Virgin Radio Interview




29th September 2002



Q: I've heard you've been involved with all sorts of other projects ah---

JS: Gardening, cooking. The lawn could wo with a trim.

Q: You should get one in, I've got a gardener you know. You don't need to put yourself through that day in and day out.

JS: I need the exercise.

Q: The album's out it's done remarably well for you and there's still a lot of interest in the Roses, etcetra etcetra which we read about every week in the NME. How do you feel about it all? Are you excited about it?

JS: Yeah, it's good to be back in the game.

Q: Yeah?

JS: Yeah.

Q: The Stone Roses thing, I'm gonna ask you about it, because, erm, I think NME ran something about it the other day. I don't know whether you've been playing with the press. Is it on, is it off, is it finished?

JS: I didn't see the article meself, but I think it's coming from an interview I did with Teletext a few days ago, where I said that I could see it happening---(brief pause)---before I died.

Q: Well that's not even answering---

JS: It leaves the door open.

Q: Well it does. That could be a long long way away. But ah, is it realisitic then or are you just quite happy to get on with your solo stuff at the moment because obviously that's a priority.

JS: It would be a great thing to do, yeah.

Q: Really?

JS: Yeah.

Q: Well in what sort of scale of things? Just to---

JS: It would a be a tremendous emotional high. We'd need mountains of Kleenex.

Q; Yeah, you probably would. Have you and Ian Brown spoken at all then in the last couple of years? I heard you maybe had met up at some stage?

JS: No, not in the last seven.

Q: What, since the end of the Roses?

JS: No, not at all.

Q: Is that the obstacle that needs dealing with obviously? Ha ha. You can't obviously work together if you've not spoken in seven years?

JS: No. Well. I don't know. There could be a way. semaphore maybe.

Q: Well when I see him---I've seen him, I've seen him a couple of times on the streets of London. I must umm---

JS: He lives down here does he?

Q: I'm not too sure. I thought he lived up the north and then records down here. Im not too sure.

JS: Well say hello if you see him.

Q: I will. I will send him your regards, I certainly will. Because somebody told me as well that there may be some Stone Roses gigs pencilled in, but that's not true at all is it?

JS: No.

Q: So can we have a final word on that before you finish then? Would you like to see it happen then, genuinely, or is it something you're getting asked now because the solo album is out and there's a tremendous interest in the Roses?

JS: Im---yeah. I can understand that interest, and I'm not reluctant to talk about the Roses, but I can't commit to a date having not spoken to any of the other parties involved.

Q: Could you ever see the time that you're all sat around in a room talking and getting on?

JS: Yeah.







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