Rizzle Kicks, The Ting Tings, You Me At Six, NKOTBSB, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah… Oh yes, it certainly has been a good week for tour announcements, with enough impressive bands confirming dates that are likely to keep us happy well into 2012. As you’ll no doubt agree, any one of the groups that have released forthcoming concert details over the past few days are entirely worthy of the weekly honour of claiming Stereoboard’s Tour of the Week. At least, in any other week they would be anyway.
Unfortunately for them, there was an announcement on Tuesday that appears to have blown the competition out of the water. You may have heard. OK, so The Stone Roses have yet to announce a full tour, but the two massive reunion dates set for Manchester’s Heaton Park next June is close enough for us.
That’s right – after much speculation and plenty of rather angry denials, the Madchester legends have finally given in and conceded that a full Stone Roses reunion is on the way at last. If the recent spate of rebuttals from Ian Brown and co is anything to go by, then we should expect another announcement from Black Sabbath anytime soon.
After 15 years, The Stone Roses have finally announced their long-awaited Second Coming. In recent months, rumours of the band’s impending reunion have been rife and, in the last couple of weeks, some of the seemingly unlikely stories have begun to sound a lot more promising. Thankfully, our suspense was brought to an end on Tuesday afternoon, when all four members of the classic Roses line-up – Ian Brown, John Squire, Mani and Reni – appeared at a press conference to admit that, despite the persistent denials, all the rumours had in fact been true.
Of course, 2011 isn’t the first time that the question of the Stone Roses return has been raised. Far from it. People have been perpetually asking that very thing since the band first split up. When guitarist Squire released his second solo album ‘Marshall’s House’ in 2004, a journalist for the Sunday Mirror asked him whether he could see the band reforming at any point. He replied, simply: “Sometimes I can, yeah.” However, just a few years later, while announcing his intention to enter the art world, Squire suggested to the Manchester Evening News that he’d be giving up the guitar for good: “I’m enjoying this far too much to get back to music.” He then went on to downplay a Roses reunion completely: “A reunion is highly unlikely. I'd have to stop painting and that's just not in my plans.”
Bearing this week’s announcement in mind, the oddest moment came just a few months ago, in June this year, when Squire was interviewed by Shortlist magazine. In response to the interviewer’s inevitable question regarding the latest spell of rumours, he said: “I don’t see these rumours as special or flattering. It’s a symptom of the times.” Continuing on the subject of reunions, he later added: “When it’s just a get-together for a big payday and everyone gets their old clothes out, that seems tragic to me.” However, in the same interview, he went on to confess that he’d recently spoken with Ian Brown for the first time since the band’s original break-up 15 years ago.
Whatever the real reasons are behind the band’s long-awaited return, it’s clear that both Squire and Brown have finally managed to work out their differences enough to get together for some nostalgic and, hopefully, entertaining shows. Whether or not this is the start of something bigger will become apparent sometime in the not-too-distant future, but until then, these two massive homecoming shows should be just about enough to keep a few people happy in the meantime.
The Stone Roses UK & Ireland Tour Dates are as follows:
Fri June 29th 2012 - Heaton Park, Manchester
Sat June 30th 2012 - Heaton Park, Manchester
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