There's no right or wrongs in music - its just what you do like or what you don't like......simple as that.
We went the Wednesday and the Friday (yeah the 142 still runs through the night to Didsbury!!) and if I'd have known the tickets were knocking about so cheap I'd have gone on the Saturday and Sunday too.......the buzz was great.
Loads of people slag off the X Factor, yet when Ian Brown cannot sing - and he cannot sing very well, lets face it - all of a sudden people turn into Simon Cowell.
The Roses have always been about the vibe and mystique......and they still carry that to this day.
On the both occasions we were there, as soon as the bassline started for Adored, it became spine tingling. All the way through to the end of Resurrection, everybody in the ground had an absolute ball.
As a previous poster suggested, the constant singing of the whole set seems to have become the norm - but that just adds to the atmosphere. It isn't only the communal singing of all the songs, it's the fact that all instrumental parts get sung too - yet nobody says the other three cannot play their instruments in the same way that they say Brown cannot sing!!
I don't like the fact they are rags (I hate that Shaun Ryder is a rag and Dermo from Northside too - utd should only be allowed Mick Hucknall...!!!)
I DID get annoyed when they dedicated This Is The One to Beckham.......but a couple of renditions of Posh Spice Is a Slapper by me and a few Blues around me, soon made me forget!!
Personally, I'll not go to another Roses gig as I want to go out on a "high" - so to see a band I love, in a place I truly love......it won't get any better for me and in my opinion, the gigs were fookin good!!
