The Stone Roses played their first London gig in four years on June 17 for a crowd of 90,000 at a sold-out Wembley Stadium, NME reports.
The Manchester legends’ most recent gigs in the capital had been at Finsbury Park, where they played twice in June 2013.
Despite frontman Ian Brown’s request last year that fans stop using flares –”we can’t breathe for the flares,” he told the crowd at the band’s Etihad Stadium shows in Manchester in June 2016 – the London crowd was full of them well before the band took the stage, and continued to use them throughout the show.
Support came from Blossoms, The G-O-D and Sleaford Mods, the latter of whom praised the Roses’ performance as “majestic”.
The Roses played a career-spanning set, dropping their 2016 single ‘All For One’ into the setlist alongside the classics, but they did not play their most recent single ‘Beautiful Thing’, which a year on from its release has still not received its live debut.
The Stone Roses played:
I Wanna Be Adored
Elephant Stone
Sally Cinnamon
Mersey Paradise
(Song For My) Sugar Spun Sister
Where Angels Play
Shoot You Down
Waterfall
Don’t Stop
Begging You
Elizabeth My Dear
Fools Gold
All for One
Love Spreads
Made of Stone
She Bangs the Drums
Breaking into Heaven
This is the One
I Am the Resurrection
The Manchester band’s tour continues on Tuesday, June 20 in Leeds and then Glasgow. See full details below:
First Direct Arena, Leeds (June 20, 21) Hampden Park National Stadium, Glasgow (24)