Fact #165938
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Short story:
Reckoned to be one of their three defining gigs, The Stone Roses play at The Empress Ballroom, Blackpool, England, UK, Europe.
Full article:
Gareth Evans (manager, Stone Roses) : There is something very romantic about British seaside resorts. Something timeless too. They are either beyond fashion or stuck in the fifties, depending n your point of view. But they are also very unpretentious and I thought that would suit the Roses’ stance, which was very street level at that point.
Ian Brown (vocalist, Stone Roses) : Blackpool was a simple idea. We wanted to go one step beyond just a concert. We wanted to give people a day out. Have a laugh. We didn’t think beyond that, really.
We thought it would be a full day out… You can amuse yourself all day long and then, that night, you get the Roses.
I think nearly everybody had been on ecstasy. My mother and father were there though, and I don’t think they were.
As we went on stage, that was the night we felt The Roses were going to do something. I know we’d had press, and I remember seeing our road crew shaking with nerves, but we were super calm.
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Ian Brown (vocalist, Stone Roses) : Blackpool was a simple idea. We wanted to go one step beyond just a concert. We wanted to give people a day out. Have a laugh. We didn’t think beyond that, really.
We thought it would be a full day out… You can amuse yourself all day long and then, that night, you get the Roses.
I think nearly everybody had been on ecstasy. My mother and father were there though, and I don’t think they were.
As we went on stage, that was the night we felt The Roses were going to do something. I know we’d had press, and I remember seeing our road crew shaking with nerves, but we were super calm.
(Source : not known)