If anyone's heard the stories, tomorrow will be the it is officially announced.

I believe the man who was behind the scenes sorting it out was one Simon Moran.

He's like the new Jimmy Saville.

Got told a few weeks ago by someone quite close to the man himself that SJM Promotions are behind 2 (possibly 3 depending on ticket demand) reformation gigs next summer to be announced this Tuesday afternoon. They will both be in Manchester (Heaton park alledgedly).

I'll put it this way; I was happier when I heard steps were reforming. (That is more about the quality of stone roses than my feelings towards steps; who I really dislike)

The bright side? It may pay for us to buy a new lee briers!

you really do spout some dross.

I for one will be first in line. Can't believe they have 'kissed and made up' tbh.

One good album , the rest rubbish. www.nme.com/news/the-stone-roses/59813

One good album , the rest rubbish. www.nme.com/news/the-stone-roses/59813

A few years ago I used to always hope for a Stone Roses reunion but not especially excited over this.

Are they actually going to do what Take That did and make new stuff? Or are they just going to put on a couple of gigs and play their old classics then disappear? I'm sure that would be good and people would go for it but I wonder whether the past should just be left as the past....Ian Brown plays old Roses songs when he does gigs anyway so I don't see what would be massively different.

I wonder if the crowd for these gigs will be full of 40 something year old males or whether the new indie kid students with their skintight jeans will embrace them...

I think it will be a mix of both original fans (secretly wishing they wasn't doing it) and present day indie kids, believing they are going to see a genius band and coming away thinking 'is that it?'

Probably the most over-rated band of their generation, they were not a bad band, but the fact they faded so dramatically and the awfulness of John Squire's later work shows they were of their time and will probably not have aged well.

touchy eh? You a die hard fan, Moz?

They weren't great and this reunion is not only unnecassary; it is almost comical. Why are they doing it, I wonder? There can't have been a swell of demand for it. No one shed a tear when they split up and they weren't that popular. Ian Brown is more successful now than when he was in the roses and Manny is a better musician in a better band.

Fools Gold was popular but was, ultimately, mmmeehh. That's about it.

I much prefer Primal scream. Sorry, they are a better band. Stone Roses are a marginally more talented Oasis (and the less said about them, the better)

awesome news, i just hope they get their orginal attitude and edge back now they've reformed, i was never a fan of Ian Brown on his own because those are the things he lost in my opinion and went soft

Made of stone = argueably one of the best songs EVER made

Jeez, where to start here?



Wrong.



It's Mani. And who is he a better musician than? Himself??



No they're not.

Out of interest, how old were you in 1990?