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I never got round to seeing the Stone Roses live and that's something I've always regretted. So last night I couldn't resist the temptation to go and see former frontman, Ian Brown, strutting his stuff at Melbourne's Forum.
I was a big Roses fan and a smaller Ian Brown fan, buying a couple of his albums and thinking that he put together a few decent tunes but not enough to demand constant playing in my headphones. I'd heard stories of poor live vocal performances in the past but that wasn't going to put me off.
Also, this was an opportunity to visit the statue without a hand; a hand that sits on my mantelpiece. It's a long story that can be summarised by too much drink, loss of balance, correction using a statue, the statue inadvertantly donating its hand to drunken fool.
As expected the crowd had a high proportion of aging Manc scalls looking to recreate former glory days and they, and I, were not dissapointed. Monkeyman acquitted himself well with some of his better solo tracks, so much so that I may check out his latest album. Inevitably the crowd went especially mental everytime the opening bassline of a Stone Roses classic began.
My favourite Roses moments were "Made of Stone", "Waterfall" and especially "She Bangs the Drums". Respect to the Simian one for his attempts Bob Marley's "Three Little Birds" and the Pistols "Submission" (the final encore).
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