The Stone Roses And The Resurrection Of British Pop by John Robb

Author:John Robb
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781409034186
Publisher: Ebury Digital

The tour continued on 28 February, travelling all the way down south to Brighton. In total contrast to the Hacienda last month, in Brighton at the Escape Club fifty-two people paid £3 each to enter the upstairs room of a well-kept pub with a tight, small stage and a lop-sided bar. The Roses obviously didn’t like it at all – they played four songs and left the stage, walking into the crowd and down the stairs as there was no exit on the stage itself. The last song of the set was ‘Sally Cinnamon’, and Ian Brown never even bothered to sing; he just sat there playing the bongos like a kid with a new toy, dispassionate, bored. He cold-shouldered the ‘crowd’; ‘Aren’t you people polite clapping like that,’ he sneered at the smattering of between-song applause.

It was in Brighton that they went to the Dolphinarium and checked out the dolphins. Ian Brown let his tough street pose drop in an interview. ‘We went to see a dolphin in Brighton. It was really sad because it was in a tiny little pool. None of us said anything for about half an hour. We just stared at it. It kept going past and turning its head and smiling. There was a load of people standing around the pool and it only jumped up when it saw us.’

It was a sensitive side that would occasionally seep out in the band’s music.

The Roses had never toured like this before. But from the first gig, a show in Ian’s hometown of Warrington at the Legends club, on 17 February they were pretty well on the road for the rest of that year. Playing to sparse crowds the Roses were one step ahead of the pop audience, but this seminal tour, one of the classic pop tours, was taking a whole new pop culture to a new pop generation and when the kids got it, they got it en-masse.

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