Reports are coming out of Manchester that original Stone Roses bassist Pete Garner has tragically passed away due to cancer. Pete was there right from the beginnings of the The Stone Roses, seeing them morph from The Patrol and The…
The legendary Spike Island gathering held at Widnes, Cheshire on May 27th 1990 featuring a bevy of DJ’s in support of, at the time, world dominating headliners The Stone Roses, has been spoken of time and time again sometimes in…
COMING SOON: THE STONE ROSES – WHERE ANGELS PLAY – SPIKE ISLAND 27 MAY 1990 Andy Phillips’ forthcoming photozine release with Hanging Around Books features images of The Stone Roses captured before and during the band’s iconic Spike Island appearance…
With a tour and the chance of a new album on the horizon, 2016 is certainly looking bright for The Stone Roses. Successfully selling out four nights in Manchester and announcing their festival headline slot at this years T in…
Nostalgia is a heady thing, and this summer has seen the revival of one of the best loved bygone eras of the late 80’s/early 90’s. Stepping into the limelight is the Madchester scene and, as it’s name would suggest, its…
Cities like Birmingham have taken over recently with a surge of great new bands – an eccentric wave of excitement. However, Flesh – one of the coolest band to come out of Manchester since The Stone Roses – might just…
I meet Simon Mason one Thursday evening in Joe’s Bar on Chalk Farm Road, half a mile up the street from Camden Town, the spiritual home of Britpop. Twenty years ago Simon was selling drugs to its major players: bands,…
In an alternate universe it’s Simon Wolstencroft rather than Mike Joyce pounding the tom toms at the beginning of The Smiths’ ‘The Queen is Dead’. In some other reality, it’s not Reni banging the drums for the Stone Roses: Funky…
Simon Wolstencroft, aka Funky Si, was the drummer in The Fall for 11 years and part of what many fans consider the band’s definitive line-up. Before that, he was in an early version of the Smiths, but turned down the drum…
Simon Spence has written books about Andrew Loog Oldham, the Stone Roses, Depeche Mode and the Donnelly Brothers . His new book, Happy Mondays: Excess All Areas presents the band’s story in full for the first time. We caught up with him…