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The Stone Roses
Spike Island, 27th May, 1990.
"Warning" contains strong language.
"We arrived onsite that day in a Transit van with no windows. Not a f****** helicopter!"
Ian Brown
Many thanks to Tex Kinsella.
A tour of town, before the gig.
"Spike Island was the culmination of an insane year."
"Like with Ally Pally, we had this idea that if we could get a lot of like-minded people in the same place, then we could spark them into doing things themselves. Revolutions start that way....
Despite the hefty beer prices, it was a huge event."
Mani told "Uncut"
"I am the Resurrection" from the Movie
"Spike Island"
It was the night kaleidoscopic pop met acid house, where flared trousers flapped and ultra-bright baggy shirts glowed in the dark under a carpet of bowl haircuts and Remi hats. The night when Stone Roses frontman Ian Brown proudly declared, "Time! Time! Time! The time is now."
That's how it felt to a generation that had been desperately seeking their own indie guitar heroes, lads who were also plugged in to ecstasy culture and were unafraid to dance. It was no surprise that a band from Manchester fitted the bill, nor that this rum site on a peninsula facing the River Mersey at Widnes provided the venue for the event of 1990 "It was a bit depressing to find yourself in a horrible field surrounded by huge electric pylons, factories and chemical plants,"
All credits to the owner of this footage.
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