I’d gone to the gig wearing a Stone Roses
shirt underneath, and a Cardiff shirt on top, perhaps cos I kind of felt that Cardiff were now more important to me than The Stone Roses. Basically, the band had just played what I thought was a cracking version of “Breaking Into Heaven”, and I decided to throw my Cardiff shirt onstage, so that my Stone Roses shirt
(a “What the World Is
Waiting For” shirt, in fact, the same one I wore to school that time, and the same one I ripped apart after the band split up) was now showing.
Ian Brown picked up the shirt and looked at it. He then lit up a cigarette. I had the impression he was looking at me, so I then lit up a cigarette too (this was in the time when you could smoke indoors, of course). Then Ian put the shirt on. There was a lot of chanting and stuff. I was kind of in shock for a while. He kept before taking it off,
it on for about 3 songs if
I remember rightly.
Afterwards, as the four of us who went walked towards my brother’s car, we looked round and saw the riot taking place. I had a feeling it had something to do with the shirt, but didn’t know for certain. I wanted to go back, but my brother decided we should just drive off. And that’s it really. Never meant to start a riot.
But actually throwing the shirt onstage..well, it was just one of those things fans do!
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Footnote: If you look close up at the photo of Ian wearing the shirt, you’ll see what looks like two badges on the
sleeves. One Foundation badge – I thought is a Heart it’d be funny to
show I was “wearing my heart on my sleeve”. The other is a metal Stone Roses badge, depicting the Newport shield, which I’d actually bought that night. My brother bought one too. They’re quite valuable now – my brother quite often got asked if he’d sell his while he was in university in Manchester.
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