made of stone

the stone roses weekender got going friday midday with gaz and ryan.  ian brown himself found time in the morning to phone me but unfortunately i missed his call


a couple of beers on the train, tram to hotel, back out to city centre for food and beer and off to heaton park in good time to catch the vaccines.  a few beers later saw an end to our drinking due to horrendous crowds at the bars, decided queuing for an hour for beer was idiot and went to enjoy the wailers.  primal scream completed a decent support line up.

enter the fab four, resurrected live on stage with no less than an epic 2 hour set, sounding tight and unexpectedly in tune.  well worth the hype!
another epic performance followed after when we walked all the way back to salford quays, not once did we moan about aching legs and feet and the lack of beer. not once.  overall a good weekend of music, beer and banter.
saturday got back to crewe and went for a few snifters in the white lion to meet a load of mates who were off to see the stone roses second night, unfortunately their night went less well with tales of passing out and missing the show, a chipped tooth, a lost ticket, losing each other in the crowd, lost cameras, being manhandled by security and so on and so on.  nevermind, at least friday went well.

Gaddafi

so apparantly colonel gaddafi is dead, shame really, he was one of my favourite dictators.  he looked like a bo selecta character.  dunno why he didnt scarper while the going was good, 42 years was a good innings, he could have stepped down and slipped away to enjoy his obscene wealth somewhere safe but not gaddafi, like any good dictator would he clung on until the bitter end and whilst hiding in the sewage pipe they found him in he probably still thought he was in control.

well stone roses tickets go on sale tomorrow. i'm at work so am relying on bec to snaffle some for me.  she's on nights so hopefully she wont fall asleep when she gets in.  no bed until you've got tickets bec!

resurrected

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every time i've heard the rumours i've been slightly unsure if its a good thing.  keep the legend intact? or bring back the magic from back in the day? but the previous annual rumours have all been complete nonsensical bollocks so it was irrelevant anyway.  now its actually true i'm still not completely sure but i do know i have to get in on it.  £55 a ticket? bloody hell! but yeah go on then!.....