At least 21 gigs have been planned for the UK and there are talks of a US date – possibly the Coachella Festival in California. The gigs will coincide with the re-release of the band’s self-titled debut album.
Best known for the very simple whimsical dirge "I Wanna Be Adored", but with a host of other great whimsical dirges to back it up, Manchester's The Stone Roses are finally reuniting, and for all the right reasons: "The rest of the band were really up for it, especially when they realized the amount of money on the table," said a source close to the band.
But who can blame them? The real forefathers of Oasis deserve dividends on the neu-Britpop wave that crashed ubiquitously in the nineties deserve a cash-in. We'll see if the Coachella rumors actually turn out to be true.
