The Stone Roses Concert Poster – Hacienda 27 Feb 1989

The Stone Roses Poster – Hacienda 27 Feb 1989 Concert Poster The February 27th concert at New Order’s nightclub, The Hacienda, was the biggest gig to date for Manchester’s up and coming boy-wonders. Our reproduction Stone Roses concert poster was created to promote their now legendary gig. The text-only poster design was designed in the Hacienda’s usual inhouse style. In this case, a broad red band at the top of the poster contains the name of the club Fac 51 The Haçienda. Below the red band poster reads: The Monday Club. The Stone Roses King of the Slums. Mon. 27th Feb. £4 Adv. Doors 9pm. Advance Tickets available from Piccadilly Records & The Hacienda. The Monday Club was a succession of ‘indie’ gigs put on every Monday. Other bands that played on The Monday Club included Spacemen 3, McCarthy, The Pastels, Dub Sex and The Train Set. The Stone Roses After several false starts with earlier groups in 1983, the band had finally settled down in 1984 with a line-up consisting of Ian Brown and John Squire with bassist Pete Garner and Alan ‘Reni’ Wren on drums. Over the summer of 84, the band recorded their first demo at Manchester’s Spirit Studios in late August. 100 copies were made featuring artwork by Squire. The four tracks on the demo were Tragic Roundabout, The Misery Dictionary (which was to become So Young and be the band’s first single), Mission Impossible and Just a Little Bit. The band sent the cassettes out to try to get gigs. Brown sent one to Pete Townsend with a note that read – I’m surrounded by skagheads, I wanna smash ’em. Can you give us a show?”  Townsend liked what he heard on the demo and had the lads support him at an anti-heroin concert at the Moonlight Club in London. It was their first gig as The Stone Roses. Townsend went on later to jam with the band on versions of  ‘Substitute’ and ‘Pictures of Lily’. He also hailed Reni as ‘the most naturally talented drummer since Keith Moon’. The band suitably impressed the audiences and soon received management offers and more gigs. It is perhaps surprising to note, that in the four and a half years between that first gig at Hampstead Moonlight Club and the bands show at the Hacienda in 1989, the band performed less than 60 live shows. In 1987, Gary “Mani” Mounfield replaced Pete Garner on bass guitar duties. Brown later recalled, “When Mani joined it almost changed overnight. It became a totally different groove… Straight away, everything just fell into place” The Stone Roses Hacienda gig 1989 The 1989 Hacienda show was the start of the band’s first tour proper. It took in 89 dates of small venues around the UK. At the time, The Hacienda was just about as big a venue bands could play in Manchester.  By the time this gig took place the band had gained a large local loyal fanbase. Snub TV, filmed and broadcast two songs from that evening’s show. They also interviewed Reni asking him about his thoughts on their possible forthcoming global success. Reni responds with “We (the band) just ignore the rest of the world and concentrate on breaking Manchester”, before adding, “We just want to be the biggest band in our street”. Even as he says it, he has the  look of a man who knows the band are on the verge of achieving national and international recognition. The band enter the stage while Don’t Stop is being played over the house tannoy system. As the record fades, Mani’s plays the opening bassline to I Wanna Be Adored. The song is soon to be the opening track on the band’s forthcoming album. Following I Wanna Be Adored the band go on to perform, Here It Comes, Made Of Stone, Waterfall, Sugar Spun Sister, Mersey Paradise, Elephant Stone, Angels Play, Shoot You Down, She Bangs The Drums, Sally Cinnamon and  I Am The Resurrection. The band work there way through a fifty-five minute show performing songs that are played with an energy. The sounds sound slightly rawer and punchier than their album versions. Whilst Ian Brown’s vocal often leave a lot to be desired in this performance, (as they so often do). The show was a success. The performance was of course captured by bootleggers who have released the show under the titles ‘All The Colours Fade’ and later as Manchester Hacienda 1989. The page devoted to bootleg show on the Stone Roses website gives the bootleg’s sound quality an A rating. It marked the performance quality a B describing it as ‘Slightly rough-edged quality, but it’s still very good, recorded straight from the mixing desk.’ At the time of listing the show could be found in its entirety on Youtube under the title The Stone Roses Live at Manchester Hacienda 1989. The Stone Roses seminal debut The band’s seminal debut was released on 2nd May 1989 on Silvertone Records. The album was acclaimed by critics, musicians and the general public. Many regarding it as one of the greatest British albums ever recorded. It went on to become a quadruple platinum selling album with certifies sales of 1,200,000 in Britain alone. The Stone Roses debut album was voted “the greatest album ever” at the NME Premier Awards Show in the year 2000, and reconfirmed as “Greatest British Album Ever” in polls taken in 2004 and 2006. As recently 2020, it place in third spot in the BBC Radio 2 “Ultimate 80’s Album” poll. However, success quickly presented itself as a double edged sword for the Roses, as the eight album deal they had signed with their label, Silvertone, was now in dispute after their new found success. Silvertone placed an injunction on the band that prevented them from recording with any other label for nearly a year at the height of their popularity. It would be more than half a decade before the Roses released their second full length album. Spurred on by the success of the record, the band wished to capitalise by signing to a major label. However, the band had signed an eight album deal with Silvertone and would not let release them from their contract. They placed an injunction on the band that stopped them from recording with any other label for nearly a year. This was at the height of their popularity. In May of 1991, the law came down in favour of The Stone Roses. The deal with Silvertone was dissolved. The legal battle culminated with the band signing with Geffen Records in 1991. It would be 4 years, 4 months and 19 days since the release of the One Love single before any new Stone Roses material would arrive. This vintage poster marked a seminal point in The Stone Roses career.