered 'cause I was always working on songs on my 4-track at home. I've got a keyboard and a guitar and you can play those at home whereas you can't play drums - at least not where I live 'cause it would annoy the neighbours. I've been working on some Gang Starr loops that I've put stuff over that sound great. I could develop those ideas. If it takes us this long to record another album I'll have my solo LP out first."
30 March 1995 - Doug Goldstein steps down from managing the band. A mutual decision that Doug no longer manages the band. Steve 'Adge' Atherton steps in to manage the upcoming tour.
31 March 1995 - Ian recruits a new drummer.
Apparently the next day Reni phoned Brown: “I need to get down to rehearsal early so that me and Mani can rehearse, and you and John can come down later.”
Brown replied, “I've done what you told me to do last night."
“What do you mean?” asked Reni.
“You told me to get another drummer, so I have," said Brown.
01 April 1995 - Robbie Jay Maddix joins The Stone Roses
Robbie 'The Jay' Maddix was born in 1970 in London, he joins the band aged 25. Steve 'Adge' Atherton, initially, asked Robbie to come jam with the band, he was then asked to join the group for the upcoming tour.
Steve had known Robbie for over five years.
He played his first gig in gospel church services before moving to Manchester, aged 12.
He was one of eight children and studied at Arden College. One of his brothers was a failed boxer who had to quit because of a detached retina. Another, named Ozzy, was the area manager of Top Man in Manchester while other brothers and sisters worked in the catering industry. Two sisters were living in the USA and his father was involved in property and lived in Connecticut at the time of Robbie joining the band.
Robbie Maddix was given the nickname 'The Jay' by Ian Brown. The Jay's drumming C.V. included Hot Chocolate's Errol Brown, Ruby Turner, Double Trouble, Joe Roberts, The Rebel MC and apparently Simply Red (Future guitarist, Aziz Ibrahim, also played with Simply Red circa 1987/1988), also in a Manchester band with Aziz, "Gina Gina".
Robbie was also a dance/house music remixer in the late 80's/early 90's. He did mixes for Terence Trent D'Arby.
Robbie was credited for producing artists inluding Atlantic Starr, Shabba Ranks and Queen Latifah.
Robbie played with Andy Williams (keyboardist) on the circa 1992 Errol Brown tour.
A 2007 Paul John Dykes Interview with Robbie Jay Maddix revealed "I was asked by the then tour manager, Steve Adj, to meet John, Ian and Mani at a rehearsal room in Manchester. I never knew any of them before that. The mood of the camp was sad, until they heard me play. At that point they knew the Roses could carry on."
From February 1998 - Uncut magazine Ian Brown interview:
“We were feeling closer, Robbie came in and he was fired up, full of beans. He learned about our past and became a full-on member. He fitted perfectly.”
From 01 May 1995 Geffen Records 'For Immediate Release' press newsletter. Original drummer Alan 'Reni' Wren resigned and was replaced by Robbie J. Maddix, former drummer in Rebel MC & Double Trouble and a dance/house music remixer.
As with the other bandmembers, "Robbie Jay" grew up in Manchester, England. Born in London, one of eight children, he played first in gospel church services before moving north when he was 12 years old. After studying at Arden College, he quickly gained a reputation as a top drummer in the U.K. particularly for soul/pop/dance artists. Besides Rebel MC, he's drummed for Ruby Turner and Errol Brown, and also done remixing for Terence Trent D'Arby.
From February 1996 - Rhythm Magazine, Interview with Robbie Maddix by Pat Reid:
Robbie Maddix" How did I land it? You mean with the best band in the country?" Robbie Maddix is completely unfazed by the question of how he got to replace Reni in one of the hottest bands in the land. "It's the ear," he decides. "I'm pretty quick. Through production and being able to arrange I play bass, keyboards and guitar pretty well, so I know parts and how parts are supposed to be played. I've known Steve Abbott - he's the tour manager - for about six years. When he was recording with the Roses Reni disappeared for a while, so they were thinking of maybe having to call someone at that point."...
April 1995 - MTV announce Reni has left The Stone Roses.
April 1995 - Reni is interviewed by the press outside his house in Whalley Range, Manchester
The Stone Roses' lawyer John Kennedy is now working out a settlement for Reni, who is expected to receive a five-figure sum.
1995 - Begging You Single News / Monmouth Studio Session, Wales From unknown article ''They plan to release a radically remixed and extended version of the album track 'Begging You' later in the year.''
From Simon Spence's Book 'War & Peace': Robbie Maddix said "“So we’re in Monmouth, we’re bored. The record company asked if they could do mixes. So straight away Ian, said Robbie you’ve got to do a mix. I did have a feeling – I don’t think John would like me to. I did it and it was funky as hell. But I wanted John to put guitar on it, just to have fun with it. Mani heard it, said wicked, kind of like Fools Gold, same kind of thing, funky drummer kind of thing. John came in and he didn’t like it.
They weren’t used to doing remixes. When John came in, he didn’t say it was good or bad, he just made a face. I thought, I don’t want to do something you don’t like but to be honest that’s what happens with a remix. He didn’t really get what the process of doing a remix was for. I think he thought I was doing what I think the Roses should sound like. I think he was bit put out.”"
08-18 April 1995 - The Second Coming Tour Rehearsals, Manchester Apparently Robbie Maddix had only ten days of rehearsals prior to the tour.
A 2007 Paul John Dykes Interview with Robbie Jay Maddix revealed ''I had settled in well with everyone and we were coming together as a band. Remember, we had only had 8 days of rehearsals, so it was always gonna take time to gel properly as a unit.''
From 13 May 1995 - Melody Maker Magazine, Interview by Dave Simpson: Did Maddix know all the songs? "I knew Fools Gold. I can't say to you, 'Oh, yeah, I always had the first album.' I don't buy albums for a start."
Uh-huh. So what happened then? Did the new line-up gel instantly?
"Pretty much so. John was in first. We sat down and had a chat. Then Ian got involved."
MANI: "I drove down the rehearsal room. I came out of the car and the three of them were playing Daybreak. I was still outside and it sounded f***in' enormous. I walked into the room and it was just there, straight away. You can't put the brakes on it man, no matter what happened. It's gonna happen, innit?"
10 April 1995 - Reni's 31st birthday
The Second Coming U.K. Tour Poster Read '...we apologise for the break in transmission...the show goes on...'
Equipment Specs for the tour can be found here
9 April 1995 Wednesday - Rockefella (Rockefeller) Music Hall, Oslo, Norway
Soundcheck: Alone Again (Mani short bass soundcheck) (Love cover)
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Good Times / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Elizabeth My Dear / I Am The Resurrection / Begging You / Driving South / Made Of Stone / Love Spreads
Robbie Maddix debut show. Approx 1100 fans attended the show, 1200 capacity venue. Norwegian media criticised the show.
Rockefeller booking manager Roar Gulbrandsen told NME: “People had great expectations for this because it is more than five years since they last played. But people didn’t think it was very good...They had problems with the singer’s voice. Some people didn’t think he did a very good job. The sound wasn’t that good either. But it got groovy towards the end of the new drummer was good.”
Dave Simpson interviewed the band for 13 May 1995 - Melody Maker Magazine after the show. He apparently wrote a Stone Roses fanzine back in the day, unconfirmed if Until The Sky Turns Green (see 1989). The 02:00am Interview with Ian, Mani, John & Robbie Maddix after the Rockefella Music Hall show was published. The interview was originally scheduled for 16:00 then 20:00 then after the show at 00:00 but ended up going into 20 April early morning at around 02:00am.
A 2007 Paul John Dykes Interview with Robbie Jay Maddix revealed "My first gig was Oslo. We had been in rehearsal for eight days and the last two days were brilliant, the first gig couldn’t come quick enough. We got to soundcheck and all seemed quiet, a few fans outside and some crew. Ian opened the door backstage and it was mayhem, shouts of “Ian!” and camera flashes. There were so many press people, I was stunned into silence. Up to that point, there had been no press around or anyone from outside the Roses camp.
Now the excitement started, we were buzzing before but now we knew the interest was high. Show time! We could hear the noise from the dressing room – “Roses, Roses!” Ian looked at John with this smile as if to say ‘they still love us’. Mani was in top form, with his shirt off, making everyone laugh.
Finally we were on our first gig. I Wanna Be Adored went down well but the on-stage sound was terrible, and only got worse. I think it was the 5th or 6th song and I could see something was wrong with Mani. He just kept shaking his head, then he took off his bass and launched it into his bass amp. I couldn’t believe it. Then John, with the look of thunder in his face, took his guitar off and smashed it into his fender twins. That was our debut gig."
20 April 1995 - Photo Session, Stockholm, Sweden
The band arrived in Stockholm in the early hours on the tour bus.
20 April 1995 - Record Signing Session
Steve "Adge" Atherton co-organised the signing session.
20 April 1995 - The Palladium, Stockholm, Sweden
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Good Times / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Elizabeth My Dear / I Am The Resurrection / Begging You / Driving South / Made Of Stone / Love Spreads
Approx 1000 fans attended the show. The set was plagued with mistakes. Robbie struggled with some of the older songs. John uses a different guitar/sound for She Bangs The Drums and Ten Storey Love Song which he doesn't use again.
During Elizabeth My Dear the strings broke but John carried on anyway. Apparently discount coupons for the Radiohead show were given away in the crowd, Radiohead were playing the Gino venue on the same night.
The band were in Stockholm ten years to this date too, see April 1985.
21 April 1995 - The Karen, Gothenburg (Goteborg), Sweden
Approx 1000 fans attended the show.
Day before Copenhagen show. John stays overnight in Gothernburg whilst all the other band members travel to Copenhagen.
22 April 1995 - Pakhus II (Pakhus 11), Copenhagen, Denmark
Soundcheck: Jam (with roadies on guitar) / I Want You Back (The Jackson 5 cover) (without John) / Unknown (without John) / Waterfall / Fools Gold / Jam (Ian on drums with crew member on guitar)
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Begging You / Fools Gold / Made Of Stone / I Am The Resurrection / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Driving South / Good Times / Love Spreads (attempt)
Approx 1200 tickets were sold. Pakhus 11 is a disused warehouse, surrounded by a construction site and wide shipping canal. John is late to the soundcheck.
Ian meets fans outside the venue after the soundcheck. Before the show the band were interviewed by NME & Les Inrocktuputibles in Room1108 at the "Sheraton Hotel".
The band were due on stage at 12, but only appeared on stage after 1am. Ian was wearing a brown shirt, John wore white. The stage has a foil backdrop.
Their was a few mistakes on the night. John attempted Love Spreads, at least twice, but aborts. Mani, Maddix and Ian waited for John to try again. At the second attempt Mani fist bumped (punched) his bass in anger as John couldn't get the riff correct.
John moves centre stage, Ian walks off followed by Mani & Robbie. John tries one more time but then takes off his guitar, holds it above his head and then slams it neck first into the floor. The neck is broke and the strings are snapped. John leaves the stage, there is no encore.
The tour was taking it's toll on the band. The shows so far saw John leading the way, giving The Jay the nod and plenty eye contact for fills and changes through the songs.
From February 1998 - Uncut magazine Ian Brown interview: What are your memories of the 1995 world tour? “We were erratic. We were poor in Copenhagen"
24 April 1995 - The Docks, Hamburg, Germany
25 April 1995 - Metropol, Nollendorfplatz 5, Berlin, Germany Doors Open: 19:00 - Show Starts: 20:00 * Ticket Price: 26DM (Approx £13.50) I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope (attempt) / Tightrope / Elizabeth My Dear / I Am The Resurrection / Begging You / Driving South / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Love Spreads
At least 900 people attended. The show was recorded by Sophie Muller. She would later use some footage for the Begging You promo video.
The set was plagued with mistakes. Robbie struggles and John plays some duff notes, his solos aren't as tight as future shows.
After the show Mani came to the barrier and met fans, signing and chatting about the show.
Eyewitness Report, Paul Rowley said: Roses at Berlin Metropol, April 1995. There was an eerie feel to the hall as I went in. No music playing, just people standing around talking. I think the guys on the mixing desk did manage to find a CD to play after a while. In any case it was a long wait before the Roses came on.
The crowd's patience was pushed to the limits and it was a relief when the Second Coming intro started. John came on with wild feedback. They then went into Adored, the sound was deafening and totally distorted. The acoustics at the Metropol are normally bad, but this was almost embarrassing. To top it all, Ian was totally out of tune during the first three songs, maybe he couldn't hear himself. John seemed to steer Robbie through the songs, he turned to him quite often to indicate changes.
Robbie seemed to be more comfortable with the new songs and that's when the band started to rock. I remember Begging You was excellent. All in all, I'd say it was a disappointing gig. Ian's vocals spoilt it and he didn't seem to care. Sadly, like many British bands playing smaller venues in Europe, they seemed arrogant and didn't make an effort to win the crowd over. The highlights were John's solo on Driving South and Mani hanging around in front of the stage after the gig. He signed my ticket and was really friendly. The light show was good, but overall I'd say they were underrehearsed.
26 April 1995 - The Paradiso (Paradiso Grote Zaal), Amsterdam, Netherlands I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Elizabeth My Dear / Love Spreads / Good Times / I Am The Resurrection / Begging You / Made Of Stone / Driving South
Date is often incorrectly noted as 14 or 24 April 1995.
The bootleg Blow The Dam is a near complete recording but the sound is inferior compared to High Times In Dopeland.
High Times In Dope Land sleeve appears on the front cover of the May 1996 - Music Review Live! Britpop Invasion Volume 4 No.5, $3.25 magazine.
From April 1995 - The Guitar Mag Feature: John Squire said: "To be honest, all I desire is to make enough money to make another record. I'd like to make a live album though, something that stands up against The Who's Live At Leeds or The Song Remains The Same. I really think we capture something live that we don't have in the studio."
29 April 1995 - E-Werk, Cologne, Germany
May 1995 - SOS Sound On Sound, Interview with Simon Dawson.
May 1995 - The Stone Roses appear in Music Weekly, Mani and Ian are interviewed. "Why do people get into smack?
Because they've got fuck all to do. They've got 24 hours a day to kill."
"When the album was finished Geffen said, Nice one. Let's go to work. When you're not doing anything you're not aware of it. It's not someone else's opinion you think of. Geffen said, Go away and do it. That's the way it should be, you can't force it. You can't say, Shit, we took too long, we'll do something half-baked."
"What's tragic about making an album? Why complain? Tragic is hooked on valium on some council estate in Whitley Bay, it's not going on the telly playing music. Too many people wear that sort of attitude like a badge. It's not different being a pop star. You don't feel glamorous all the time. Being on a tour bus with a blocked chemical toilet stinking it out isn't glamorous."
Ian says if he wasn't a pop star he'd be a welder: "People always want stuff welded, don't they?" Mani says he'd get a job in Waitrose.
May 1995 - The Stone Roses appear in Spin Magazine
Simon Reynolds Interview in L.A., CA. Los Angeles enjoys its heaviest daily rainfall for a century during the interview.
01 May 1995 Monday - Volkshaus, Zurich, Switzerland * Doors Open: 19:00 - Show Begins: 20:00 *
Promo poster indicated a sponsor from MTV 120 Minutes?
I don't think the show was filmed though.
03 May 1995 - Cancelled TV Appearence
A 2007 Paul John Dykes Interview with Robbie Jay Maddix revealed We were booked to do a TV show in the afternoon, then gig later on. We got to the TV station on time and were led to the studio. On the way, Ian turned to this guy and said, “What did you say?” The guy looked shocked that Ian had heard him, and in broken English, tried to play it down, but Ian was not having any of it. “I heard you say ‘nigger’.” I can say I had never heard any racism in my career until then. I was stunned at this point, and before I could react, Ian was shouting, “Get this guy out of this building now. We won’t be performing until this guy is thrown out.” They took him away and told us that he was gone, only for Ian to spot the same guy 10 minutes later. “That’s the same guy. Right, we’re off.” Both Mani and John took their guitars off and we all walked away. The TV company begged us, but nothing doing. Turns out it was the producer’s son. It left a bad taste for the gig later on. Like Ian says, “Got no time for racists”
03 May 1995 Wednesday - Luna Theatre, Rome Art Palladium, Rome, Italy I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak / Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Elizabeth My Dear / I Am The Resurrection / Good Times / Love Spreads / Begging You / Made Of Stone / Driving South /
Ian did not sound well. The entire band struggle in places. Their first tour in five years was taking it's toll on the band. Ian was missing verses, coughing and struggling (even more than usual) through the set.
On Daybreak Ian starts with the second verse. He excuses himself coughing during the first line of Tightrope.
Love Spreads sounds like John has his capo in the wrong place or his guitar is out of tune, he messed up a few times on the night.
A 2007 Paul John Dykes Interview with Robbie Jay Maddix revealed ''This was my worst gig in the Roses''
07 May 1995 Sunday - Aqualung, Madrid, Spain
Apparently the band sounded a lot better than the previous nights. Ian was still struggling but was getting better.
A 2007 Paul John Dykes Interview with Robbie Jay Maddix revealed ''This was probably my best gig. I had settled in well with everyone and we were coming together as a band.
Remember, we had only had 8 days of rehearsals, so it was always gonna take time to gel properly as a unit. We got the on-stage sound just right and John was on fire in soundcheck. During the gig, the guys kept looking at me, nodding their approval. As always, Ian was full of praise. That night, I felt a special feeling that I’ve not felt before or since that gig.''
08 May 1995 Monday - Presentando su ultimo disco 'Second Coming', Zeleste, Barcelona, Spain * Doors Open: 20:30 - The Stone Roses: 21:30 * Ticket Price: 2700 pts.
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak / Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Elizabeth My Dear / I Am The Resurrection / Love Spreads / Begging You / Made Of Stone / Driving South
09 May 1995 Tuesday - Le Transbordeur, Lyon, France
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak / Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Elizabeth My Dear / I Am The Resurrection / Good Times / Love Spreads / Begging You / Made Of Stone / Driving South /
Ian is still struggling and The Jay still misses the beats.
11 May 1995 Thursday - Elysee Club, Montmartre, 72 Bld Rochechouart 75018, Paris, France * Doors Open: 19:30 * Ticket Price: 142F, 4 Day Coach Holiday: £99.00
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Elizabeth My Dear / I Am The Resurrection / Good Times / Love Spreads / Begging You / Made Of Stone / Driving South / Fool's Gold
After Fool's Gold Ian Brown said: ''This is the last one, we don't do encores.''. The band were a lot better, Ian's voice sounded better than previous nights too.
Tickets went on sale 25 February 1995 Thursday. Rock Music Live In Europe (Leger Travel Ltd.) organised a 4 day coach holiday from the U.K. to the show with prices starting from £99.00. The promo posters for the show headlined 'The Second Coming Has Arrived' 'Unmissable small club concert'
The Stone Roses - May 1995 - The Complete Stone Roses Release Date Limited Edition with 2 Track Bonus Disc Featuring Previously Unreleased Recordings. The mysterious recordings include I Am Without Shoes which was used for some 1988/1989 stage introduction tapes. I presume the track was recorded in early 1988 during the demo stages for She Bangs The Drums. The track was remixed a few times, see the 20th Anniversary Boxset and 20th Anniversary Single Re-Releases for the Untitled mixes. The track was probably remixed during the Made Of Stones Sessions and The Debut LP sessions too.
In the U.K the second track is titled Groove (Black Magic Devil Woman) where as the mini 3inch disc names the song Groove-On Black Magic Devil Woman. Probably an outtake from the Elephant Stone recording sessions (see January 1988) or a jam from the 1989 during the B-Sides recording session for the She Bangs The Drums single...I have no idea.
Elephant Stone (7inch Mix), Full Fathom Five (7inch Mix), The Hardest Thing In The World all credited as 'Produced by Peter Hook'. Contradicts the vinyl pressing which mentions Elephant Stone 7inch is produced by John Leckie, although Peter Hook is the correct credit for the production. Full Fathom Five is the Peter Hook version rather than the original John Leckie mix. If you reverse this version of Full Fathom Five you get one of the first Peter Hook mixes of Elephant Stone.
13 May 1995 - The Stone Roses appear in Melody Maker Magazine, Review and Interview by Dave Simpson.
Second Coming U.S. Tour
14 May 1995 - The Atlanta Mid-Town Music Festival, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A. * Line Up: Adam Ant, Del Amitri, Bush and more * I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Love Spreads / I Am The Resurrection
The bands first ever US appearence. Open air show.
During I Am The Resurrection Mani took off his bass guitar and threw it to the floor and left the stage due to sound technicalites and his finger injury. He had issues throughout the entire set.
Del Amitri and Adam Ant were also on the line up. I don't think The Stone Roses were headlining, the video footage looks like the band are on a smaller stage and it is still daylight (afternoon performance?).
Greg Lewerke managed the band during the American tour, he was also linked to the bands cancelled 1990 U.S.A tour too.
16 May 1995 - Gaston Hall, Washington, DC, U.S.A. *Cancelled* Apparently the show was rescheduled to the WUST Radio Music Hall as the venue's P.A. system was not good enough for the show. Initial Date taken from Geffen newsletter.
17 May 1995 - WUST Radio Music Hall, Washington, DC, U.S.A. * Cancelled * Tickets for the previous night were going to remain valid for this show. The show was cancelled as the venue wanted an 'all seated' show which would prevent the band creating the 'right vibe'.
18 May 1995 - Marine Terminal 28, Manne Terminals, Toronto, Ontario, Canada I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall (attempt) / Maddix and Mani Jam / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak / Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / I Am The Resurrection / Good Times / Love Spreads / Made Of Stone / Driving South
No support act. Sold Out Show. Apparently, all 3,500 Tickets for the show sold out in five minutes. Between Waterfall attempts, Maddix and Mani play a short improvised jam.
Eyewitness Report from Fab Claxton said: ''I was at the Toronto show, and let me tell you, it shook my faith in the Roses. I'd waited patiently for years for them to get their act together and come to Canada, and when they finally did, I wished they'd stayed in England.
The doors opened HOURS before the band took the stage, which wouldn't have been so bad if there'd been an opening act. At least they played great tunes over the loudspeaker. Anyway, when the Roses finally decided to grace us with their presence, the sound was horrible. So horrible, in fact, that Ian stopped Waterfall halfway through because he couldn't hear himself.
That was the first (and last) time I'd never seen a professional band stop a song and start again. I felt embarassed for them, which is strange, 'cause Ian didn't seem to care one bit. In fact, during the chorus to She Bangs The Drums, Ian didn't even bother to sing. He just stalked around the stage shaking his tambourine.
It was the most bizarre thing I'd ever seen. Here was a professional singer in the greatest band in the history of the world, standing in front of a few thousand adoring fans, and he can't be arsed to sing the chorus to his own song. Which is just as good, because the other twelve songs that he did manage to sing were a shambles.
No matter how cool Ian Brown is (and let's face it - he's pretty cool), he's not much of a singer on the best of nights. And this was not one of his best nights. Keep in mind that before the show, I was walking on air. In just a few hours, I was about to see my favourite band.
Every single person that I talked to at the show felt exactly the same way. But as we all filed out of the venue after the lights came back on, murmurs of "disgrace" and "I can't believe we waited four years for that" could be heard all around. What a massive, massive letdown.''
May 1995 - Canada Radio Session - Interview
Ian Brown meets photographer Fabiola Quiroz- his future wife. They begin dating.
20 May 1995 - Manhattan Centre, Ballroom, 311 W 34th Street, New York City, NY, U.S.A. * Doors Open: 19:00 * Ticket Price: $16.50 I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak / Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Elizabeth My Dear / I Am The Resurrection / Good Times / Love Spreads / Begging You / Made Of Stone / Driving South / Fools Gold
The bands intro tape was '1983... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be) by The Jimi Hendrix Experience.
Simon Reynolds slated the performance with a mixed review in 10 June 1995 - Melody Maker Magazine,
A 2007 Paul John Dykes Interview with Robbie Jay Maddix revealed ''We had been given mixed reviews, so Geffen the record company were worried that we might not go down too well in the States. We were really nervous because we knew how important playing well in the States was. We took extra time at soundcheck and Mani kept the mood light with his jokes and stories.
I can’t remember much of the gigs, but I know we smashed it. Everyone was buzzing. First into the dressing room was Steve Atherton, whipping his fingers together – “That was wicked.”
Before that, we were unsure so we were quiet, but that was the news we were waiting for. I can say that Mani, Ian and John love performing and putting in the best performance they can, always. I will also say that Mani, Ian and John probably won’t feel that level of performance again until they reform. There is a special chemistry between those guys. I don’t know if they know it, but I know it.''
21 May 1995 Sunday - Avalon Club, 15 Lansdowne St., Boston Tea Party, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. * Doors Open: 18:00
I Wanna Be Adored / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Elizabeth My Dear / I Am The Resurrection / Good Times / Love Spreads / Made Of Stone / Driving South
Ian and John come in at the wrong times on Waterfall. Robbie is still struggling with the timing, fills, missed beats and starts.
22 May 1995 - Webster Hall, New York City, NY, U.S.A.
I Wanna Be Adored / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak / Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Elizabeth My Dear / I Am The Resurrection / Good Times / Love Spreads / Made Of Stone / Driving South
May - Love Spreads is used as the soundtrack to the Red Cross Commerical .The commerical only lasted approx 30 seconds but gained the band some attention, especially through radio play.
23 May 1995 - Late Night Show, New York City, NY, U.S.A. *Cancelled*
23 May 1995 - Chicago Festival, New World Music Theatre, Tingley Park, Chicago, IL, U.S.A. I Wanna Be Adored / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / I Am The Resurrection / Love Spreads / Made Of Stone / Driving South
The band was the fourth out of seven at the festival, Duran Duran also played. Ian met Simon Le Bon and the band ater the show.
The event was organised by a local radio station. The set was cut short due to sound technicalities. Ian made several mistakes, as did other members of the bad. I Am The Resurrection did not carry on after the breakdown, timing in less than five minutes.
Mani says over the mic 'Not bad for a band that can't hear fuck all on stage man !
24 May 1995 - Trocadero Theatre, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
I Wanna Be Adored / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Elizabeth My Dear / I Am The Resurrection / Good Times / Love Spreads / Made Of Stone / Driving South
26 May 1995 - Pointfest Festival, Pointfest 3, Riverport Ampitheatre, Maryland Heights, MD, U.S.A.
20,000 festival capacity.
29 May 1995 - Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall/ Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Elizabeth My Dear / I Am The Resurrection / Good Times / Love Spreads / Made Of Stone
encore: Driving South / Fools Gold
Initially the show was booked for a smaller venue, 1,200 capacity, due to popular demand. The venue was changed for the Palladium, 3,500 capacity.
Mani playing the bassline riff with Ian on tambourine and Robbie Jay joining in briefly whilst John is changing and retuning his guitar after Waterfall.
John makes a few mistakes throughout the set. Robbie still struggles and sounds under-rehearsed.
A 2007 Paul John Dykes Interview with Robbie Jay Maddix revealed ''We got there early – about 11 am – checked into the hotel and were told that there was a swimming pool on the roof. I looked at Ian and he knew what I was thinking (big spliff by the pool) so we dropped our bags on a trolley and headed for the roof.
When we got there, we couldn’t believe what we were seeing. Some girls who we knocked back the night before had caught a plane, booked into the same hotel and were in the open air hot tub before we even arrived. Ian looked at me, “No way the Jay, are you having that?”
We were on such a high from the night before that behaving like rock stars was the last thing on our minds. Having four girls before breakfast didn’t seem real somehow, so without a word we checked into our rooms, had some breakfast and built a spliff Bob Marley would have been proud of. ''
''That night, John’s playing was as good as it gets. He really shone that night. The stage was quite big and he worked every inch of it. Mani and myself just laid the foundation and Mr Squire conquered all.
At times, Ian stopped singing. After the gig, I asked him if he missed any cues. “No the Jay, the sound was so mighty that I couldn’t sing. I just wanted to listen to this mighty sound.”
In May John secretly organised a vocal coach for Ian. Ian had been missing notes onstage from the start of the tour. Robbie The Jay Maddix said “It was suggested Ian could do better, but nobody dare tell him”
Brown was led to believe the coach was just a friend of a friend who liked the band and was pleasedby the offers of honey-and-lemon drinks to soothe his throat and by the novel idea of doing avocal warm-up before gigs. The charade was exposed before a showcase gig in Los Angeles at
the Hollywood Palladium.
Brown kicked open the dressing room and confronted Squire. Robbie said “I saw the fear in John, not that he was going to get assaulted, but that he’d let Ian down, a bit of a no-no," Squire told Brown it was Maddix who’d hired the vocal coach. Brown was furious, kicking out at doors and swearing why had Robbie gone behind his back? “I’m stood there, like, ‘What do I say?"’ said Maddix. “Do I say, ‘Look, John did it?’ I looked at John, he looked at me, I looked at Ian and didn't say anything. Ian said, ‘He's got to go’.”
Mani broke his finger after the show.
A 2007 Paul John Dykes Interview with Robbie Jay Maddix revealed ''Everyone was nervous because of what happened when we were in L.A. Mani broke his finger, punching some guy who had nicked some of our ‘Bob’ and wouldn’t give it back''
31 May 1995 Wednesday - The Fillmore Club, 180 S Geary St., San Francisco, California, U.S.A * Doors Open: 19:00 * Ticket Price: £18.50 I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak / Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Elizabeth My Dear / I Am The Resurrection / Good Times / Love Spreads / Made Of Stone / Driving South /
No support act. One of the light riggings set on fire during Daybreak, the band carried on playing. Fools Gold was on the set list but wasn't played due to Mani's previous injury on his finger.
The promo poster displays a green Genash statue.
A 2007 Paul John Dykes Interview with Robbie Jay Maddix revealed ''Ian decides he’s hiring a convertible BMW because we had a day off before the gigs. The whole Roses camp goes into panic mode. For those who don’t know, Ian is not a bad driver but he can be a bit careless sometimes.
In San Francisco, with all the steep hills, and they drive on the wrong side of the road, so it seemed like a disaster waiting to happen. Everyone was nervous because of what happened when we were in L.A. Mani broke his finger, punching some guy who had nicked some of our ‘Bob’ and wouldn’t give it back, so we weren’t sure if we were doing the gig. The day passed without any dramas.''
''Mani said nothing was going to stop him from playing so we got ready. In the dressing room before the gig, Mani was in pain. I couldn’t believe that he was even considering playing, but as I said, Mani loves performing. John was really concerned – he said, “What if it gets worse and you do more damage?” but Mani wasn’t having any of it. “We’re playing tonight. End of.” Mani soldiered through the pain and Ian met his wife the next day.
John had a terrible accident and broke his collarbone while he was out cycling, so we will always remember San Francisco for one reason or another.''
Matt said: '' Ian was wearing some kind of funky kung-fu outfit and kept jumping up and down. I was half expecting him to start kicking things.'' '' One of the other things I remember about the show is that their lighting rig caught on fire during the ‘Daybreak’ solo. Squire was playing the solo and yelling at some guy offstage to come do something about the fire. I think it was his guitar tech that ended up running onto the stage and putting out the fire with a fire extinguisher or something.
John Squire cracks his collarbone in four places after falling off a hired mountain bike in San Francisco.
The band were forced to cancel their Japanese tour and Glastonbury appearence too. He was rushed into Marin County General Hospital where his collarbone was to be rebroken and reset (an X-Ray can be seen on the U.K Tour Poster). John opted for Morphine instead. John Squire’s injury was worse than first thought and would result in surgery.
The band flew home, John and Steve 'Adge' Atherton fly back together on 06 June 1995.
John had begun to meet with Geffen, on his own without the band, having struck up a close relationship with a young woman (Susanne Filkin, The Stone Roses' A&R representative at Geffen America) at the label.
From 2001 I Am Without Shoes Exclusive Mani Interview: > IAWS: John Squire stated in an interview that when he returned to the Roses after his bike crash you were “disinterested”. Is that fair?
Mani: What, me personally?
IAWS: Yes.
Mani: Well, to me, he was disinterested, some of those shows we did…
IAWS: I know, I’ve seen the videos.
Mani: I don’t know, when other people aren’t showing much of an interest and you’ve got people with their own agendas it is pretty hard, so I probably was uninterested at times, yes.
From June 1995 - NME Magazine: “I broke mine in the past,” Roses singer Ian Brown told NME, empathising with the guitarist. “Twice. Once I fell off a scooter and once I fell off a mate’s shoulders. After four weeks I was that impatient with it, ‘cos they strap you up under your arms like a figure of eight – I tried to take it off and it went and cracked again. I had to have another six weeks strapped up on top of that.”
1995: Ian's son is born.
From 05 February 1998 - City Life Magazine: Ian said: ‘I had my second baby in ’95,’ he eventually says. ‘My kid’s (John Squire) known me since I was six and he wasn’t even interested in setting eyes on my second son. If you don’t think about my kids, I don’t wanna know you. I’m right over any bitterness. I just think he’s a grown man that turned into a pure baby. He’s just empty.’
1995 - Ian Brown ends his current relationship and returned to live with his parents.
05 June 1995 - Factory Hall, Sapporo, Japan *Cancelled*
This and the rest of the Japanese dates were rescheduled.
Mani's finger was broken in L.A and John had fractured his collarbone whilst cycling in California.
The band's equipment had already been freighted to Japan, and had to be recalled. A media statement also noted "Japan Tour Postponement...The Stone Roses thank the Japanese fans for their loyalty and petience whilst John recovers from his accident and we sincerely apologise for any inconvenience to you..."
07 June 1995 - Club Citta, Kawasaki, Japan * Doors Open: 18:00 Show Starts: 19:00 * Ticket Price: Y6,500 (Resceduled)
Resceduled to 11 September 1995. Original black and white promo poster includes a photo from January 1995 with Reni.
08 June 1995 - Club Citta, Kawasaki, Japan * Doors Open: 18:00 Show Starts: 19:00 * Ticket Price: Y6,500 *Cancelled*
Original black and white promo poster includes a photo from January 1995 with Reni.
10 June 1995 - Century Hall, Nagoya, Japan *Cancelled
12 June 1995 - Budokhan, Tokyo, Japan * Doors Open: 18:00 Show Starts: 19:00 * Ticket Price: Y6,500 (Resceduled) (Approx £25? in 1995)
13 June 1995 - Budokhan, Tokyo, Japan * Doors Open: 18:00 Show Starts: 19:00 * Ticket Price: Y6,500 (Resceduled)
14 June 1995 - Kousei Nenkin Kaikan, Osaka, Japan *Cancelled*
16 June 1995 - Yubin Chokin, Hiroshima, Japan *Cancelled*
17 June 1995 - Sun Palace, Fukuoka, Japan *Cancelled*
19 June 1995 - Sun Palace, Osaka, Japan *Cancelled*
12 June 1995 - John Squire undergoes an operation.
John saw former Manchester United physiotherapist Jim McGregor who confirmed, after succesful surgery, it would take between six and eight weeks for the guitarist to recover. John undergoes surgery at Manchester's Wythenshawe Hospital to realign his collarbone - a steel plate and six pins are inserted across the bone. Glastonbury is cancelled.
21 June 1995 - John Squire donates a new clothing design for Warchild's Pagan Fun Wear fashion show, Saatchi gallery, West London. While recovering, Squire designs a piece of clothing for Warchild's Pagan Fun Wear fashion charity show. His contribution is a skimpy bikini with the cherub and chevrons from the ‘Love Spreads’ sleeve that fetches £600. Pulp's Jarvis Cocker designs a pair of shoes too for the cause.
21 June 1995 - The Complete Stone Roses Japanese Release Date
24 June 1995 Saturday - Glastonbury Festival *Cancelled*
In the April NME they advertisted The Stone Roses as headliners. Pulp stepped in and shot to stardom.
From February 1998 - Uncut magazine Ian Brown interview:
We were gutted about not headlining Glastonbury [due to John Squire sustaining a broken collarbone in a cycling accident]. But we could see the future.
Eavis said: "I didn’t quite believe the story of John Squire’s injury to be honest. I think there was another problem going on there. I think there was more going on than just the collarbone incident. I think the band were falling out at that point and the broken shoulder came at the same time. Jarvis [Cocker] then obviously came in (with Pulp) and did a good show. And that was really the last big thing Pulp did."
From 31 May 2008 Saturday 00:50 The Guardian Newspaper article, by Tim Jonze: How did you feel when the Roses had to pull out? Pretty gutted. We were gonna headline to tens of thousands and .... it didn't happen. But Pulp had their big moment, standing in for us, which was good. I liked him, that Jarvis Cocker. I like the fact he was androgynous, he could appeal to everybody. He wasn't just a lad pretending to be a thug...
From 06 March 2009 - Uncut Magazine Interview with Ian Brown: I was speaking to Michael Eavis this week, bit of an honour. Yeah, nice guy is Mike. Yeah, he loves you. He was reflecting on how different things could have been if you’d have fulfilled the headline slot… Yeah I agree with him. That ‘95 slot in Glastonbury was our chance to show that we were back after that, as you say, hiatus. And as fate had it, it wasn’t to be. John broke his collarbone and Pulp got the break from there. So I agree with him, yeah: things could have been made different if we’d have done that show.
He also thought that some members of the band, he didn’t know quite who, weren’t really up for it. Is that true, or… No, the only reason we didn’t do that show is because John broke his collarbone. We didn’t want to bring another guitarist in at the time. I later learned that we could have got Slash. Slash was up for doing it, which might have been good, but it wouldn’t have been the same. We were a band and we didn’t want to perform with another guitar player.
July 1995 - The Stone Roses appear on the cover of Guitar Magazine. Instead of holding a guitar. John, wearing the yellow and blue jacket, was holding a toy machine gun with a weird alien doll handle. Ian was holding a toy gun too.
July 1995 - The Stone Roses appear on the cover of Japanese Rockin' On 7 Magazine
19 July 1995 Wednesday - The Stone Roses 19 venue tour sells out, 45,000 tickets in 24 hours
July 1995 - Rehearsals- Nigel Ieye Ippinson joins the band on keyboards. Nigel Ieye Ipinson-Fleming was born in Manchester in 1970. In 1986 he joined Juvenile Jazz. They won the TV talent contest 'Saturday Superstore Search for a Superstar' in 1987 and issued a self-titled album the same year.
Ipinson played and recorded with Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD). He played on their albums Sugar Tax (1991), Liberator (1993) and Universal (1996).
Nigel was responsible for keyboards and programming on the 'Chic Remix' of Begging You. He also played keys on the alternate HELP recording of Love Spreads.
In 1999 Ipinson-Fleming became the Managing Director of 'Music and Message', a multimedia solutions company.
From October 1995 - Australian Radio Interview with Robbie Maddix: Do you think there is any chance in the future that the Stone Roses will get a permanent keyboard player or does it look like it’s something they will just get for tours?
R – Well, we’ve got the keyboard player, he’s a friend of mine that I’ve worked with on other sessions, before, that I’ve written with. I’d done a remix on a single and I thought I needed keyboards on it, cause there’s keyboards on the album. ‘Let’s do this, it’s a different perspective, I need some keyboards on it’. So he came down and played, Ian loved it, Mani loved it, you know, John liked it,
OK. So he was around, so we went into rehearsal at the same place as we was doing this mix and Nigel was just kind of around ready to go back. We set the keyboards up, and he’s got a really quick ear so he was playing stuff like Resurrection and he does backing vocals and it sounded really good. So the guys say ‘Why don’t you come on the road, you know Robbie, we like you, so come on the road and play some keys’.
I mean anything goes, the Stone Roses are very much a four piece kind of outfit, bass, drums, guitar, vocal, simple, but yeah, I think we would like him to be around. I don’t think it’s just going to be now. He might be gone, he might have other commitments, we’re not quite sure just how it’s going to go, but he’s there, it’s good, it sounds a lot fuller, vocal sounds nice.
It just depends how the next album goes, you know, we might have keyboards on the next album so he’s there again. The next album we might not, you know. So you know, it looks like he’s going to be doing some stuff with us, definitely.
From February 1998 - Uncut magazine Ian Brown interview: We’d acquired a keyboard player [Nigel Ippinson] who was musical. We were getting tight again. People were there for us and we were feeling better again.”
30 July 1995 - Lollipop Festival, Stockholm, Sweden
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak / Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / I Am The Resurrection / Good Times / Begging You / Love Spreads / Made Of Stone / Driving South
Nigel Ipinson's debut gig on keyboards. John's first show since he broke his collarbone. Lollpop festival attendance was approx 20,000 and the band headlined the festival.
Apparently, Robbie Maddix stormed off the stage before the acoustic set.
The girl from Geffen attends the show and hangs out with John after the show.
Mani meets Jarvis Cocker the day after the show and they talk about Glastonbury and Pulp's appearence.
Apparently, the band returned to the festival the day after. Mani met the band Gun. Ian went to watch Carl Cox, the same Carl who remixed Begging You for the upcoming single release.
See Media for the October 1995 - Vox Magazine, Live Review by Lisa Verrico.
From October 1995 - Vox Magazine, Live Review by Lisa Verrico: Backstage, the band give the gig six out of ten, and agree that some rehearsal between the following three dates in Finland is necessary for their Feile Festival appearance.
31 July 1995 - Tullikamari, Tampere, Finland Soundcheck: Tears / Waterfall
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak / Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / I Am The Resurrection / Begging You / Good Times / Love Spreads / Made Of Stone / Driving South
1000 capacity venue, venue did not sell out but ticket sales were decent.
Mauri Mikola said: ''I cannot remember the set list any more, but it consisted of the songs that they were playing around this time. No Tears though - they did this in the soundcheck that I listened to, from outside the venue. The set was dissed somehow in the press (I managed to find one review for it) but I thought it was marvellous. Ian kept quite well in tune and the band played very well. Ian was better in the soundcheck, though (they ran through at least Waterfall apart from Tears). I have always wanted to find a tape of this show - nobody seems to have taped it, even though there was practically no security. But on the other hand, I guess some of the magic memories would be lost if a tape would be pop out from somewhere. And yes, one more thing: Nigel lpinson played in Tampere - I was very irritated by the terrible keyboards in Love Spreads! The gigs in Helsinki were at Tavastia Club. Don't know about the attendance, but these got pretty ugly reviews too.
01 August 1995 - Tavastia Club, Helsinki, Finland. I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Elizabeth My Dear / I Am The Resurrection / Love Spreads / Good Times / Driving South / Made Of Stone
02 August 1995 - Tavastia Club, Helsinki, Finland
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Elizabeth My Dear / I Am The Resurrection / Love Spreads / Good Times / Driving South / Made Of Stone
The band’s handwritten setlist also included Fool's Gold and Tears, but they were not performed. Tomi said: ''The second night (2nd August) I somehow got backstage. I remember talking for a long time with Mani, we mainly discussed Man Utd and Eric Cantona and had a few beers. Mani thought their second gig was really good and I agreed... Talked to Ian as well. They both seemed quite laid back and generally happy with things.''
06 August 1995 Sunday - Feile Festival, Pairc Ui Chaoimh, Cork, Republic Of Ireland. I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Elizabeth My Dear / Tears / I Am The Resurrection / Love Spreads / Good Times / Driving South / Made Of Stone
Debut performance of Tears. The band headlined the final night of the festival. Loads of fans caught the ferry over to watch the band perform. The festival was made up of the main arena, Gaelic football stadium with the pitch covered with hundreds of gymnasium crash mats, fairground rides, a few food vans, bars and a dance tent.
Black Grape played on the Friday and singer Kermit dedicated a song to Ian Brown during their set, as Ian watched from the side of the stage. After the set, Shaun, Bez and Ian watch Tricky perform.
The band stayed at the Jury’s Hotel in Cork. Robbie Maddix challenged Blur's Damon Alburn to a piano competition, failing Nigel took over the keys and the three jammed together. Ian meets Damon and Graham Coxon from the band too.
The Times Newspaper Review said:"I have seen Take That, and the hysterics of their audience was nothing like the Roses fever at Feile. As the band took the stage people started piling over the crash barriers before they'd even played a note." Ian Brown was in the crowd wathcing Tricky's set, he was mobbed by fans for autographs and handshakes.
From Mani interview for I Am Without Shoes fansite: > IAWS: Favourite gig in the Scream Team? Favourite gig in the Roses? With the Roses it would have to be Glasgow Green. IAWS: I didn’t go, but I’ve got the bootleg, and even on that you can sense the atmosphere. Mani: Yeah, top gig. My other favourite Roses gig would have to be Feile Festival in ’95.
Supposedly the whole gig was recorded by 2FM, but has never been broadcast. Breaking Into Heaven & Love Spreads were broadcast on TV as part of the festival highlights.
Four choice tracks were officially released as an E.P. 'Crimson Tonight' in Australia & Japan. HMV and other record stores imported the single to the U.K. for sale.
Official Release: September 1995 - Crimson Tonight (GEFDM-22081) Daybreak, Breaking Into Heaven, Tightrope, Driving South
August 1995 - Fools Gold '95 U.K. Re-Release Date
August 1995 - John designs and paints the Warchild 'Help' album sleeve for the E.P & LP for the 'Help!' Bosnia relief charity compilation
26 August 1995 - Mani and Sophie's son 'Joseph Christian Mounfield' is born. Sophie brought Joseph to the Tour Rehearsals in September too.
From April 1999 - Leagues Mag, Mani interview: You've got one little boy already? "Joseph Christian Mounfield. A beauty he is. You know "The Second Coming" sleeve, the picture of me as a kid? That's how he looks. It's genetic. The poor bastard (laughing). He's beautiful, man. I'd like him to get into music because it's not done me too bad. I don't know what his Mum would think though."
01 September 1995 - Pilton Playing Fields, Village Green, Somerset, England * Support Act(s): Dodgy. I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Elizabeth My Dear / Tears / I Am The Resurrection / Love Spreads / Good Times / Driving South / Made Of Stone
The bands first show in the U.K. for nearly four years. Invite-only performance, approx. 1,500 tickets were issued. Their appearance was an ‘apology’ to Michael Eavis for missing Glastonbury, when they had to pull out due to John Squire breaking his collarbone in a cycling accident in America.
Apparently locals listened to the band from nearby hills and many tried to jump the gates too on the night. All the band, apart from John, party and meet fans after the show. Kevin Cummins took photos during the show.
From 06 March 2009 - Uncut Magazine Interview with Ian Brown: What do you remember of the Pilton Party? Yeah, that was great, because we got a chance to sort of thank Michael Eavis for giving us that advice in the first place by playing that village fete. And that was our first show in the UK for five years at that time. I think we played really well; it was a great night, yeah. Of course, there were more than 2,000 people…
No, it was only small. I can’t remember how many, but it was in a tent. It wasn’t that many. But, it was a great night. Got breakfast with the Eavis family around their kitchen table, which was nice. You got breakfast? Yeah. Emily was only a little girl then. She’s rocking it now though, ain’t she? Yeah she runs it now don’t she.''
From 04 March 2011 - 040311 Clash Features (Clash Magazine/Website)- The Stone Roses: Michael Eavis Interview "As part of the 20 year celebration of the Stone Roses first album in April 2009. Clash spoke to Micheal Eavis about The Roses' appearance at the Pilton Party and how he would love them to play Glasto...
"The Stone Roses have always been on our wish list. And they still are… they are going to reform aren’t they? Well you hope so anyway. They never played the festival itself but the Pilton Party they did later in the summer (’95) was the last proper gig they did together, all four of them were there together weren’t they? We talked their agent into them doing it and promised them the headline slot the year after."
So it was the Pilton Party to prepare for the big slot in 1996. Now Pilton Party is a fund raiser for the people in the village and I didn’t really think that they were going to turn up and I still can’t believe that they did. Even their agent wasn’t feeling too confident about it!
The NME chap came down, Steve Sutherland, and even he didn’t think they’d appear. So when they did actually turn up I just couldn’t believe my eyes as the whole band was there. It was really only the villagers and a few locals that turned up, then me and the chap from the NME standing there. It was terrific. They played so many of their old songs. It was the best thing the Pilton Party had ever seen.
Everyone has played that party at points. Coldplay have done it a couple of times now. Then Coldplay did it in ’98 on the strength that they got the 1999 headiner slot on the Friday night. That was the golden rule. You did the Pilton party then you got treated with respect after. It’s a good thing for the village too. It raises about £40,000 for the villagers, which keeps everyone happy. What more can I say?
We were just mesmerised. And Ian Brown… he’s so socialable isn’t he? He doesn’t have a nasty rock star agenda does he? He’s just so pleasant and you really get the sense that he wants to be here."
"I didn’t quite believe the story of John Squire’s injury to be honest. I think there was another problem going on there. I think there was more going on than just the collarbone incident. I think the band were falling out at that point and the broken shoulder came at the same time. Jarvis [Cocker] then obviously came in (with Pulp) and did a good show. And that was really the last big thing Pulp did."
"If the Roses had managed to stay together a lot would have been different. They pre-empted the whole Oasis thing, which then became massive. They played in 1994 on the second stage and that was the best gig they ever did here I think. I think Oasis took all the glory that The Stone Roses should have had. It’s probably too late now but we’d be thrilled if they got back together and did a comeback gig here - that’d be great. But then Ian Brown comes every second year anyway and does some Stone Roses songs."
September 1995 - Tour Rehearsals, Rockfield Studios, Wales
Select Magazine, article by Sian Pattenden:
THE BAND MOST FAMOUS FOR DOING NOTHING ARE currently engaged in kicking a football around the garden of Rockfield rehearsal studios in South Wales. It's an unexpectedly sweltering day for early September and Ian Brown is suffering from the heat - he's just bought a sweater from Burtons in town and wants to take it off, but modesty forbids.
The garden is small, and the ball keeps landing behind the assorted cars parked in the driveway - including John Squire's Merc.
Their kickabout doesn't last long. It's just too hot. To escape the sun they go back inside the house to watch VH1 on cable. The mood is as relaxed as the surroundings - there's a smattering of tabloids scattered around, bulging ashtrays and a bunch of browning bananas.
Mani feels obliged to mutter some comment in his impenetrable Mancunian accent about every video, until someone suggests they switch to the rugby instead. Everyone is glued to the screen until Mani's girlfriend Sophie and their newborn baby Joseph arrive, then they rouse themselves to do some work. And somehow, through the noise of the Roses' live set, young Joseph manages to nod off.
It's a quick, last-minute rehearsal before their equipment is freighted to Japan for the start of a six-week tour. The addition of keyboardist Nigel Ipinson gives 'I Am The Resurrection' and 'Love Spreads' far more depth, a quality that the Roses have always striven for when playing live. It sounds incredible.
04 September 1995 - Rockfield Studios, Wales
Recording for the 'Help!' Bosnia relief charity compilation.
From October 1995 - Australian Radio Interview with Robbie Maddix: You recently contributed a track for the War Child record in the UK. Give us a low down of War Child and that record.
R – Basically it was our press office, Terry Hall was involved, she told us what it was about and obviously it is children for crying out loud. There are other places that need help as well but this came about, this is charity, whatever this is will do. So we decided to do the War Child thing, everyone had to record, I think there was 15-odd artists on there, and everyone had to record a song on the day and have the finished version by midnight, which was then helicoptered to London, pressed and then went on sale the Saturday and it went straight to number one. So that was good, it might still be there.
From February 1996 - Rhythm Magazine, Interview with Robbie Maddix by Pat Reid: THE FIRST chance for the record-buying public to hear Robbie playing with the Roses was on the version of 'Love Spreads' that the band donated to the Help album. Approaching it totally differently from the original, he substitutes Reni's speed and dynamism for a hard, measured, almost industrial rock feel. "The way you heard it there was exactly the way I played it on the first day of rehearsal. The only change was a few different rudiments here and there (Robbie drums demonstratively on a nearby surface at this point). I just put it down in the manner I wanted it to sound."
07 September 1995 - The band fly out to Japan
09 September 1995 - Ian Brown & Robbie 'The Jay' Maddix feature on the cover of NME. Promoting the upcoming 'Help!' Bosnia relief charity compilation. The NME priced at 80p.
09 September 1995 - The Stone Roses appear on the Various Artists Compilation 'Help!'
1995 - Paul Ryder asks Reni to form a band
1995 - Rough Trade boss Geoff Travis asked Reni to play drums with ex-Suede guitarist Bernard Butler.
1995 - Driving South Unreleased Third Single
Second Coming Japanese Tour
1 September 1995 - Club Chitta, Kawasaki, Tokyo, Japan
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Elizabeth My Dear / Tears / I Am The Resurrection / Love Spreads / Good Times / Driving South / Made Of Stone / encore: Fools Gold
Fools Gold at the time had been remixed by Tall Paul for a another re-release. The similarities in this arrangement maybe a coincidence.
A unique Japanese, Australian & U.K. Tour Programme went on sale here & for the rest of the 1995 dates. The programme featured new John Squire pollock artwork which would later feature as the sleeve to the 2002 The Very Best Of release. Next to the crew credits also featured John Squires 'Cars' art piece too. This was rumoured to be the artwork for the unreleased single 'Driving South'. Current line up (John, Ian, Mani & Robbie Maddix aka Robbie Jay) photos feature throughout. In the programme after the departure of Reni, the band is noted as 'Thus was born The Stone Roses Mark II: a close, confident ensemble, keen to prove themselves once again, ready to avenge the sour-faced sceptice and prove that their lofty place in recent musical history is justified beyond doubt.' The tour credits also include Nigel Ieye Ipinson on Keyboards & Backing Vocals. The biography was written by John Harris, September 1995. The 1995 tour programme lists the venue date as 'Budohkan'.
From February 1998 - Uncut magazine Ian Brown interview:
“We were erratic. We were poor in Copenhagen, but by the time we got to Japan we were smokin’. ...We never followed up Fools Gold because John never rated it! He felt embarrassed to play the funk.”
12 September 1995 - Budohkan, Budakon Club, Nippon, Tokyo, Japan * Doors Open: 18:00, Show Starts: 19:00 * Ticket Price: Y6,500 I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Elizabeth My Dear / Tears / I Am The Resurrection / Love Spreads / Good Times / Driving South / Made Of Stone
The 1995 tour programme lists the venue date as 'Budohkan'. When an audience member shouts for Something's Burning, Ian responded "Yeah, you're right. Something is burning."
From Ian Brown Q Magazine Interview by Howard Johnson: HJ: When did you last cry and why? IB: in 1995 after we'd just played the Budokan in Japan with The Roses. I was thinking about one of my favourite reggae artists, Garnet Silk. He died in 1994 after the heating tank blew up in his house in Jamaica. A lot of his family were in the house and they were so badly burn they couldn't even be recognised. Anyway, I woke up in my hotel room crying my eyes out.
A 2007 Paul John Dykes Interview with Robbie Jay Maddix revealed ''Japan was crazy. From the second we stepped off the plane, it was full on. Fans following you everywhere you go, and I mean everywhere. We stayed in Japan for three weeks and played some great shows, but for me, Tokyo stood out. We were booked to play two sold-out nights at the Budokan stadium and had also heard that bands were finding it hard to sell out one night, never mind two nights so the excitement levels raised again.
We arrived backstage on the first night and I was amazed to hear the Japanese fans chanting “Roses, Roses!”. It was so loud, you could hear the noise from outside the stadium, like a footy match on match day. Awesome.
Once the gig started, we were in full flow. Mani dancing away to the groove, Ian marching along, John in mesmerizing form and myself giving 110 percent. Then something crazy happened. During Daybreak, I’m given like a four-bar solo if you like, so sometimes I would try something special. So i did. The crowd went ballistic and when the song had finished the fans started chanting “Robbie Robbie!”
At first, it sounded like “Roses!” but then you could hear it clearly. Mani was buzzing, pointing at me and laughing. “Can you hear that rude boy? They love you!” John was clapping his hands and smiling, and Ian came up onto the drum rise and gave me a big kiss on the cheek. “Yes the Jay”, as he always called me. That night, I knew I was a Rose. The love I felt was incredible, not just from the fans, but by IB, GM and JS.''
13 September 1995 - Budohkan, Budakon Club, Nippon, Tokyo, Japan. I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Elizabeth My Dear / Tears / I Am The Resurrection / Love Spreads / Good Times / Driving South / Made Of Stone / encore: Fools Gold
From 1998 - Top Of The Pops Q&A: Will Drayton asks: "What was the best thing that the Roses ever did?" Ian Brown: (munching a prawn sandwich) "Playing the Budokan Martial Arts Centre in Tokyo."
16 February 2000 Wednesday - music365.com Ian Brown Q & A Session: From Daniel Mushing: What is your favourite gig you have ever played? Ian: Glasgow Green, 1990, or Budokan, Japan, 1995, or Brixton Academy, 1999.
1995 - Ian Brown is attacked in a nightclub in Tokyo, Japan
An Australian bodybuilder punched four (probably two) of Ian's teeth out.
From 02 February 2002 Saturday 16:03 - The Guardian Newspaper article, by Lindsay Baker: Brown was beaten up no less than three times in three years, between 1995 and 1997. On the final Roses tour, in a club in Tokyo, he was set upon by three Australian bodybuilders (who, he says, took exception to the female attention he was receiving). Then he was attacked by four bouncers in a club in Warrington: "I took 25 or 30 punches to the head - a proper beating." A year later, he was attacked again, this time in the street by an assailant with a metal bar.
15 September 1995 - Convention Hall, Okinawa, Japan
17 September 1995 - IMP Hall, Osaka, Japan
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / I Am The Resurrection encore: Fools Gold
Ian is obviously upset with the unresponsive crowd. "Anyone know a good joke ?" he says at one point. "We come all this way, play you the music - Who likes the music?". During Driving South he repeatedly shouts "You ain't sayin' shit!".
18 September 1995 - Century Hall, Nagoya, Japan * Doors Open: 18:30, Music: 19:00 * Ticket Price: Y6,500
20 September 1995 - Miel Pargue Hall, Yubin Chokin, Hiroshima, Japan. I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / encore: Elizabeth My Dear / I Am The Resurrection
Breaking Into Heaven 'Jam' section is extended. An incomplete broadcast was aired on Japanese Radio.
Pro-shot, only excerpts, were broadcast. Apparently the whole gig was recorded, but has never been broadcast.
21 September 1995 - Sun Palace Hall, Fukuoka, Japan
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / I Am The Resurrection
Daybreak clocks in around 6 minutes, one of the shortest all year.
4 September 1995 - Sun Palace - Imp Hall, Osaka, Japan
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Elizabeth My Dear / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South/ encore: I Am The Resurrection
Second date at the Imp Hall. The 1995 tour programme lists the venue date as 'Osaka Sun Palace'.
25 September 1995 - Sun Palace - Imp Hall, Osaka, Japan
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Elizabeth My Dear / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South /
Third date at the Imp Hall. The 1995 tour programme lists the venue date as 'Osaka Sun Palace'. Strangely I Am The Resurrection is dropped from the setlist, apparently it was on the set for the encore but the band never returned to the stage.
27 September 1995 - Factory Hall, Sapporo, Japan
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / encore: I Am The Resurrection
Ian burned a Union flag on stage, during the guitar solo on Ten Storey Love Song.
28 September 1995 - Club Chitta, Kawasaki, Japan
Second date at Club Chitta. The 1995 tour programme lists the venue date as 'Club Citta'. The band ended the tour where it started.
September 1995 - Crimson Tonight E.P. Australian & Japanese Release Date
Australian Tour
01 October 1995 Sunday - Festival Hall, Brisbane, Australia
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / encore: Elizabeth My Dear / I Am The Resurrection
The 1995 tour programme lists the venue date as 'Brisbane Roxy'.
Begging You was ready for release for the tour.
The Australian Tour E.P only saw release in November 1995
02 October 1995 Monday - Enmore Theatre, Sydney, Australia
This date was also the original Begging You Tour Edition Single Release Date, see November for eventual release date.
03 October 1995 Tuesday - Enmore Theatre, Sydney, Australia
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / encore: I Am The Resurrection
04 October 1995 Tuesday - Enmore Theatre, Sydney, Australia
October 1995 - Australian Radio Interview with Robbie Maddix
5 October 1995 Thursday - Metro, Melbourne, Australia
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South encore: I Am The Resurrection
Apparently, Ian rarely took his sunglasses off and he never spoke to the crowd.
07 October 1995 Saturday - Thebarton Theatre, Adelaide, Australia
08 October 1995 Sunday - Metropolis, Perth, Australia * Support Act(s): Six Nile High
09 October 1995 Monday - Metropolis, Perth, Australia * Support Act(s): Kim Salmon
Additional date due to popular demand. Final date of the Australian tour.
10 October 1995 Tuesday - The band fly back to blighty.
18 October 1995 - The Stone Roses appear on the cover of (The NME monthly) Vox Magazine, Prcied at £2.20
"Tales of the Orient excess", included a free tape featuring various artists.
21 October 1995 - Crimson Tonight Japanese Release Date
30 October 1995 - Begging You U.K. Release Date
Peaked At Number 15 In The U.K. Charts. From the released tracks, post 1990, John and Ian only wrote Begging You and Ride On together. The single had been remixed back in April and the NME had set an initial date for 12 June 1995. The remix promo had been circulating since August too.
From 01 March 1995 -'The Face Magazine' Issue 78.
Anything else you shouldn’t be talking about? “We’re planning to release ‘Begging You’ later in the year. It’ll be a double- or triple-length version. Bill Price who mixed the album struggled over it and thinks he can get much more out of it. That should be great.”
November 1995 – Begging You Video.
From Simon Spence's Book 'War & Peace': The video intercut live footage from the European leg of 1995 tour with four kinky booted, bikini clad female dancer gyrating, each wearing a mask of one of the band members, plus indigenous dancing from around the world.''
November 1995 - Begging You Australian Release Date.
Originally scheduled for 02 October 1995 to coincide with The Australian Tour, this only saw shelves a month later.
05 November 1995 - John Squire attends Oasis at Earls Court, London.
From 02 December 1995 - NME Magazine, John Squire Interview: He also spoke positively about the success enjoyed by Oasis, who have always cited the Roses as an inspiration. “I enjoyed seeing Oasis for the first time at Earls Court,” he said. “It was the audience as much as the band. They were mad for it.”
16 November 1995 - Mani's 33rd birthday
24 November 1995 - John Squire's 33rd birthday
Second Coming U.K. Tour
28 November 1995 Tuesday - Spa, The Royal Hall, South Marine Drive, Bridlington * Doors Open: 19:00 * Ticket Price: £12.50 * Support Act(s): DJ Madface
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / I Am The Resurrection
Sold Out Show. The start of the U.K. homecoming tour. DJ Madface would later support Ian on his first UK live shows.
The fly tour poster with John Squire's X-Ray noted 'We apologise for the break in transmission...the show goes on...'.
According to the poster ''Tickets On Sale Wednesday 19th July 1995, Limited To Four Per Person.'' Tickets were apparently limited to four per person, no booking fee on cash purchases at venue box office.
I owned the 'Stoned Again' poster from the second coming tour, apparently bought from the Bridlington show. Not sure if it was official or not? It had a black and white photo of the band. John Squire had a British Railways t-shirt and had his arm round Mani. Mani wore a striped shirt and a jumper, shades with pony tail too. Robbie had a striped shirt and was facing the camera next to Ian. The text was in red.
Johnny Carr said: ''Yes honestly, I WAS at this comeback gig. Arrived at Bridlington Spa (waiting for God or what) a couple of hours early and was greeted by loads of touts offering incredible money for tickets. No matter, cash or Roses? No competition.
Went for a drink in this packed shitty dive and was informed by the manager that "we'll be even busier next week, Status Quo are coming." Didn't have the energy to explain that it just doesn't get any bigger than this. Went into the Spa and there was an electric buzz in the air, the like of which I've never felt before. Bar's open so I drink yet more tepid piss and then get ready for the happening.
Ian Brown comes on stage wearing a dodgy festival hat but that is soon forgotten when the opening chords strike up. Not gonna take you through the gig but suffice to say that they again showed just what all the fuss had been about. Obviously, final track was a brilliant rendition of ‘Resurrection’, probably the best live track I have ever heard.
There was a false post-gig feeling that the Roses were back with a bang but let's just remember that when this band were on form, they could not be bettered.''
From February 1998 - Uncut magazine Ian Brown interview: Were you talking again? “No. There were two coaches on that tour. One was a coke coach and one wasn’t. There were 16 on one and five on the other. John travelled with the coke coach. He’d say ‘I travel with the crew’. Bullshit! He travelled with the coke, cos he couldn’t take coke in front of us cos we wouldn’t have it. All the way through that tour we wanted to smash coke. But he’s a grown man, you stop preaching to people about coke.”
30 November 1995 Thursday - Civic Hall, Wolverhampton * Doors Open: 19:00 * Ticket Price: £12.50 * Support Act(s): DJ Madface.
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / I Am The Resurrection
December 1995 - The Stone Roses appear on the cover of Select Magazine, £2.00 Full band photo. The special issue was released in a cereal box style sleeve "Let's Go To Work...Stone Roses" It included Raw Magazine, Nik Naks, Blur scratchcard, Cadbury's Twirl chocolate bar and a can of lemon Tango.
Headline read 'We've Got To Blow People's Heads Off!!'
The cover of the magazine was edited and used for the "The End Of A Show" bootleg cover.
RAW, from the makers of Select Magazine, was featured in the limited edition Select Cereal Box Issue. John Robb, again, penned the article and interviewed Mani too.
01 December 1995 Friday - Corn Exchange, Wheeler Street, Cambridge * Doors Open: 19:00 * Ticket Price: £12.50 * Support Act(s): DJ Madface.
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South /
encore: I Am The Resurrection
02 December 1995 Saturday - The Brighton Centre, Kings Road, Brighton * Doors Open: 19:00 * Doors Open: 19:00 * Price: £12.50 * Support Act(s): DJ Madface
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / I Am The Resurrection
Sold Out Show. This show was nearly cancelled after the news that Ian's son was taken to hospital, having suffered a fall at home.
04 December 1995 Monday - Newport Centre, Kingsway, Newport * Doors Open: 19:00 * Ticket Price: £12.50 * Support Act(s): DJ Madface
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / I Am The Resurrection
Sold Out Show. A Cardiff City shirt was thrown on stage during the gig and Ian put the shirt on, prompting the Cardiff fans to start chanting their club nickname, Bluebirds. This aggravated rival Newport County and Swansea City fans in attendance, and fighting broke out. The arrests went into double figures, and the story featured on News At Ten the following night.
05 December 1995 Tuesday - University, Exeter * Ticket Price: £12.50 * Support Act(s): DJ Madface
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / I Am The Resurrection
05 December 1995 - The Stone Roses feature on the cover of The Big Issue, North West - Helping the homeless help themselves, Issue Number 34, 05-12 December 1995. Priced at 0.75p (45p of cover prices goes to the seller)
Full band photo featuring Reni. Headline read 'Stoned again. The Stone Roses, World exclusive interview'. Mani said: “Hopefully, it will establish a trend and make all those comfy, complacent music journalists work a bit harder. After all, they’re just a bunch of sixth-formers who’ve spent too long pogoing around their bedrooms with tennis rackets. Their views and opinions are no more important than anybody else’s.”
07 December 1995 Thursday - De Montfort Hall, Leicester, Leicestershire * Doors Open: 19:30 * Ticket Price: £12.50 * Support Act(s): DJ Madface
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Tears / Good Times / Love Spreads / Made Of Stone / Driving South / I Am The Resurrection
08 December 1995 Friday - Brixton Academy, London * Doors Open: 19:00-23:00 * Ticket Price: £15.00 * Support Act(s): DJ Madface
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / I Am The Resurrection
09 December 1995 Saturday - Brixton Academy, London * All Nighter * Doors Open: 21:00-06:00 (Sunday Morning) * Ticket Price: £20.00 * Support Act(s): DJ Madface
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / I Am The Resurrection
Sold Out Show. Good Times includes the longer intro, which would feature on some performances on this tour. All-nighter show, DJ's played until the band came on around 23:00 and played until 01:00am. According to the tour
From 06 March 2009 - Uncut Magazine Interview with Ian Brown: Brixton in ‘95 was our best show after Glasgow Green that we ever played...''
From February 1998 - Uncut magazine Ian Brown interview:
I think the all-nighter at Brixton [December, ’95] was the best we ever did here.
11 December 1995 Monday - Rivermead Leisure Complex, Richfield Avenue, Reading * Doors Open: 19:00 * Ticket Price: £12.50 * Support Act(s): DJ Madface
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / I Am The Resurrection
Jonathan Flemming said: I had only got into the Roses a year before this gig, but come the time of the gig I was a very big fan. I remember arriving at the venue 10 minutes before the doors opened and the queue was lining all the way around the building. You could feel the sense of anticipation and excitement in the crowd, and the fact that there was no support meant that the atmosphere was electric when they finally arrived on stage. When the intro tape began, people surged to the front, and all of a sudden a couple of shadowy figures appeared on stage. From my vantage point it was difficult to see who, but all of a sudden a flash from a camera revealed to everyone that it was Ian Brown himself. As I Wanna Be Adored started, the excitement I felt was immense. All of the Roses played very well that night, with the highlight for me being I Am The Resurrection - top class!.
12 December 1995 Tuesday - University of East Anglia, UEA, Norwich * Ticket Price: £12.50 * Support Act(s): DJ Madface
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / I Am The Resurrection
13 December 1995 Wednesday - The Town And Country Club, Cookridge Street, Leeds, LS2 * Doors Open: 19:00 * Ticket Price: £12.50 * Support Act(s): DJ Madface
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / I Am The Resurrection
Partially broadcast on BBC Radio 1 in 1995.
The incomplete broadcast was re-aired on BBC Radio 1 after the debut airing of the December 1997 'I Wanna Be Adored' Radio documentary.
Subsequent re-broadcasts of the show on BBC included 'Driving South' and 'Good Time' (which were originally dropped from the debut 'In Concert' broadcast).
15 December 1995 Friday - Royal Court, Roe Street, Liverpool * Doors Open: 19:30 * Ticket Price: £12.50 * Support Act(s): DJ Madface
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / I Am The Resurrection
Sold Out Show. Ian wore a Santa Claus hat throughout the set.
From From February 1996 - Rhythm Magazine, Interview with Robbie Maddix by Pat Reid: Working as a rhythm section with Mani must be quite a laugh though. After the Liverpool soundcheck the rest of the band depart while Robbie poses for his photos, but Mani remains, playing a long, laid-back riff on his Rickenbacker. He nods, gives a wide, stoned grin, and closes his eyes again, lost in what he's playing. Cool...
16 December 1995 Saturday - Ice Rink, Hills Head Road, Whitley Bay, Tyne And Wear, NE258HP * Doors Open: 19:00 * Ticket Price: £12.50 * Support Act(s): DJ Madface
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / I Am The Resurrection
Sold Out Show. The only time Ian speaks is to threaten someone in the crowd "Whoever just hit me with a penny, see me backstage after the show..and I'll stab yer'".
17 December 1995 Sunday - Music Hall, Aberdeen * Ticket Price: £12.50 * Support Act(s): DJ Madface
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / encore: I Am The Resurrection
19 December 1995 - Barrowlands, Glasgow * Ticket Price: £12.50 * Support Act(s): DJ Madface
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / I Am The Resurrection
20 December 1995 Wednesday - Barrowland, Glasgow * Doors Open: 19:00 * Ticket Price: £12.50 * Support Act(s): DJ Madface
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South /
encore: Elizabeth My Dear / I Am The Resurrection
The only time Elizabeth My Dear is played during the U.K. Tour.
22 December 1995 Friday - The Apollo, Hardwick Green, Manchester * Doors Open: 19:00 * Ticket Price: £12.50 * Support Act(s): DJ Madface
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine Again / Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / I Am The
Oasis members Liam Gallagher, Bonehead and Noel Gallagher were in attendance, and later said that John Squire "soloed like a bastard."
March 2000 - Four Four Two Magazine Mani: “When the Roses were playing in Manchester, I remember looking up into the seats and Bonehead and Liam and Noel were there and that, but Brian was there with Peter Schmeichel. It goes to show that not all footballers are into George Benson. But I think footballers respect musicians and vice versa.”
A 2007 Paul John Dykes Interview with Robbie Jay Maddix regarding 22 & 23 December 1995: ''We could have played the M.E.N a couple of nights, but Ian and John thought it would be special to play to a more intimate crowd, because it was our homecoming gig. Mani and myself were up for the M.E.N or Nynex, as it was known at the time. The bigger the better, as far as we were concerned, but we understood Ian and John’s point.
The gigs were crazy – we had loads of people at the sound check: Oasis, Charlatans and some others I can’t remember. I remember the guest-list was the biggest I’ve ever seen, literally hundreds of names. When some people couldn’t get in, they just rushed the door, no way were they gonna miss a Manchester Roses gig. I liked playing the Apollo – the sound was compact and the people were close.
At one point, Ian told the lighting engineer to turn the lights on the people so we could see them. I was looking for family and friends, but saw some Man United players with their hands in the air: Peter Schmeichel, Brian McClair and Gary Neville amongst others. We were all Man United fans, so that was great to see. We never put them on the guest list – they came off their own back, so that made it special.
Another thing that happened was while we were playing, Ian spotted a Reni banner, got it off the person and started waving it on the stage. As if to say, Reni has gone but he’s not forgotten. I thought it was a top thing to do. After all, Reni was a friend.''
23 December 1995 Saturday - The Apollo, Ardwick Green, Manchester * Doors Open: 19:00 * Ticket Price: £12.50 * Support Act(s): DJ Madface
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak / Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine Again / Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / I Am The Resurrection
During Daybreak, Ian was handed a banner from the audience that read 'Reni lives'. He held it up for the audience to see, it was met with extra cheers and applause during the song. Ian wore a 'No Fear' snood on stage.
Former drummer Simon Wolstencroft was backstage at the show, he wouldn't see John Squire again until the the 02 December 2011 - Justice Tonight Concert.
Mick Middles, who wrote the biography 'Breaking Into Heaven', said about: "Even a seasoned gig-goer such as the author went into a state of ecstasy at the sight and sound of the Roses in full flight; others in attendance, including Noel Gallagher, were equally stunned at what the band seemed to be pulling off, despite the loss of Reni."
From 2001 I Am Without Shoes Exclusive Mani Interview: > IAWS: What happened to the Roses live album that you mentioned just before Squire left? You mentioned in one interview that you were mixing the Manchester Apollo gigs…
Mani: I don’t know, really. We recorded a lot of shows from that tour. I guess it all fell apart when the band split.
IAWS: If Silvertone had that recording, you could guarantee it would be out by now!
Mani: Yeah…[rest of answer deleted to prevent libel case!]
The Stone Roses Interview features in 23-30 December 1995 - Melody Maker Magazine
28 December 1995 Thursday - Sheffield Arena, Sheffield * Doors Open: 18:00, Show Starts: 19:00 * Ticket Price: £16.50 * Support Act(s): Black Grape, * DJ Madface
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak / Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine Again / Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / I Am The Resurrection
Photos and a review feature in 13 January 1996 - NME Magzine,
An excerpt from review "Blame John Squire, dressing up like the Wallace half of Wallace and Gromit is obviously no hindrance to the man's musical dexterity, judging by the way his guitar sprawls, scrawls and generally falls about the place..."
Grahame Rae Said: ''Older and wiser (see Glasgow Green 1990 entry), I saw them at Sheffield at the end of the Second Coming tour. Memory fully active this time, I was treated to the sad (but you just knew he'd be alright and it was funny) sight of Shaun Ryder reading his lyrics from a sheet of paper, repeating the same line so many times the whole band turned to look at him, and Kermit the rapper (I think) bouncing across the stage to give him a dunt during Black Grape supporting.
He then started singing the rest of the song, like a skipping record. He totally wasn't there for a good 30 seconds. Lights went down,
Breaking Into Heaven intro comes on, the obviously not very matey Roses (well, three quarters of them) appeared, Adored starts, all looks great, then the drummer starts his best Guns N Roses impersonation.
Don't know how you feel about the ‘non proper’ lineup but it didn't sound too good from a drumming perspective. Ian Brown fluffed a few lines, regularly didn't try to hit a high note, always seeming to sing them an octave lower than even the audience.
Kept making high pitched monkey noises.
Mani looked like a man possessed, I think knowing what we do now he could see this might be the second last show (with Squire). As far as I know he was already lined up for Primal Scream if it went wrong after he realised John Squire was writing songs and keeping them to himself.''
Overall though, really enjoyed it, ignored the drums, had half of my body on the cover of NME (believe me, I didn't even keep it, other than the guys I was with, nobody in the world would have known it was me) and left happy. Ears ringing, dressed in a t-shirt in the snow.''
29 December 1995 Friday - Wembley Arena, Wembley, London * Doors Open: 18:30, Show Starts 19:30 * Ticket Price: £16.50 * Support Act(s): Manic Street Preachers, Bad Man Wagon, DJ Madface
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak / Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine Again / Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / I Am The Resurrection
encore: Purple Haze (Jimi Hendrix cover by the Roses' roadies)
Tears goes for over seven and half minutes in an epic jam, dwarfing the album version. Cressa (former Stone Roses technican & band friend) was a member of support act Bad Man Wagon. The band's roadies "Second Coming Crew" including Cressa played a cover version of Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze and Ian came on stage after and thanked the crew.
Bobby Gillespie (Primal Scream) was at the show.
John Squires Last Gig
A 2007 Paul John Dykes Interview with Robbie Jay Maddix revealed ''During the UK tour, John became a little distant, not that you would think something was terribly wrong but he was a bit quiet with not much to say. When you’re in a big band, it is easy sometimes to get a bit complacent and let things tick along without much effort.
I think John might have felt that’s what was happening to the Roses. There is always someone to do things for you, except play of course. I asked Ian and Mani if they felt that John was ok, but they said sometimes he can be like that, just a bit reserved. So nothing could have prepared us for what happened after the Wembley gig, which was sold out, and we rocked the place. It was a triumphant gig.
The second night of Brixton was top but this was Wembley, and we didn’t disappoint. After the gig, John left early and that was the last time we played together. Ian and Mani were devastated. They couldn’t believe all that they had gone through was over, and as far as they could see, for no reason.''
From June 1998 - United We Stand Interview, Mani said:
How did that move come about? "I kidnapped Bobby Gillespie on the last night of the Roses tour. I'd known him for years from doing E's at clubs in London and he was buzzing for it. That was a year and a half before the split. The Scream are a good band to be with because they don't change their beliefs for nobody. They can be mad on tour but I can hold my own with the best of them, don't worry about me."...
Wembley Arena - Audience Recording (IAWS I Am Without Shoes (Will Odell). "Plenty of reasons - this was the legend that is John Squire's last performance with the Roses, a moment in history, and he plays brilliantly. Also for the roadies cover, and Mani taking the mic to shout at the crowd. Also hear Ian play brief harmonica on Good Times. This gig also clocks in at 85 mins, one of the longest, if not the longest sets the Roses ever did."