M = Media
N = News
RS = Radio Session
TV = Television Appearance
Ian Brown = Release

Ian Brown appears on the Paragraph 78 soundtrack
Notes: Russian film.

2007 - John Squire attends the Led Zeppelin reunion show in London
Notes: John said: “It would be good to do something like that.” Ian responded to The Stone Roses reunion remarks made by both John and Mani with "Do you think if he was sat here now with his Greatest
Hits he would be talking about putting the band back together?"

2007
2007 - John Squire continues creating art:
19mm Flow (2007, Glass, 50x26 inches)
2007 Ok (2007, Oil and wax on Hessian, 40x30 inches)
'#728' (pencil on postcard, RCA postcard series)
'#1442‘ (pencil on postcard, RCA postcard series)
'#1834‘ (pencil on postcard, RCA postcard series)
Anything to keep us from asking those unanswerable questions (2007, (Oil and sand on canvas, 47x35inches)
Arc Light (oil on canvas, 20x16")
Bed Or Mutual Unease (oil on canvas)
Burning powder (oil on canvas, 20x16")
Carbon Monoxide (2007, Encaustic, wool and silk on canvas, 20x16inches)
Charnel (oil on canvas, 20x10")
Closer Still (oil and sand on canvas)
Compulsion (pencil, paper, oil and wax on hessian, 20x16")
Converse (2007, Encaustic, wool, silk and paper on hessian, 30x40inches)
Copper Slag (2007, Oil and Wax on canvas, 10x8inches)
Crashing Dreams (pencil, paper, oil and wax on hessian, 20x16“)
Cuerno de Chivo (glass, 12x8")
Devotion (2007, Oil and sand on canvas, 47x36inches)
Dilate (2007, Encaustic, wool and silk on hessian, 20x16inches)
Domestic Bliss (2007, Oil and sand on canvas, 39x24inches)
Draw and Seperate (2007, Oil and Wax on canvas, 96x72inches)
Dzonot (wax and oil on canvas, 20x16")
Empire (oil and wax on hessian, 30x40“)
False standard (paper and wax on hessian, 10x8")
Gross Motor Skills (2007, Oil and wax on Hessian, 47.5x35.5inches)
Islamic Ceramic (oil on canvas, 20x16")
Jesse Vann (2007, Oil and Wax on canvas, 20x48inches)
Jesus and Mary (2007, Oil and Wax on canvas, 70x54inches)
Love Story The Dependants At War (oil on canvas)
M105 (oil on canvas, 20x16")
Marks with Red (2007, Oil and Wax on canvas, 10x8inches)
The martinet (pencil, paper, oil and wax on hessian, 20x16“)
Mist and rain (paper, oil and wax on canvas, 10x8")
Music and flowers (oil on canvas, 12x 10")
No Recommendation for Clemency (2007, Encaustic, oil, wool, and paper on hessian, 40x30inches)
Nocturnal Plumage (oil and wax on canvas, 20x16")
Off to war (paper and wax on hessian, 10x8")
Pe'ahi (glass, 12x8“)
The pig faced lady (paper and wax on hessian, 10x8“)
Pilgrim (2007, Encaustic, wool and silk on hessian, 39x24inches)
Plasticity, Evie (2007, Oil and Wax on canvas, 10x8inches)
Priapism (2007, Oil and sand on canvas, 47x36inches)
Saturnalia (paper, oil and wax on hessian, 20x16")
Shapes In The Dark (oil on canvas)
She Mauled, We Killed, I Buried (bronze);
Silver or lead (2007, Oil and sand on canvas, 47x80inches
Skylight (2006, Oil and sand on canvas, 30x40 inches)
Sloth (pencil, paper and wax on hessian, 20x16“)
This Is Where I Came In
Tim Page's whore sold me a camera (paper, wax and oil on canvas, 10x8")
Two Rectangles (2007, Oil and Wax on canvas, 10x8inches)
Unknown (oil on canvas)
Winter Landscape (2007, Encaustic, wool and silk on hessian, 30x40inches)
Wrist (2007, Encaustic and wool on hessian, 30x40inches)
Year of the Pig (2007, Oil and sand on canvas, 71x48inches)
You're so easily amused (paper, pencil and wax on hessian, 10x8")

2007 - Former co-manager Matthew Cummings dies
Notes: Matthew died in a tragic accident. Former Stone Roses co-manager worked with Gareth Evans during the band's silvertone years.
2007 - Ian Brown wins Q Awards Legend 2007

2007 - Paul John Dykes interviewed former Stone Roses drummer, Robbie Jay Maddix.
Notes: Interview snippets are featured throughout the timeline. Full article can still be found online.

2007 - Fun Lovin Criminals had asked Reni to become their drummer.
Notes: He did not respond and nothing became of the rumour.

January 2007 - Recording Session,
On Track / Goodbye To The Broken
Notes: Andy Rourke (former Smith's bassist) comes in to play bass on some of the recordings including On Track & Goodbye To The Broken.
From Uncut Magazine 13 May 2016, Ian Brown March 2006 Interview by Stephen Dalton: Every album so far has been a step forward musically. So what happens next? “I might make a reggae LP. I’ve always said I wouldn’t, as I love reggae too much – I wouldn’t want to mess it up, it wouldn’t be respectful. But I’ve been listening to it for 30 years and it still moves me as much as it always did. The time may be right to make a big shift. When I sing for my own amusement, I sing good, I sing in a different voice. I want to try and write songs in that voice.”

21 February 2007 Wednesday - Paragraf 78 Premier Aftershow, Russia
23 February 2007 Friday - Paragraf 78 Fest, B1 Maximum, Russia

20 February 2007 - Ian Brown's 44th birthday

30 March 2007 Friday - Manchester V Cancer, Versus Cancer Event, M.E.N. (Manchester Evening News) Arena, Manchester * Support Act(s): Electric Milk Band, McAlmont & Butler, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Charlatans, Noel Gallagher
Golden Gaze / Dolphins Were Monkeys / T.I.M.E. / F.E.A.R. / On Track (with Andy Rourke) / Goodbye To The Broken (with Andy Rourke)
encore: I Am The Resurrection (with Mani, Peter Hook, Andy Rourke, Paul Ryder & Cressa)
Notes: Charity benefit concert, Noel Gallagher headlined the show and Ian was second on the bill. Andy Rourke, former Smiths bass player, joins Ian for two tracks. It looks like this was the debut performances for On Track, Goodbye To The Broken and Ian's solo version of I Am The Resurrection. Andy would play bass in the studio too for the album recordings. Comedian's Alan Carr & Johnny Vegas introduced the all-star encore band. Freebass joined Ian Brown. Freebass an abbrievted play on the words 'Three Bass Players' consisted of Mani, Peter Hook & Andy Rourke. Happy Mondays bass player Paul Ryder joined the band on bass too and even Cressa made an onstage appearence. I was there. The whole night was brilliant Paul Weller joined The Charlatans for a cover of Town Called Malice, Bernard Butler & David McAlmont were joined by Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce for a string of Smith covers, Echo & The Bunnymen played with Peter Hook and former Oasis guitarist Bonehead's band Electric Milk Band played too. Noel headlined the show with an unplugged set which featured Paul Weller guesting on a couple of songs including a cover of The Jam's - Butterfly Collector.
Ian met and chatted with Timperley legend Frank Sidebottom backstage. Frank was seen onstage brushing the stage inbetween acts on the night. Comedian John Thompson was also at the show and introduced acts on the night.
From 1998 - Top Of The Pops Q&A Session, Ian Brown said: johanna asks: "Do you have a favorite line from all your songs?" Ian Brown: "'I am the resurrection and I am the life, I couldn't ever bring myself to hate you as I'd like.'"
? From 01 February 2009 Sunday - The Guardian, article by Luke Bainbridge: What is your favourite United memory? The Champions League final in 1999. I had a gig in Belfast that night, which is a big United city, obviously. We watched it before we went on stage and we thought it was all over. Then Teddy scored, one all, then Ole put that one in, that was it. All over. Best United game ever.
Did you say anything when you went on stage? I think I sang, "Number one is Georgie Best, number two is Georgie Best, number three..." which I also did at the Manchester v Cancer show, the day of Georgie's funeral. I came on singing, "Number one is Georgie Best" and the crowd were going absolutely crazy, half of them booing because they were Blues. Gary Neville was there so I said, "Let's have a great big hand for Gary Neville" and half the crowd booed. I apologised last time I saw him and he said, "No mate, forget it. I'm well used to that by now."
Bootleg: MCR V CANCER 2007 (4 CD-R SET) In-complete Audience Recording
Bootleg: Audience Recording - FLAC (Tommybagnall) (Johnky transfer)

10 April 2007 - Reni's 43rd birthday

2007 - Ian Brown is awarded the Legend Award
Notes: Ian is awarded the "Legend" Award at the Q Awards 2007.

John Squire - 13 June 2007 - Dave Haslam Show, XFM Manchester Session
Notes: John Squire Interview. Dave Haslam (Stone Roses DJ/Hacienda DJ/NME journalist etc.) Radio Show. See Media for the transcription.
From 26 April 1997 Saturday - NME Magazine (New Musical Express): So, ten years down the line – someone offers you $10million for The Stone Roses to reform? “No. No chance.”

13 June 2007 - Masterdisk Studios, Mastering Engineer: Howie Weinberg. Fiction / Polydor. LC-28061
12 Track USA in-house "Reference-NOT FOR PRODUCTION". Noted as "Ian Brown Album"

John Squire - 04-29 July 2007 - John Squire: 'New Work' Exhibition - Smithfield Gallery, 16 West Smithfield Street, London, EC1A 9HY
Notes: From 02 July 2007 Monday - The Guardian article, John Squire said: ...Much has been written on the relationship between art and pop. I have heard it said that if you want to form a band, you should go to art school - but I never felt compelled to go down this route. Soulless formal instruction seems at odds with what I see as a very personal and intense activity. For me, art is as much a part of my music as the lyrics and the tunes; it is all about the creative drive. To will something into being, to be the first to see or hear it. As with other artists who work in this way, the KLF's Bill Drummond or Brian Eno for example, the flow between the art studio and the music studio has been an easy one. I spend up to 10 hours a day, seven days a week in the studio, which has become the centre of my universe. I have worked on developing my own voice in the painting, which focuses on an increasing tension between background and foreground. The recent additions of sand and wax to my work have exaggerated the battle for prominence, transparent wax competing with the opaqueness of the oils and sand-based layers. I have also added an industrial sandblasting unit to the equation, using it to eat away at inch-thick glass panels, and any living thing that dares approach. I was asked recently whether I felt vulnerable exhibiting my art. The truth is I can't wait to see it all hanging in one room, sell it out and start work on the next show.
From 13 June 2007 - XFM Manchester Session Interview: As John was telling us before we heard the Beach Boys, he’s embarked on his art, pretty much full time. What are you currently working on John?
JS: A huge painting for the exhibition in July down in the Smithfield Gallery [London, opens July 4th 2007].
How big, a big canvas? JS: You need a ladder; that big.
And it’s propped up against a wall somewhere? JS: Yeah, I’m going straight back to that
For people who haven’t seen examples of your work…JS: And there’s a lot of them!
How would you describe the paintings you’re working on now? They’re large… JS: Not exclusively, no. I’m doing some 10 by 8 inch stuff as well. I work backwards; I paint a full canvas and then I proceed to bury it with sand, glue, and more paint to hide most of the original image and reveal the areas that I choose to. It’s quite an elaborate layering process.
Is there any particular colour that predominates? JS: No.
It’s abstract work, but I know you’ve done a portrait of John Lydon, for example, so is that something you’ve left behind that portrait work in favour of this abstract, multi-layering thing? JS: Yeah, I think that was a bit of blind alley really.
That was a bit of a one-off? JS: Yeah....
Have you any intention of bringing the music and the art together? I know that Marshall’s House – your second solo album – was influenced by the work of the artist Edward Hopper, but I wondered whether you’d maybe thought of bringing out a book with your work in it and a CD with it, say, or making a specially commissioned piece of music to play in the gallery, or bringing the music and the art together in any other way?
JS: I am working on a sound installation but it’ll be fairly hard to dance to!
And that’ll be part of the exhibition? JS: Yeah.
Is that going to be finished for the 4th July? JS: Yeah.

John Squire - 06 September 2007 - 04 October 2007 - John Squire: New Work Exhibition - Dazed and Confused Gallery, 112 - 116 Old Street, London, EC1V 9BG * Doors Open: Monday - Friday, 10:00-18:00pm
Notes: Squire exhibited in London, Tokyo and Edinburgh too.
John Squire said: I’ve felt the need to create for as long as I can remember. That desire for an intense, obsessive relationship with a piece of work as its willed into being. We built a studio a couple of years ago (thanks Mark, Tom, Josh, Lee, Paul and Ryan). The floor, walls, roof, stairs, skylights, windows, electrics everything. This room has become the center of my universe, an inspirational place....Twenty years on I’m still painting, learning and finding new ways to create. With this latest collection I partially bury the paintings under layers of sand, glue and wax and repaint the surface. The first layer then channels through the subsequent ones dividing the surface and revealing fragments of the original brushwork. This process evolved from a series of works in oil and plaster, most of which ended up in a skip. Embedding duct and insulation tape in plaster on canvas and pulling the tape back through the partially dried plaster exposed areas I could work into with the brush. The results were alright but too rigid and I wanted to be able to paint more freely in the channels. As the work has progressed the background and foreground have become more interchangeable. The pathways in the surface texture can describe forms and also serve as a backdrop to the islands and peninsulas crossing above. Recent experiments with glass and splintered wood are filling the studio rapidly forcing the work outside. Time to expand.

The World Is Yours Tour
08 September 2007 Saturday - Belgrade Live Festival, Jelen Pivo, Belgrade

Ian Brown - 15 September 2007 - Illegal Attacks (featuring Sinead O'Connor) U.K. Release Date
Illegal Attacks (with Sinead O'Connor) - Recorded at Windmill Lane Studios, Ireland.
Notes: The single peaked at number 16 in the U.K. charts and number 32 in the Irish charts. I have a conflicting date of 17 September 2007 from Virgin Megastore, perhaps the download was available 15 September while the CD in store was 17 September.

21 September 2007 Friday - Digital, Brighton

22 September 2007 - Ian Brown features on the front cover of NME Magazine
Notes: Front page 'He Bangs The Drum'

Ian Brown - 24 September 2007 - The World Is Yours U.K. Release Date
Produced by Black Ops & Emile.
Strings arrnaged by Simon Hale.
Illegal Attacks - Recorded at Windmill Lane Studios, Ireland.
Sinead O'Connor on additional vocals. Andy Rourke on bass. Paul Ryder on bass.
Steve Jones on guitar.
Paul Cook on drums.
Fiction Records.
13 June 2007 - Masterdisk Studios, Mastering Engineer: Howie Weinberg. Fiction / Polydor. LC-28061. 12 Track USA in-house "Reference-NOT FOR PRODUCTION". Noted as "Ian Brown Album".
CD, 172 466-4
Double Heavyweight Vinyl, 174 341-4
Download
1. The World Is Yours
2. On Track
3. Sister Rose
4. Save Us
5. Eternal Flame
6. The Feeding Of The 5000
7. Street Children
8. Some Folks Are Hollow
9. Goodbye To The Broken
10. Me And You Forever
11. Illegal Attacks
12. The World Is Yours (Reprise)

Deluxe Edition 174 591-9. 2 CD Featuring Orchestral Mix Of Album, Limited Edition to 20,000.
Orchestral Mix Bonus Disc
1. The World Is Yours (Orchestral Mix)
2. On Track (Orchestral Mix)
3. Sister Rose (Orchestral Mix)
4. Save Us (Orchestral Mix)
5. Eternal Flame (Orchestral Mix)
6. The Feeding Of The 5000 (Orchestral Mix)
7. Street Children (Orchestral Mix)
8. Some Folks Are Hollow (Orchestral Mix)
9. Goodbye To The Broken (Orchestral Mix)
10. Me And You Forever (Orchestral Mix)
11. Illegal Attacks (Orchestral Mix)
12. The World Is Yours (Reprise) (Orchestral Mix)

Japanese CD UICP-1088
1. The World Is Yours
2. On Track
3. Sister Rose
4. Save Us
5. Eternal Flame
6. The Feeding Of The 5000
7. Street Children
8. Some Folks Are Hollow
9. Goodbye To The Broken
10. Me And You Forever
11. Illegal Attacks
12. Sister Rose (Japanese version)
13. The World Is Yours (Reprise)
Notes: The album peaked at number 4 in the U.K. charts and number 7 in the Irish charts.
Promo leaflets read 'CD / Double Heavyweight Vinyl / Download / Deluxe Edition 2CD Featuring Orchestral Mix Of Album'
Information taken from an 12 track mastering disc: 'U.S.A. masterdisk studios LC-28061 Total Running Time: 48:26 Mastering Engineer Howie Weinberg 13 June 2007.''
Featuring a host of musicians including Andy Rourke former The Smiths' bass player. Paul Ryder Happy Mondays' bass player. Ex-Sex Pistols members guitarist Steve Jones & drummer Paul Cook.
From This Is The Daybreak website - May 2008 Simon Hale described his approach to the The World Is Yours LP: "I worked on 11 songs and added the string, horn, harp and timpani parts on top of what was in existence at the time, whether finished or not. We then recorded the orchestra at Angel studios on two separate occasions as an overdub on top of the track. I would tend to take the same initial approach for each song - listening to how the song is put together, what elements it comprises of; melodic themes, rhythmic hooks, harmonic progression, tempo, groove, overall colour of sound etc, and then build my ideas around that to try to highlight what's going on, add another dimension and twist and give variation in my writing as the song progresses. Having the orchestra-only mixes means that you can hear everything in complete isolation away from the track so that it's really obvious what's gone on at the orchestra sessions." (Simon Hale speaking to This Is The Daybreak, May 2008)
The Monkey king said “I know everyone always says their latest is their best, but I really feel that this time. I’ve really gone all out with the lyrics and melodies. I’m trying to make my own “What’s Going On”. It’s going to be something really beautiful, with violins, dead sharp beats, socially conscious lyrics – this time around, I’m trying to bury everything I’ve ever done.”

27 September 2007 Thursday - Academy, Newcastle
Notes: Sold Out Show. The official start of the mammoth 22 date U.K. tour.
Hail! Hail! Rock'n'Roll: The Ultimate Guide to the Music, the Myths and the... By John Harris mentions Robbie Maddix supported Ian on his 2007 U.K Tour.

28 September 2007 Friday - City Hall, Hull * Doors Open: 19:30 * Ticket Price: £22.50

29 September 2007 Saturday - Octagon, Sheffield * Doors Open: 19:00 * Ticket Price: £22.50
Notes: Sold Out Show.

01 October 2007 - Ian Brown is co-credited for Babyshambles track 'French Dog Blues'.
Notes: Peter Doherty, lead singer, guitarist and writer of Babyshambles, used the lyrics 'I only ever wanted the one with the flag but all you ever wanted was a sixty dollar bag and a cheap limousine for your deep pile dreams on the highway'. As a result, Ian Brown has songwriting credits on the track "French Dog Blues". Babyshambles used the lyrics before the track was officially recorded and quite often performed the track live too. There was a promo video produced and released but the song was never released as a single, although it was scheduled. Peter has also covered several Stone Roses songs during his career including Sally Cinnamon, Your Star Will Shine, Sugar Spun Sister and many more.

01 October 2007 Monday - Town Hall, Middlesbrough
Notes: Sold Out Show.

02 October 2007 Tuesday - Engine Shed, Lincoln
Notes: Sold Out Show.

03 October 2007 Wednesday - Victoria Hall, Halifax
Notes: Sold Out Show.

05 October 2007 Friday - University, Leeds * Doors Open: 19:00 * Ticket Price: £22.50
Notes: Sold Out Show.

06 October 2007 Saturday - Pyramid & Parr Hall, Cultural Quarter, Palmyra Square South, Warrington, Cheshire, WA11BL * Doors Open: 19:00 * Ticket Price: £22.50
Sister Rose / Dolphins Were Monkeys / T.I.M.E. / Lovebug / The Sweet Fantastic / On Track (with Andy Rourke) / Goodbye To All The Broken (with Andy Rourke) / Destiny Or Circumstance / Longsight M13 / Keep What Ya Got / Golden Gaze / Corpses / My Star / I Am The Resurrection
encore: Set My Baby Free / F.E.A.R. / Fools Gold - The World Is Yours / Illegal Attacks / Sister Rose
Notes: Sold Out Show. Andy Rourke, former Smiths bass player, joins Ian for two tracks. I was there. Just two roses tunes, Fools Gold started well then just left fans confused. It was a mash up version featuring lyrics from The World Is Yours with the music of Fools Gold.
Bootleg: What’s Happened To Ya? / Preston Present (2007 - 3 CD-R) Complete Audience Recording

07 October 2007 - Q Awards
Notes: Ian Brown and Johnny Marr spoke to the media and gave full support to Radiohead’s radical way of releasing their album ‘In Rainbows.’ Radiohead gave their fans the opportunity to download their new album ‘In Rainbows’ for any amount they want – free, one penny or even £100.
Johnny Marr told the BBC: "I think it's a really fantastic idea because it puts the responsibility back on people's own consciences and deals with people as grown ups." "It's not hiding behind any corporate nonsense, it's just saying 'this is the way it is, let's get on with it'. "Everyone knows you can get your music for free, so let's see if you really want to show the band your appreciation."
Referring to The Charlatans’ plans to give away their album for totally free, Ian Brown said: “I've heard about bands putting out free albums. The idea of that is that they'll then sell concert tickets and that's how they'll get the money back. Anything that's going to break the game up like that, I support it."

08 October 2007 Monday - Caird Hall, Dundee, Scotland
(incomplete) I Wanna Be Adored / Dolphins Were Monkeys / Golden Gaze / Corpses / My Star / Longsight M13 / Keep What Ya Got / F.E.A.R.
Notes: Sold Out Show. A review featured in 07 October 2022, 6.00am - The Courier Evening Telegraph by Graeme Strachan.

09 October 2007 Tuesday - Civic Hall, Motherwell, Scotland
(incomplete) Sister Rose / Destiny or Circumstance / Lovebug / T.I.M.E. / Golden Gaze / Keep What Ya Got / My Star / I Am the Resurrection / I Wanna Be Adored / Fools Gold - The World Is Yours / F.E.A.R.
Notes: Sold Out Show.
See Media for 15 October 2007 Monday 00:00 - The Independent, David Pollock Review.

10 October 2007 Wednesday - Corn Exchange, Edinburgh, Scotland
Notes: Sold Out Show.

12 October 2007 Friday - Cymru Venue, The Promenade, Llandudno, LL30 1BB, Wales * Doors Open: 19:00 * Ticket Price: £24:75 * Support:

13 October 2007 Saturday - Guildhall, Grand Hall, Preston, Lancashire * Doors Open: 19:30 * Ticket Price: £22.50
I Wanna Be Adored / Golden Gaze / Dolphins Were Monkeys / Destiny Or Circumstance / Longsight M13 / Keep What Ya Got / T.I.M.E. / The Sweet Fantastic / Lovebug / Corpses / My Star / Street Children / Goodbye To All The Broken / On Track / Sister Rose
encore: I Am The Resurrection / Fools Gold - The World Is Yours / Set My Baby Free / F.E.A.R.
Notes: Sold Out Show. I was there.
Bootleg: What’s Happened To Ya? / Preston Present (2007 - 3 CD-R) Complete Audience Recording

October 2007 - Daily Star Interview
Notes: Ian reveals he is planning a series of shows in prisons. “I’m going to get permission from three or four jails, including Preston.” Ian also revealed he was lining up an orchestra for his next tour in 2008, “I’m planning some classical dates where I can do things like ‘FEAR’. It already has strings on it, but I’ll get some other things re-scored as well.
“I’ll get all the orchestra in Adidas tracksuits and I’ll wear the dickie bow and the suit. That’s what I’m planning for next year.”

15 October 2007 Monday - The Assembly Rooms, Derby * Doors Open: 19:00 * Ticket Price: £22.50

16 October 2007 Tuesday - Rock City, Nottingham
Notes: Sold Out Show.

18 October 2007 Thursday - Hexagon, Reading
Notes: Sold Out Show.

19 October 2007 Friday - Academy, 52-54 Dale End, Birmingham * Doors Open: 18:45 * Ticket Price: £22.50
Notes: Sold Out Show.

20 October 2007 Saturday - Corn Exchange, Cambridge * Doors Open: 19:30 * Ticket Price: £22.50
Notes: Sold Out Show.

21 October 2007 Sunday - Digital, Brighton
Notes: Additional date, not noted on any posters.

22 October 2007 Monday - Guildhall, Southampton
I Wanna Be Adored / My Star / Street Children I Am the Resurrection.
From 25 October 2007 Thursday 09:14 - The Guardian Newspaper article, by Alexis Petridis: Three out of five stars review, Guildhall, Southampton.
Detractors would suggest that Ian Brown's ongoing career is one of the great mysteries of modern rock. Audibly the one weak link in a band of startling talents, he has somehow ended up the solitary Stone Rose with a career that's not merely functioning, but in rude health: a decade after their miserable demise, he is still playing sold-out gigs.
Tonight's audience is old enough to recall the brief, dizzying period in which Brown fronted the most exciting band in the world and, as their tendency to erupt into terrace chanting between songs suggests, heavy on the kind of devotee who has more in common with a die-hard football supporter than your standard flighty rock fan. Nevertheless, you wonder how many of them would be here were it not for Brown's pragmatic volte face regarding performing Stone Roses songs: tonight's set is bookended by I Wanna Be Adored and I Am the Resurrection.
However, if your only motivation was to hear Stone Roses songs performed live, you would be better off with one of the many tribute bands. The line that Ian Brown cannot sing has been repeated so often that it feels very tired, but the degree to which he cannot sing still has the capacity to shake you awake. Here, his voice is a muffled, gloomy honk, like a despondent goose wearing a balaclava. It has an inexplicably ominous quality, which does for even the perkiest tracks from his solo career. This is a shame. On record, his songs have an artless charm - whatever accusations you want to level at him, you could never call My Star or Street Children contrived. But live, everything seems to descend into mid-tempo sludge.
For all that, watching him is still weirdly entertaining. Despite the legions of northern frontmen who have copied his swagger, Brown remains a unique and defiantly odd figure, as evidenced by his between-song banter. He engages in a perplexing but determined effort to upset the audience by repeatedly asking if there is anyone here from Portsmouth, the town's arch football rivals. Then he complains that they are not dancing properly: "More shoulder shuffling," he protests, offering a quick demonstration. Then he starts going on about Portsmouth again: cue boos and expletive-laden catcalls of a quite remarkable vehemence. Up on stage, Ian Brown appears to be chuckling to himself: one of the great mysteries of modern rock, as unfathomable as ever.

23 October 2007 Tuesday - Folkestone Leas Cliff Hall, Folkestone Leas

25 October 2007 Thursday - Academy, Frogmore Street, Bristol * Doors Open: 19:00 * Ticket Price: £22.50
Notes: Sold Out Show.
Bootleg: Audience Recording - FLAC (Johnky transfer)

26 October 2007 Friday - University, Liverpool
Notes: Sold Out Show. The laste official show of the 22 date U.K. tour.

28 October 2007 - Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland
Notes: Unconfirmed, was this re-scheduled to 25 November 2007?

16 November 2007 - Mani's 45th birthday

24 November 2007 - John Squire's 45th birthday
24 November 2007 - Middlesbrough
Notes: Unconfirmed.

25 November 2007 Sunday - Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland
26 November 2007 Monday - Sands Centre, Carlisle
Notes: Warm up show.
27 November 2007 Tuesday - Academy, Oxford

29 November 2007 Thursday - Academy, Brixton, London
Notes: First 'Official' date of the tour. Sold Out Show.

30 November 2007 Friday - Academy, Brixton, London * Doors Open: 20:00-02:00am *
Notes: Late show. Sold Out Show.

01 December 2007 Saturday - The Dome, Doncaster
Sister Rose / On Track (with Andy Rourke) / Goodbye To All The Broken (with Andy Rourke) / My Star / Corpses / T.I.M.E. (with Andy Rourke) / Lovebug (with Andy Rourke) / The Sweet Fantastic (with Andy Rourke) / Destiny Or Circumstance / Keep What Ya Got / Dolphins Were Monkeys / Street Children / Longsight M13 / I Am The Resurrection / Set My Baby Free (attempt) / Golden Gaze /
I Wanna Be Adored / Fools Gold - The World Is Yours / F.E.A.R.
Notes: Andy Rourke, former Smiths bass player, joins Ian onstage, playing bass, for a few songs (more than usual). I was there with my dad.
Fools Gold - The World Is Yours is listed as 'The World Is Gold' on the bootleg sleeve.
Bootleg: Doncaster 2007 (2007 - 2 CD-R) Complete Audience Recording

Ian Brown - 03 December 2007 Monday - Sister Rose U.K. Release Date
Steve Jones on guitar.
Paul Cook on drums.
CD / 7" Picture Disc / Download
Notes: The single got to number 87 in the U.K. charts. Sister Rose features ex-Sex Pistols Steve Jones & Paul Cook on guitar and drums.

03 December 2007 Monday - AECC (Aberdeen Exhibition & Conference Centre), Aberdeen, Scotland
Notes: Poster notes "P&J Arena, Aberdeen".

04 December 2007 Tuesday - Academy, Glasgow, Scotland * Doors Open: * Price: £ * Support:
(incomplete set) Sister Rose / My Star / T.I.M.E. (with Andy Rourke) / Lovebug (with Andy Rourke) / The Sweet Fantastic (with Andy Rourke) / Keep What You Got / I Am The Resurrection
encore: Golden Gaze / I Wanna Be Adored / F.E.A.R
encore2: Anarchy In The UK (Sex Pistols cover)
Notes: Venue changed from 'SECC (Scotland's Exhibition & Conference Centre)', original tickets were still valid though. During the show Ian even mentions the venue change “This place is better than the SECC anyway” Promo posters noted the new venue.
Andy Rourke joins Ian, again, for several songs. The band return to the stage after the lights come back on to perform a cover of the Sex Pistols classic.

05 December 2007 Wednesday - Civic Hall, Wolverhampton

07 Decmeber 2007 Friday - Central (G-Mex), Manchester * Doors Open: 19:00 * Ticket Price: £25.00 * Support Act(s): Big Arm
Sister Rose / On Track (with Andy Rourke) / Goodbye To All The Broken (with Andy Rourke) / My Star / Corpses / T.I.M.E. (with Andy Rourke) / Lovebug (with Andy Rourke) / The Sweet Fantastic (with Andy Rourke) / Destiny Or Circumstance / Keep What Ya Got / Dolphins Were Monkeys / Street Children / Longsight M13 / I Am The Resurrection / Set My Baby Free (attempt) / Sister Rose (Japanese) / Golden Gaze /
I Wanna Be Adored / Fools Gold - The World Is Yours / F.E.A.R.
Notes: Sold Out Show. Central formerly known as G-Mex. Paul Ryder's (Happy Mondays) band Big Arm opened the show.
After Corpses Ian tries to get a response from the audience and instructs the audience how to dance. Set My Baby Free was aborted and was not restarted. Sister Rose (Japanese) is instrumental and featured an on-stage 'performance' during the song, the crowd flocked to the bar and toilet as the song started.
I was there. Not a particulary memorable show. According to reviews the second night was much better.
Bootleg: G-Mex Round 1 2007 (2007 - 2 CD-R) Complete Audience Recording

08 Decmeber 2007 Saturday - Central (G-Mex), Manchester * Doors Open: 19:00 * Ticket Price: £25.00 * Support Act(s): Reverend And The Makers
Anarchy In The U.K. (Sex Pistols cover)
Notes: Sold Out Show. Second night and last night of the tour. The Central formerly known as G-Mex Centre.

17 December 2007 Saturday - The Sex Pistols - M.E.N. Arena, Manchester
Notes: Ian Brown & David 'Kaiser' Carter attended the show
From John Robb’s The North Will Rise Again Book: Ian Brown said: ''...Kaiser has been in the army for 20 years since then. I last saw him at the Pistols in Manchester in December 2007.''
From 31 May 2008 Saturday 00:50 The Guardian Newspaper article, by Tim Jonze:...I saw them in November at Manchester Arena. Four piece, no effects, no backing tapes, no fancy lights, just them and the songs, dead straight, dead tight. They had a hunger ... they didn't seem like fat old men coining it in, they seemed like fat old men who were hungry!.

2008
Ian Brown becomes godfather to Wilson Aspden
Notes: Gary Aspden, designer and curator of Adidas Originals x Special, asks Ian to be his son's god parent.
"He never forgets presents for my son’s birthday or Christmas either.
When Wilson was a baby I remember Ian once picking him up and singing Elizabeth My Dear to him."
Aspden describes his friend as self-educated, smart, funny (“he
lives for belly laughs") and very shrewd.
“Ian can be an affable person but he definitely doesn't suffer fools. He's tee total and likes to be around the water drinkers and clean—1iving people. A righteous man, not a hedonist. And I’ve seen first—hand that he’s unaffected by the adulation he gets. When the Roses first took off he didn't like to give autographs as he felt he was no better and no worse than his audience. But there is a lot of love out there for Ian and you can never underestimate that love.
Johnny Marr once said to me, ‘Have you ever noticed how when you spend 20 minutes with Ian Brown, you always come away feeling good about things?‘ Maybe that’s what Geno Washington saw in him at that party in Manchester all those years ago.

2008 - John Squire continues creating art:
l234 (Lead Sheet, 7" X 13x10")
1/25, 2/25, 3/25, 4/25, 5/25, 6/25, 7/25, 8/25, 9/25, 10/25, 11/25,12/25,13/25, 14/25, 15/25, 16/25, 17/25, 18/25, 19/25, 20/25, 21/25, 22/25, 23/25, 24/25, 25/25 (all individual hand finished Linocut prints, each 30x23cm)
#1099 (hand finished Linocut postcard print, RCA postcard series)
#2542 (hand finished Linocut postcard print, RCA postcard series)
A Present From Mick (oil on board, 33x22")
A Real Dilemma
Autumn verse (Encaustic and oil on canvas, 24x39")
Blue One
Civilian (18 gauge steel)
Equilibrium
Ex 101
Four Decades in Exile (Encaustic, wool and oil on canvas, 27x19")
Free Them From Themselves (Oil, pencil and oil pastel on Board, 27 3/4x33")
Green One
Grey Imperfect Misty Dawn (Encaustic and silk on canvas, 24x39")
Have Faith (Oil and oil pastel on Board, 33x28")
Heart of the Story (Oil, pencil and oil pastel on Board, 33x78")
Home From The Hill
HO3 (Encaustic on Board, 33“ x 23 1/2")
Illusion of Permanence (Encaustic, wool and oil on canvas, 24" x 15")
Imperfect System (Encaustic and oil on canvas, 24" x 39")
Inside
The Minds
Island (Encaustic and silk on canvas, 30x40“)
Izabella (2008) (Encaustic and silk on canvas, 30 x 40 inches)
Look Away Bitch
Loss of a World I Never Knew (Oil, pencil and oil pastel on Board, 23 1/2x33")
Lucidity Day
Man (Lead Sheet, 6x8")
Mast-head (Encaustic, silk and cotton on canvas, 24x39“)
Miles and Machine Gun (2008) (Encaustic, wool and waxed cotton on hessian, 30 x 40 inches)
Mortality (2008) (Encaustic, wool and cotton on canvas, 10 x 8 inches)
Multiple Marks (Encaustic, wool, silk, cotton and oil on canvas, 39x24")
No Intimacy
No Longer Did We Worship
On Off (2008) (Encaustic and wool on canvas, 10 x 8 inches)
Out To The Suburbs
Over a Lake (Oil, pencil and oil pastel on Board, 33x52 1/2")
Perhaps You Will
Find There What You Thought Lost (Encaustic, wool, silk, cotton & oil on canvas, 99x61“)
Polaroids
Salute (Oil, pencil and pastel on Board, 33x52 1/2")
Seascape (Oil, pencil and oil pastel on Board, 33x78")
Self Interest and Technology (Encaustic, wool and silk on hessian, 30x40")
Sentence (Oil, pencil and oil pastel on Board, 24x33“)
Shine
Darkly (Oil, pencil and oil pastel on Board, 12x16")
Signs (Encaustic, wool, silk, cotton and oil on hessian, 40x30")
Solitary Path (Oil, pencil and pastel on board, 11 3/4x16")
Something Like Hatred (Oil, pencil and pastel on Board, 21 3/4x33")
The Dinner Party (Oil, pencil and oil pastel on Board, 25 1/2x33")
The Decadent Surface (Encaustic, oil and wool on canvas, 16x20")
The Pattern Was Set And The World Divided
The Power to Destroy Governments (Oil, pencil and oil pastel on Board, 33x78")
The Problem of Innocence, Learning, Melancholy and age (Encaustic, wool and oil on canvas, 24x15")
The Road to Serfdom (Oil, pencil and oil pastel on Board, 33x24")
Three Figures (Encaustic, wool and silk on hessian, 20x16“)
Transportation (18 gauge Steel, 8x17")
Truism (Lead Sheet on Board, 16x14")
Under Fire (Encaustic, wool and silk on hessian, 30x40")
‘Unknown 1‘ ‘Unknown 2‘ ‘Unknown 3‘ ‘Unknown 4‘ ‘Unknown 5‘ ‘Unknown 6' ‘Unknown 7‘ ‘Unknown 8‘ ‘Unknown 9' '
Untitled (Encaustic, wool, silk, cotton and oil on canvas, 39x24")
Untitled (oil, ink and pencil on board. 33x22")
Valley Floot (Oil, pencil and pastel on Board, 12x16")
Very Large Turner
Voyage (Enoaustic, wool and waxed cotton on hessian, 20x16“)
White Epiphany (Encaustic, wool, silk, cotton and oil canvas, 16x20")
Woman (Lead Sheet, 16x12")
Written in Water (Encaustic, wool, silk and oil on canvas, 27x19")

2008 - Paul McAuley releases 'The Stone Roses - A Documentary' on Youtube.
Notes: Lasting just over an hour, the documentary was packed with information. Paul runs the highly recommended web page thisisthedaybreak.co.uk . YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/leemavers

January 2008 - Ian Brown attends Manchester United Football Club, Old Trafford.
Notes: 2007-2008 Season Ticket holder in one of the boxes on the East stand. The club played This Is The One before the game would start for several years.
From 01 February 2009 Sunday - The Guardian, article by Luke Bainbridge: How did you feel when they started playing This is the One at Old Trafford? I wrote that tune in 1986 when I was on the dole, and there was no way I could have known that 20 years later United would be coming on to the pitch to it. It still gets me every time. It's an amazing feeling. I've got three season tickets now in the East Stand, the old K Stand, with my two oldest sons, and they buzz off it. I laugh and say, "Well, the PRS [Performing Rights Society] is probably paying for the tickets." How often do you get to Old Trafford? I'm there every home game, I only missed two last season. I take my lads to City away to show them what they think of us, and we stand there for an hour and a half just getting abused. Do you get much reaction from other fans? I get nothing but love at United. When I first got the season tickets it was pretty hectic at half-time, everyone wanted my autograph, but everyone generally leaves me alone now.'' What's your favourite United song? "He plays on the left, he plays on the right, that boy Ronaldo makes England look shite ." That's what I love about United: we're the Republic of Mancunia, no one gives a fuck about England. My next favourite would be "You can stick yer fucking England up yer arse", which we sing to Chelsea and the London clubs. I love that. When we sing "Argentina " when Tevez comes on, you see the away fans with open mouths. What other club in England would sing "Argentina"? Nobody. I love that. There have been a few banners at Old Trafford quoting your lyrics. There's "Sent to me from Heaven, you are my world", lyrics from Sally Cinnamon with Cantona, Best, Bryan Robson and Bobby Charlton on it. Then "For Every Manc a Religion", which is from F.E.A.R., and then "One Love", which is getting cleaned but is going back up soon. It amazes me. Did they contact you beforehand? No, they just put them up. I know the lad, Tufty, who does them now. When he put "For Every Manc a Religion" up, I couldn't believe it. It's my club, my city, then there's my flippin' lyrics up there. Then This Is The One comes on and it's, like, "Wow... couldn't have written that." Where did you watch Moscow? I watched it on TV, kickin' myself. It was my eldest lad's GCSEs the next day and I told him he couldn't go to Moscow. My mate at Adidas sorted me out with the trip of a lifetime, going on a private jet, but I felt a bit tight on the kids so I didn't go. The day of the match the kids were going, "You should be there, dad." As soon as we kicked off I thought, "Why aren't I there? I should be there." I had a feeling we were going to win it straight from the off.
From Brian McClair's podcast, Life With Brian, Mani said: "Everytime the team comes out, they come out to 'This is the One' and I always think 'there's another 37-and-a-half pence going into Squire and Brown's pocket.”

February 2008 - Paragraf 78 Premiere, Moscow

20 February 2008 - Ian Brown's 45th birthday

04 March 2008 Tuesday - Big Cat, Osaka, Japan
06 March 2008 Thursday - 0-East, Tokyo, Japan

John Squire - 06 March 2008 - 04 April 2008 - John Squire - Re-Engineered Garments Exhibition - Signal Gallery, Solo Show ‘Re-Engineered Garments’, Curtain Road, East London, EC1A
Carbon Monoxide (2007) (Encaustic, wool and silk on canvas, 20 x 16 inches)
Wrist (2007) (Encaustic and wool on hessian, 30 x 40 inches)
Notes: John Squire returns with an exhibition of new paintings and mixed media works.
From promo digital flyer: ''Building on a prolific year’s work and two high profile exhibitions in 2007, John Squire’s collection of new art works for the Signal Gallery this Spring, illustrate his continuing desire to develop and experiment with a set of recurring mixed media motifs, whilst further pushing the boundaries of his current visual practise, and more confidently exploring the textures and layers which his canvases bring to life. Squire’s latest bold paintings move into the realm of collage, layering pieces of fabric and patterned paper, which interweave with thick splashes of scratched, layered wax, against a backdrop of hessian canvas. Squire integrates used, traditional garment fabrics as symbols of Englishness, which underlies this new collection of works, these classic fabrics also being authentic symbols of fashion, which have been re-appropriated through the ages by different movements and outlets, and reflect a homegrown identity, which Squire acknowledges. The use of these second-hand materials also creates a visceral connection between the work and the original wearer. Following on from his recent exhibition at Dazed & Confused Gallery, where he first began to work hessian and rougher, more natural tones and textures into his painting, these new works offer more sophisticated, sharp plays of colour and intricate layering, which often mirror the patterns, lines and ripples of the natural world. Squire is in this way a rather quintessentially English painter, his paintings suggesting landscape forms, which move between the rural and the urban. An organic mapping of rivulets and pathways in works such as Wrist and Carbon Monoxide, sit in contrast to other canvases, which offer more energetic, vibrant colours and dramatic lines, and a more urban feeling of chaos...''

09 March 2008 Sunday - Playground Weekend Festival, Sydney, Australia
11 March 2008 Tuesday - Hi Fi Bar, Melbourne, Australia

12 March 2008 Wednesday - The Governor, Hindmarsh, Adelaide, Australia
(incomplete set) "The Godfather" / I Wanna Be Adored / Sweet Fantastic / Sister Rose /
encore: Waterfall / Made Of Stone / FEAR
Notes: Tom Gilhespy review: There’s one big question: who the hell is going to turn up? It’s not that Ian Brown is completely unknown in Australia – though his solo career hasn’t taken off in the Antipodes, you can find his albums, if you know where to look and have the patience – nor that The Gov is a huge venue. It’s just that Brown’s profile, such as it is, has been getting steadily lower ever since the glory days of The Stone Roses. And because it’s Festival season, Adelaide is frantic. If there’s an empty building or room anywhere in the city, there are probably three competing all-juggling avant garde comedy dance troupes trying to convert it into a Fringe venue – pause for breath – so they can perform a light-hearted deconstruction of the complete works of the Marquis de Sade while wearing nothing but home-made lampshades.
Ian Brown The answer comes outside the venue. It’s disguised as another question, and delivered in a cockney accent. “Anyone need tickets?” Of course! Suddenly it all clicks into place. There’s a bloke in a Celtic shirt in the queue, and there’s a Geordie geezer just behind him. The place is crawling with tourists and ex-pats.
The atmosphere inside – once the support band finishes, at any rate – is somewhere on the far side of scarcely credible and rapidly going ballistic to the nth. Yet another question is heavy on the air: “Can you believe it?” And no one can. The Aussies can’t believe that there’s this much fuss about an act they’re only mildly curious about, and the Brits can’t believe that they’re seeing Ian Brown in the back room of a pub. The girl from Shropshire puts it into context: “Last time I saw Ian Brown, it was in a venue that held 4,000.” They might have paid in full, but you’d think all the Brits have woken up and gone to A-list heaven, where you get invited to impossibly cool gigs that no one else gets to hear about until they’re in the music press, days or weeks later.
Bass player Tim Hutton appears with a trumpet, and plays some of the incidental music from The Godfather; once the band have assembled they launch straight into ‘I Wanna Be Adored’. At which point, of course, the atmosphere goes intercontinental ballistic to the nth squared and then some. People are excited. Really excited. So long as they’re British, that is. The Aussies are still a bit relaxed about it all, though the mood is fairly infectious.
Ian Brown. Given the atmosphere, the gig doesn’t need to be much good at all. But it is. Brown’s singing is pretty much as every other report suggests – roll on the day when someone works out how to fit his microphone with an AutoTune plug-in – but as a frontman he takes some beating. He has charisma down pat, and he’s delighted to receive all the energy that the audience are throwing towards him. He channels the excitement perfectly, and does it without any of that namby pamby hand wringing that some artists affect. He’s forgiving, too. A particularly enthusiastic young Brit undoes Brown’s shoelaces (accidentally, it seems, while she’s worshipping at his feet). When she spends the next few songs fretting about her misbehaviour, he ends up giving her what’s left of his beer to cheer her up again. Grin, disappearing cat from a small county not too far from Manchester, do the rest yourself.
Brown’s solo material proves to be surprisingly good. It doesn’t really approach the lofty heights that his previous mob scaled, but it’s certainly good enough to fill out the hour-long stretch between Stone Roses songs. There are some genuine highlights, too: the melancholy 'Sweet Fantastic', from Solarized, and the more recent 'Sister Rose'. Sadly, though, he hasn’t brought Paul Cook and Steve Jones along to play it with him.
Things have calmed down just a little during the course of the evening, but the first two numbers of the encore, ‘Waterfall’ and ‘Made Of Stone’, soon bring the excitement back. The final number, ‘FEAR’, is something of a slow burn, and though Brown’s voice is ragged by now, the song itself is another highlight and easily good enough to close the set without dampening the mood.
All that’s needed to end the evening is a terrace-style sing-along from the Brits, who oblige. The Aussies might be a little bemused by that and the rest of the night’s events, but everyone goes home happy. You’ve probably received a text to that effect already.

15 March 2008 Saturday - West Coast Blues & Roots, Perth, Australia
17 March 2008 Monday - Tivoli, Brisbane, Australia.

19 March 2008 Wednesday - The Metro Theatre, Sydney, Australia
I Wanna Be Adored / Made Of Stone / Dolphins Were Monkeys / Destiny Or Circumstance / T.I.M.E. / The Sweet Fantastic / Lovebug / My Star / On Track / Street Children / Goodbye To All The Broken / Keep What Ya Got / Longsight M13 / Sister Rose / Golden Gaze /
Waterfall / I Am The Resurrection / F.E.A.R.
Notes: Superb performance. Sold Out Show. Four roses song feature in the setlist, more than usual for Ian's current setlist. This show was available to stream online in full for free too.
Bootleg: Going Down “Under” with Ian Brown (2CD-R) Complete Webcast with bonus V2007 JJB Arena, V Festival August 16 Chelmsford or 17 Hylands Park, Staffordshire: Goodbye to All The Broken / On Track / Dolphins Were Monkeys / Golden Gaze

20 March 2008 Thursday - East Coast Blues & Roots Festival, Byron Bay, Sydney, Australia
22 March 2008 Saturday - Bluesfest, Whitianga, New Zealand

10 April 2008 - Reni's 44th birthday

11 April 2008 Friday - Joy Elsava, Madrid, Spain
Notes: A limited edition t-shirt was sold. Not sure if this was available officially inside or if it was a bootleg. Has the 11 April Madrid and 12 April Barcelona in concert text. Ian Brown in big letters central. Top left a chimpanzee, top right some trainers, bottom right his shades and bottom left Ian's hand waving. The sticker on the shirt bag reads '1 camiseta = 1 entrada en concierto Ian Brown 11.04.08 - Madrid - Joy Eslava . Ballantines Leave An Impression Festival'.

12 April 2008 Saturday - Razzmatazz, Barcelona, Spain
Notes: See 11 April 2008 for the exclusive T-Shirt.

14 April 2008 Monday - Musicdrome, Milan, Italy
15 April 2008 Tuesday - Atomic Cafe, Munich, Germany
16 April 2008 Wednesday - Rohstofflager, Zurich, Switzerland
18 April 2008 Friday - Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands
19 April 2008 Saturday - Le Bataclan, 50 Boulevard Volataire, 75011, Paris, France * Doors Open: 20:00 * Ticket Price: e27.40 (euros) *
20 April 2008 Sunday - VK Club, Brussels, Belgium

02 May 2008 Friday 00:00 - The Independent, John Hall Interview
Notes: See Media for the article.

May 2008 - Ian Brown is an ambassador for O2 Undiscovered
Notes: O2 Undeicovered launched regional music workshops taking place throughout May for people to engage more with music. The workshops were free and you could apply through the website (o2undiscovered.co.uk).

12 May 2008 - Gloria, Cologne, Germany
13 May 2008 - Gruenspan, Hamburg, Germany
14 May 2008 - Columbia Club, Berlin, Germany

31 May 2008 Saturday - Hangar 11, Tel Aviv (Jaffa), Israel
30 September 2005 Friday 00:00 - The Independent: Ian Brown: You Ask The Questions: One of the links on your website is to the Palestine Solidarity Campaign. Would you play a gig in the Occupied Territories? JADE DUCKWORTH, CHESTER I've been offered a few gigs in Tel Aviv but, to me, Tel Aviv is like Sun City, so I've turned them down so far. Israel is an extremist state - they keep offering me more money to play there, but I won't do it, which is a shame for all the innocents who live there.

31 May 2008 Saturday 00:50 The Guardian Newspaper article
Notes: Article by Tim Jonze. See Media for interview.

June 2008 - Mani Interview with Teletext's Planet Sound
Notes: Mani reveals that Wren had formed a new band with an unnamed member of Black Grape. Nothing emerged from this rumour.

07 June 2008 Saturday - Belgrade, Serbia

13 June 2008 Friday - Academy, Sheffield * Doors Open: 18:30 * Ticket Price: £25
Umbrella (Rihanna cover) (Accapella) - Godfather Theme / Goodbye To The Broken / Street Children / On Track / T.I.M.E. / Lovebug (attempt) / Lovebug / The Sweet Fantastic / Destiny Or Circumstance / Whispers / All Ablaze / Keep What Ya Got / Longsight M13 / Dolphins Were Monkeys / Golden Gaze / Sister Rose
Notes: Infamous Show. During Sister Rose Ian was knocked off stage by an audience memeber. Ian's head was cut and split open. He did not return to the stage. Ian was ok to perform the upcoming Isle Of Wight festival though. Apparently the encore setlist included Waterfall, Made Of Stone & I Am The Resurrection. Tim Hutton opened the set playing the theme from godfather solo on trumpet. Upon gracing the stage, Ian sang a few lines of Rihanna's current hit Umberella.
Bootleg: “Friday The 13” Destiny? or Circumstance? (2008 CD-R) Complete Audience Recording

14 June 2008 Saturday - Isle Of Wight Festival, Isle Of Wight * Supporting: Sex Pistols

11 July 2008 Friday - 53 Degrees, Preston, Lancashire
Notes: Secret Show.

12 July 2008 Saturday - T-In The Park, Kinross, Scotland
'Bagpipe Introduction' / Goodbye To All The Broken / Sister Rose / Waterfall / F.E.A.R.
Notes: Set is opened a bagpipe player. Partial broacast on BBC TV & BBC Webstream too.
Bootlegs: Live T-in The Park (Webstream) (CD-R) Bagpipe Intro / Goodbye To All The Broken / Sister Rose / Waterfall / F.E.A.R.

13 July 2008 Sunday - Oxegen Festival, Naas, Ireland

18 July 2008 Friday - SPA Summercase Festival, Movistar Stage, Parc del Fòrum, Barcelona, Spain
T.I.M.E. / Lovebug /Street Children / Sister Rose / Golden Gaze / Waterfall (with Mani) / Made Of Stone (with Mani) / I Am The Resurrection (with Mani) / F.E.A.R.
Notes: Mani joins Ian & plays bass on the three Stone Roses songs.
Bootleg: Summercase (CD-R) Complete Audience Recording

19 July 2008 Saturday - SPA Summercase Festival, Madrid, Spain
26 July 2008 Saturday - Fuji Rock Festival, Niigata, Japan

August 2008 - Ian attends the premiere of the new Sex Pistols film.
Notes: John Lydon invited Ian. Ian said: "The Sex Pistols are the best band that's ever been," Brown told Reuters in a recent interview. "I think they've got the best set of songs any band has had, any time." "They showed us as kids ... that you didn't have to be some middle-class virtuoso musician. It was all about expressing yourself and it didn't matter where you came from - you could get into music and that's what [Rotten] showed us." "No one ever [has come close]. Nowhere near. In the last 30 years there's not been anyone. People haven't got that courage that they had." Regarding a Stone Roses reunion "no chance ... not in the next three lifetimes," that the Stone Roses will ever reunite.

14 August 2008 Thursday - Pukkelpop Festival, Hasselt, Belgium

16 August 2008 Saturday - V2008, V Festival, JJB Arena, Hylands Park, Chelmsford
Goodbye to All The Broken / On Track / Dolphins Were Monkeys / Golden Gaze
Notes: Unconfirmed date for TV broadcast/webcast. Unconfirmed which date but Steve was interviewed backstage by Paul Marshall, subjects include his busy schedule, touring, teaching and the new album.
Bootleg: Going Down “Under” with Ian Brown (2CD-R) Bonus V2007 JJB Arena, V Festival August 16 Chelmsford or 17 Hylands Park, Staffordshire: Goodbye to All The Broken / On Track / Dolphins Were Monkeys / Golden Gaze

17 August 2008 Sunday - V2008, V Festival, JJB Arena, Weston Park, Stafford
Goodbye To The Broken / On Track / Street Children / Time Is My Everything / Lovebug / Made of Stone / All Ablaze / Keep What Ya Got / Longsight M13 / Dolphins Were Monkeys / Golden Gaze / Sister Rose / Waterfall / F.E.A.R.
Notes: Unconfirmed date for TV broadcast/webcast. Unconfirmed which date but Steve was interviewed backstage by Paul Marshall, subjects include his busy schedule, touring, teaching and the new album.
TV Broadcast: Goodbye To All The Broken / On Track / Dolphins Were Monkeys / Golden Gaze
Bootleg: Going Down “Under” with Ian Brown (2CD-R) Bonus V2007 JJB Arena, V Festival August 16 Chelmsford or 17 Hylands Park, Staffordshire: Goodbye to All The Broken / On Track / Dolphins Were Monkeys / Golden Gaze

22 August 2008 Friday - O2 Academy, Newcastle
Notes: Secret Show.

23 August 2008 Saturday - Creamfields Festival, Chibuku Stage, Daresbury, Cheshire, Liverpool
Goodbye To The Broken / On Track / Street Children / Time is My Everything / Love Bug / Made of Stone / Dolphins Were Monkeys (attempt) / Keep What Ya Got / Longsight M13 / Golden Gaze / Sister Rose / Waterfall / F.E.A.R
Notes: Date sometimes noted as 24 August 2008.
From 31 May 2008 Saturday 00:50 The Guardian Newspaper article, by Tim Jonze: Creamfields should be a bit different for you ...
I'm lucky enough to be one of them music makers who can do a dance festie or a rock festie. My son who's 15 said to me, "Dad, is that a pill fest?" I said, "Yeah, it probably is ... but that's good for me!"
You've got a captive audience, right? Are festivals getting too corporate?
They're pretty corporate, because the liquor companies sponsor them. They've got everything - sports, music events, a pub on every corner. I don't like to play anywhere with a banner for Carlsberg or vodka or whatever. I'm not a drinker myself and I don't like feeling like I'm working for the liquor companies. But sometimes you've got to eat it, otherwise you'd never play anywhere.
Bootleg: (CD-R) Complete Audience Recording

19 September 2008 Friday - Matter, London * Support Act(s): Iglu & Hartley, Late of the Pier
Notes: Venue launch night. Ian Brown performs live with UNKLE, Ian Astbury (The Cult) also joined UNKLE during their performance.
From 02 September 2008 - Uncut Magazine: UNKLE, Ian Brown and Ian Astbury To Open New London Super Club. All three team up to open Matter, plus free download of new remix. UNKLE are to team up with past musical collaborators Ian Brown and The Cult’s Ian Astbury for the launch gig at new London super club and live venue Matter. The new 2,600 capacity venue inside the O2 Arena complex launches on Friday September 19 – and other bands also appearing on the night include Iglu & Hartley and Late of the Pier. The UNKLE performance will be Ian Brown’s second ever live collaboration and Astbury’s first. Next week (September 8) UNKLE will also be releasing ‘Remix Stories (Volume One)’ on 12″ and digitally; the vinyl coming with four previously unreleased mixes from their last two albums.

John Squire - 06 October 2008 - 02 November 2008 - John Squire - 'Noise' Re-Engineered Garments Exhibition - SW1 Gallery, 12 Cardinal Walk, Roof Garden Level, Cardinal Place, Victoria, London, SW1E 5JE
Notes: Date conflicts with official website '10 October - 01 November 2008'.

16 November 2008 - Mani's 46th birthday
24 November 2008 - John Squire's 46th birthday

December 2008 - Mani Interview with channelbee.com
Notes: During the interview he mentions about a roses reunion “Me, John and Reni are up for doing it and Ian just needs some working on” "Next year is the 20th anniversary of the first album," Mani continued. "It's the ideal time to do it. It's something I would love to do before we are all fat and bald. Start the campaign."

2009
John Squire Artwork:
Art: Metalwork sculptures of unfolded cardboard boxes. He scratched on one: “I have no desire whatsoever to desecrate the grave of seminal Manchester pop group The Stone Roses.”
Against The Sky (Oil on Canvas, 30x40“)
Bathers Capital (Oil on Canvas, 24x33“)
Child (Encaustic on Board, 16x12"),
Clothes Shoes Hair Luggage (Encaustic on Board, 23 1/2x33“)
Counter (Oil on Canvas, 16x20")
Dead
Metaphor (Steel Plate)
Difference
Divided
Composition (oil on scorched canvas, 34x34")
Diplomatic Immunity (scorched canvas, 24x34")
Don't Talk To Strangers (oil on canvas, 24x34“)
Eat (Rust andCrystallized Salt on Canvas, 20x16")
Frame
View (Oil on Canvas, 72x72")
Frederick (oil on canvas, 24x34“)
Freeload (ink and oil on paper, 27.5x39.25“)
Gift (16 gauge steel, 19x15x2")
Glasses Crutches Brushes Prostheses (Lead Sheet,10x7")
Gravity (scorched canvas, 34x34")
Hanging Panel (Oil on Canvas, 72x72")
Heat, Light (scorched
canvas, 72x72")
Jet
Ladder (Encaustic on Board, 16x12“)
Mass Exodus (Oil on Canvas, 16x20")
Milestones (ink and oil on paper, 39.25x27.5“)
Modern Painters Interview
Motto (oil on canvas, 34" x 34“)
Nativity Scene
Partition (oil on canvas, 20“ x 16")
Plain View (oil on scorched canvas, 34x34“)
Potential
Rotation (gesso on scorched canvas, 24x34“)
Shadow Box (16 Gauge Steel, 19 1/2x15 1/2x2)
Sit (oil on scorched canvas, 24x34")
Sleep (Rust and Crystallized Salt on Canvas, 20x16")
Statement (18 gauge
steel)
Suspended By The Feet And Beaten With Hammers (oil on canvas, 24x34")
Swivel
Telescope (16 Gaugesteel,19 1/2x15 1/2x2“)
Textile (scorched canvas, 34" X 34")
To Agnes Martin (Pencil on Gesso, 72" X 72“)
Unknown 1 (steel plate), Unknown 2 (steel plate), Unknown 3 (steel plate), Unknown 4 (steel plate), Unknown 5 (steel plate), Unknown 6 (steel plate), Unknown 7, Unknown 8, Unknown 9, Unknown 10, Unknown 11, Unknown 12, Unknown 13, Unknown 14, Unknown 15, Unknown 16, Unknown 17, Unknown 18, Unknown 19, Unknown 20, Unknown 21, Unknown 22
Untitled (steel plate),
Untitled 1 Untitled 2, Untitled 3, Untitled 4, Untitled 5, Untitled 6, Untitled 7, Untitled 8, Untitled 9 (all ink and oil on paper, 27.5x39.25“)
Voodoo (ink and oil on paper, 27.5x39.25")
War Child: Heroes
Wedding Rings (Encaustic on Board, 16x12")
You'll Let it Go Eventually (Scorched Canvas, 72x96“)
10 Ounce Prop (18 gauge Steel, 8x8x5")
#1036 (RCA postcard series)
90 Degrees (Lead Sheet, 4x8 1/2x5 1/2")

01 February 2009 Sunday - The Guardian Ian Brown Interview
Notes: Article by Luke Bainbridge. See Media for the interview.

05 February 2009 Thursday - Tokyo, Japan
06 February 2009 Friday - Boogaloo, Zagreb, Croatia

20 February 2009 - Ian Brown's 46th birthday

06 March 2009 - Uncut Magazine Interview with Ian Brown
Notes: Uncut Magazine Interview was also used in 'Clash' Magazine Isssue 36. See Media for the article.
''Pick up the new issue (36) of Clash magazine, out now, for lots more on The Stone Roses as we mark the twentieth anniversary of their (quite evidently influential) debut album. Ian Brown - Exclusive Uncut Interview - King Monkey waxes lyrical about The Stone Roses' legacy...

2009 - Battery Studios, 1 Maybury Gardens, Willesden, London, NW10 2NB
Stellify
Notes: Ian returns to Battery Studios, where he and the Roses recorded most of the debut album 20 years ago. The My Way sessions saw Dave McCracken as producer.

2009 – Ian Brown is nominated (again) for Best British Solo Artist at the Brit Awards.

JS - 18 March 2009 Wednesday - John Squire posts his 'no reunion' art piece
Notes: John posted a photograph on his official website. The piece reads:
“I have no desire whatsoever to desecrate the grave of seminal Manchester pop group The Stone Roses.”
The Daily Mail also wrote an article which included a confirmation, from a spokesperson for Ian Brown: “We know nothing about a reunion. Ian is working on his new studio album which is due out later this year.”
Earlier in the week, London’s Daily Mirror reported that the Roses would reunite for “at least 21 gigs” in the UK this summer, as well as a possible slot at April’s Coachella festival in California (They were only 4 years too early). “It’s taken a lot of time to get Ian to agree,” the paper quoted its source, “but he’s finally signed on the dotted line. The rest of the band were really up for it, especially when they realized the amount of money on the table.”

10 April 2009 - Reni's 45th birthday

10 April 2009 - From John Robb releases 'The North Will Rise Again: Manchester Music City 1976-1996 Paperback' U.K. Release Date
Notes: Book featuring various quotes from The Stone Roses and related bands.

M - 18 April 2009 - NME release The Stone Roses collector’s edition Magazine, £4.40 / Canada $12.99
Notes: Includes the iconic 1989 magazine cover image.

M - April 2009 - The Stone Roses appear on the cover of Uncut Magazine, Issue 143
Notes: "20 Years On. Their Untold Story!"

M - 2009 - From ClashMusic Magazine/Website: The Stone Roses: Tim Burgess Interview By The Charlatans' frontman Tim Burgess
As part of the 20 year celebration of The Stone Roses' debut album in April 2009. Clash Magazine spoke Tim Burgess of The Charlatans on the impact the band had on him and his band.
"I was working in a chemical factory in Northwich when the Roses’ career kicked off. I was in a band at the time called The Electric Train Set - we were doing things like Iggy Pop covers. The Charlatans were already called The Charlatans and were hoping to do some dates with The Stone Roses. The manager invited me along to see them because he was thinking of asking me to join. Obviously the Roses were genius, but I was more inspired by them later as opposed to straight away. I bought ‘Elephant Stone’ and ‘Made Of Stone’ when they came out, and I thought they were incredible singles. I do remember listening to the album on the way to the Hacienda and knew it had some otherness to it. It wasn’t immediate, but it definitely had something else about it.
It was pretty difficult to avoid pure gold in Manchester at that time - The Happy Mondays and The Stone Roses were all on Top Of The Pops, you know? Everyone was looking at Manchester to throw out the next band. It totally helped me and without a doubt helped The Charlatans too.
It’s true that Ian Brown had a go at me. He was talking about me imitating him, but I always considered him an orangutan and me a chimpanzee. And Liam [Gallagher] as a baby chimp. I definitely took a few moves, but I always thought I was trying to combine Ian Curtis, Jagger and Iggy and throw it all into my own thing. You definitely take influences. I mean Shaun Ryder was a huge influence. I think I’ve got it all going on, and it’s become me really.
Everyone is going to think I’m crazy, but my favourite song from their debut is the backward one, ‘Don’t Stop’. It always has been. It doesn’t go down too well in DJ sets though. For me in 1988 and 1989, it was all about listening to dance music in the clubs and then psychedelic music at people’s houses after. It all combined, and that’s what made it all happen.
When John Squire left, that was bad. When it really is that amazing and then something happens like that, like with Mick Jones leaving The Clash, it really makes the enormity of how big they were, bigger. For them to believe they could carry on without John Squire, or whether they didn’t really believe it or not, for me it makes the first record sound even better. I don’t think they should get back together though. It’s kind of a downer when people get together after such a long time. Motivations are just going to be money based. And the chemistry you had together when you were twenty-nine years old is going to be a lot different when you’re forty-five. But if they want to get back together and they need the money, who am I to judge?
What makes me still love The Stone Roses is that they are not like Coldplay or U2 or on that level. Even though they only made one big record, it still had that mythology that The Clash had, and that doesn’t happen to everyone. It is something we should all treasure. Since they aren’t around anymore, they inspire so many people. They just caught all the imaginations at the exact right time.

M - April 2009 - The Stone Roses: John Leckie Interview - The Producer
Notes: From ''Clash Music - WebSite 04 · 03 · 2011 Will Kinsman - Interview conducted April 2009. See Media for the article.

2009 - John Leckie and Ian Brown Mixing Session, Metropolis Studios, Chiswick, London
From 2009 Mojo Magazine article by Lois Wilson:
"The first I heard about this, " says former Stone Roses singer Ian Brown, "was when Mr Leckie (John, producer) phoned me up and said, 'What are you doing next week, because I'm remastering The Stone Roses' first album. Do you want to come down?'" Brown and John Leckie, the original album's producer, are in Chiswick' s Metropolis studios where, over the course of three days, they will remaster the Roses' 1989 debut, which kaleidoscopi-cally defined its commodiously-trousered times, and oversee production on a further two discs of B-sides, non-album singles and a set of 16 demos.
These tracks, which were foundin a box in Leckie's loft, include previously unissued Pearl Bastard.
"It's like looking at old school photo-graphs," says Brown. "Really nice. We just watched some films that John had done during the Fools Gold sessions and that really brought back fond memories. We were always laughing and messing about."
"The music reflects the good times we had doing it," says Leckie.
"We always went for the vibe and the feeling, rather than getting it technically correct. There were lots of takes and then suddenly it would all gel. Even now I'm hearing little bits I don't remember from the first time."
"We knew it sounded great," says Brown. "But we never thought people would still be discovering it 20 years on. What set us apart was the groove, Reni's drumming and Mani's bass, that made us different from the other acts at the time, like The Wonderstuff, House Of Love, Wedding Present - they had the rock without the roll.

Along with reliving the groove and the memories, what's thrilled Brown most was the discovery of the demos.
"It's just me and John (Squire, guitarist] on most of them, and the guitar parts are totally different to the finished ones. We did the melodies first. John on an acoustic guitar and then we did the vocal melodies on a plug-in wind organ, so everything just sounded like hymns, like Fight The Good Fight, then we wrote the lyrics together. It was easy, natural."

The brief for the remastering is simple: to make the album sound like the original vinyl release. "We want to retain what the album went for the sounded like: says Leckie. "It will be how it comes straight off the tape. It's never been remastered specifically for CD - it won't sound like previous reissues which were just copies of copies of copies."
Brown and Squire still don't speak after the guitarist bailed in 1996, which must have tarnished the nostalgia. But perhaps not. "When John Leckie phoned me to get involved I thought, maybe I'll get there and everyone [Squire, Mani, Reni] will already be there," says Brown. "If they had have been, we'd have probably all just slotted in, got on with it." Don't hold out for a reunion any time soon though, despite a recent campaign by bassist Mani for one. "A promoter friend offered me a million pounds last week to do it," says the singer. "But not yet. I've still got a lot of work to do first."

2009 - John Squire sends Ian Brown a new demo.
Notes: Apparently the instrumental demo was new and meant to be for Ian to co-write the lyrics and melody. Not neccessarily The Stone Roses reunion but an attempt to rekindle the songwriting partnership they once had.
From The Telegraph, 18 October 2011 13:46pm by Murray Wardrop: Two years ago, Brown said Squire tried to end the feud by writing him a song – but he refused to record it. The singer said he was advised by his children to reject the track – even though he loved it – because Squire quit the Roses. In an interview with The Word magazine, Brown said: "He actually sent me a tune 18 months ago – pretty good, sounded nice, I liked it – but my sons turned round and said, 'dad you can't work on that – he sold you out didn't he? He left you for dead'."

The Stone Roses - 06 July 2009 - Elephant Stone 20th Anniversary Edition 7inch with Limited Edition Box
The box used Squires '' artwork.
CD Promo Elephant Stone / The Hardest Thing In The World
7inch Vinyl with Limited Edition Box
Elephant Stone
The Hardest Thing In The World
Notes: The first in the Silvertone Remastered Singles series. Released to coincide with the 20th Anniversary Edition remasters. Initial copies of Elephant Stone were issued in The Stone Roses Collector's Edition 7" Singles Box."
"'Elephant Stone' coming in week 1 with a numbered 7" box for you collection, along with 5 John Squire 7" card art prints fro each single..."
A collectable numbered box will be sold alongside copies of 'Elephant Stone', which will contain copies of John Squire's art prints and space for the following four singles." The box has unique Squire pollock artwork too. A single was released every week for a limited time only.
The downloads for the records were available in MP3 or FLAC. Each single included a bonus Untitled reversed track from the 2009 Legacy Lemon Shaped USB, 3 CD, DVD & Vinyl Boxset. For the first time you could acquire the reverse tracks in lossless FLAC quality through the more recent download, which is still available to purchase today.

John Squire - 07 July 2009 - 05 September 2009 - John Squire - 'Heat, Light, Death & Industry' Re-Engineered Garments Exhibition - Gallery Oldham, Oldham Cultural Quarter, 35 Greaves Street, Oldham, OL1 1AL
Notes: John had recently been making metalwork sculptures of unfolded cardboard boxes. He created news by scratching on one:
“I have no desire whatsoever to desecrate the grave of seminal Manchester pop group The Stone Roses.”

10 July 2009 Friday - 11 July 2009 Sunday - T In The Park, Kinross, Scotland

The Stone Roses - 13 July 2009 - Made Of Stone 20th Anniversary Edition 7inch
CD Promo
7inch Vinyl
Made Of Stone
Going Down

N - July 2009 - Ian Brown vists Mick Jones' Rock N Roll Public Library
Notes: From sofeminine.co.uk 20 July 2009 'Ian Brown's moneymaking kids' by the editorial team: Ian Brown's children make money by selling his autographed posters on the internet. The former Stone Roses frontman - who has a nine-year-old son Emilio, with wife Fabiola Quiroz Brown and two older sons, Frankie and Casey, from a previous relationship - says his three kids have taken advantage of having a famous father.
He explained: "My kids have started selling posters of me on Ebay. They get me to sign them and then sell them online for £10. "It saves me having to give them money!"
Ian recently visited Mick Jones' Rock N Roll Public Library, which showcases the Clash rocker's 30 years of memorabilia, and revealed it has inspired him to gather his own personal collection of musical artefacts. The 46-year-old explained to music website The Quietus: "The exhibition is amazing. It's really great. I should do something similar, I've got loads of Stone Roses stuff at home."

2009 - Citylife Magazine Interview
Notes: Ian revealed two of the songs included on his new album were originally written for Kanye West and Rihanna. “We wrote this song called 'Vanity Kills' but we were a bit late sending it in, so I’ve kept it for the album,” “'Stellify', we wrote for Rihanna, but as we got to the end of writing it I thought, ‘You know what? I’m gonna keep this for myself, we’ll give her another one’,” “She’d have probably sung it better. but it is too good for me not to do it. “And then it was like, ‘Let’s just keep going’, and before we knew it we had half an album in the bag.”

The Stone Roses - 20 July 2009 - She Bangs The Drums 20th Anniversary Edition 7inch
CD Promo
7inch Vinyl
She Bangs The Drums
Standing Here

26 July 2009 - Stellify Video Shoot
Notes: Filming began at the Aytoun tramlines in the city centre and ended in the "wastlands" by Prince's Bridge on the edge of Salford. The 40 piece West Yorkshire-based drum and bugle corp, marching band, were well-known for their distinctive uniforms.

The Stone Roses - 27 July 2009 - Fools Gold 20th Anniversary Edition 7inch Silvertone 88697535907
CD (Silvertone 886975631124)
CD Promo
Fools Gold
What The World Is Waiting For

The Stone Roses - 03 August 2009 - One Love 20th Anniversary Edition 7inch
CD Promo
7inch Vinyl
One Love
Something's Burning

The Stone Roses - 10 August 2009 - The Stone Roses 20th Anniversary Edition U.K. Release Date
Super Deluxe Edition aka Collectors Edition - 3 CD, DVD, 2 Vinyl, Boxset, 48-page booklet, containing unpublished photos and new interviews, Six 12"-sized art prints featuring John Squire's original single artwork and lemon shaped USB featuring the booklet in pdf, Five previously unreleased "backwards tracks", Exclusive desktop wallpapers, ringtones and all the tracks in MP3 format.
Legacy Edition - 2 CD & DVD
Special Edition CD
LP Vinyl Edition
Download

CD
I Wanna Be Adored
She Bangs The Drums
Waterfall
Don't Stop
Bye Bye Badman
Elizabeth My Dear
(Song For My) Sugar Spun Sister
Made Of Stone
Shoot You Down
This Is The One
I Am The Resurrection

Notes: A 2009 Mojo Magazine article shows a photo of Ian and John's notes regarding the release. I have included some 'worthwhile' notes from that transcript below.
CD2 The B-Sides & Non Album Singles
Elephant Stone - 7" or 12"
Full Fathom Five - 7" or 12"
The Hardest Thing
Going Down
Gernica 1/2" Battery
Mersey Paradise
Standing Here
Simone
Fools Gold 9.53 RAK 1/2"
What The World Is Waiting For 1/2" 12" reel RAK
Pne Love (Full Length) - +4.3-6TC RAK 1/2"
Something's Burning (Full Length) - +4.3-6TC RAK 1/2"
Where Angels Play

CD3 The Stone Roses: The Demos - 20th Anniversary Edition
I Wanna Be Adored (no ending but can be faded)
She Bangs The Drums 3.46
Waterfall 4.45
Bye Bye Badman 4.20
Sugar Spun Sister 3.30
Shoot You Down (1 version)
This Is The One 4.00
I Am The Resurrection
Elephant Stone
Going Down
Mersey Paradise

From 18 November 2021 - The Gearspace.com Community Interview with producer John Leckie: The tracks on The Very Best Of The Stone Roses where remastered did you have any involvement in that? Did you recently remaster all the tracks that were on the upcoming 20th anniversary CD? As some had already been done for the very best of release did you just cut and paste them? or did you do them all from scratch? Also why was Ian the only Rose to join you? - charlie1
John Leckie: Yes. I remastered The Very Best of The Stone Roses for Silvertone a few years ago. We did my tracks from the original half inch with Chris Blair at Abbey Road who did the original album. Silvertone/Sony/BMG didn't make such a fuss about it the way Sony is now over this new release. We really just went for the original sound and didn't really pump it up too much. On The Very Best Of, there are tracks from Second Coming which was on Geffen/Universal and no matter how hard Dave Wibberley, the project person at Sony/BMG tried to get masters from Universal, the lawyers told him to just go out and buy the CD! Which is what he did and for second album tracks, that's what's used on record as flat transfer.
On this new release box set all tracks are from Silvertone and all remastered from original half inch 30ips non dolby and done with John Davis at Metropolis over a few days. Of course all the band invited and only Ian called and came down. I spoke to Mani who was out on tour with Primal Scream and they all heard the old demos and extra tracks which are on a box set and they all had test CDs for approval but only Ian responded....
1) In the mastering stage for The Stone Roses 20th was the vinyl mastered directly from the analog tapes or was there a digital intermediate used? If the latter, what was the bit depth and sampling rate of the digital master?
John Leckie: 1. The vinyl was mastered from a digital intermediate. And I think it was just 24bit 48k.
2) Will this CD be "louder" than the original release which is one of the CD's I point to constantly as an example of what the CD format is capable of? If so, was dynamic range compression and clipping avoided? What is your opinion of how loud so many recordings are these days and what teh lesser of two evils is (drc vs. clipping) and what can be done moving forward to get dynamics back in our music?
John Leckie: 2. Yes it will be louder than the original CD but there should be no clipping or compression. It's not mega loud and needn't be. I hate loud CDs and always sound congested. The new Roses 20th I think the main difference is in the low end where we haven't added any, just kept it true to the original.
3) Was any consideration given to a high resolution digital version (Blu-ray, SACD or DVD-Audio) for the Stone Roses 20th release and/or a multi-channel 5.1 mix? I think it's a shame (Pearl Jam - Ten, Beatles Mono/Stereo remasters, The Stone Roses 20th Anniversary, etc.) how often the potential to go beyond the same old boring CD medium is ignored by the major labels. You'd think Sony might have considered an SACD hybrid at least for the album. - Dobyblue
John Leckie: 3. Sony had no interest in a higher quality version of the record and though I pleaded to do a 5.1 mix they couldn't see its commercial potential. Also to do 5.1 mix would cost at least 2-3 weeks in a major studio.

21 October 2009 - BVCP 40121-2 Made In Japan. 20th Anniversary Legacy Edition 2 Discs (CD1 The Stone Roses CD2 The Extras). Fatbox Edition. Barcode: 4988017673683
21 October 2009 - BVCP 40118-20 Made In Japan. 20th Anniversary Legacy Edition 3 Discs. Mini Vinyl Boxset Style. Each Disc is housed in mini LP style card sleeve and comes in a card slipcase with two booklets and OBI strip too. BVCP 40118 LP. BVCP 40119 The Extras. BVCP 40120 The Lost Demos.

Notes: 20th Anniversary Edition reached number 5 in the U.K. charts.
From promo poster "The original Stone Roses groundbreaking album remastered by Ian Brown & original producer John Leckie" "Including the 14 'lost' demos, unheard song "Pearl Bastard", unseen "Making Of Fools Gold" video, 5 unheard 'backward tracks', newly uncovered photos and brand new interviews with the band."
From 06 March 2009 - Uncut Magazine Interview with Ian Brown: And, as far as albums are concerned, would you agree with the NME and the Observer Music Monthly that your first album is the best album of all time? No, I don’t think it’s the best album of all time. I think, out of the UK, it’s one of the best UK albums. I don’t think it touches any Beatles album, I don’t think it touches the Sex Pistols album, first Clash album. Yeah. Well I suppose it’s subjective… It’s a great album. It still sounds fresh. When I hear tracks now it still sounds fresh and I think if it had come out this week it’d have the same impact as it did then. What are your favourite three songs? Um, ‘Don’t Stop’, ‘Made of Stone’ and ‘I Wanna Be Adored’.
From 25 August 2009 - John 'Jeckie' Leckie interview from The Quietus website: Remastering is not always a case of 'Turning it up':- The reissue is not brick-walled at all, but it's up to what's called a 'commercial level' — don't ask me what that is. If it was quieter it wouldn't be as loud as other bands, so if you were to compare this to one of the earlier CD releases — if you put the two of them into iTunes for example — you'd be amazed at the difference. You'd have to turn it up a lot. When we did this, though, no-one had CDs; The Stone Roses never had a CD release, originally. The main thing was that when it was done for vinyl — and later it was always a copy of a copy — a lot of the bass was cut out, there wasn't much low end. To squeeze sound onto the groove of the vinyl very often you do things like turning the last track down due to distortion created by the increasing tangent of the arm of the record player against the record. You can maintain the overall volume and eliminate that distortion if you reduce your level on the higher frequency and turn the whole thing up. Good things are made to last:- The Stone Roses was mastered at Metropolis but at Abbey Road you've got equipment that's thirty years old. You can't beat it. It's called 'Mil-Spec'. Military Specification; it can't go wrong. It'll survive a nuclear attack, like those Silver Microphones . . . they'll blow up and still work.

10 August 2009 - Stellify E.P.
MP3
Stellify / Crowning Of The Poor / The Glory / Marathon Man
Notes: Ian releases a four track E.P. from his upcoming LP, through I-Tunes. The download also included a 48 hour pre-sale to tickets for the upcoming winter tour. Stellify as single would later be released 12 September.

24 August 2009 - Ian Brown appears on Various Artists Compilation - One By One - kzk soundtrack from adidas - Originals By Originals
Cat. No. Ki/oon Records - KSCL 1340 09.8.24
Mastered by Stuart Hawkes at Metrpolis Mastering. Mastering co-ordination by Yasuko Endo (FILLIN)
Art direction, Products produced by Kazuki Kuraishi. Flower art and sketches by Makoto Azuma (AMKK), Photography by Shunsuke Shiinoki (AMKK).
International co-ordination supoort by Gary Aspden (Adidas UK)
Just Like You (A.D.I.D.A.S)
Notes: Kazuki Kuraishi directed the 'Originals by Originals' Adidas series. 2009 commenorated the 60th anniversary of the three stripes and trefoil iconic adidas brand. Kazuki collaborated wuth Jeremy Scott and Alyasha to each create mini collections which are part of the Adidas brand. Kazuki was born 1975 in Tokyo and was the creative product manager at Adidas (circa 2009). He worked freelance for apparel brands, worked for fragment designer moniker and designed album covers and sleeves for musicians. Ian Brown called him the 'quiet lion from Tokyo'. Kazuki Kuraishi and Ian are long term friends, even before this compilation and Adidas project. Happy Mondays also feature on the compilation.

M - 25 August 2009 - John 'Jeckie' Leckie interview published on The Quietus website
Notes: See Media for the Dan Wale article.

25 August 2009 Tuesday - Wulfrun Hall, Wolverhampton * Doors Open: 19:00 * Ticket Price: £24.00 *
Godfather Intro / Sister Rose / Goodbye To All The Broken / Golden Gaze / T.I.M.E. / Save Us / Fools Gold / Crowning Of The Poor / F.E.A.R. / Stellify
encore: Keep What Ya Got / Longsight M13 / Stellify
Notes: Only 13 songs with lead single 'Stellify' being repeated in the encore. Set taken from hand signed setlist.

26 August 2009 Wednesday - O2 Academy, Oxford
28 August 2009 Friday - Reading Festival
30 August 2009 Sunday - Leeds Festival

Ian Brown - 21 September 2009 - Stellify U.K. Release Date
Notes: The single got to number 31 in the U.K. charts and number 42 in the Irish charts. Some media outlets denote 12 September whilst others claim 21? Unconfirmed.

23 September 2009 - Absolute Radio Session
Notes: An edited cut (15:49) of the show was made available for free. The Absolute Radio Podcast 128k mp3 was officially released through the Absolute Radio website.
Official: Absolute Radio Podcast (mp3) 2009

September 2009 - BBC6 Music Session, BBC 6 Music
Notes: Ian told BBC listeners he'd like to revisit Stellify and complete a version for Rihanna. "I’d like to write songs for other people, I’d like to finish that Stellify for Rihanna, and I would like to get into that side of it," Ian also expressed his views on the Oasis split saying it was the right thing to do. He explained: "I think it's always bad when they get their dirty linen out in public. "They have gone from scrapping in the carpet to scrapping in front of the world now, so I think (the split) will do them good in the long run. How much further could they take it really?"

The Stone Roses - 28 September 2009 - Elephant Stone 7inch Collector's Edition Box Set
7inch Collector's Edition Box Set 88967535927
Elephant Stone
The Hardest Thing In The World
The other 4 records available to complete set, were as follows:
7inch Vinyl 88697535877
Made Of Stone
Going Down
7inch Vinyl 88697535887
She Bangs The Drums
Standing Here
7inch Vinyl 88697535907
Fools Gold
What The World Is Waiting For
7inch Vinyl 88697535917
One Love
Something's Burning
Notes: Initial copies of Elephant Stone were issued in The Stone Roses Collector's Edition 7" Singles Box. The box contained the first of a collection of records and all 5 art prints. The box used Squires '' artwork.
The downloads for the records were available in MP3 or FLAC. Each single included a bonus Untitled reversed track from the 2009 Legacy Lemon Shaped USB, 3 CD, DVD & Vinyl Boxset. For the first time you could acquire the reverse tracks in lossless FLAC quality through the new download, which is still available to buy today.

Ian Brown - 28 September 2009 - My Way U.K. Release Date
Produced by Dave McCracken. Recorded at Battery Studios, London.
Fiction
Just Like You - Written by Ian Brown, Dave McCracken and Tim Hutton. Drums: Inder Goldfinger, Robert 'Maxi' Maxfield & Tim Hutton. Bass: Richard Stubbs. Brass: Tim Hutton. Keys: Dave McCracken. Produced by Dave McCracken. Engineered by Joe Hirst. Additional progrmmaing and engineering by Catherine Marks, Assistant Engineer: Mark Allaway at Assault & Battery 2 & Richard Woodcraft at RAK Studios. Mixed by Danton Supple for 140db Management at Assault & Battery 2. Recorded at 9V Studios, Assault & Battery 2 and RAK Studios. Mastered by Vlado Meller at Universal Mastering Studios, NYC. Assisted by Mark Santangelo.
2009 - U.K./U.S. CD Sampler (Sony/ATV Music Publishing (UK) Limited, 30 Golden Square, London, W1F9LD)
Stellify
Crowning Of The Poor
Just Like You
Always Remember Me
Vanity Kills
For The Glory
Marathon Man
Own Brain
Laugh Now
By All Means Necessary
So High
Stellify (Instrumental)
Crowning Of The Poor (Instrumental)
Just Like You (Instrumental)
Always Remember Me (Instrumental)
Vanity Kills (Instrumental)
For The Glory (Instrumental)
Marathon Man (Instrumental)
Own Brain (Instrumental)
Laugh Now (Instrumental)
By All Means Necessary (Instrumental)

CD 271 605-0
1. Stellify
2. Crowning Of The Poor
3. Just Like You
4. In The Year 2525 (cover)
5. Always Remember Me
6. Vanity Kills
7. For The Glory
8. Marathon Man
9. Own Brain
10. Laugh Now
11. By All Means Necessary
12. So High

Notes: The album got to number 8 in the U.K. charts and number 13 in the Irish charts. Ian returned, twenty years on, to Battery Studios where he had recorded the majority of The Stone Roses debut album.
The original promo distributed by Sony dropped In The Year 2525, I wonder if this was intended for a b-side but instead was tagged in the middle of the lp as the decline of the single was ongoing.
From 22 July 2009 Wednesday 10:51 - The Guardian Newspaper article, by Sean Michaels : "Thriller was our blueprint," Brown said in an interview with NME.com. Just as Jackson's 1982 LP was filled with killer tunes, Brown hopes My Way, due 28 September, will similarly be stuffed with hits. "Every time we wrote a song we didn't think was strong enough, we scrapped it," he said....Though My Way may serve as a memorial to Jackson, Brown said that the album was conceived long before the singer's death. "We mastered it on the day that Jackson died," he explained. "I'm taking that as a good omen."
From 11 December 2009 - Daily Post by Andy Welch: The aforementioned Stellify is perhaps Brown's best song, at a push, second to his master class in lyricism FEAR. [Each of FEAR's lines begins with those letters - "For each a road", "for everyman a religion", "face everybody and rule" and so on.] "Stellify is the first song I've written since FEAR that's up there with it," he says proudly. "I've now got something to follow it with, and I've been looking for it for the last eight years." The song was originally written for Rihanna. Ian's sometime co-writer and producer, Dave McCracken, is signed to Jay-Z's Roc Nation stable of writers, the only Brit among them, and, through his connections, Ian was invited to write for some American artists.
"Vanity Kills was for Kanye West, too," he says, "but we missed the deadline for that one. Then we wrote Stellify and after a few days of loving the tune, I said 'Let's keep that one for me'. I can hear her singing it, and she'd do it better than me, but I just love it.

28 September 2009 Monday - Relentless Garage, The Garage, London * Doors Open: Stage Time: 21:00 * Tickets: Competition Winners
Time Is My Everything / Golden Gaze / Stellify / Sister Rose / Save Us / ‘Fools Gold / F.E.A.R. / All You Need Is Love (The Beatles cover) / Crowning Of The Poor / Stellify
Notes: My Way album launch party. Competition winner only concert. The small venue held about 300 people, you had to pre-order 'My Way' via HMV and enter the competition via Ian's official website. Winning fans were emailed with the news and were added to the guestlist.
Carsten Windhorst took photographs for the media.
Selist From 29 September 2009 - Clash Music.com, article by Robin Murray.
From 29 September 2009 - NME Magazine, website article by Jamie Fullerton: The ex-Stone Roses singer headlined the Relentless Garage venue in front of a few hundred fans who had won free tickets. As well as the cover he played ‘Fools Gold’ by his old band plus new single ‘Stellify’ twice. “Competition winners!” the frontman exclaimed as he arrived on stage at 9pm (BST).

29 tember 2009 - Ian Brown and Johnny Marr Television Show Soundtrack collaboration rumours
Notes: Ian tells BBC News of the idea. Johnny Marr (The Smiths/Electronic etc.) writes the music and Ian the lyrics, bringing in session drummer and bass player (possibily Andy Rourke (The Smiths), Paul Ryder (Happy Mondays)?). Recording music for a 3 episode TV drama, penned by a friend of Ian's. "[He's] writing a drama series. One of them's about ticket touts, another one's about grafters – kids who sell T-shirts and things like that – and another one's about pick-pockets."
From 30 September 2009 Wednesday 09:40 - The Guardian Newspaper article, by Sean Michaels: Ian Brown and Johnny Marr to record music for TV series
Tired of being pestered by Stone Roses/Smiths reunion rumours, the pair are to form a Mancunian soundtrack supergroup instead. Ian Brown and Johnny Marr are to team up, recording music for three television dramas. The former Stone Roses frontman and the Smiths guitarist hope to assemble a soundtrack supergroup, possibly including Happy Mondays bassist Paul Ryder or even Brown's former bandmate, Mani.
"The idea is that Johnny writes the music and I write the words and the melodies," Brown told BBC News. Though the Mancunian legends live conveniently close together in Lymm, Cheshire, Brown admitted they will "have to bring a drummer or a bass player in". The collaboration was spurred by a mutual friend, Brown said. "[He's] writing a drama series. One of them's about ticket touts, another one's about grafters – kids who sell T-shirts and things like that – and another one's about pick-pockets." When they are not being pestered by Stone Roses/Smiths reunion rumours, Brown and Marr both keep busy. Brown's sixth solo album, My Way, was released on Monday, while Marr joined the Cribs last year. The two have never worked together before, but according to Brown they almost teamed up 30 years ago. "[Marr is] quoted in a book called The North Will Rise Again by John Robb as saying we'd seen each other around when we were kids, 16 or 17," he told the BBC. At the time, Brown was already playing with Stone Roses guitarist John Squire. "He wanted me to sing and asked a mutual friend, but said 'I won't poach another guitarist's singer'. So we've got to work together now."

01 October 2009 Thursday - Madinat Arena, Dubai, U.A.E
Notes: Unconfirmed date.
05-07 November 2009 - Dubai Sound City Festival
Notes: The Dubai Sound City line-up announced: Ian Brown, Happy Mondays, The Farm, The Human League, Echo And The Bunnymen, The Wombats, Ocean Colour Scene, The Courteeners, Doves, Alphabeat, The Outlandish, Nitin Sawhney, The Parlotones, Asian, Dirty Skirts, The Automatic

M - 01 October 2009 Thursday 12:14 - The Guardian Newspaper article, by Guardian Music
Notes: See Media for the Hannah Pool Interview.

October 2009 - Geoff Lloyd Radio Session, Absolute Radio,
From Metro article 02 October 2009 Friday 12:55 pm: The Stone Roses rocker has three sons aged (Frankie) 17, (Casey) 13 and (Emilio) nine and revealed to Absolute Radio DJ Geoff Lloyd that while they may enjoy music they have no plans to follow in his footsteps. Brown revealed: “My eldest son loves music, but you know, they all like mess about – I’ve got drum kits, keyboards, guitars, but they’ve all got the big ambition not to be famous, that’s their main ambition in life.” He added: “From being babies, people coming up and bugging you, you know, loving you, bugging you, whatever, and now everyone’s got the mobile rights so now everyone needs the pictures, and they just see that as a nightmare of a life to them.” The 46-year-old Manchunian musician also said he is happy to accept his legendary status, saying: “If someone’s going to call me a legend or an icon, I’m going to go with it.” But he joked: “I don’t wake up in the morning and think ‘oh you legend’.” Asked how he feels about all the fans who copy his style, Brown laughed: “I’m just glad that it’s me they follow and not Elton John, can you imagine?” But the rocker doesn’t shop for himself anymore. He revealed: “The only item of clothing I’ve bought in the last 11 years is a Burberry cashmere tartan scarf, that’s the only item, I actually was able to give up shopping in Feb ’99. “I get a box sent from Japan, like every eight weeks I get a big box, and there’s my jeans and what not.”

M - 03 October 2009 Saturday 00:07 - The Guardian Newspaper article
Notes: See Media for the Interview by Rich Pelley.

The Stone Roses - 21 October 2009 - The Stone Roses 20th Anniversary Japanese Release Date
Notes: BVCP 40118-20, Y4,935 Yen. 3 Disc Edition.
BVCP 40121-2, Y3,300 Yen. 2 Disc Edition.

02 November 2009 - Ian Brown is arrested on suspicion of assault
Notes: Police arrived at the couple's home, at 08:05am, in West Kensington, London, after being alerted by neighbours to a disturbance.
Ian's wife, Fabiola Quiroz, reportedly told officers that Brown assaulted her. 46-year-old Ian Brown was arrested in West London and was bailed until December, pending futhur inquiries.
Ian was released without charge following allegations that he had assaulted his wife, Fabiola Quiroz Brown.
From 03 November 2009 Tuesday 11:03 - The Guardian Newspaper article, by Tim Jonze: According to Scotland Yard, officers arrived at 8.05am yesterday (2 November) after reports of a disturbance. "A 37-year-old woman made an allegation of domestic assault, and a 46-year-old man was arrested. He was taken to a west London police station and bailed until a date in December."Brown and Quiroz have been married since 1999, and have a nine-year-old son called Emilio. A press spokesperson for Brown had no further details at the time of going to press.

15 November 2009 - 06 December 2009 - Exhibition of John Squire's artwork: Negative Afterimages, Tokyo Hipsters Club, Tokyo, Japan
Notes: 14 November was the preview date.
A special edition postcard set was released in a debossed box, 2009. 18 prints as well as 5 photos of John working on these pieces. 'John Squire: New Work 2009' "This box set contains a collection of 18 prints of new work by John Squire, along with a set of 5 images by photographer Antony Crook of Squire, his studio and working processes. John Squire brings his obsessive meticulous studies of consumer packaging together with this set of works made during 2008-2009. The work includes monumental rusting steel box structures frozen in various states of disassembly. Scorched canvas silhouettes, stamped lead and work in wax and oil continue the exploration of the humble cardboard box. The works can be read as signifying the excesses of consumer packaging, whilst equally seeming to celebrate the intricacies of the packaging form. Contents: 23 145x124,, prints on 350gsm uncoated card. Polite. Publihsed by Pilite. JSX01. Printed and Made In Britain..."

16 November 2009 - Mani's 47th birthday

16 November 2009 - Ian Brown is caught speeding
Notes: A car registered in Ian's name was flashed doing 65mph in a 50mph limit at 16 November 2009 10.30pm on the A40 near RAF Northolt.
Brown failed to respond to both a speeding notice and a reminder, so a summons was issued for him to appear in court. The court found Ian not guilty , see December 2010 for the hearing.

November 2009 - Just Like You U.K Release Date
Art Direction by Kazuki Kuraishi. Flower art by Makoto Azuma (AMKK) and flower photography by Shunsuke Shiinoki (AMKK)
Just Like You
Written by Ian Brown, Dave McCracken and Tim Hutton. Drums: Inder Goldfinger, Robert 'Maxi' Maxfield & Tim Hutton. Bass: Richard Stubbs. Brass: Tim Hutton. Keys: Dave McCracken. Produced by Dave McCracken. Engineered by Joe Hirst. Additional progrmmaing and engineering by Catherine Marks, Assistant Engineer: Mark Allaway at Assault & Battery 2 & Richard Woodcraft at RAK Studios. Mixed by Danton Supple for 140db Management at Assault & Battery 2. Recorded at 9V Studios, Assault & Battery 2 and RAK Studios. Mastered by Vlado Meller at Universal Mastering Studios, NYC. Assisted by Mark Santangelo.
Just Like You (The Prodigy Remix) Remix by Liam Howlett.
CD Fiction 2727292
Just Like You
Just Like You (The Prodigy Remix)

22 November 2009 Sunday - St George's Market, Belfast, Northern Ireland
23 November 2009 Monday - Olympia Theatre, Dublin, Ireland

24 November 2009 - John Squire's 47th birthday

24 November 2009 Tuesday - Olympia Theatre, Dublin, Ireland * Doors Open: 19:30 * Ticket Price: * Support Act(s): The Chakras
Bootleg: Audience Recording - FLAC (Johnky master)

26 November 2009 Thursday - Royal Theatre, Mayo, Ireland
27 November 2009 Friday - INEC-Gleneage Hotel, Killarney, Ireland

Tour
29 November 2009 Sunday - De Montfort Hall, Leicester
Notes: Tickets went on sale 27 August 2009 Thursday at 09.30am.
30 November 2009 Monday - Cliffs Pavillon, Westcliff-On-Sea, Southend
Notes: Tickets went on sale 27 August 2009 Thursday at 09.30am.

01 December 2009 Tuesday - Regent Theatre, Ipswich
Keep What Ya Got / Love Like A Fountain / Corpses / Longsight M13 / F.E.A.R.
encore: Fools Gold
Notes: Tickets went on sale 27 August 2009 Thursday at 09.30am. Apparently three female dancers appeared during sections the set. A fan shouts for Fools Gold but Ian comesback with "you're 20 years too late, mate". Ian does reprise the song during the encore though.
02 December 2009 12:22 - Review by Ben Matthews: Ian Brown at the Ipswich Regent: Maybe I'm not looking hard enough but I can't see one Stone Roses T-shirt. You can usually tell when Ian Brown is in town, as every male born before 1980 is proudly wearing a Pollock-esque piece of John Squire artwork on their torso. But Ian Brown IS in town, and it's potentially a significant turning point in Ipswich's live music ambitions. Tonight, the local musical mould is broken. Tonight, the usually safe bookings of ageing rockers, chart-friendly popstars and nice looking boys who you would take home to your mum, are truly blown out of the water. Tonight, a small corner of Ipswich becomes a homage to the Hacienda era. Well, at least the front handful of rows do. King Monkey knows how to groove his non-Lancastrian subjects into the Mancunian vibe, even those usually reticent loosen up and bop along. He must be pleasantly surprised not having to fend off the usual shouts and requests for Stone Roses tunes. And rightly so, as six solo albums down the track, he has his own repertoire of mooching classics to call upon and even some of those are left out tonight. The likes of Keep What Ya Got, Love Like A Fountain, Corpses, Longsight M13 and F.E.A.R. make for a classic setlist, with tracks from the new album, My Way, slotting in seamlessly. e are humble in the presence of a Godlike genius after all. Gone are the days of stony stares to the back of the venue and nonsensical mumblings between songs. Today's Ian Brown, father and family man, offers plenty of banter with the crowd and his on-stage crew. This currently includes three young female dancers who appear sporadically throughout the set. First thoughts are that they've won an amateur competition at DanceEast to appear onstage, but they keep coming back on. Although their choreography would have Brian Friedman thinking that Jedward are actually decent movers, their rough-and-readiness fits in with the high spirits of the evening. nd although he may not be wearing the T-shirt, a cry of "Fools Gold" comes from a 30-something in the crowd, only to be instantly shot down with "you're 20 years too late, mate". But we only have to wait until the encore for a rendition of said anthem. Say thank you with (Stone) Roses.

03 December 2009 Thursday - O2 Academy, Bournemouth
Notes: Tickets went on sale 27 August 2009 Thursday at 09.30am.

04 December 2009 Frirday - O2 Academy, Brixton, London
F.E.A.R / Elizabeth My Dear / Fools Gold
Notes: Tickets went on sale 27 August 2009 Thursday at 09.30am.
From 06 December 2009 Sunday 23:08 - The Guardian Newspaper article, by Caroline Sullivan: 3 out of 5 stars Brixton Academy, London. By conventional measures of musical ability, Ian Brown's performance here – the first of two sold-out nights – warrants a resounding thumbs-down. Never a mellifluous vocalist, his voice has coarsened to the point where what emerges from his throat is a cross between a bark and a rasp, and is shockingly tuneless. He doesn't deliver songs so much as shove them at the listener with a complete absence of the sinuous, blurry grace that makes his albums worth hearing. And his version of stagecraft is to shuffle on the spot for a couple of minutes, then lope to another quadrant of the stage and do it again, over and over, for 75 minutes. Yet Brown possesses more of the X factor than almost any musician of his generation. He's not a "singer", but his charisma compels you to listen. He doesn't move well, but, silhouettedwith arms outstretched, he's every inch an icon. He even conjures up something close to drama as he lumbers through the a cappella Elizabeth My Dear from the Stone Roses' debut album. From a musical perspective, it's the evening's nadir, but his painful efforts endow the anti-monarchist lyric with real loathing. The last man standing from the second summer of love, he generates happy memories for this crowd, who reward him by doing the late-1980s arms-aloft rave dance, even to new songs from this year's so-so My Way album. Unexpectedly, the tune that provokes the greatest excitement isn't the Roses classic Fool's Gold, which bristles with all the cockiness of old, but the 2001 single FEAR. Why? Who knows? Like Brown, it's unfathomable.

05 December 2009 Saturday - O2 Academy, Brixton, London * Doors Open: 20:00-02:00am, Ian on stage 23:30 *
Love Like A Fountain / Golden Gaze / Time Is My Everything / All Ablaze / Longsight M13 / Keep What Ya Got / Save Us / Crowning Of The Poor / Corpses / Laugh Now / Vanity Kills / Own Brain (attempt) - Own Brain / Marathon Man (attempt) - Marathon Man / Sister Rose (with Naoto) / F.E.A.R / encore: Elizabeth My Dear / Fools Gold / Stellify (with Dave McCracken) / Just Like You (with Naoto & Dave McCracken)
Notes: Ian Brown’s tenth appearance at the Brixton Academy. The set suffered several sound and technical issues. Before Corpses Ian announced “One thing that gets my goat is a racist girl, that's the worst thing in the world. What do you think of the BNP and that? I ain't got time for that shit. They have corpses in their mouths.” Ian saluted and exited the stage with “See ya for number 11”. See Media for the 06 December 2009 NME article.

07 December 2009 Monday - Corn Exchange, Cambridge
Notes: Tickets went on sale 27 August 2009 Thursday at 09.30am.

08 December 2009 Tuesday - Academy, Sheffield * Doors Open: 20:00 * Ticket Price: £24.00
Notes: Ian is attacked onstage and does not return. I was there with my dad. Apparently Ian had Stone Roses tunes on the setlist for the encore. Tickets went on sale 27 August 2009 Thursday at 09.30am.
Bootleg: () Complete Audience Recording.

10 December 2009 Thursday - O2 Academy, Leeds
Notes: Tickets went on sale 27 August 2009 Thursday at 09.30am.
11 December 2009 Friday - O2 Academy, Leeds
Notes: Tickets went on sale 27 August 2009 Thursday at 09.30am.

11 December 2009 - Ian Brown Interview for Daily Post Liverpool by Andy Welch
Notes: See Media for the article.

12 December 2009 Saturday - Liverpool Uni, Liverpool
Notes: Tickets went on sale 27 August 2009 Thursday at 09.30am.
14 December 2009 Monday - Newcastle City Hall, Newcastle
Notes: Tickets went on sale 27 August 2009 Thursday at 09.30am.

15 December 2009 Tuesday - HMV Picture House, Edinburgh, Scotland
(incomplete) Love Like A Fountain / Golden Gaze / Fools Gold
Notes: Tickets went on sale 27 August 2009 Thursday at 09.30am. During the show someone hit the bass player with a pint of lager

16 December 2009 Wednesday - O2 Academy, Glasgow, Scotland
Notes: Tickets went on sale 27 August 2009 Thursday at 09.30am.
18 December 2009 Friday - O2 Academy, Birmingham
Notes: Tickets went on sale 27 August 2009 Thursday at 09.30am.

19 December 2009 Saturday - Manchester Arena, Manchester * Doors Open: 18:30, Support: 19:30 * Ticket Price: £26 (Block 115 Lower Tier)
Notes: Tickets went on sale 27 August 2009 Thursday at 09.30am.

23 December 2009 Wednesday - The Horn, St Albans

2010
2010 - John Squire creates more artwork:
All Of You (oil on canvas, 34x24")
A Walk In The Wood (oil on paper, 39.5x27.75“)
Blue In Green (oil on canvas, 24x34")
Et Alors (oil on canvas. 34x25")
In A Silent Way (oil on canvas, 34x24")
Iris (oil on paper, 20x16“)
London Calling
Nefertiti (oil on canvas, 24x34“)
So What‘(oil on canvas, 34.5x25")
Untitled (oil on paper, 39.5x27")
Vonetta A (Liberty Fabrics, 100% cotton)
Vonetta B (Liberty Fabrics, 100% cotton)
Vonetta C (Liberty Fabrics, 100% cotton)
Vonetta D (Liberty Fabrics, 100% cotton)
Penguin Decades series: A Month in the Country, An Ice-Cream War, Hawksmoor, Latecomers, Paradise, Postponed.

13 January 2010 Wednesday - Ancienne Belgique, Brussels, Belgium
14 January 2010 Thursday - Le Trabendo, Paris, France
15 January 2010 Friday - Den Atelier, Luxembourg
16 January 2010 Saturday - Mannheim, Germany
18 January 2010 Monday - Zurich, Switzerland
19 January 2010 Tuesday - Milan, Italy
20 January 2010 Wednesday - Munich, Germany
21 January 2010 Thursday - Vienna, Austria
23 January 2010 Saturday - Berlin, Germany
24 January 2010 Sunday - Hamburg, Germany
25 January 2010 Monday - Copenhagen, Denmark
27 January 2010 Wednesday - Oslo, Norway
28 January 2010 Thursday - Stockholm, Sweden
29 January 2010 Friday - Malmo, Sweden

31 January 2010 Sunday - Paradiso, Amsterdam, Holland
Notes: Stage intro tape is 'Vice Versa Love' by Barrington Levy.

February 2010 - The Stone Roses appear on the cover of Tone Magazine, Number 18
Notes: 20th Anniversary Special featuring The Stone Roses & Nirvana. This magazine was edited by Osamu Masui (who interviewed the band in 1989). One of the media who is indispensable for talking about Roses and the leading journalist who spread The Stone Roses in Japan.

16 February 2010 Tuesday - Warszawa, Warsaw, Poland
Love Like A Fountain / Golden Gaze / T.I.M.E / All Ablaze / Keep What Ya Got / Crowning Of The Poor (attempt) / Crowning Of The Poor / Save Us / Corpses / "Lough Now" / Vanity Kills / Marathon Man / Own Brain / Longsight M13 / Sister Rose / F.E.A.R.
encore: Fools Gold / Stellify / Just Like You
Bootleg: Audience Recording - 2 CD-R - CD1 - Love Like A Fountain / Golden Gaze / T.I.M.E / All Ablaze / Keep What Ya Got / Crowning Of The Poor (attempt) / Crowning Of The Poor / Save Us / Corpses / Lough Now / Vanity Kills - CD2 - Marathon Man / Own Brain / Longsight M13 / Sister Rose / F.E.A.R. / encore: Fools Gold / Stellify / Just Like You

18 February 2010 Thursday - Helsinki, Finland

20 February 2010 - Ian Brown's 47th birthday

22 February 2010 Monday - L7, Moscow, Russia
23 February 2010 Tuesday - St.Petersburg, Russia
26 February 2010 Friday - Thessaloniki, Greece
27 February 2010 Saturday - Athens, Greece

10 April 2010 - Reni's 46th birthday

26 April 2010 - 29 October 2010 - Exhibition of John Squire's artwork: Group Show Process. Burghley Sculpture Garden, Stamford

07 May 2010 - 21 May 2010 - Exhibition of John Squire's artwork: 'Structural Violence' Bar Lane Studios, Launch Exhibition, 1 Bar Lane, York, YO1 6JU

09 May 2010 - 12 June 2010 - Exhibition of John Squire's artwork: Mechanized. Galerie Thiele, Linz, Austria
Notes: Not sure if this show was cancelled?

19 May 2010 - 11 August 2010 - Exhibition of John Squire's artwork: Apertures. The Square Gallery, Square Members Club, 15 Berkeley Square, Bristol, BS8 1HB

21 September 2010 Tuesday - Ian Brown has a cameo in This Is England '86, Series 1 Episode 3 TV Series
28 September 2010 Tuesday - Ian Brown has a cameo in This Is England '86, Series 1 Episode 4 TV Series
Notes: Ian Brown had a cameo as 'Tempestuous Copper' (a policeman). Funded by Channel 4 this was Shane Meadows TV series, written by Shane and Jack Thorne. Shane would later film The Stone Roses 'Made Of Stone' re-union movie. Ian was a fan of the 2006 film This Is England and the series was a spin-off set three years later. The show focused on the mod revival scene rather than the skinhead subculture. Like the film, This Is England '86 stars Thomas Turgoose as Shaun, although Lol (Vicky McClure) and Woody (Joe Gilgun) play even more central roles. The story takes place during the 1986 FIFA World Cup. As Shaun completes his last school exam, he realises he will have to find his way in the world. His friends, who include Woody, Lol, Smell, Gadget and Meggy, are still around, looking for love, entertainment and employment.

2010 - Ian Brown stars in Adidas: Street Corner TV Commercial
Notes: Directed by Nima Nourizadeh. TV advert included David Beckham, Ian Brown, Agyness Deyn and the initial edit was filmed for U.S.A. TV. Noel Gallagher and Snoop Dogg were also involved in a seperate Adidas project which was used as the focus commercial for U.S. TV.

05 June 2010 Saturday - Isle Of Wight Festival, Isle Of Wight,
07 June 2010 Monday - University Of Hertfordshire
09 June 2010 Wednesday - The Empire, Middlesborough

11 June 2010 Friday - The Warehouse Project Presents Ian Brown, Platt Fields Park, Fallowfield, Manchester * Doors Open: 16:30 Curfew: 22:30 * Ticket Price: £25 (Early Bird) £28.50 (General) * Support: DJ Now Wave DJs, DJ Krysko, DJ El Diablos, DJ Unabombers, DJ Cutloose, DJ Peter Hook, DJ Justin Roberston, DJ Mr Scruff, DJ Mike Pickering, DJ Scratch Perverts, The Whip, A Certain Ratio (Tent), Bad Lieutenant & UNKLE
I Wanna Be Adored / Golden Gaze / T.I.M.E. / All Ablaze / Keep What Ya Got / Crowning Of The Poor / Save Us / Corpses / Vanity Kills / Love Like A Fountain / Own Brain / Marathon Man / Longsight M13 / Sister Rose / F.E.A.R. /
encore: Fools Gold / Stellify / Just Like You
Notes: Possibly the first ever performance of 'Marathon Man'?
I was there for the full day with my dad. It was a great show with a nice layout. Two stages, The Main stage had some of the bigger names and the 'Circus' style tent stage had The Whip & A Certain Ratio and some others playing too. The stage times were ideal for catching all the 'worthwhile acts'. A Certain Ratio had John Robb in the audience & the singer from The Magic Numbers was there too. I had a joke with Peter Hook when him, and who i presume to be his friend 'Twiggy,' were watching Bad Lieutenant. I said they're not bad but they're not New Order, he smiled and said 'No, never'. I was hoping Ian would appear onstage with UNKLE at some point during the show (like he did at The Manchester Apollo Show 2004) but sadly no collabaration that night. Because the show took place on Friday, the venue was quiet up until 18:00 when fans finished work and made their way to the park. Ian was in fine form, his voice struggled with some of the hits and the audience eagerly awaited the Stone Roses songs...They only got two. I remember there was a lot of bottle throwing too when Ian played the newer string based songs, nothing got as far as the stage but the sentiment was still the same. The NME had published an article online to promote the show mentioning Ian would perform a career spanning set, the NME got it wrong again (no suprises).
Bootleg: Live In Manchester (2 CD-R - Bootleg sleeve denoted the date as '12 June 2010') Audience Recording

12 June 2010 Saturday - Rockness Festival, Inverness, Scotland

14 June 2010 - Rockness Festival, Scotland
F.E.A.R. / Own Brain
Notes: 14 June 2010 Rockness Festival - Vic Galloway Session, Radio Scotland. Repeated 18 June 2010 Friday at 22:05. Only FEAR is played on the highlights show, a video of both FEAR and Own Brain was available on the BBC website. I presume they were broadcast on BBC Scotland (TV) at some point.
Broadcast: 14 June 2010 Monday at 20:05 - Rockness Festival - Vic Galloway Session, BBC Radio Scotland - F.E.A.R. / Own Brain
Re-Broadcast: 18 June 2010 Friday at 22:05 - Vic Galloway Session, BBC Radio Scotland - F.E.A.R.
TV Broadcast: BBC Scotland - F.E.A.R. / Own Brain

15 June 2010 Tuesday - Ibiza

M - 27 June 2010 Sunday 00:04 - The Guardian Newspaper article
Notes: See Media for the article by Luke Bainbridge : Ian Brown: Soundtrack of my life.

09 July 2010 Friday - Pohoda Festival, Bazant Stage, Trencin, Slovakia
I Wanna Be Adored / T.I.M.E. / Golden Gaze / Crowning Of The Poor / Save Us / Vanity Kills / Own Brain / Sister Rose / Longsight M13 / Just Like You / F.E.A.R. / Stellify / Fools Gold
Bootleg: Badlands (CD-R) Audience Recording

John Squire - 10 July 2010 Saturday - 19 August 2010 - Nefertiti (New Works by John Squire), The Henderson Gallery, part of the Edinburgh Art Festival, 4 Thistle Street, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH2 1DA
Notes: "inspired by the music of Miles Davis. Working with oils on canvas, board and paper, while using linocuts for repetetive structral elements..."

10 July 2010 Saturday - Belgium

17 July 2010 Saturday - Benicassim Festiva, Spain
All Ablaze / Golden Gaze / Crowning of the Poor / Save Us / Love Like a Fountain / Vanity Kills / Own Brain / Sister Rose / Longsight M13 / Just Like You
Notes: An incomplete set was broadcast on Spanish Radio.
Broadcast:
Bootleg: Webstream

25 July 2010 Sunday - South Korea

30 July 2010 Friday - Taiwan

01 August 2010 Sunday - Fuji Rock Festival, Japan * Supporting: Massive Attack, Atoms For Peace, Air, Alberta Cross, Asian Kung-Fu Generation, Belle & Sebastian, Boom Boom Satellites, Buffalo Daughter, Hot Chip, Foals and more

05 August 2010 Thursday - Sinagpore Festival, Sinagpore

06 August 2010 Friday - Jakarta, Lap. Basket ABC Senayan - Gelora Bung Karno, Indonesia * Doors Open: 20:00 * Ticket Price: Rp.275,000 (Advance, until 30 July 2010), Rp.350,000 * Support Act(s): Kula Shaker
Notes: Joint headliners.

07 August 2010 Saturday - Hardrock Cafe, Bali, Indonesia * Doors Open: 21:00 * Ticket Price: Rp.275,000 (Advance, until 30 July 2010), Rp.350,000

August 2010 - The First Time with Matt Everitt, BBC Radio 6 Music.
Notes: Ian Brown appears as guest. Repeated 19 March 2020 Thursday at 01:00am.
Broadcast: BBC Radio 6 Music

The Stone Roses - 30 August 2010 - Collection
Product Managed by Claire Jones for Sony Music Entertainment
Cover Art: 'Waterfall' by John Squire.
Band Photo Credit: Ian Tilton (www.iantilton.net)
CD - Sony / Silvertone: 88697765172
Notes: Fools Gold (The Top Won Mix!) is the same edit which features on The Remixes CD.

18 October 2010 - 24 November 2010 - Exhibition of John Squire's artwork: Gallery Thlele, 'Mechanized' Galerie Thiele, Linz, Austria
Notes: Unconfirmed if the date was cancelled?

16 November 2010 - Mani's 48th birthday
24 November 2010 - John Squire's 48th birthday

December 2010 - Ian appears at Waltham Forest Magistrates' Court, North East London regarding his speeding allegation
Notes: See 16 November 2009 for the initial details. Ian did not respond to any speeding ticket or fine as the court summons was "defective" as the date of the alleged offence on it was incorrect.
Sabrina Samaroo, for the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), said she would not be offering any evidence after discussions with Harriet Bathurst-Norman, counsel for Brown. Ian was represented by Freeman & Co solicitors with lawyer Nick Freeman. Chairman of the magistrates Alan Sims said Ian was free to.
07 December 2010 Tuesday 18:53 The Independent article: Former Stone Roses frontman Ian Brown was told he was "free to go" by a court today after prosecutors dropped a driving charge against him. The 47-year-old, from Lymm, Cheshire, appeared before Waltham Forest Magistrates' Court in north east London to answer a charge of failing to provide information last December relating to the identification of the driver of a car alleged to have committed a speeding offence.
In a short hearing, Sabrina Samaroo, for the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), said she would not be offering any evidence after discussions with Harriet Bathurst-Norman, counsel for Brown. No further details about the charge were given at the court hearing. Chairman of the magistrates Alan Sims, addressing the musician, said: "You have heard the prosecutor say that she is offering no evidence - that means you are free to go."
A statement issued outside the court by Freeman & Co solicitors, which represented Brown, said the singer was summonsed with failing to furnish driver details, after allegedly ignoring both a speeding notice and a reminder. The case arose after a car registered in Brown's name was flashed doing 65mph in a 50mph limit at 10.30pm on November 16 last year, on the A40 near RAF Northolt, the firm said in a statement.
Brown failed to respond to both a speeding notice and a reminder, so a summons was issued for him to appear before court, Freeman & Co said.
Nick Freeman, the celebrity lawyer who represented Brown, said he was "delighted" by the result but criticised the CPS for taking so long in making its decision. He said the summons was "defective" as the date of the alleged offence on it was incorrect. Had he been found guilty, Brown's licence would have automatically been endorsed with six points.

15 December 2010 Wednesday - Fibbers, York
16 December 2010 Thursday - Rock City, Nottingham
17 December 2010 Friday - The Warehouse Project, Manchester
18 December 2010 Saturday - Manchester

2011

20 February 2011 - Ian Brown's 48th birthday
10 April 2011 - Reni's 47th birthday

18 June 2011 Saturday - The Summer Ball, London
Notes: Only U.K. Date in 2011.

16 July 2011 Saturday - Sesimbra, Portugal
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2011 - Gary Neville Testimony, Old Trafford, Manchester
Notes: Ian Brown is a lifelong supporter of Manchester United and is still a season ticket holder. He appeared on the pitch for Gary Neville's testimony.

10 September 2011 Saturday - Bucharest, Romania
Notes: Ian's last solo performance for 9 years. His next appearence would on stage with John Squire, the reunion was imminent...

12 October 2010 - Ian Brown is caught on camera speeding on the M6 Stafford
Notes: Ian was driving north at 93mph, in a 40mph zone, to Cheshire in his Lexus. See 24 November 2011.

October 2011 - Fabiola Quiroz & Ian divorce
Notes: Married for ten years, the divorce settlement stretched out for over six months.
Ian would initially drive to London every Wednesday to see Emilio, his 11 year old son, and in time would see him three weekends out of four.
Shaun Ryder publicly speculated that the fiancial pinch of Brown's divorce from his Mexican ex-model wife, Fabiola Quiroz, probably helped him bury the hatchet with Squire.
From The Telegraph, 18 October 2011 13:46pm by Murray Wardrop: Fellow Madchester scene star Shaun Ryder hinted over the weekend that Brown had been motivated by the recent split from his Mexican model wife Fabiola Quiroz. “It has been coming for a while. It's amazing what a divorce will make you do,” Ryder said. The singer’s marriage had appeared in trouble two years ago after he was arrested and later released without charge following allegations that he had assaulted his wife, with whom he has a young son.

16 November 2011 - Mani's 49th birthday
24 November 2011 - John Squire's 49th birthday