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The Warehouse Project are proud to present a unique homecoming show by music legend Ian Brown on Friday, 11 June 2010 as part of the 100th anniversary of Platt Fields Park. The former Stone Roses front man and all round music icon is set to perform in front of 15,000 adoring home fans at a special outdoor event marking the start of summer 2010.
Since the break up of the Stone Roses in 1996, Ian Brown has released no less than six, critically-acclaimed solo albums and enjoyed 14 UK top 40 singles. He has sold out six UK tours, and appeared three times at Glastonbury. Since 1998, he has appeared five times at V festival, more than any other artist. Ian Brown has also regularl...
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Short Biography
The Warehouse Project are proud to present a unique homecoming show by music legend Ian Brown on Friday, 11 June 2010 as part of the 100th anniversary of Platt Fields Park. The former Stone Roses front man and all round music icon is set to perform in front of 15,000 adoring home fans at a special outdoor event marking the start of summer 2010.
Since the break up of the Stone Roses in 1996, Ian Brown has released no less than six, critically-acclaimed solo albums and enjoyed 14 UK top 40 singles. He has sold out six UK tours, and appeared three times at Glastonbury. Since 1998, he has appeared five times at V festival, more than any other artist. Ian Brown has also regularly appeared at T in The Park and Oxygen festivals and in 2006 Brown was honoured as NME magazine's God Like Genius at their annual awards bash.
The Warehouse Project have been trying to hook up an Ian Brown show since we started in 2006, so are delighted this is finally happening, and is a great pre-cursor to the 2010 series where we celebrate 5 Years of The Warehouse Project.
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In-depth Biography
The frontman for one of the most revered British bands of the 1980s and '90s, Ian Brown symbolized the arrogant cocksureness of his mouthpiece, the Stone Roses. Although the group released one of the three or four most influential records of the decade in 1989 (their debut, at that), they slowly imploded during the early '90s and released only one more album before splitting up. Guitarist/songwriter John Squire formed a new band, Seahorses, while bassist Mani (Gary Mounfield) joined Primal Scream. Brown inaugurated his post-Stone Roses career with a 1998 solo LP, Unfinished Monkey Business. The album was recorded with the help of ex-Roses replacement guitarist Aziz Ibrahim, but spotlighted a more emotionally diverse approach to music-making than expected. The excellent follow-up, Golden Greats, arrived in the States in early 2000, and Music of the Spheres followed one year later. In 2003, Brown contributed a volume in the Under the Influence series and had a cameo in the third Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. The next year Brown released Solarized, his most varied and politically charged record to date. He worked with hip-hop producer Emile and an alternative supergroup (featuring Steve Jones, Paul Cook, and Paul Ryder) for 2007's The World Is Yours. My Way, released two years later, featured a song originally intended for Rihanna ("Stellify"), as well as an unexpected cover of Zager & Evans' 1969 hit "In the Year 2525." ~ John Bush, Rovi
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