The Stone Roses Experience

The Stone Roses Experience have been regarded as the most precise and justified Stone Roses tribute band to date, and performing to sell out crowds is something these four lads from Scotland are no stranger to.
These guys have also had the amazing compliment and services of none other than original Stone Roses bass maestro Gary Mani Mounfield, whom on three occasions played Roses classic She Bangs The Drums alongside the band to ecstatic Irish audiences, plus it was the last time Mani ever played a Stone Roses song.
As well as having that major compliment, the four members of the Roses Experience have also played together at major music festivals, Witnness/Oxegen Festival in Ireland three times in a row with a combined audience of 25,000 people and Scotland’s T In The Park to a staggering 10,000, a first for any tribute band, which was later described in the music press as "Quite simply, brilliant".
These events saw Stone Roses hysteria re-lived once again by the devoted throng of Roses disciples which was very reminiscent of The Stone Roses historic Glasgow Green gig in a huge circus tent in 1990.
The current members of The Stone Roses Experience have also filmed dramatic reconstruction scenes as The Stone Roses in a BBC documentary "Blood on the Turntable" featuring the Roses and their bitter feud with their management.
In the past few years the band have enjoyed the company of some familiar faces in the music industry including Bez and Shaun Ryder (Happy Mondays), Clint Boon and Tom Hingley (Inspiral Carpets), Shane MacGowan (The Pogues) and Rick Witter (Shed Seven) who have appeared as guest DJ’s or basically just turned up to one of the gigs.
The songs selected in the live set span from the early Roses classics like ‘Tell Me’ and ‘Sally Cinnamon’ through ‘Waterfall’ and the acid funk of ‘Fools Gold’ to the latter period of ‘Second Coming’ with ‘Love Spreads’ and ‘Ten Storey Love Song’. The band take on the difficult task of replicating the LP sound of the Roses but also like to mix it with the live versions from legendary gigs like Blackpool Empress Ballroom and Spike Island. It’s even been known for the band to drop an Ian Brown tune in for good measure!
Another noted feature of The Stone Roses Experience is that they use the same instruments as closely as possible to that of the original Stone Roses set up for that authentic live sound.
The atmosphere that is created at many gigs is the closest you will ever get to the sights and sounds of an original Stone Roses gig. The era of ‘Reni Hats’, Joe Bloggs, flares and floppy moptop haircuts are all on show like its 1989 all over again.
You only need to look at sell out shows in the past the band have played at Dublin’s Olympia Theatre, Belfast Limelight, Edinburgh Liquid Room, Glasgow QMU, Sheffield Leadmill, London Mean Fiddler and Manchester Academy to name but a few to recognise how much of a faithful following the band and The Stone Roses music themselves, has such an impact even today. The crowds have been described by the Roses Experience as being like a travelling football support…’One venue under a groove’, how many bands have that?
So, all in all, if you’re still aching for that little piece of nostalgia or feel like dusting off those bucket hats and Joe Bloggs denim’s, The Stone Roses Experience are the only one’s to really deliver the goods.
As Ian Brown once said….’It’s not where you’re from its where you’re at…’ How true!

The Stone Roses Experience play The Onyx, Oldcastle House Hotel on Sunday 5th of August.