Stone Roses - live at the Hacienda, Feb 1989

Stone Roses, live at the Hacienda 27th February 1989, All The Colours Fade bootleg.

The first big hometown gig for the legendary Stone Roses, at the also legendary Hacienda Club in Manchester. The line-up, the songs, and the shit-hot band, they're all present and correct in this concert bootleg. Comprising mainly of tracks from their iconic debut album, the show fairly pings along as Reni, Mani, John and Ian are pretty much on the top of their game. Sally Cinnamon, later released by someone unscrupulous while court battles were raging between band and label, is a joy to hear, as are Here It Comes and Suger Spun Sister. I really can't 'big-up' this bootleg enough, just take it and see for yourself.

Made Of Stone
Sally Cinnamon


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Nine Black Alps - live at the Manchester Academy 2005 *updated links*

Nine Black Alps live in the City, Manchester Academy, October 3rd 2005.

Headliners of this concert above the Arctic Monkeys, Nine Black Alps (the name taken from a poem by notorious optimist Sylvia Plath) were the only of the bands broadcast on BBC radio 1 that actually had an album released at the time of the concert, as they released debut Everything Is in the previous June.

My personal favourite of the three bands who performed at the show, they've since released second LP Love/Hate, and subsequently been dropped by their label Island Records. I'll have to quote myself from one of the earlier posts now I'm afraid "Life eh?"

01. Intro
02. Over The Ocean
03. Just Friends
04. Cosmopolitan
05. Not Everyone
06. Get Your Guns
07. break
08. Unsatisfied
09. Llana Song
10. Southern Songs
11. Ironside
12. Shot Down

Download samples, they're not in Rar.
Alps Rar

iForward Russia! - Live at the Manchester Academy *updated links*

iForward Russia! live in the City, Manchester Academy, October 3rd 2005.

At this point in Forward Russias career they had all of two releases to their names, the split 12" single, shared with This Et All, namely Nine, and the White Heat Records release Thirteen/Fourteen. As you may have already noticed, the more observant of you anyway, the track titles are names are numbers, in the early days together they simply named their songs in the order they were written.

They formed in Leeds 2004, The Black Helicopters Tom and Rob hooked up with brother and sister Katie and 'Whiskas' Nicholls. Unsurprisingly pimped by N.M.E early on, this alternative rock band have released two full length albums to some little success, much less than this fine band deserves, while the Monkeys/Doherty clones sell bucket loads. Life eh?

01. Intro
02. Thirteen
03. Seventeen
04. Twelve/Eighteen
05. Nine
06. Eleven

Download sample as well as Rar, it's not included.
Russia Rar

Arctic Monkeys - Live at the Manchester Academy 2005 *updated links*

Arctic Monkeys at Live in the City, Manchester Academy, October 3rd 2005

Before they hit the bigtime but definitely not before the fabled hype, the Arctic Monkeys got some good coverage, notably this live concert performance broadcast by the BBC.

At this point the Arctic Monkeys had only EP releases to their credit, self released at that for the first, yet this setlist shows they had the tunes that would later become their record breaking debut. The show was rather like the N.M.E. gigs, get a bunch of up-and-comers, put them on a stage together, make some money from the kids. This shows what a good record label media push, oh I mean 'internet word of mouth' *coughs*, can do for a band, as they were below the Nine Black Alps on the bill yet they've sold billions more albums, okay, maybe I exagerate a tad, but you know what I'm saying...

01. Intro
02. I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor
03. Fake Tales Of San Francisco
04. Still Take You Home
05. Perhaps Vampires Is A Bit Strong But.../Dancing Shoes
06. Mardy Bum
07. Sun Goes Down

Download sample as well as Rar, it's not included.
Monkeys Rar