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2012
John Squire Artwork
John designed all the graphics for the band’s comeback, the new logo, and the lettering for the gig posters, T-shirts and other merchandise that accompanied the slew of 2012-2017 dates.

20 February 2012 - Ian Brown's 49th birthday

2012 - Rehearsal, Warrington, Cheshire
I Wanna Be Adored / Waterfall / Don't Stop / Shoot You Down / Where Angels Play /

Footage featured on Shande Meadows 'Made Of Stone' Film. Ian & Reni use a vocal doubler on Don't Stop. The band have said multiple times they do not use live vocal effects or tapes onstage but some believe the use of the doubler and pitch correction was used quite well during the roses reunion and aided the bands vocal duties.

M - 02 April 2012 - The Stone Roses feature in the NME Special Collectors' Special
The Stone Roses 98 page Special Edition Series. Priced at £5.99.

10 April 2012 - Reni's 48th birthday

May - June 2012 - Festivals U.K. / Europe Tour Itinerary
Steve Chapman - Tour Manager
Steve Head - Head Of Security
Steve Atherton - SJM
Conrad Murray - SJM
John Ward - Ian Brown's Assistant
Ian Brown's Executive Assistant - Frankie Brown
Alan Wren's Assistant - Spike Wren

Taken from UK / Europe Tour 2012 Itinerary.

20 May 2012 Sunday - Travel to LS Live, Wakefield

21 May 2012 Monday - Rehearsals, LS Live, Wakefield
22 May 2012 Tuesday - Rehearsals, LS Live, Wakefield
23 May 2012 Wednesday - Rehearsals, LS Live, Wakefield
23rd Cancelled due to the suprise show in Warrington.

23 May 2012 – Parr Hall, Warrington
Soundcheck: Sally Cinnamon /
(Stoned In Love) / I Wanna Be Adored / Mersey Paradise / Sally Cinnamon / Made Of Stone / (Song For My) Sugar Spun Sister / Where Angels Play / Shoot You Down / Tightrope / Waterfall / She Bangs The Drums / Love Spreads

The first show, with the seminal roses line up, for 22 years. Also the first time the Second Coming songs have been heard with Reni drumming live too. 1000 Tickets were available on the afternoon of the gig, with fans only being told about the show 4 hours before.

Clint Boon made an announcement on XFM informing fans they had to prove themselves as fans to get a ticket from the box office. Fans took records, cds, t-shirts and other mememborlia. Tickets were sold out in under an hour with lots of studentsand touts picking up the tickets.

Stoned Love by The Supremes was used as the band intro tape to the stage here, and throughout the tour. Tightrope has a new arrangment with electric guitar.

Love Spreads includes an additional rap section by Ian Brown which was performed on several dates during the reunion shows with slightly different lyrics at different shows (see 29 July 2012 for the lyrics). I Am The Resurrection was not on the setlist.

These notes were taken from John Squire's setlist and included handwritten guitar details for each song.

Adored (ST) *Fender Stratocaster

Mersey Paradise (TELE) *Fender Telecaster

Sally Cinnamon (LP) *Les Paul

Made Of Stone (LP) *Les Paul

(Song For My) Sugar Spun Sister (LP 2) *Les Paul

Where Angels Play (LP) *Les Paul

Shoot You Down (Pinko) *Fender Stratocaster

Tightrope (LP) *Les Paul

Waterfall (TELE) *Fender Telecaster

She Bangs The Drums (STRAT) *Fender Stratocaster

Love Spreads (HEAVY WOOD) *Fender Stratocaster

Taken from UK / Europe Tour 2012 Itinerary

24 May 2012 Thursday - Rehearsals, LS Live, Wakefield

25 May 2012 Thursday - Rehearsals, LS Live, Wakefield

26 May 2012 Thursday - Rehearsals, LS Live, Wakefield

27 May 2012 Thursday - Rehearsals, LS Live, Wakefield

28 May 2012 Thursday - Rehearsals, LS Live, Wakefield

29 May 2012 Thursday - Rehearsals, LS Live, Wakefield

30 May 2012 Thursday - Rehearsals, LS Live, Wakefield

31 May 2012 Thursday - Rehearsals, LS Live, Wakefield

02-22 June 2012 - Ian Tilton's Photographs Of The Rise of The Stone Roses, Rock City Art Gallery, 26 Castle Lane, Bedford, MK403US Ian Tilton Exibithion - Free Entry

01 June saw VIP and invitation only viewings.
‘What The World Is Waiting For’ brings together Tilton’s collection of images charting the rise of The Stone Roses from obscurity in 1987 to worldwide cult status 1990. Based in Manchester, Ian Tilton began his career in the eighties, shooting iconic bands around the world such as Guns N Roses, Iggy Pop, The Smiths, U2 and The Cure.

A limited edition photograph set was available from the exibithion and online. Ian Tilton's Little Red Book Photolibrary was issued in a card booklet in a plastic sleeve, it was signed by Ian Tilton and included 20 postcards with images of the band.

Posters and prints were also available to buy online and at the exibithion.

The book uses a photo of the band behind pollocked glass with John holding an oversized camera, Reni in white bucket hat and Mani wearing stripes too. The photo was taken in Chorlton, July 1989.

02 June 2012 - The Stone Roses appear on the cover of NME Magazine

02 June 2012 - The Stone Roses appear on the cover of The Word Magazine, Subscribers Edition, Issue 112 - June 2012

'The Resurrection Starts Here' by Andrew Collins. The cover had some very crude darwings of the band members circa 1990.

08 June 2012 – Club Razzmatazz, Barcelona, Spain
(Stoned In Love) / I Wanna Be Adored / Sally Cinnamon / Mersey Paradise / Ten Storey Love Song / Where Angels Play / Shoot You Down / Waterfall / Fools Gold / Standing Here / She Bangs The Drums / Made Of Stone / This Is The One / Love Spreads
encore: I Am The Resurrection

The first official date of the 27 date world tour.

Ten Storey Love Song, Fools Gold, Standing Here & Made Of Stone, This Is The One & I Am The Resurrection are added to the setlist. The last time This Is The One was performed 24 years prior.

Sold Out Show, 2,500 capacity venue. The show suffered several technical issues with the sound throughout. Liam Gallagher & Gem Archer (of Oasis) were in the audience.

The band stood together on stage at the end of show, taking in the atmosphere and rapturous applause.

John and Mani both signed and met fans outside the venue after the show, Reni waved and shouted bye as he got straight into a van and left, Ian also passes by and leaves in a van.

Liam Gallagher met the crowd and signed for fans too.

09 June 2012 – Club Razzmatazz, Barcelona, Spain
I Wanna Be Adored / Sally Cinnamon / (Song For My) Sugar Spun Sister / Where Angels Play / Shoot You Down / Waterfall - Don't Stop / Tightrope / Fools Gold / Something's Burning / She Bangs The Drums / Made Of Stone / This Is The One / Love Spreads / I Am The Resurrection

Don't Stop & Something's Burning are added to the setlist.

Both of which were last performed in 1990.

John and Mani both signed and met fans outside the venue after the show, Reni waved and shouted bye as he got straight into a van and left, Ian also signed for fans this time before leaving.

12 June - 12 August 2012 - The Third Coming, The Definitive Exibithion, The Space, Whiteleys Shopping Centre, Queensway, Bayswater, London, W24YN

An exhibition featuring photographs of The Stone Roses taken by Kevin Cummins, Ian Tilton and Paul Slattery. Officially opened 13 June.

There was a limited edition exibithion catalogue on sale which featured photographs, band and photographer biographies too.

Exibithion Curator, Dave Brolan, said: "These three photographers – Kevin Cummins, Paul Slattery and Ian Tilton – have, between them, captured pretty much every major artist of the last 30 years, many as they were still unknown or emerging...Together, they helped shape the image of The Stone Roses."

12 June 2012 was the preview date with doors opening 18:30-20:30. The exibition also included original artwork, concert memborabillia, posters, prints and loads more. There was even an oppurtunity to have your photo taken covered in paint, to re-create Kevin Cumming's iconic photoshoot (featured on the NME Magazine cover 1989).

For those who didn't want to be painted there was also a screen to have your photo taken in front of.

12 June 2012 – Heineken Music Hall, Amsterdam, Netherlands

I Wanna Be Adored / Sally Cinnamon / Mersey Paradise / (Song For My) Sugar Spun Sister / Where Angels Play / Shoot You Down / Fools Gold / Tightrope / Ten Storey Love Song / Waterfall / Don't Stop / This Is the One / She Bangs The Drums / Made Of Stone / Love Spreads

Sold Out Show, over 5500 attended the infamous show. Ian made a mistake during Sally Cinnamon singing 'pop pop blow' verse twice. The band did not return for an encore (I Am The Resurrection).

Apparently Reni had several technical problems with his headset & in ear monitors throughout the night. The band never performed encores with Reni.

Ian Brown returned to the stage on his own explaining the situation to the crowd. “The drummer’s gone home, I’m not kidding you. Sorry about that. What can I say? The drummer’s a cunt."

"The drummer's gone home. I'm not joking, the drummer's gone home. Get all your aggro out on me, I can take it. What can I say, the drummer's a cunt."

From this show onwards the band would perform a full set without any breaks.

Inder Goldfinger and Simon Wolstencroft were Ian's guests and watched the show.

The promo poster used the 'stencil design' with a light blue background.

14 June 2012 - Hulstfred Festival, Folkets Park, Hultsfred, Sweden
Love Spreads / I Wanna Be Adored / Made Of Stone / Standing Here / Ten Storey Love Song / Where Angels Play / Shoot You Down / Fools Gold / Something's Burning / Waterfall / Don't Stop / This Is the One / She Bangs The Drums / I Am The Resurrection

16 June 2012 - NorthSide Festival, Ådalen, Aarhus, Denmark * Support Act(s): Kasabian
Sally Cinnamon / Ten Storey Love Song / Bye Bye Badman / I Wanna Be Adored / Shoot You Down / Tightrope / Fools Gold / Waterfall - Don't Stop / She Bangs The Drums / Made Of Stone / This ls The One / Love Spreads / I Am The Resurrection

Ian Brown called the St. George's cross "That's the f*cking pope’s flag! Not cool, man!", Ian then threw the flag on the floor and jumped on it before he mimed wiping his bum with it during the Danish music festival.

The Stone Roses In Aarhus - How It Was, Published 17 June 2012 by Fernando Augusto Lopes http://www.botequimdeideias.com.br

Ian Brown arrives at the right corner of the stage. He makes obscene gestures to the audience. The band plays “Waterfall” and a group of Brits throw the British flag at him. Brown takes it, spits on it, stomps it and even makes a gesture of wiping his ass with the national symbol. He justifies himself into the microphone: “That’s the fucking pope’s flag! Not cool, man!”.

The group of compatriots gets angry, threatens a riot – not all of them are drunk, they are really pissed off – and security arrives to take them all away (there are about ten Englishmen in total).

Brown returns to the vocalist role, amends "Don't Stop" and at the end of the song will still take one with the remnants (who scream "it's your flag too, you stupid!").

22 June 2012 - Hurricane Festival, Blue Stage, Eichenring, Scheeßel, Germany
I Wanna Be Adored / Mersey Paradise / (Song For My) Sugar Spun Sister / Where Angels Play / Shoot You Down / Bye Bye Badman / Ten Storey Love Song / Standing Here / Fools Gold / Something’s Burning / Waterfall - Don't Stop / Love Spreads / Made Of Stone / This Is the One / She Bangs The Drums / I Am The Resurrection

Bye Bye Badman is added to the setlist. A rarely played song, last heard live in February 1989 and was quickly dropped from the setlist. The song makes a welcome return with additional Reni harmonies and John Squire riffs too.

24 June 2012 - Southside Festival, Neuhausen ob Eck Airfield, Neuhausen ob Eck, Germany
I Wanna Be Adored / Sally Cinnamon / (Song For My) Sugar Spun Sister / Where Angels Play / Ten Storey Love Song / Shoot You Down / Love Spreads / Waterfall - Don't Stop / Fools Gold / Bye Bye Badman / She Bangs The Drums / Made Of Stone / This Is the One / I Am The Resurrection

25 June 2012 Monday - Les Nuits des Fourvières, Théâtre antique de Fourvière, Lyon, France * Ticket Price: E48.10 (Online) E45 (Les Nuits des Fourvière Box Office, Euros) * Support Act(s): Goldblade

Soundcheck: Bye Bye Badman / Live A Little Love (Ini Kamoze cover) / Shoot You Down - Reni drumming / Michelle (The Beatles cover) / (Song For My) Sugar Spun Sister
Reni drumming / Waterfall / Don't Stop

Show: I Wanna Be Adored / Mersey Paradise / (Song For My) Sugar Spun Sister / Sally Cinnamon / Where Angels Play / Shoot You Down / Bye Bye Badman / Ten Storey Love Song / Standing Here / Fools Gold / Something's Burning / Waterfall - Don't Stop / Love Spreads / Made Of Stone / She Bangs The Drums / This Is the One / I Am The Resurrection

Tickets were limited to 6 per person.
During the soundcheck Ian sang Live A Little Love accapella and Michelle accapella too, Reni soon joined in on vocals too. John Robb attended the soundcheck and the show.

Elizabeth My Dear is added to the setlist, the entire debut LP is performed live for the first ever. All the right songs but not neccessarily in the right order...

We were playing with the Roses in Lyon three years ago,” recalls Membranes and Goldblade frontman, John Robb, “and at the soundcheck all we could hear was Mani playing the bassline to Slaughter’s Where Have All The Boot Boys Gone?. I think he was seeing if we'd recognise it. It was a Manchester test."

Approx sixteen minutes worth of soundcheck recording exsists, sourced from mobile phone recordings.

29 June 2012 Friday - Heaton Park, Manchester * Ticket Price: £55.00 * Doors Open: 15:00. Support Act(s): Primal Scream, The Wailers, The Vaccines, Kid British

I Wanna Be Adored / Mersey Paradise / (Song For My) Sugar Spun Sister / Sally Cinnamon / Where Angels Play / Shoot You Down / Bye Bye Badman / Ten Storey Love Song / Standing Here / Fools Gold / Something’s Burning / Waterfall - Don't Stop / Love Spreads / Made Of Stone / This Is the One / She Bangs The Drums / Elizabeth My Dear / I Am The Resurrection

Record breaking sold out show. Tickets went on sale Friday 21 October 2011 at 9.30am. The Heaton Park shows sold 220,00 tickets in 68 mintues, with the first two original dates selling out in just 15 minutes. Approx 75,000 fans attended each day.

V.I.P. Packages were available which included unique entry wristbands, wristbands to the front of stage pit, lemon branded beer tokens, black and white lemon logo carrier bag & other merchandise. The VIP lanyard was white with multicoloured text, on the other side it was black with the classic lemon logo and VIP in white text. The lanyard looked the same for all three dates.
Only 10,000 front of stage pit access wristbands were allocated for each day.

Souvinier programmes were on sale for just £10, they were fetching up to £50 on eBay at the time. Unique to the show posters, T-Shirts, badges, keyrings and even bottle openers were available from the merchandise stalls.

The promo poster designed to promote the show was initially designed with just the two dates on, a revised poster was produced to include the additional date that went on sale.

Mani watched his former band mates (Primal Scream) and their new bass player from the side of the stage.

Fools Gold included the riff from The Beatles Daytripper & their own Driving South too, this was quite common during the reunion shows. As the set comes to an end the band hug centre stage before the show finishes.

Cressa was backstage at the show, he also came back Sunday too.

Unofficial 'This Is The One - The Stone Roses Weekender' after party held at (Peter Hook's) Factory 251 Club, Manchester.

Sadly 22 year old fan Chris Brahney, from Timperley, went missing after the show. He lost his phone and was seperated from friends on the night. Christopher's body was discovered in the Manchester Ship Canal, near MediaCity, Salford Quays 09 July 2012. A message posted on the band's website said: "We'd like to extend our sincerest condolences to Christopher's family and friends. Our thoughts are with them at this incredibly sad time. Ian, John, Mani and Reni."

30 June 2012 - The Stone Roses feature in The Heaton Park Preview Special NME Magazine
Front over included 'Primal Scream unveil new bassist'. Mani, former bass player for the band, has obviously stepped down from the scream team for the roses.

30 June 2012 Saturday - Heaton Park, Manchester * Ticket Price: £55.00 * Doors Open: 15:00 * Support Act(s): Beady Eye, The Wailers, Plan B, Professor Green, Hollie Cook

I Wanna Be Adored / Mersey Paradise / (Song For My) Sugar Spun Sister / Sally Cinnamon / Where Angels Play / Shoot You Down / Bye Bye Badman / Ten Storey Love Song / Standing Here / Fools Gold / Something’s Burning / Waterfall / Don't Stop / Love Spreads / Made Of Stone / This Is the One / She Bangs The Drums / Elizabeth My Dear / I Am The Resurrection

Lily Allen made a surprise appearance with Professor Green, they performed their collaboration Just Be Good To Green.

Beady Eye singer Liam Gallagher dedicated Rock’n’Roll Star to "the one and only Mr Ian Brown".

From 07 July 2013 08:34 walesonline.co.uk By David Owens:
And when that resurrection finally occurred, Steve and his wife were at Manchester’s Heaton Park in VIP hospitality at Mani’s invite sharing in his half-brother’s joyous moment as the legendary Madchester outfit breathed new life into classics such as This Is The One, I Wanna Be Adored and Fool’s Gold all over again. “It was like a who’s who in VIP,” he recalls. “I remember seeing Holly Willoughby, John Bishop, Chris Moyles and they also had the magician Dynamo doing tricks backstage for us as well. Heaton Park was amazing....

01 July 2012 Sunday - Heaton Park, Manchester * Ticket Price: £55.00 * Doors Open: 15:00 * Support Act(s): Plan B, The Wailers, The Justice Tonight Band, Dirty North
The Just League Tonight Band

(Mick Jones & The Clash, The Farm, Pete Wylie) [Support Set]: Groovy Train / Train In Vain / The Day That Margaret Thatcher Dies / Bankrobber (featuring John Power) / Rock The Casbah (featuring John Robb) / Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams - Sinful / Clampdown (featuring John McNaw) / Should I Stay Or Should I Go / All Together Now

Roses Set
I Wanna Be Adored / Mersey Paradise / (Song For My) Sugar Spun Sister / Sally Cinnamon / Where Angels Play / Shoot You Down / Bye Bye Badman / Ten Storey Love Song / Standing Here / Fools Gold / Something’s Burning / Waterfall / Don't Stop / Love Spreads / Made Of Stone / This Is the One / She Bangs The Drums / Elizabeth My Dear / I Am The Resurrection

Extra date added due to popular demand, announced & tickets released the same day as the others. Sold Out Show. Stage time was later than Friday's show. Experts estimated The Stone Roses generated £23m for the Manchester economy by playing the trio of Heaton Park shows,

The Stone Roses made approx £12.5m in ticket sales and a further £4m from merchandise. The gigs also generated millions in extra revenue for local businesses.

Reni hand picked Dirty North to open the show.

Cressa was backstage at the show, again, and said:

"Outstanding. I didn’t come last night because I didn’t see how Friday could be any better, but there’s so much love. I was anticipating possibly a rocky show, but they were awesome. I'm told last night was even better. Hopefully it'll be an upward trajectory and tonight will be even better!...

Obviously it was emotional, just to see them. 18 months ago I was saying to people, 'There's three things I want to see before I die; My son grow up to be a grown man, (Manchester) City to win the Premier League and the Roses to play again.

I bet I only see one of those', and now in the last year, City have won the league and the Roses are playing again - so two out of three ain't bad.""

'This Is The One - The Stone Roses Weekender' after party held at (Peter Hook's) Factory 251 Club, Manchester.

From 27 September 2013 - Andy Couzens interview: What do you make of the Roses getting back together? It was really good to see them together at the press conference, obviously enjoying being together. I saw them play on the Sunday night at Heaton Park. Emotional, but again - they need a rhythm guitar player ''

July 2012 - The Stone Roses appear on the cover of Q Magazine Issue 312, £3.99 - 'The Untold Story'

02 July 2012 - The Stone Roses feature in M.E.N. Newspaper
Three page special on the Heaton Park Shows.

02 July 2012 - Shane Meadows confirms Stone Roses 'Made Of Stone' project.

Shane Meadows (This Is England, Once Upon A Time In The Midlands and Dead Man's Shoes) had finished the filming with the band for the movie at this point. He said making it allowed him to "be part of something truly remarkable, the double decade awaited resurrection of my all-time favourite band". Ian Brown made a cameo appearence in Shane's TV Series of 'This Is England 86', ironically, as a policeman.

Colin Paterson for the BBC wrote: 02 July 2012 BBC Shane Meadows on Stone Roses documentary.

Filmmaker Shane Meadows has revealed that he shelved a major project to concentrate on a documentary about The Stone Roses.

Speaking ahead of the first of the band's three gigs at Manchester's Heaton Park, the director said he and producer Mark Herbert were happy to put their planned film on hold as they "wanted to do this so much more". Herbert told the BBC's Colin Paterson that the untitled project, which will include footage shot at the Heaton Park gigs, could be released by Christmas.

From 20 May 2016 NME Magazine: Shane Meadows (Made Of Stone director) said: ...Towards the end of filming Made Of Stone, I knew they were demoing - I saw Ian going around with a little four-track cassette recorder. I was ridiculously excited by that, although I never got to hear anything.

05 July 2012 Thursday - Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland * Doors Open: 17:00 (No Queueing Before 16:00), The Minutes on stage: 17:15 * Ticket Price: 63.65 (euros) * Support Act(s): The Minutes

I Wanna Be Adored / Mersey Paradise / (Song For My) Sugar Spun Sister / Sally Cinnamon / Shoot You Down / Something’s Burning / Standing Here / Ten Storey Love Song / Where Angels Play / Bye Bye Badman / Fools Gold / Waterfall / Don't Stop / Love Spreads / Made Of Stone / This Is the One / She Bangs The Drums / Elizabeth My Dear / I Am The Resurrection

Tickets went on sale Tuesday 20 December 2011 at 08.00am.

"No queing allowed before 16:00".

07 July 2012 - The Stone Roses appear on the cover of NME Magazine - Make History At Heaton Park

07 July 2012 Saturday - T-In The Park, Balado Park & Airfield, Kinross, Scotland * Doors Open: * Stage Time: 22:00 * Support Act(s): Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, Wailers, Here We Go Magic, Django Django and more

I Wanna Be Adored / Mersey Paradise / (Song For My) Sugar Spun Sister / Sally Cinnamon / Where Angels Play / Shoot You Down / Standing Here / Fools Gold / Something’s Burning / Waterfall / Don't Stop / Love Spreads / Made Of Stone / This Is the One / She Bangs The Drums / Elizabeth My Dear / I Am The Resurrection

The Stone Roses headlined the Main Stage. The BBC were asked not to broadcast the set by the band. 85,000 festival-goers attended the weekend's (July 6-8) threeday event.

13 July 2012 - Madchester 89' - David Crausby Photography Exhibition - Mellow Gold, Karl-Eilers-Str, Bielefeld, NRW, Deutschland * Doors Open: 20:00

Exhibition open 13 July - 10 August 2012, Free enty. Photographer David Crausby was there on the opening night and on Friday the 20th too to discuss the exhibitihion. Includes photos of The Stone Roses and Happy Mondays. Included photos The Stone Roses - 30 June 1989 Friday - Leeds Polytechnic, Ents Hall, Leeds. Prints went on sale, printed on Kodak paper.

13 July 2012 - Optimus Alive Festival, Passeio Maritimo de Alges, Lisbon, Portugal

I Wanna Be Adored / Mersey Paradise / (Song For My) Sugar Spun Sister / Sally Cinnamon / Ten Storey Love Song / Where Angels Play / Shoot You Down / Fools Gold / Something’s Burning / Waterfall - Don't Stop / Love Spreads / Made Of Stone / This Is the One / She Bangs The Drums / I Am The Resurrection

Headline slot announced 15 February. The Cure and Radiohead also headlined the other festival dates.

"Optimus Alive boasts a 4 star camping site with hot showers, a swimming pool and a free shuttle service back and forth to the festival."

14 July 2012 - Benicassim Festival, FIB 2012, Costa del Azahar, Benicassim, Spain

Benicassim Festival 2012 Highlights - TV & Webcast:

I Wanna Be Adored

17 July 2012 - Samsung Galaxy City Sound Festival, Arena Civica, Ippodromo del Galoppo di San Siro, Milan, Italy * Stage Time: 21:00 * Ticket Price: 40.25 (Euros) * Support Act(s): Mick Jones

I Wanna Be Adored / Mersey Paradise / (Song For My) Sugar Spun Sister / Sally Cinnamon / Ten Storey Love Song / Where Angels Play / Shoot You Down / Fools Gold / Waterfall / Don't Stop / Love Spreads / Made Of Stone / This Is the One / She Bangs The Drums / I Am The Resurrection

The promo poster used the 'stencil design' with a green background. Ian gave out several items to the crowd during the show including tambourines, setlists, bracelets, Reni's sticks etc.

During the show someone threw Ian the Union Jack flag, he put it on the floor, trampled on it and pretended to spit on it, while smiling. At the end of the show Ian said this is not "goodbye" but "arrivederci", see you again.

Giuseppe Pastorelli said ''The venue is at the main Milan horse track (thoroughbred horse racing) near San Siro stadium...The gig was part of the first edition of a new Milan summer festival (City Sound)''

Something's Burning was on the setlist but not played.

22 July 2012 - Singapore Indoor Stadium, Singapore

I Wanna Be Adored / Mersey Paradise / (Song For My) Sugar Spun Sister / Sally Cinnamon / Bye Bye Badman / Ten Storey Love Song / Where Angels Play / Shoot You Down / Fools Gold / Something’s Burning / Waterfall - Don't Stop / Love Spreads / Made Of Stone / This Is the One / She Bangs The Drums / I Am The Resurrection

John told reporters outside the venue that the band have finished recording music and just need to design a sleeve for their next album. The promo poster used a similar design to the Heaton Park shows.

24 July 2012 - The Asia-World Expo-Arena, Hong Kong * Doors Open: 20:00 * Ticket Price: Standing HK$888 / HK$988, HK$688, Seated HK$388

Asia World Arena billed the show as part of 'The Reunion Tour'. The promo poster used a similar design to the Heaton Park shows.

27 July 2012 Friday - Fuji Rock Festival, Green Stage, Naeba Ski Resort, Niigata, Yuzawa, Japan * Doors Open: * Ticket Price: *

I Wanna Be Adored / Mersey Paradise / (Song For My) Sugar Spun Sister / Sally Cinnamon / Ten Storey Love Song / Where Angels Play - Shoot You Down / Fools Gold / Something's Burning / Waterfall - Don't Stop / Love Spreads / Made Of Stone / This Is The One / She Bangs The Drums / I Am The Resurrection

The Stone Roses headlined the Main Stage on Friday night. She Bangs The Drums features on the Made Of Stone - Shane Meadows Film bonus disc.

Fuji Rock Festival Highlights - TV/Webcast

Waterfall & She Bangs The Drums

29 July 2012 Sunday - Jisan Valley Rock Festival, Jisan Valley Ski Resort, Icheon, South Korea * Support Act(s): Los Lonely Boys, Boom Boom Satellites, Beady Eye, Sekai No Owari and more

Soundcheck: Good Times (Jam)

Mani and John played around during the soundcheck.
Ian wore an bright orange tiger jumper and underneath an 'Unfinished Monkey Business' album T-Shirt. The image showed his face from the album sleeve on a black shirt with no words.

Liam Gallagher and his band Beady Eye watched the roses show.

Printed lyrics for the rap section of Love Spreads were printed and read

' Sugar Spin Sisters, I'm Going The Distance, Get Me I'm Seekin Some Assistance, Sky High In The Realms Tonight, Sky High I'm Like A Meteorite, I'm Easy Like The Holy Ghost, It Ain't No Boast It's Just A Toast, Sky High In The Realms Tonight, Sky High I'm Like A Meteorite, Stone Roses All The Rage, Stone Roses Up On The Stage, Bang The Drums, Ignore The Bores, Kick Down The Doors, Lets Have A Round Of Applause'.

August 2012 - The Stone Roses appear on the cover of Japanese Rockin' On 8 Magazine

06 August 2012 Monday - Village Underground, Adidas Underground, 54 Holywell Lane, Shoreditch, London, EC2A3PQ

Load In Lights: 09:00am, Sound 10:00am, Backline 12:00, Soundcheck: 17:00, Doors Open: 19:00, onstage: 21:00-23:00, curfew 0:00.

I Wanna Be Adored / Waterfall - Don't Stop / Shoot You Down / Fools Gold / Something's Burning / Love Spreads / Made Of Stone / This Is The One / She Bangs The Drums / I Am The Resurrection

Secret Show. 650 capacity venue. The band stayed at the Marriott Regents Park hotel.

08 August 2012 - Øya Festival, Middelalderparken, Oslo, Norway

10 August 2012 Friday - Sziget Festival, Hajogyari Sziget, Óbuda Island, Budapest, Hungary

Taken from UK / Europe Tour 2012 Itinerary: The band stayed as Kempinski Hotel Cornivus, Erzebet ter 7-8, Budapest 1051 HU. 35,000 capacity festival.

12 August 2012 - Summer Well Festival, Buftea, Romania Cancelled due to weather forecast.

17 August 2012 - Pukkelpop Festival, Hasselt, Belgium

18 August 2012 Saturday - V Festival, Hylands Park, Chelmsford * Support Act(s): Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds,

19 August 2012 Sunday - V Festival, Weston Park, Stafford, Staffordshire * Support Act(s): Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

The atmosphere was lost through the mixed generations of crowds. The days line up did not compliment the band either. It felt like a '' Radio 1 target audience'' line up with a trending headliner. The only song the festival crowd knew was Fools Gold, quite often sampled in chart hits and still played in clubs today. The band played a great show. Quite a few roses fans travelled down from Manchester.

22 August 2012 Wednesday - Tennents Pres Vital 2012, Tennent's Vital Festival, Boucher Road Playing Fields, Belfast, Northern Ireland * Doors Open: 15:30 * Ticket Price: £49.50 * Support Act(s): Florence & The Machine, Rodrigo y Gabriela and more *

The Stone Roses headline the festival. Playing Fields

23 August 2012 - John Robb's book 'The Stone Roses - Reunion Edition' U.K. Release Date

The Reunion Edition includes a new cover and additional content too. John plugs the book on BBC 6Music and mentions

“I have bumped into Ian Brown a couple of times and he said they have new songs. And they’ve signed a two album record deal so you’d kind of figure that they do have new stuff. Ian Brown described them to me as psychedelic pop songs. And people I’ve spoken to who have been in the rehearsal room say that the new stuff does sound really good.”

2012 - The Very Best Of The Stone Roses Re-Release

November 2012 - Fire at John Squire's Farmhouse near Macclesfield

A few days away from his 50th birthday, a fire
destroyed his two-storey art studio in the converted barn next to his home. More than 20 Firefighters and five fire engines attended the blaze, removing propane cylinders from the studio in order to protect Squire's family home. Early news reports, accompanied by dramatic photographs of the blaze, suggested Mani, who was godfather to three of Squire's children, had been visiting. All the unsold paintings from his “Celebrity” exhibition, featuring abstract works named after figures such as serial killer Harold Shipman and David Beckham, were destroyed. No Stone Roses artwork or items relating to his music career were harmed. The symbolism would not have been lost on Squire.

16 November 2012 - Mani's 50th birthday

24 November 2012 - John Squire's 50th birthday