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Flaring Up: The Stone Roses at Spike Island
Jon Savage, The Observer, 8 July 1990 YOU CAN see them all over the North-West, drifting through Manchesters arcades, doing the swim-dance in the high-tech Hacienda, travelling en masse to tribal events like the recent Stone Roses concert at Spike Island on the Mersey estuary: groups of young men and women wearing floppy fringes and baggy, Day-glo clothes; 24- hour party people chasing the Great God Now in a millennial hedonism straight out of Princes infamous 1999. Total word count of piece: 1,216 To continue reading the complete article, login or subscribe below and get instant access to this and the many thousands of other articles in the Rock's Backpages archive.
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