The Stone Roses play London for the first time in four years

PanARMENIAN.Net - 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)