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Have The Stone Roses split up again? Ian Brown suggests the band have broken up after Glasgow gig

Ian Brown suggests the band have called time at what could have been their final gig.
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Many Stones Roses fans are convinced the band have split up again after Ian Brown suggested their Glasgow show last weekend could be their last. 

At the end of the performance at the Hampden Park Stadium, NME reports Ian told the audience: "Don’t be sad it’s over, be happy that it happened."

It's certainly not crystal clear confirmation, but many fans believe the band are over... again.

After initially calling time in 1996 after 13 years together, the Manchester rock band reunited for a tour in 2011.

MORE: View The Stone Roses' complete Official UK Chart history

Last year, they released two new singles and played their first US shows in decades, and a new album seemed likely, especially after both tracks made a sizeable dent in the Top 40.

Whatever the outcome, we're with Ian on this one: "Be happy that it happened".

MORE: Check out this week's Official Vinyl Albums Chart Top 40, including The Stone Roses

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Richard Lawless

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At the initial press conference in 2011, a mumbling John Squire said "we started writing songs together again as quick as a heartbeat". Well what a load of that was! Two new tracks in 6 years! If they can't / don't want to come up with a new album then there's nothing else to do except pack it in. They don't have enough material to keep playing the same old stuff every gig. They've made enough money to keep them and their kids in the black over these last few years, good on them , but yes time for a band that once promised so much but has become a fully exposed nostalgia cash cow to hang up their maracas.

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Andrew077

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It's ironic, I remember Ian Brown in an old NME interview back in 1989 talking about how the Roses turned down a support slot for the Rolling Stones, and he ended up calling them "has-beens who are nothing but a money making machine, they should be opening for us". And then of course there was his quip about "wanting to finish off bands like U2". Pffft yeah, sure.

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etin

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splitting without album is disrespect for fans

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Andrew077

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What was the whole point of them reforming way back in 2011 anyway? What did they really have to prove? Ever since they've reformed it's been gigs, silence, gigs, silence, gigs, new song, new song, silence, gigs, and now this. But then I never even put them on such a massive pedestal unlike a lot of those people have, who expect them to come up with something good when they've only really made at least one decent album, and that was what, way back in 1989. Nor did I pin hope on them putting out a 3rd album because all they'd been doing live has just been the majority of their old stuff from 1987-1995 as well as two very average singles they put out last year. And they don't even have a very long and established back catalogue either. Just two albums, and only two. Look at all the other bands that have reformed in recent years, they've all released albums. like Ride, whose new album is one of the best I've heard from them.