From: Greg Mcmaster
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 95 23:47:07 -700
To: roses-list@blob.best.net
Subject: ROSES: Resurrected.

Just got home exhausted but blown away. Met Ian and Mani who signed a shirt,front row centre seats and a drumstick handed to me by Robbie-fucking MAGIC !!

Set list

Adored/Drums/Waterfall/Ten Storey/Daybreak/Heaven/Star/
Tightrope/Tears/Love Spreads/Good Times/Made Of Stone
Driving South-Encore-Resurrection.

Ian's voice faltered a little and he looked fed up with the crowd surfers(it wasn't Pearl Jam lads) but the band went off big time and Ian looked well pleased at times. Resurrection and Daybreak were definite highlights.

No fools gold but I shall not complain.

Thank them for making the effort to come down if you meet them in the street.

No doubt in my mind- still the coolest band in the galaxy.

Ride on !

Greg

Date: Tue, 3 Oct 1995 14:16:01 +1000
To: roses-list@blob.best.net
From: *****@peg.apc.org (Caleb Rudd)
Subject: Re: ROSES: Festival Hall Brisbane

Great show, but I think that Ian deliberatly sings the early stuff half hartedly, so everyone thinks that 2nd Comings stuff is much better. It got a bad review in today's national paper The Australian quote

"Every time the momentum seemed ready to increase, a lead solo was extended and everything ground to a halt. Going South and Breaking into Heaven were reduced to a shadow of their recreation on CD...Not even the stuttering jive of Love Spreads could redeem the general vibe of the night: a sleepy Sunday and some great music going nowhere. Whether it was the heat, a deliberate sense of good old-fashioned piss-take or being casual to the point oof laziness, it didn't translate to the audience, which, in turn, frustrated the band. Brown's exasperation at not achieving the desired level of response was evident and apathy kicked in." etc.

Well were I was standing the audience was charged and responsive. But I did get a bit sick of Brown's Holier than though aloofness.

Another typical Roses move, no Fools Gold, even though they were selling the T-Shirts, and it is one of their only (and probably biggest) hits in Oz, and no Begging You, even though its the new single.

Still well worth it.

Caleb

From: ***@kraken.itc.gu.edu.au (Benn Burton)
Newsgroups: alt.music.alternative
Subject: STONE ROSES
Date: 4 Oct 1995 05:38:34 GMT

Just saw the Brisbane show from the Stone Roses first ever Australian tour on Sunday night (1-10-95) What a show! Definitely one of the best bands I've seen for a long time. In fact, it even made up for how bad Urge Overkill were a week or so earlier. Anyone else agree? Take care ...

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Thanks, cheers and good Karma,

Benn