| 31.03.2007 (updated story 01.04.07) |  |
 Last night's Versus Cancer event featured a star-studded line up with many unique collaborations throughout the evening.Noel Gallagher teamed up with Andy Rourke to perform The Smiths' 'There Is A Light That Never Goes Out', whilst Paul Weller and The Charlatans took on The Jam's classic, 'Town Called Malice'. Paul Weller also joined Noel onstage to perform The Jam's 'The Butterfly Collector'. Ian Brown's set ran: 'Golden Gaze', 'Dolphins Were Monkeys', 'Time Is My Everything', 'F.E.A.R.' and new tracks 'On Track' and 'Goodbye To The Broken'. Videos are already turning up, these videos uploaded by KC include clips of: Golden Gaze (0:58), Dolphins Were Monkeys (1:36), Time Is My Everything (1:28), F.E.A.R. (1:18), On Track (1:41) and Goodbye To The Broken (1:09). The most talked about collaboration, surely, was Ian Brown joined on stage by Mani and original vibemaster Cressa for a one-off performance of 'I Am The Resurrection', which you can view in full, here: I Am The Resurrection (10:13). Mani was also questioned about the posibility of a full Roses rendition, he told the NME: "When he (John Squire) stops painting and picks up a guitar again, who knows? I'd be a nice thing to do, but I'm not going to lose any sleep over it. Manchester City will probably win the Premiership before it happens." Click here to read write ups of the night from NME and Manchester Evening News. |
| 26.03.2007 | |
 Footage has finally been uncovered from the legendary Ian Brown gig at Claremont Landscape Garden in Esher, Surrey on 25th July 2004 where Ian played a full set of Stone Roses tunes to a captive audience of around 5,000 in the picturesque surroundings on that warm summer's evening.The set-list on the night ran: I Wanna Be Adored, Sally Cinnamon, Sugar Spun Sister, Waterfall, Mersey Paradise, Made Of Stone, She Bangs The Drums, Where Angels Play, Elizabeth My Dear, I Am The Resurrection, Fools Gold, My Star, Dolphins Were Monkeys, Golden Gaze, F.E.A.R., Time Is My Everything and while there were as many as four cameras recording on the night (it was hoped that the gig may one day see a DVD release) nothing has ever emerged and it was looking doubtful that it ever would... but thankfully four videos have turned up on youtube.com. The four recently uploaded videos are of I Wanna Be Adored (5:01), Sally Cinnamon (2:57), Waterfall (4:34) and I Am The Resurrection (1:13) and capture some of the magic from that night. 
The videos were uploaded by youtube user Woodman1977 and first spotted by DaveCTFC.Click here to read my Esher review from back then. |
| 24.03.2007 |  |
 Just to let you know that the Stone Roses Fan Survey 2007 results are still on the way, I've slacked a little after a week away and had some more back throughout March, that said I have officially closed it now to give me a fighting chance of processing them all.Thanks to everyone who took the time to complete the survey, it is really interesting to read through all your results and in some cases (thanks to the myspace links), put your comments to a face. This has certainly been one of the best responses that I've ever had for something like this. I am currently processing all 675 completed surveys received, which is a very lengthy task, as I'm having to enter them manually into an Excel spreadsheet that I created but hopefully the results will be posted in full by mid-April (I have fully processed 120 forms so far). Please keep checking back. As I've processed all the ages so far, I can reveal that the average age of the Stone Roses fan is, perhaps surprisingly, 26 years old (26.1363 to be precise). |
| 15.03.2007 |  |
 Carrying on the story of the missing frontman for the Freebass collective, the Wigan Today reports that the search is over and that Rich Lawson has turned up safe and well.Hooky had gotten in touch with the newspaper to hopefully locate the singer who they had spent time in the recording studio with before he seemed to go missing. Luckily, nothing sinister was afoot and he has now been in touch with them. Hook told the paper: "He phoned up on Tuesday. The whole family has moved to Edgeley in Stockport so that's why we couldn't get hold of him. Thankfully he is still well up for it." So, with that behind them they are now intending on getting back to work in the next week or so, Hooky has also comfirmed some of the guest vocalists drafted in for the album: "We've been working with some great singers. Tim Burgess has done a vocal for us. Liam Gallagher, I believe, is doing one, (as are) Ian Brown and Bobby Gillespie. "We're going to get them up on stage as well. It's nice that Mani and I can call in a few favours." Read the full article. 
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